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<p>Games and other playable forms, from interactive fictions to improvisational theater,involve role playing and story—something played and something told. In Second Person, game designers, authors, artists, and scholars examine the different ways in which these two elements work together in tabletop role-playing games (RPGs), computer games, board games, card games,electronic literature, political simulations, locative media, massively multiplayer games, and other forms that invite and structure play.Second Person—so called because in these games and playable media it is "you" who plays the roles, "you" for whom the story is being told—first considers tabletop games ranging from Dungeons &amp; Dragons and other RPGs with an explicit social component to Kim Newman's Choose Your Own Adventure-style novel Life's Lottery and its more traditional author-reader interaction. Contributors then examine computer-based playable structures that are designed for solo interaction—for the singular "you"—including the mainstream hit Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and the genre-defining independent production Façade. Finally,contributors look at the intersection of the social spaces of play a

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Author

Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Pat Harrigan

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262083560

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Computer Science, Anthropology

Rating

3.88 / 5 (49 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14