Everything about GameStar

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: GameStarA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Gaming the SystemThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Gamestar Mechanic: learning a designer mindset through communicational competence with the language of gamesCited 15 times
4. Go sideways: PC GamesA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: GameProA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Gamestar Mechanic: learning a designer mindset through communicational competence with the language of games

  Ivan Alex Games · 2010 · Learning, Media and Technology · 15 citations

• Three Dialogs: A Framework for the Analysis and Assessment of Twenty-First-Century Literacy Practices, and its Use in the Context of Game Design within Gamestar Mechanic

  Ivan Alex Games · 2008 · E-Learning and Digital Media · 9 citations

• Bug or Feature: The Role of Gamestar Mechanic's Material Dialog on the Metacognitive Game Design Strategies of Players

  Alex Games · 2010 · E-Learning and Digital Media · 4 citations

• Using Gamestar Mechanic Within a Nodal Learning Ecology to Learn Systems Thinking: A Worked Example

  Robert J. Torres · 2009 · International Journal of Learning and Media · 4 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Gaming the SystemKatie Salen Tekinba, Melissa Gresalfi · 2014

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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