How Pac-Man Eats

(Part of the Software Studies Series)

by Noah Wardrip-Fruin

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How the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do mean; with examples ranging from Papers, Please to Dys4ia.

In How Pac-Man Eats, Noah Wardrip-Fruin considers two questions: What are the fundamental ways that games work? And how can games be about something? Wardrip-Fruin argues that the two issues are related. Bridging formalist and culturally engaged approaches, he shows how the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:026204465X

ISBN13:9780262044653

Release Date:December 2020

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:2.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 7.2" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Computers Computers & Technology Games Social Science Social Sciences

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