How Pac-Man eats

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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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Full title :How Pac-Man eats / Noah Wardrip-Fruin.

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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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Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780262360968, 0262360969, 9780262360975, 0262360977
oclc:on1190716179
LC Classification:GV1469.3
Dewey Decimal:794.8

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1 Operational Logics and Playable Models -- Passage -- Talking about What Games Are About -- Defining Logics and Models -- 2 Alternative Approaches -- Gone Home -- Game Genre -- Gone Home's Alternative -- Gone Home's Reception -- 3 Expansive Approaches -- Papers, Please -- Two Approaches to Tile Matching -- Broader Context -- 4 Six Questions about Logics and Models -- Are Logics and Models Natural? -- Are Logics and Models Inevitable? -- How Are Logics and Models Implemented?

Are Logics or Models Another Name for "Mechanics" or "Systems"? -- What Logics Are There? -- How Do Logics and Models Work Together? -- 5 Inventive Approaches -- Beyond Metaphor -- Games and Social Models -- Social Volition in Prom Week -- The Prom Week Interfaces -- Two Directions for Social Models -- 6 Understanding Games through Logics and Models -- Understanding Grand Theft Auto IV -- Related Approaches -- Rule Breaking and "My Trip to Liberty City" -- Critical Play, Complicity, and The Sims -- Why Logics and Models? -- Sunset Valley and Liberty City in the Rearview Mirror -- Part II

7 Inventing Graphical Logics -- Continuous S…