The Rule Book
The Building Blocks of Games
$108.37
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
16 April 2024
Summary
How games are built on the foundations of rules, and how rules—of which there are only five kinds—really work.
From board games to sports, digital games to party games, gambling to role-playing games, they all share one thing in common: rules. Indeed, rules are the one and only thing game scholars agree is central to games. But what, in fact, are rules?
In The Rule Book, Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola explore how different kinds of rules work as building blocks of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547444 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262547449 |
| Author: | Jaakko Stenros, Markus Montola |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm |
| Series: | Playful Thinking |
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About The Author
Jaakko Stenros
Jaakko Stenros is University Lecturer in Game Studies working at the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies at Tampere University. He has published ten books and over a hundred articles and reports on games and play and heads the international Master’s Programme in Game Studies.
Markus Montola has published several books on role-playing, pervasive games, and larp, and has worked as a lead designer on mobile games such as Shadow Cities, The Walking Dead- Our World, and most recently Friends & Dragons. He is a cofounder of the mobile game studio Playsome.
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