Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
1 Play 1
2 Attention 23
3 Rules 45
4 Sociality 67
5 Fiction 99
6 Narrative 127
7 Materiality 163
8 Immersion 193
9 Unboxed 215
Conclusion 237
Notes 245
Bibliography 267
Index 283

About the Author

Gordon Calleja is Associate Professor of Game Studies at the University of Malta's Institute of Digital Games, which he founded in 2012, and the author of In-Game- From Immersion to Incorporation (MIT Press). A game designer at Mighty Boards, a board game design studio, he has designed and published Will Love Tear Us Apart?, a videogame adaptation of the Joy Division song, and several board games, including Posthuman Saga and Excavation Earth.