January 2016
Beginner
752 pages
17h 49m
English
book
MMOS FROM THE INSIDE OUT: THE HISTORY, DESIGN, FUN, AND ART OF MASSIVELY-MULTIPLAYER ONLINE ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
by Richard Bartle
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Acknowledgments
This book would not have been written were it not for:
Ben Renow Clarke at Apress, who decided to take on a project so unlike other Apress projects that I can only guess at how many favors he had to call in to get it green-lit.
The army of editors who swarmed over my text to convert it from British English to American English in time to meet the publication deadline.
My wife, Gail Bartle, who isn’t a gamer but understands.
I’d also like to thank the hundreds of students, blog readers, e-mail correspondents, game designers, journalists (whether clueless or clueful), academics (likewise), and players who have given me cause to think about MMOs over the years. This is where you get to wish you hadn’t.
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