REVIEW: Second Person, Role Playing in Story and Playable Media, by David
Cox

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Second Person: Role Playing in Story and Playable Media
edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Publisher: The MIT Press (February 28, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0262083566
ISBN-13: 978-0262083560

Review by David Cox, MA

Second Person: Role Playing in Story and Playable Media elucidates many of
the techniques, approaches and philosophies of role playing based games,
media and art. It is a dense and well put-together compendium of working
notes, essays and from-the-trenches accounts from designers and artists
working in media which place the identity of the user/player/audience at the
very front and center of the work. It is an amazing collection of ideas,
scintillating, diverse and rich, each separate writer