How Pac-Man Eats

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
	1 Operational Logics and Playable Models
		Passage
		Talking about What Games Are About
		Defining Logics and Models
	2 Alternative Approaches
		Gone Home
		Game Genre
		Gone Home’s Alternative
		Gone Home’s Reception
	3 Expansive Approaches
		Papers, Please
		Two Approaches to Tile Matching
		Broader Context
	4 Six Questions about Logics and Models
		Are Logics and Models Natural?
		Are Logics and Models Inevitable?
		How Are Logics and Models Implemented?
		Are Logics or Models Another Name for “Mechanics” or “Systems”?
		What Logics Are There?
		How Do Logics and Models Work Together?
	5 Inventive Approaches
		Beyond Metaphor
		Games and Social Models
		Social Volition in Prom Week
		The Prom Week Interfaces
		Two Directions for Social Models
	6 Understanding Games through Logics and Models
		Understanding Grand Theft Auto IV
		Related Approaches
		Rule Breaking and “My Trip to Liberty City”
		Critical Play, Complicity, and The Sims
		Why Logics and Models?
		Sunset Valley and Liberty City in the Rearview Mirror
Part II
	7 Inventing Graphical Logics
		Continuous Spaces and Graphical Logics
		Collision, Movement, and Physics: Tennis for Two
		Navigation, Combat, and Scenario Design: Spacewar
		Combat in Games
		The Importance of Implementation: Computer Space and Pong
		Logics and Models as a Historical Lens
	8 Refinement
		Adventure and Adventure
		WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
	9 Doubling
		Tax Avoiders
		Experiencing Overloading
		Conceptual Metaphors
		Game Metaphors
		Dys4ia
		Lyric Games
		What Can Become Conventional
	10 Logic Structures
		Rhetorical Affordances
		Game Structures and Spaces
		Game­o­Matic
		The Limits of Spatial Structures
		The Necessity of Other Art Forms
		Logic Structures and Game Meaning
	Conclusion: What Games Are About
		Skinning Games
		Playable Models
		Operational Logics
		Agency
		Making Games about More
Notes
	Preface
	Introduction
	Chapter 1: Operational Logics and Playable Models
	Chapter 2: Alternative Approaches
	Chapter 3: Expansive Approaches
	Chapter 4: Six Questions about Logics and Models
	Chapter 5: Inventive Approaches
	Chapter 6: Understanding Games through Logics and Models
	Chapter 7: Inventing Graphical Logics
	Chapter 8: Refinement
	Chapter 9: Doubling
	Chapter 10: Logic Structures
	Chapter 11: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index