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A Preliminary Poetics
The builder of Façade, an "interactive story world," Michael Mateas offers both a poetics and a neo-Aristotelian project (for interactive drama and games).
Michael Mateas responds in turn
Narrativists vs. ludologists, material vs. formal constraints: Michael Mateas replies by identifying actors' roles in each division.
Espen Aarseth responds in turn
Espen Aarseth holds that gameplay, not Lara Croft?s physique, should command the attention of an evolving game studies.
From Work to Play (sidebar)
Sidebar images, "From Work to Play: Molecular Culture in the Time of Deadly Games."
Critical Simulation
Theories of performance, training, and psychology explain simulation - or do they? - in the third section of First Person.