A Game Design Vocabulary: Exploring the Foundational Principles Behind Good Game Design

Foreword

In case you haven’t noticed, something is happening in the world of video games, something that is changing the way we think about how they’re made, how they’re played, and what they mean. The authors of this book are part of a new generation of game creators for whom video games interface fully with all the complex machinery of contemporary culture. For Anna and Naomi, video games are not merely sleek consumer appliances dispensing entertaining power fantasies, they are fragments of shattered machines out of which new identities can be constructed; sites where disorderly crowds can assemble for subversive purposes; platforms from which to examine the status quo; windows into the turbulent flow of power and progress; unruly machines ...