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Expressive processing : digital fictions, computer games, and software studies / Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
Van Pelt Library QA76.76.I59 W37 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wardrip-Fruin, Noah.
- Series:
- Software studies (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Software studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interactive multimedia--Social aspects.
- Interactive multimedia.
- Video games--Social aspects.
- Video games.
- Computer games--Social aspects.
- Digital media.
- Digital computer simulation.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 482 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- "Most books on digital media focus on what the machines of digital media look like from the outside but ignore the computational machines that make digital media possible. With this book, the first to approach computational processes from the perspective of media, games, and fiction, Wardrip-Fruin examines both the outside and the inside of digital media's machines."--BOOK JACKET.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Eliza effect
- Computer game fictions
- Making models
- The tale-spin effect
- Character and author intelligence
- Authoring systems
- The SimCity effect
- Playable language and nonsimulative processes
- Conclusion
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0262517531
- 9780262013437
- 0262013436
- OCLC:
- 298541181
- Publisher Number:
- 99954704974
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