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Esport Play: Anticipation, Attachment, and Addiction in Psycholudic Development

Veli-Matti Karhulahti

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Description:Weaving the author's own lived experience with theoretical insights from the fields of game studies, psychology, sociology and anthropology, Esport Play probes and advances current gaming topics such as addiction, expertise, and toxicity. Based on a 4-year engagement period with League of Legends, a multiplayer online battle arena, Veli-Matti Karhulahti makes two major contributions. First, he explicates what esport play is: analyzing, documenting, and identifying competitive play as a present-day means to satisfy the human need for competence. Second, he presents a theory of psycholudic development, i.e. a theory that explains and organizes the development of player-play relationships over the days, months, and years of evolution.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Esport Play: Anticipation, Attachment, and Addiction in Psycholudic Development. To get started finding Esport Play: Anticipation, Attachment, and Addiction in Psycholudic Development, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Weaving the author's own lived experience with theoretical insights from the fields of game studies, psychology, sociology and anthropology, Esport Play probes and advances current gaming topics such as addiction, expertise, and toxicity. Based on a 4-year engagement period with League of Legends, a multiplayer online battle arena, Veli-Matti Karhulahti makes two major contributions. First, he explicates what esport play is: analyzing, documenting, and identifying competitive play as a present-day means to satisfy the human need for competence. Second, he presents a theory of psycholudic development, i.e. a theory that explains and organizes the development of player-play relationships over the days, months, and years of evolution.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Esport Play: Anticipation, Attachment, and Addiction in Psycholudic Development. To get started finding Esport Play: Anticipation, Attachment, and Addiction in Psycholudic Development, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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