October 8, 2003
So much to read, so little time…
Here’s a quick link to Noah’s blog where he mentions his newly received copy of Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman’s new book, Rules of Play. I’m very much looking forward to getting my hands on it, especially after seeing their presentation at GDC last March.
I must say, between Rules of Play, The New Media Reader, Narrative Intelligence, The Art of Interactive Design, and the upcoming First Person and Twisty Little Passages (and the others I’m surely forgetting), this has been quite a year for meaty new books.
December 18th, 2003 at 3:12 pm
I am working my way through Salen & Zimmerman’s Rules of Play. (I discovered this book by way of andrew’s reading list [grandtextauto].) I’ve just completed Unit 2, which puts me somewhere around the halfway mark. Some preliminary notes: -…
January 2nd, 2004 at 3:31 am
More notes on Salen & Zimmerman’s Rules of Play. Unit 2: PLAY presents six different schemas for talking about games with repect to “play”. Editorial notes: This unit seems to be the real core material of the author’s interests. It…