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Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
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Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Required
Start dates
- 28 Feb 2022
- 29 Aug 2022
QS RANKING 2022
11
Times Higher Education Ranking 2022
17
Subject details
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- Introduction: Games and Play
- Evolution of Digital Games
- Games Go Online
- Social and Casual Games
- Mobile Games, Apps, and Locative Media
- Virtual worlds and MMORPGs
- Competitive Online Gaming and eSports
- Global Games
- Gaming and Gender
- Trolls, Gamers, and Game Culture
- Industry, E-learning, and Gamification
- Indie Games and Development
- Further Information: List of topics is indicative and subject to minor change prior to the start of each Study Period.
You are recommended to have completed the following subjects(s) or have equivalent knowledge before starting this subject:
- CUR-WEB101-Web Communications
- CUR-NET11 (Not currently available)
Others
Students who have completed WEB309 Web Presence previously are still able to complete the new subject WEB310 but please note that this subject will count as an elective in their degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
This subject was previously known as Web Play, Online Games and Gamification.
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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- Creative Artefact Exercise (35%)
- Case Study (40%)
- Essay (25%)
Current study term: 29 Aug 21 to 28 Nov 21
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Next study term: 27 Feb 22 to 29 May 22
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