Key quotes

1. Synthetic worlds : the business and culture of online games / Edward Castronova, p.4
   "Synthetic worlds: crafted places inside computes that are designed yo accomodate large number of peoples.
   
   
2. Synthetic worlds : the business and culture of online games / Edward Castronova, p.7
   Lawrence Lessig (1999),the unusal thing about the cyber world is is that we can both here and there at the same time
   
   
3. Synthetic worlds : the business and culture of online games / Edward Castronova, p.50
   Synthetic worlds may affect the dairy lives of people who have no idea what the internet is.
   
   
4. Mackenzie Wark Allegory on the Sims, p.3
   To play the game means to play the code of a game. To win means to know the system
   
   
5. Play between worlds : exploring online game culture / T.L. Taylor. p.12
   but I have been experimenting quite a bit , and the one thing that I 've found most interesting is , that people treat you based on how you present yourself , and, if you play attentions, you'll notice that *you* change depending on how you present yourself.
   
   
6. Game cultures : computer games as new media / Jon Dovey and Helen W. Kennedy, p.3
   Games are not a kind of cinema, or literature, but colonizing attempts from both these fields have have already happened, and no doubt will happen again. And again, until computer game studies emerges as a clearly self sustained academic field.