143).’’ More recently, Aki J ̈rvinen has noted that the game typifies an experience of suspense, modulated through its accelerating tempo (J ̈rvinen, 2009, p. Tetris has been written about by many game theorists, a famous early example of thinking about the game is Janet Murray’s description of Tetris as allegorical: ‘‘a perfect enactment of the over tasked lives of Americans in the 1990s (Murray, 1998, p. touchPhysics has already been discussed as a game in which space is actively created, but how does the idea apply to other games? By looking at the games Tetris, Echochrome and F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin, a range of recursive spaces becomes clear. Having described recursive space as an interaction between a gamer and game technology, what does this idea bring to ways of thinking about engagements with games? One of the main points about recursive space is that play generates space, and this gives us a different way of thinking about spatial engagement. They also engage with technological ones as they reconfigure the relationships between objects and so create space. Through the idea of recursive space, we can see that gamers not only engage with patterns based on social and cultural ones. Both patterns and mechanics are relational, referring to the terrain of the game as it is unfolding, smooth spaces that reconfigure striated ones. In playing, in putting the rules into action, patterns of play and game mechanics emerge as the gamer’s engagement with a situation evolves. Rules are preformed, more like striated space. Rules primarily refer to what a gamer might expect from their knowledge of games generally as well as the specific game being played. Thinking about patterns of play, game rules, and game mechanics gives us a way of thinking about how the gamer’s input becomes entangled with the code of the game.
The game code does not simply provide the framing within which the inputs of the gamer are configured, but the game code too contributes to the recursive quality of space. This kind of programming creates more complex interactions between a gamer’s avatar and NPCs. Each NPC has its own cycle of activities with which the gamer’s avatar (chosen and named by the gamer) interacts and depending on the class of the NPC can influence in ways that help or hinder the gamer. The role-playing game Oblivion takes A.I.-based goal- oriented programming further. When an agent is able to interact with the game mechanic and alter the state of the game, then they too become a component in the reconfigurations of recursive space. We see this in the example above from Assassin’s Creed as the NPC alters the state of the game by constraining space, limiting the way in which a gamer can effectively reconfigure objects. programming aims to give the impression that enemies are reactive, not simply activated en masse by a trigger point within a game level. programs, though not exclusive to first-person shooters, is most evident within this category of games. This observation holds for games that use an artificial intel- ligence (AI) mode of programming in order to create the illusion that intelligent agents exist among the nonplayer characters that populate the game world. are available to both human-controlled avatars and NPCs function- ing as intelligent agents.
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