# Defining Operational Logics

*Source* · `src-mateas-2009-defining-operational-logics` · status: **n/a**

| field | value |
|---|---|
| kind | Peer-reviewed paper |
| authors | Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin |
| venue | Proceedings of DiGRA 2009 Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory |
| date | 2009 |
| url | https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/490 |
| doi | 10.26503/dl.v2009i1.490 |
| accessed | 2026-10-31 |

## Notes

Read the full-text PDF (author order as printed there; the DiGRA record reverses it). Operational logics connect fundamental abstract operations, which determine the state evolution of a system, with how authors and players understand them; a logic is an authoring strategy, supported by abstract processes or lower-level logics, for the behaviors a system must show to be read as representing a domain. Discusses graphical and resource management logics.

## Citation

Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin (2009). *Defining Operational Logics*. Proceedings of DiGRA 2009 Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/490

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