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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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36 Game Magic
3.4.1 The Text-Based Rituals of Hadean Lands
e insight that rituals can double as puzzles is at the heart of another
piece of contemporary interactive ction: acclaimed author Andrew
Plotkin’s work in progress, Hadean Lands. In this experimental interac-
tive ction, players perform alchemical rituals on an abandoned magical
spaceship. Plotkin’s approach to magic is partially inuenced by my own
ideas about magic systems as delivered at the M.I.T. Gambit Game Lab in
April 2010. Plotkin explains:
e rst notions for *this* game came to me during a lecture that
Je Howard gave at MIT’s game design lab. Je was visiting from
Dakota State University, where he teaches, and he was talking about
the use of magic in videogames. ...
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ISBN: 9781466567870