Making Games as Collaborative Social Experiences: Exploring An Online Gaming Community
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In addition to playing games together, making games together has offered new opportunities for social interaction and community building in online spaces. This paper presents an empirical study of how making indie games become interactive and collaborative social experiences in an Asian female-dominated online gaming community. It contributes to the CSCW community by providing a better understanding of the social side of game making in addition to game playing, and points to the importance of social engagement in game making communities. Author
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