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Tale-Spin effect: a standalone construct

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Game studies

the failure of a system to show its internal complexity on the surface, so audiences see far less than the system actually does.

In game studies, Tale-Spin effect refers to the failure of a system to show its internal complexity on the surface, so audiences see far less than the system actually does. This meaning comes from Wardrip-Fruin (2009) in Expressive processing.[1]

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complexity4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs failure4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs game2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Wardrip-Fruin, N. (2009). Expressive processing. The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262013437

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