Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coeditor of four collections published by the MIT Press: with Nick Montfort, The New Media Reader (2003); with Pat Harrigan, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (2003), Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media (2007), and Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives (2009). He is the author of Expressive Processing, published by the MIT Press in 2009.
Second Person Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Eds.) Paper / March 2010 Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, interactive fictions, massively multiplayer games, improvisational theater, and other "playable media." Price $22.00 | NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING
Expressive Processing Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies Noah Wardrip-Fruin Cloth / September 2009 From the complex city-planning game SimCity to the virtual therapist Eliza: how computational processes open possibilities for understanding and creating digital media. Price $34.95 | ADD TO CART
Third Person Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Eds.) Cloth / May 2009 Narrative strategies for vast fictional worlds across a variety of media, from World of Warcraft to The Wire. Price $40.00 | ADD TO CART
Second Person Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Eds.) Cloth / February 2007 Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, interactive fictions, massively multiplayer games, improvisational theater, and other "playable media." Price $43.00 | ADD TO CART
First Person New Media as Story, Performance, and Game Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan (Eds.) Paper / April 2006 The relationship between story and game, and related questions of electronic writing and play, examined through a series of discussions among new media creators and theorists. Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
First Person New Media as Story, Performance, and Game Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan (Eds.) Cloth / January 2004 The relationship between story and game, and related questions of electronic writing and play, examined through a series of discussions among new media creators and theorists. OUT OF PRINT
