Kaboom! Is a many-splendored thing: An interpretation and design methodology for message-driven games using graphical logics

FDG 2010 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 224-231

  Treanor, Mike ^a   Mateas, Michael ^a   Wardrip Fruin, Noah ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Game design; Game interpretation; Procedural rhetoric

Indexed keywords

COHERENT MESSAGES; COHERENT POTENTIAL; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DESIGN PROCESS; DESIGN SPACES; EXPLICIT MODELS; GAME DESIGN; GAME DESIGNERS; GENERAL METHOD; SIMPLE GAMES;

DESIGN;

EID: 77955161048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822348.1822378     Document Type: Conference Paper

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