[^2]: My account is moderately aligned, in spirit, with those scholars who call themselves ludologists, who argue that games are a unique category and should be studied as such. For surveys of ludology, and of the debate between narratology…[^6]: It should be noted that the term winning here is slightly imprecise. There are many other sorts of states we can pursue in games. For example, one might have lost the opportunity to actually win in a particular chess match, but one ca…
Graeme Kirkpatrick
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Kirkpatrick appears only as a passing reference in the ludology debate—the footnote mentions him among scholars arguing that games constitute a unique category deserving study on their own terms rather than through narrative frameworks. His work supports the course's engagement with how computational systems (games, algorithms, AI architectures) generate their own logics and goals that can't be reduced to storytelling or external human meaning-making. This becomes crucial for understanding how autonomous systems develop instrumental rationalities that exceed our initial intentions.
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