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Author(s): Wardrip-Fruin Noah
ISBN(s): 9780262044653, 026204465X
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 10.16 MB
Year: 2020
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 026204465X
ISBN 13: 9780262044653
Author: Wardrip Fruin Noah

How the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do mean; with examples ranging from Papers, Please to Dys4ia. In How Pac-Man Eats, Noah Wardrip-Fruin considers two questions: What are the fundamental ways that games work? And how can games be about something? Wardrip-Fruin argues that the two issues are related. Bridging formalist and culturally engaged approaches, he shows how the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do mean.

How Pac Man Eats 1st Table of contents:

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 Spaces and Graphical Logics

  • Collision, Movement, and Physics: Tennis for Two

  • Navigation, Combat, and Scenario Design: Spacewar

  • Combat in Games

  • The Importance of Implementation: Computer Space and Pong

  • Logics and Models as a Historical Lens

8 Refinement

  • Adventure and Adventure

  • WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$

9 Doubling

  • Tax Avoiders

  • Experiencing Overloading

  • Conceptual Metaphors

  • Game Metaphors

  • Dys4ia

  • Lyric Games

  • What Can Become Conventional

10 Logic Structures

  • Rhetorical Affordances

  • Game Structures and Spaces

  • Game-o-Matic

  • The Limits of Spatial Structures

  • The Necessity of Other Art Forms

  • Logic Structures and Game Meaning

11 Conclusion: What Games Are About

  • Skinning Games

  • Playable Models

  • Operational Logics

  • Agency

  • Making Games about More

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