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Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds

Michael Nitsche

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780262141017

Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262141017.001.0001

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Games and Rules

Games and Rules

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(p.25) 2 Games and Rules
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Video Game Spaces
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Michael Nitsche

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The MIT Press
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262141017.003.0018

This chapter discusses the concept of rules in video game spaces. It considers instances when players make or exploit the rules of a game. It also discusses how some game designers have embraced rule bending and offer what might appear to be a bug as a conscious playable feature of the game space. In massively multiplayer online titles, the clearly marked boundaries become negotiable within the game design. The surprises are still implemented via a rule system, but one that seems to have multiple layers at odds with each other.

Keywords:   video games, game design, rule bending, game designers, online games

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