Proceduralist readings: How to find meaning in games with graphical logics

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 115-122

  Treanor, Mike ^a   Schweizer, Bobby ^a   Bogost, Ian ^a   Mateas, Michael ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Game design; Game interpretation; Procedural rhetoric

Indexed keywords

GAME DESIGN; GAME INTERPRETATION; PROCEDURAL RHETORIC; RHETORICAL STRATEGIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84858984680     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2159365.2159381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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