Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Connecting Professional and Technical Communication and Game Studies; 1 It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Pulls Out a Manual; 2 Come Out Playing; Part II Industry Documentation and Procedural Guides; 3 Rendering Novelty Mundane; 4 Just Playing Around; 5 "It Wasn't Intended to be an Instruction Manual"; Part III Getting the Player Involved; 6 Game Design Documents; 7 Developing a Testing Method for Dynamic Narrative; 8 Psyche and Eros; 9 Patching as Design Rhetoric
10 "You Are How You Play"11 Working at Play; Part IV Games in the Professional and Technical Communication Classroom ; 12 Inhabiting Professional Writing; 13 How World of Warcraft Could Save Your Classroom; 14 The Three D's of Procedural Literacy; 15 Questing through Class; 16 From Realism to Reality; Index; Games Index
Taking as its point of departure the fundamental observation that games are both technical and symbolic, this collection investigates the multiple intersections between the study of computer games and the discipline of technical and professional writing. Contributors engage with questions related to workplace communities and gamic simulations; industry documentation; manuals, gameplay, and ethics; training, testing, and number crunching; and the work of games and gamifying work
