Second Person
Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media
$60.52
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
22 January 2010
Summary
Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, interactive fictions, massively multiplayer games, improvisational theater, and other “playable media.“Games and other playable forms, from interactive fictions to improvisational theater, involve role playing and story-something played and something told. In Second Person, game designers, authors, artists, and scholars examine the differe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262514187 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262514184 |
| Author: | Pat Harrigan, Noah Wardrip-Fruin |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 22 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 794g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 203mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Second Person |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“The book is not 100 percent a how-to guide for designing better video games, butrather is a thought-provoker, spanning both the theoretical and the practical.” GameDeveloper
If you hold the traditional views that games are something you play (such as chess), role playing is something you do (such as acting), and stories are something that a writer writes and a reader reads, brace yourself—this book will turn these ideas inside out. It is a thought-provoking, intimidating, revealing, and encouraging work.
– J. M. Artz * Computing Reviews *The book is not 100 percent a how-to guide for designing better video games, but rather is a thought-provoker, spanning both the theoretical and the practical.
* Game Developer *About The Author
Pat Harrigan
Pat Harrigan is a freelance writer and editor, most recently of Zones of Control-Perspectives on Wargaming,coedited with Matthew Kirschenbaum (MIT Press). His work has been published widely and he is the author of a novel, Lost Clusters, and a collection of short stories,Thin Times and Thin Places.Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he codirects the Expressive Intelligent Studio. He is the author of Expressive Processing- Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies (MIT Press).
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