Cardboard Ghosts

Cardboard Ghosts

Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems

Holland, Amabel

Taylor & Francis Ltd

01/2025

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9781032816685

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Acknowledgements

Author Biography

01. Stories and Systems

02. Mechanical Metaphors

Systems and Synthesis

Little Sisters and Cellar Doors

The Stones of Turncoats

The Hidden Models of Computer Games

System Knowledge is System Mastery

Cognitive Loads

Primitive Polemics

03. The Paper Time Machine

History of Professional Wargaming

Avalon Hill and the Birth of Commercial Wargaming

Jim Dunnigan and the Paper Time Machine

Mechanical Complexity in Wargames

04. Wargaming as Technique

Games as Arguments

Kubrick's Two Golden Eagles

The Wargaming of Root

Objectivity in Modeling

Complicity is Required for Systemic Modeling

05. Immersion and Identity

Identities

Roles as Empty Avatars

Roles as Opportunities for Exploration

Roles in Historical Games

Detail and Texture

My Favorite Story

06. Agency and Viewpoint

A Thing That Happens To You

Pax Porfiriana and Pax Pamir

Viewpoint and Horror in Meltwater

Ordinary Complicity and Fancy Hats

Complicity in John Company

Ethical Considerations of Immersion

07. Alienation and Distance

Limits of Immersion

Too Close To The Gears

The Verfremdungseffekt

The V-Effect in Mother Courage

Media Literacy

Nonhierarchical Art and the Monoform

Alienation in Board Games

08. This Guilty Land

The Concept

Modeling Civility and Compromise

Modeling a Broken Legislature

Distancing Players From Roles

Working Against Texture

Working Against Flow

Emotional Texture

Limits of Alienation

09. Challenges and Hopes

Useful Doubts

Ethical Challenges

Practical Challenges

Political Art is a Custard Pie

The Future

Index
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game design;modelling systems;game mechanics;board game design;Brecht's Alienation Effect;board game;Ludonarrative dissonance