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Virtual economies : design and analysis

Lehdonvirta, Vili, author, Castronova, Edward, author

Overview

In the twenty-first-century digital world, virtual goods are sold for real money. Digital game players happily pay for avatars, power-ups, and other game items. But behind every virtual sale, there is a virtual economy, simple or complex. In this book, Vili Lehdonvirta and Edward Castronova introduce the basic concepts of economics into the game developer's and game designer's toolkits.

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Subject: Electronic games. / Shared virtual environments Economic aspects. / Virtual reality Economic aspects. / Computer-aided design.
• ISBN: 9780262535069

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GV1469.15.L44 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE