Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% online
Available loans
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Study terms
- 27 Aug 2018
- 25 Feb 2019
- 26 Aug 2019
Start your career with Curtin’s globally recognised courses and extensive industry connections. Through OUA, our online courses offer an interactive and collaborative learning experience that gets you the same degree as if you studied on campus. Curtin is a global university with a vibrant culture of innovation and collaboration and is ranked in the top one per cent of universities worldwide.
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Subject details
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Topics
- Play
- Games
- Immersion and Interactivity
- Games and Violence
- Games and Bodies
- Games and Spaces
- Games and Identity
- Gaming Soundscapes
- Gamification
- Mobile Games
- Games in Popular Culture
- Digital Leisure Studies
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Study resources
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Instructional Methods
- Discussion forum/Discussion Board
- Online assignment submission
- Podcasting/Lecture capture
- Web links
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Print Materials
- Welcome letter
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Online Materials
- Printable format materials
- Resources and Links
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Entry Requirements
Equivalent Subjects
You cannot enrol in this unit if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
Special requirements
No special requirements
This subject explores the broader spaces and nature of play online, and how it relates to the development of digital forms of gaming. The nature of immersion is questioned and the role of interactivity investigated, along with critical perspectives on the popular but controversial notion of 'gamification.' It examines a series of gaming tropes and themes, games as texts, and the ways that games enter social frameworks to convey, refract, engage with, and resist power structures. An ongoing focus is on the function of rules in framing play, particularly in relation to how players cheat, hack and mod their games to break those rules.
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- Essay (25%)
- Case Study (40%)
- Creative Artefact Exercise (35%)
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