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Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (Hardcover)

by K Salen (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 688 pages
  • Publisher: MIT Press; illustrated edition edition (4 Nov 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0262240459
  • ISBN-13: 978-0262240451
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 20.6 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 95,443 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Guardian, 27 November 2003

...a monumental examination of the emerging field of games design...


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Games have become as much a genre of pop culture as film or television, but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman offer an impassioned defense and definition of this emerging field.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive guide to game design, 24 Mar 2006
Rules of Play is a mix of a student textbook about games and a practical guide for game designers. It is extremely comprehensive, clear and well written, admirably synthesising a diverse set of perspectives on the ways in which games function. It is structured to allow the reader to dip into particuar areas and read the book in any order. As a designer of games this is by some measure the finest book I've found on the subject.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Long winded and aimless, 21 Feb 2008
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The most irritating thing about this book is it's brilliant presentation (especially the cover), which unfortunately is coupled to a repetitive long winded text which takes ages to get to a point, which it then reiterates eight different ways. As a result the valuable content of this book is simply what is written on each of the chapter summary pages, and much of that is just common sense. Attempts to actually read the main text will simply cause headaches.
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