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J. Yellowlees Douglas adds more titles to Eskelinen's catalog of limnal games.

Stuart Moulthrop complicates the idea of self-contained games.

Chris Crawford adduces the algorithms of games against dramatic conventions.

First Person, second section: What is Ludology? Editors Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin see a disciplinary shift away from ill-advised analogies toward analyses of the gaming situation itself.

Stuart Moulthrop (re)mediates the interpretation (narrativists) vs. configuration (ludologists) debate by going macropolitical.