First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game

by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan

Book Overview

The relationship between story and game, and related questions of electronic writing and play, examined through a series of discussions among new media creators and theorists.

Electronic games have established a huge international market, significantly outselling non-digital games; people spend more money on The Sims than on "Monopoly" or even on "Magic: the Gathering." Yet it is widely believed that the market for electronic literature--predicted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262731754
• ISBN13: 9780262731751
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher