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Making Games as Collaborative Social Experiences: Exploring An Online Gaming Community

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CSCW '16 Companion: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion

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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.

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CSCW '16 Companion: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion

February 2016

549 pages

ISBN:9781450339506

DOI:10.1145/2818052

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Northwestern University
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Microsoft Research
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University of Copenhagen
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University of Minnesota

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