TABLE OF CONTENTS: Acknowledgments vii
Note on Informant Anonymity xiii Introduction: Mapping the Machine Zone 1 Part One: Design
1. Interior Design for Interior States: Architecture, Ambience, and Affect 35
2. Engineering Experience: The Productive Economy of Player- Centric Design 52
3. Programming Chance: The Calculation of Enchantment 76 Part Two: Feedback
4. Matching the Market: Innovation, Intensification, Habituation 107
5. Live Data: Tracking Players, Guiding Play 137
6. Perfect Contingency: From Control to Compulsion 166 Part Three: Addiction
7. Gambled Away: Liquidating Life 189
8. Overdrive: Chasing Loss, Playing to Extinction 210 Part Four: Adjustment
9. Balancing Acts: The Double Bind of Therapeutics 239
10. Fix upon Fix: Recipes for Regulating Risk 257 Conclusion: Raising the Stakes 290 Notes 311
References 385
Index 42 Return to Book Description File created: 4/25/2013 | 
