Computer games and technical communication : critical methods ＆ applications at the intersection

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Figures and Tables = ix
• Notes on Contributors = xi
• Foreword / Judd Ethan Ruggill ; Ken S. McAllister = xvii
• Acknowledgments = xix
• Introduction : Playing the Field : Technical Communication for Technical Games / Jennifer deWinter ; Ryan M. Moeller = 1
• Part Ⅰ Connecting Professional and Technical Communication and Game Studies
• 1 It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Pulls Out a Manual : Finding a Role for Technical Communicators in the Game Industry / Jeff Greene ; Laura Palmer = 17
• 2 Come Out Playing : Computer Games and the Discursive Practices of Gender, Sex, and Sexuality / Marc Ouellette = 35
• Part Ⅱ Industry Documentation and Procedural Guides
• 3 Rendering Novelty Mundane : Technical Manuals in the Golden Age of Coin-Op Computer Games / Carly A. Kocurek = 55
• 4 Just Playing Around : From Procedural Manuals to In-Game Training / Jennifer deWinter = 69
• 5 "It Wasn't Intended to be an Instruction Manual" : Revisiting Ethics of "Objective" Technical Communication in Gaming Manuals / A. V. Luce = 87
• Part Ⅲ Getting the Player Involved
• 6 Game Design Documents : Changing Production Models, Changing Demands / Anthony T. Sansone = 109
• 7 Developing a Testing Method for Dynamic Narrative / Alex Tilley ; Carmen Blandino ; Jennifer deWinter = 125
• 8 Psyche and Eros : Rhetorics of Secrecy and Disclosure in Game Developer - Fan Relations / Josh Zimmerman = 141
• 9 Patching as Design Rhetoric : Tracing the Framing and Delivery of Iterative Content Documentation in Online Games / Lee Sherlock = 157
• 10 "You Are How You Play" : Privacy Policies and Data Mining in Social Networking Games / Stephanie Vie = 171
• 11 Working at Play : Modding, Revelation, and Transformation in the Technical Communication Classroom / Kevin Moberly ; Ryan M. Moeller = 189
• Part Ⅳ Games in the Professional and Technical Communication Classroom
• 12 Inhabiting Professional Writing : Exploring Rhetoric, Play, and Community in Second Life / Jennifer L. Bay ; Samantha Blackmon = 211
• 13 How World of Warcraft Could Save Your Classroom : Teaching Technical Communication through the Social Practices of MMORPGs / Melissa Bianchi ; Kyle Bohunicky = 233
• 14 The Three D's of Procedural Literacy : Developing, Demonstrating, and Documenting Layered Literacies with Valve's Steam for Schools / Jason Custer = 247
• 15 Questing through Class : Gamification in the Professional Writing Classroom / Jennifer Grouling ; Stephanie Hedge ; Alyssa Schweigert ; Eva Grouling Snider = 265
• 16 From Realism to Reality : A Postmortem of a Game Design Project in a Client-Based Technical Communication Course / Christopher Ritter ; Sameer Ansari ; Scott Daner ; Sean Murray ; Ryan Reeves = 283
• Index = 307
• Games Index = 313