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Patched In: A Conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner about Computer Gaming Culture
An essay by Tara McPherson (and a conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner) concerning patch mutations, opensorcery, and other explainable gaming offshoots.
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).
Towards a Game Theory of Game
Applying games to games, Celia Pearce uses The Sims to showcase six keywords.