How Pac-Man Eats

by Noah Wardrip-Fruin

How the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do mean; with examples ranging from Papers, Please to Dys4ia.

In How Pac-Man Eats, Noah Wardrip-Fruin considers two questions: What are the fundamental ways that games work? And how can games be about something? Wardrip-Fruin argues that the two issues are related. Bridging formalist and culturally engaged approaches, he shows how the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026204465X
• ISBN13: 9780262044653
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 9.1"