Meaning Making Through Constraint: Modernist Poetics and Game Design Analysis

Authors

  • Miriam Asad

Keywords:

game studies, modernist poetry, close readings, constraints, masocore, william carlos

Abstract

The process of reading a modernist poem is just as much a process of deconstructing it: the language is designed to make meaning through inefficient means. The reader must decode the text. The process of reading is not unlike the process of playing. I compare masocore games with the poetics of William Carlos Williams to discuss how constraints can be meaningful through the affordances of each medium.

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Published

2011-01-01

Bibtex

@Conference{digra558, title ="Meaning Making Through Constraint: Modernist Poetics and Game Design Analysis", year = "2011", author = "Asad, Miriam", publisher = "DiGRA", address = "Tampere", howpublished = "\url{https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/558}", booktitle = "Proceedings of DiGRA 2011 Conference: Think Design Play"}

Proceedings

2011: Proceedings of DiGRA 2011 Conference: Think Design Play

Section

Papers

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