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Characteristics of Games

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Monday, 1 October 2012, at 5:10 p.m.

In Response To: Characteristics of Games (Smcrtorchs)

Smcrtorchs wrote:

I also found that the book is already used as teaching material somewhere.

The authors taught a course and the book grew out of that course. At this stage I'd be surprised if anyone else has used the book to teach a course, but I haven't asked my friend directly.

By the way, perhaps I should mention that I gave some input during the draft stage, but somehow never got past the first few chapters before getting distracted by other things. Probably the biggest contribution I had was to suggest the word "agential." Before that I think they were using the word "aleatoric." I also told them that they used far too many parentheses and footnotes; in my opinion that is still the biggest stylistic flaw of the book. If you can ignore that, though, there's a lot of extremely interesting content.

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