Rules of Play - Table of Contents

October 2003
7 x 9, 688 pp., 190 illus.
$52.00/£33.95 (CLOTH)

ISBN-10:
0-262-24045-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-24045-1

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Rules of Play
Game Design Fundamentals
Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman

	Foreword Frank Lantz Sample Chapter - Download PDF (113 KB)	ix

	Preface Sample Chapter - Download PDF (125 KB)	xiii

1	About This Book Sample Chapter - Download PDF (162 KB)	1

2	The Design Process	11

	*Commissioned Essay* Reiner Knizia	22

	UNIT 1: Core Concepts	28

3	Meaningful Play	30

4	Design	38

5	Systems	48

6	Interactivity	56

7	Defining Games	70

8	Defining Digital Games	84

9	The Magic Circle	92

10	The Primary Schemas: RULES, PLAY, CULTURE	100

	*Commissioned Game* Richard Garfield	106

	UNIT 2: Rules	116

11	Defining Rules	118

12	Rules on Three Levels	126

13	The Rules of Digital Games	140

14	Games as Emergent Systems	150

15	Games as Systems of Uncertainty	172

16	Games as Information Theory Systems	190

17	Games as Systems of Information	202

18	Games as Cybernetic Systems	212

19	Games as Game Theory Systems	230

20	Games as Systems of Conflict	248

21	Breaking the Rules	266

	*Commissioned Game* Frank Lantz	286

	UNIT 3: PLAY	298

22	Defining Play	300

23	Games as the Play of Experience	312

24	Games as the Play of Pleasure	328

25	Games as the Play of Meaning	362

26	Games as Narrative Play	376

27	Games as the Play of Simulation	420

28	Games as Social Play	460

	*Commissioned Game* Kira Snyder	490

	UNIT 4: CULTURE	502

29	Defining Culture	504

30	Games as Cultural Rhetoric	514

31	Games as Open Culture	536

32	Games as Cultural Resistance	556

33	Games as Cultural Environment	570

	Commissioned Game James Ernest	588

	Additional Reading and Resources	602

	Conclusion	604

	Bibliography	608

	List of Games Cited	620

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (249 KB)	638

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