MIT Press is going to publish my book

[cmyk]

@The_Hamster_King

I talk about strategy and tactics only in the sense of how balancing long-term goals against short-term goals makes for interesting decisions.

I don’t really talk about balance at all. It’s a very theoretical book, and there are some practical challenges in game development that I don’t go into.

Understood and no matter, play and game theory has always been a fascinating and interesting topic to me. So is application of the theories, of course, but gaining insight into research and its broad reach sounds like a great and enlightening read.

[Learjeff]

Let me know when it’s available on my Nook!

[tapu]

I got very enthused, reading this thread. Planning to go look up some of the related and only tangentially related books listed above, and then… I’ll be pre-ordering.

Congratulations, Hamster! (Use a different name as the author. Piece of advice.)

[cmyk]

Yes, my wallet is waiting to send you money…

[The_Hamster_King]

Just an update with the latest news. I finished the revisions requested by the editor and sent them off yesterday. This morning I woke up to find a contract in my in-box.

[RealityChuck]

Congratulations. It’s a major achievement.

[cmyk]

What RealityChuck said. Great news, looking forward to reading your book!

[The_Hamster_King]

I just sent the final draft off to the publisher. I’m done!

Well, mostly done. I’ll still have to check the page proofs and make an index in a month or two … .

[Inner_Stickler]

What an exciting concept to be exploring! I look forward to reading your book as well!

[The_Hamster_King]

The page proofs have arrived! The diagrams got all jacked up in the translation from Word to Illustrator, but other than that it looks great. Now I have a month to proofread and index.

[HoneyBadgerDC]

I can’t wait for your book to come out! Please notify us or me when we can order. It sounds like the closest thing I have found to something I have found very little information on.

[LavenderBlue]

@The_Hamster_King

The page proofs have arrived! The diagrams got all jacked up in the translation from Word to Illustrator, but other than that it looks great. Now I have a month to proofread and index.

If you can get someone to read as well, that also helps. I find I miss thing all the time.

[VarlosZ]

@The_Hamster_King

It’s a book about play. It lays out a new critical framework for analyzing play spaces, drawing connections between games, literature, neuroscience, semiotics and philosophy.

[Professor Frink demonstrates a corn popper toy to a class of kindergarteners.]

Frink: The compression and expansion of the longitudinal waves cause the erratic oscillation, you can see it there, of the neighbouring particles.
[A little girl attracts Professor Frink’s attention]
Frink: Yes, what is it, what, what is it?
Little Girl: Can I play with it?
Frink: No you can’t play with it, you will enjoy it on as many levels as I do… Mm-hai bw-ha whoa-hoa. The colors, children. Mwa-ha-hee

[VarlosZ]

Seriously, though, congratulations.

[Hari_Seldon]

Next time you write a book, index as you go along. All three books I have published were in TeX, which automatically tracks those index marks so it is easy. But I assume you can do that in any decent program.

[BigT]

@LavenderBlue

I find I miss thing all the time.

Apparently.

[Frylock]

@The_Hamster_King

It’s a book about play. It lays out a new critical framework for analyzing play spaces, drawing connections between games, literature, neuroscience, semiotics and philosophy.

One one level it’s: “Here’s a better way to talk about how play works.”

And on another level it’s: “Here’s how this better way of talking about play can illuminate other aspects of human culture.”

Holy crap, I have to read that. Are you comfortable with letting us know when the book is out an where we can order it?

[Inner_Stickler]

Oooh, let us know if there’s an opportunity for us to pre-order it!

[The_Hamster_King]

And … I just sent off the index to the publisher. Unless I made some mistake in the index they want me to fix, I am DONE.

The publication date is March 2015. It’s in the MIT Press catalog, but they don’t seem to be accepting pre-orders yet.

[Inner_Stickler]

Thanks for the update! I’ve made a note in my calendar to check back in the new year. The blurb on that page only intrigues me more!