Second person: role-playing and story in games and playable media

Games, storytelling, and breaking the string / Greg Costikyan

On the Wild Card series / George R. R. Martin

From the basement to the basic set : the early years of Dungeons and Dragons / Erik Mona

Narrative structure and creative tension in Call of Cthulhu / Kenneth Hite

On "The Haunted House" / Keith Herber

On character creation in Everway / Jonathan Tweet

Storytelling games as a creative medium / Will Hindmarch

Structure and meaning in role-playing game design / Rebecca Borgstrom

My Life with Master : the architecture of protagonism / Paul Czege

Making games that make stories / James Wallis

Creating a meaning-machine : the deck of stories called Life in the Garden / Eric Zimmerman

Designing decisions and concepts in licensed collectible card games / Eric Lang (with Pat Harrigan)

One story, many media / Kevin Wilson

On Mystery in the Abbey / Bruno Faidutti

On Life's Lottery / Kim Newman

The Sands of Time : crafting a video game story / Jordan Mechner

On And Then There Were None / Lee Sheldon

On Solitaire / Helen Thorington

Enlightening interactive fiction : Andrew Plotkin's Shade / Jeremy Douglass

Creation of Floyd the robot in Planetfall / Steve Meretzky

Fretting the player character / Nick Montfort

On Savoir-Faire / Emily Short

Pax, writing, and change / Stuart Moulthrop

RE: authoring Magritte : The Brotherhood of Bent Billiard / Talan Memmott

On soft cinema : Mission to Earth / Lev Manovich

On Juvenate / Maríe-Laure Ryan

On Twelve Easy Lessons to Better Time Travel / Mark C. Marino

Deikto : a language for interactive storytelling / Chris Crawford

GRIOT's tales of haints and seraphs : a computational narrative generation system / D. Fox Harrell

Writing Façade : a case study in procedural authorship / Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern

On The Breakup Conversation / Robert Zubek

On The Archer's Flight / Mark Keavney

Prismatic play : games as windows on the real world / John Tynes

On John Tynes's Puppetland / Sean Thorne

Video games go to Washington : the story behind The Howard Dean for Iowa Game / Ian Bogost and Gonzalo Frasca

Political activism : bending the rules / Kevin Whelan

Puppet master problem : design for real-world, mission-based gaming / Jane McGonigal

On A Measure for Marriage / Nick Fortugno

On unexceptional.net / Robert Nideffer

On Itinerant / Teri Rueb

Finding the game in improvised theater / Tim Uren

On Adventures in Mating / Joe Scrimshaw

Santaman's Harvest yields questions, or does a performance happen if it exists in a virtual forest? / Adriene Jenik

Me, the other / Torill Elvira Mortensen

Network of quests in World of Warcraft / Jill Walker

Communities of play : the social construction of identity in persistent online game worlds / Celia Pearce and Artemesia

Eliza Redux / Adrianne Wortzel.

I. Tabletop systems

Games, storytelling, and breaking the string / Greg Costikyan

On the Wild Cards series / George R. R. Martin

From the basement to the basic set : the early years of Dungeons & Dragons / Erik Mona

Narrative structure and creative tension in Call of Cthulhu / Kenneth Hite

On "the haunted house" / Keith Herber

On character creation in Everway / Jonathan Tweet

Storytelling games as a creative medium / Will Hindmarch

Structure and meaning in role-playing game design / Rebecca Borgstrom

My life with master : the architecture of protagonism / Paul Czege

Making games that make stories / James Wallis

Creating a meaning-machine : the deck of stories called Life in the garden / Eric Zimmerman

Design decisions and concepts in licensed collectible card games / Eric Lang and Pat Harrigan

One story, many media / Kevin Wilson

On mystery of the abbey / Bruno Faidutti

On life's lottery / Kim Newman

II. Computational fictions

sands of time : crafting a video game story / Jordan Mechner

On And then there were none / Lee Sheldon

On solitaire / Helen Thorington

Enlightening interactive fiction : Andrew Plotkin's Shade / Jeremy Douglass

creation of Floyd the robot in Planetfall / Steve Meretzky

Fretting the player character / Nick Montfort

On savoir-faire / Emily Short

Pax, writing, and change / Stuart Moulthrop

RE : authoring Magritte : The brotherhood of Bent Billiard / Talan Memmott

On soft cinema : Mission to Earth / Lev Manovich

On Juvenate / Marie-Laure Ryan

On Twelve easy lessons to better time travel / Mark C. Marino

Deikto : a language for interactive storytelling / Chris Crawford

GRIOT's tales of haints and seraphs : a computational narrative generation system / D. Fox Harrell

Writing Facade : a case study in procedural authorship / Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern

On The breakup conversation / Robert Zubek

On The archer's flight / Mark Keavney

III. Real worlds

Prismatic play : games as windows on the real world / John Tynes

On John Tynes's Puppetland / Sean Thome

Video games go to Washington : the story behind The Howard Dean for Iowa game / Ian Bogost and Gonzalo Frasca

Political activism : bending the rules / Kevin Whelan

puppet master problem : design for real-world, mission-based gaming / Jane McGonigal

On A measure for marriage / Nick Fortugno

On unexceptional.net / Robert Nideffer

On Itinerant / Ten Rueb

Finding the game in improvised theater / Tim Uren

On Adventures in mating / Joe Scrimshaw

Santaman's harvest yields questions, or does a performance happen if it exists in a virtual forest? / Adriene Jenik

Me, the other / Torill Elvira Mortensen

network of quests in World of warcraft / Jill Walker

Communities of play : the social construction of identity in persistent online game worlds / Celia Pearce and Artemesia

Eliza redux / Adrianne Wortzel

IV. Appendices

App. A. Puppetland / John Tynes

App. B. Bestial acts / Greg Costikyan

App. C. extraordinary adventures of Baron Munchausen / James Wallis.