Rules of Play Game Design Fundamentals

Name: Rules of Play Game Design Fundamentals
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ISBN: 9780262240451

ISBN-10: 0262240459

ISBN-13: 9780262240451

Edition: 2003

Authors: Katie Salen Tekinbas, Eric Zimmerman

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Video and computer games have become as much a genre of pop culture as film or television, but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In 'Rules of Play' Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman offer an impassioned defense and definition of this emerging field.

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/25/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 688
Size: 8.39" wide x 10.20" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 3.652
Language: English

Eric Zimmerman is a game designer, game design theorist, and co-founder and CEO of gameLab. He has taught at universities including MIT, the University of Texas, Parsons School of Design, New York University, Rhode Island School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts.



Foreword



Preface



About This Book



The Design Process


Commissioned Essay


Reiner Knizia



Core Concepts



Meaningful Play



Design



Systems



Interactivity



Defining Games



Defining Digital Games



The Magic Circle



The Primary Schemas: RULES, PLAY, CULTURE


Commissioned Game


Richard Garfield



Rules



Defining Rules



Rules on Three Levels



The Rules of Digital Games



Games as Emergent Systems



Games as Systems of Uncertainty



Games as Information Theory Systems



Games as Systems of Information



Games as Cybernetic Systems



Games as Game Theory Systems



Games as Systems of Conflict



Breaking the Rules


Commissioned Game


Frank Lantz



Play



Defining Play



Games as the Play of Experience



Games as the Play of Pleasure



Games as the Play of Meaning



Games as Narrative Play



Games as the Play of Simulation



Games as Social Play


Commissioned Game


Kira Snyder



Culture



Defining Culture



Games as Cultural Rhetoric



Games as Open Culture



Games as Cultural Resistance



Games as Cultural Environment


Commissioned Game


James Ernest


Additional Reading and Resources


Conclusion


Bibliography


List of Games Cited


Index