Pat Harrigan is a freelance writer and editor, most recently of Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming, coedited with Matthew Kirschenbaum (MIT Press). His work has been published widely and he is the author of a novel, Lost Clusters, and a collection of short stories, Thin Times and Thin Places. Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coeditor of four collections published by the MIT Press: with Nick Montfort, The New Media Reader (2003); with Pat Harrigan, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (2004), Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media (2007), and Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives (2009).
If you hold the traditional views that games are something you play
(such as chess), role playing is something you do (such as acting),
and stories are something that a writer writes and a reader reads,
brace yourself—this book will turn these ideas inside out. It is a
thought-provoking, intimidating, revealing, and encouraging
work.
*Computing Reviews*
The book is not 100 percent a how-to guide for designing better
video games, but rather is a thought-provoker, spanning both the
theoretical and the practical.
*Game Developer*
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