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Game Magic
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Game Magic

by Jeff Howard
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
10h 41m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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Chapter 3
From Exemplary
Game Magic Systems
to Code Recipes
3.1 MAGIC SYSTEMS AND LANGUAGE
At its heart, a magic system is a language. is is true of ctional, game,
and occult systems alike, though the nature of the medium and purpose
denes the character of the language. Various systems can be more and
less explicit and self-aware of their linguistic status, but they are always
fundamentally linguistic. Because magic systems are languages, they have
both vocabularies and grammars: a set of symbols and rules for combin-
ing them. e simplest grammatical structure is the verb: do this action,
cause this change—such as damage or heal. Most magic ...
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ISBN: 9781466567870