Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media

by Pat Harrigan

Book Overview

Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, interactive fictions, massively multiplayer games, improvisational theater, and other "playable media." Games and other playable forms, from interactive fictions to improvisational theater, involve role playing and story--something played and something told. In Second Person , game designers, authors,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262083566
• ISBN13: 9780262083560
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher