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Noah Wardrip-Fruin
From the complex city-planning game SimCity to the virtual therapist Eliza: how computational processes open possibilities for understanding and creating digital media.
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This book explains that the tools and concepts we use for making games are intimately connected to what games can and do mean –
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This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the still-emerging field of new media.
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…
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Narrative strategies for vast fictional worlds across a variety of media, from World of Warcraft to The Wire.