Addiction by Design

Contents

1. Note on Informant Anonymity
2. Introduction: Mapping the Machine Zone
3. Part One: Design
4. 1. Interior Design for Interior States: Architecture, Ambience, and Affect
5. 2. Engineering Experience: The Productive Economy of Player-Centric Design
6. 3. Programming Chance: The Calculation of Enchantment
7. Part Two: Feedback
8. 4. Matching the Market: Innovation, Intensification, Habituation
9. 5. Live Data: Tracking Players, Guiding Play
10. 6. Perfect Contingency: From Control to Compulsion
11. Part Three: Addiction
12. 7. Gambled Away: Liquidating Life
13. 8. Overdrive: Chasing Loss, Playing to Extinction
14. Part Four: Adjustment
15. 9. Balancing Acts: The Double Bind of Therapeutics
16. 10. Fix upon Fix: Recipes for Regulating Risk
17. Conclusion: Raising the Stakes

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