"Few human pastimes absorb as much money and attention as games, and digital games alone engage more than two billion people worldwide. At the same time, the forms of experiment and behavior modification known as "gamification" have imposed unprecedented levels of competition, repetition, and quantification on daily life. Drawing from his own experience as a game designer, Patrick Jagoda shows that games need not be synonymous with gamification and reveals the ways in which experimental games can disrupt the logic of gamification itself. Games can, indeed, help us think beyond existing systems and intervene in neoliberal ideology from the inside out. Addressing game designers and new media artists as well as the growing field of game studies, Jagoda takes up a broad variety of games, including mainstream "AAA" games such "StarCraft,"widespread casual mobile games such as "Candy Crush Saga,"popular independent games such as "Stardew Valley,"formally experimental games such as "Luxuria Superbia,"and more personal auteur games such as "Dys4ia."He ranges over many genres including single-player, multi-player, and networked real-time strategy, platformers, simulators, first-person shooters, role-playing games, and puzzle games. The result is a game-changing book on the sociopolitical potential of this form of mass entertainment"--

很少有人类的消遣能像游戏那样吸收大量的金钱和注意力，仅数字游戏就吸引了全球20多亿人参与。同时，被称为 "游戏化 "的实验和行为修正形式将前所未有的竞争、重复和量化强加给了日常生活中。帕特里克-雅戈达从自己作为游戏设计师的经验出发，表明游戏不一定是游戏化的同义词，并揭示了实验性游戏可以破坏游戏化本身的逻辑的方式。事实上，游戏可以帮助我们超越现有的系统，从内到外地干预新自由主义意识形态。针对游戏设计师和新媒体艺术家以及不断增长的游戏研究领域，Jagoda讨论了各种各样的游戏，包括主流的 "AAA "游戏，如《星际争霸》，广泛的休闲手机游戏，如《糖果粉碎传奇》，流行的独立游戏，如《星露谷》，正式的实验性游戏，如《Luxuria Superbia》，以及更个人的作者游戏，如《Dys4ia》。 "他的研究范围涉及许多类型，包括单人、多人和网络即时战略、平台游戏、模拟器、第一人称射击游戏、角色扮演游戏和益智游戏。其结果是一本关于这种大众娱乐形式的社会政治潜力的改变游戏规则的书"。