The perfect volume to begin the new publication series in software studies…. Inspiring.—Game Studies—
I highly recommend this book to digital media—games, movies, and fiction—creators, AI students, and engineers.
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Computing Reviews—
In Wardrip-Fruin’s Expressive Processing, the field of ‘interactive entertainment’ comes of age; its theories and methods are native to its medium, rather than borrowed from literature, film, or history….Required reading.
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JAC—
Through insightful examinations of media ranging from simulations to computer games, the author presents an intriguing and cogent argument…. Recommended.
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Choice—
Wardrip-Fruin has given us an arsenal of rhetorical firepower and a powerful set of examples for how one might teach algorithmic literacy across the curriculum without delving into the syntax of any particular programming language.
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Digital Humanities Quarterly—