List of Sidebars
Chapter 2: The Design Process
Computers in the Classroom
Reiner Knizia
Chapter 5: Systems
The History of Systems
Commissioned Game 1 — Richard Garfield
Richard Garfield
Chapter 11: Defining Rules
Rules and Strategy
Chapter 12: Rules on Three Levels
How to Play:
Rules in the Design Process
Chapter 20: Games as Systems of Conflict
Terminological Aside: Two Forms of Cooperation
Case Study: Beating Loop
LOOP
Commissioned Game 2 — Ironclad
Frank Lantz
Chapter 22: Defining Play
Terminological Aside: "Play" and "Games" in French
Delimitation of our project
Chapter 24: Games as the Play of Pleasure
Footnote to a Footnote
Disclaimer: The Limits of Flow
A Hypothetical Case Study A: Game Called Unlocker
Unlocker
Terminological Aside: Behavior Theory and Cybernetics
Case Study: The L Game : An Exception to Every Rule
The L Game
Chapter 26: Games as Narrative Play
Case Study: A Loopy Core Mechanic
LOOP
Case Study: Drome Racing as Narrative System
Drome Racing Challenge
Drome Racing Challenge
Hardcore Gamers and Cutscenes
Chapter 27: Games as the Play of Simulation
What About Those Quotation Marks?
Chapter 28: Games as Social Play
Clarifying "Community"
Commissioned Game 3 — Sneak
Kira Snyder
Chapter 32: Games as Cultural Resistance
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Commissioned Game 4 — Caribbean Star
James Ernest