Making Deep Games

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Author

Introduction

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Diving for Deep Game Ideas

1.1    Becoming a Mind Reader

1.1.1  Morning Pages

1.1.2  Artist Date

1.1.3  Conversing with the Inner Game Designer

1.2    Tracing the Human Experience in Art—Finding the Theme

1.3    Become a Sucker for Other People’s Experiences

References

2

Games as an Expressive Medium

2.1    Introduction

2.2    What Are Games?

2.3    How Can Games Be about Something?

2.3.1  Representation, Abstraction, Fiction, and Rules

2.3.2  Representational Hierarchy in Games: Rules before Fiction

2.3.3  Games as Simulations

References

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