procedural rhetoric

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Games make claims about the world through processes. Games can use processes to persuade

This shouldn’t be confused with persuasive technology

respect the player's intelligence with subtle messages, slowly built
- rely on procedural rhetoric
games enable the intellectual exploration of various perspectives
- Tagging: games can teach philosophy through simulation, agency, procedural rhetoric, intellectual exploration
dialectic games
- Games that are ambiguous and exploratory in their themes, relying on their procedural rhetoric and putting the onus of determining the best course of action and the meaning of in-game decisions onto the players themselves.
Procedural Rhetoric-Bogost
- procedural rhetoric