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rules of play
One of the books I got for Christmas that I'm most excited about is Rules of Play : Game Design Fundamentals, by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman.
I think you can learn a lot about a book from its index, and this book is no exception:
Tetris
and cultural context, 86
endpoint, 259
experiential play, 86
formal rules, 86-87
information in, 210
metacommunication, 452
pleasure, 330, 341
protective frame, 95
rules, 143-144, 145-146
as simulation, 425
I read a huge chunk of the book almost as soon as I got it, but progress is currently on hold until I finish making my syllabi for the new semester. However, the blogosphere is already buzzing about the book, see this entry over at Confectious or, for a slightly more critical take, this entry at Antimodal. My own notes may appear in this space at some point but right now the priority is to do a write-up on Nick Montfort's Twisty Little Passages. Labels: book_commentary |
Saturday, January 10, 2004
2:43 PM
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