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Genre Trouble
May 21, 2004
Espen Aarseth
"Where is the text in chess?" asks Espen Aarseth. Rules, play, and semiosis are the (un)common ground between games and stories in "interactive narrativism" and the art of simulation.
From Work to Play
May 20, 2004
Stuart Moulthrop
Stuart Moulthrop (re)mediates the interpretation (narrativists) vs. configuration (ludologists) debate by going macropolitical.
Towards Computer Game Studies (sidebar)
May 19, 2004
Markku Eskelinen
Sidebar images, "From Work to Play: Molecular Culture in the Time of Deadly Games."
Genre Trouble (sidebar)
May 19, 2004
Espen Aarseth
Sidebar images from "Genre Trouble: Narrativism and the Art of Simulation."
From Work to Play (sidebar)
May 19, 2004
Stuart Moulthrop
Sidebar images, "From Work to Play: Molecular Culture in the Time of Deadly Games."