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The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer Author: Michael Maizels

ISBN: 9780262529112 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 192 Published: 7 January 2016 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.9 x 1.5 Description:

A maker of visually elegant and conceptually intricate games, Jason Rohrer is among the most widely heralded art game designers in the short but vibrant history of the field. His games range from the elegantly simple to others of almost Byzantine complexity. Passage (2007) -- acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York -- uses game rules and procedurals to create a contemporary memento mori that captures an entire lifetime in five minutes. In Chain World (2011), each subsequent player of the game's single copy modifies the rules of the universe. A Game for Someone (2013) is a board game sealed in a box and buried in the Mojave Desert, with a list of one million potential sites distributed to Rohrer's fan base. (Rohrer estimated that it would take two millennia of constant searching to find the game.) With Chain World and A Game for Someone, Rohrer became the first designer to win the prestigious Game Challenge Design award twice.

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