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Materials

 

General

07.31.09
  Class Procedures and Assignment Overview

These are the documents handed out on the first day of class 

Last modified by: Doris Rusch

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  Huzinga, Johan: Nature and Significance of Play as a Cultural Phenomenon

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  Caillois, Roger: The Definition of Play & The Classification of Games

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  Sutton-Smith, Brian: Play and Ambiguity.

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  Murray, Janet: From Additive to Expressive Form

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07.31.09
  Aarseth, Espen: Ergodic Literature

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07.31.09
  Wolf, Mark J. P: The Videogame as a Medium

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07.31.09
  Grodal, Torben: Video Games and the Pleasures of Control

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07.31.09
  Rusch, Doris: Emotional Design of Computer Games and Fiction Films

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  Frasca, Gonzalo: Simulation versus Narrative: Introduction to Ludology.

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07.31.09
  Celia Pearce: Towards a Game Theory of Games

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  Costikyan, Greg: Games, Storytelling and Breaking the String

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  Frasca, Gonzalo: Ludologists love stories too. Notes from a debate that never took place
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  Juul, Jesper: Games Telling Stories? A brief Note on Games and Narratives.

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  Rusch, Doris C. and Koenig, Nikolaus: Perspectives on Emotion Strategies in Computergames
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  Hunicke et al: MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research

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  LeBlanc, Marc: Tools for creating dramatic game dynamics.

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09.08.09
  Bogost, Ian: Procedural Rhetoric

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07.31.09
  Juul, Jesper: A Certain Level of Abstraction.

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11.08.09
  Rusch, Doris C. and Weise, Matt J.: Games about LOVE and TRUST?

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07.31.09
  Koster, Raph: A Theory of Fun (chapters 2, 3, 11)

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11.08.09
  Bogost, Ian: Wii’s Revolution is in the Past

 

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11.08.09
  Griffin, Stephen: Push. Play. An Examination of the Gameplay Button

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11.08.09
  Murray, Janet: Agency

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07.31.09
  Ryan, Marie-Laure: Introduction to Narrative as Virtual Reality
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  Jenkins, Henry: Game Design as Narrative Architecture

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  Pearce, Celia: Narrative Environments - From Disneyland to War of Warcraft

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  Fernandez-Vara et al: Evolution of Spatial Configurations in Videogames

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  Bartle, Richard: Making Places
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  Fernandez-Vara, Clara: Labyrinth and Maze

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  Nitsche, Michael: Mapping Time in Video Games

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  Novak, Marcos: Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace (optional)

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11.17.09
  Murray, Janet: Immersion

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11.17.09
  McMahan, Alison: Immersion, Engagement, and Presence.

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11.08.09
  Ryan, Marie-Laure: The Text as World - Theories of Immersion

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11.08.09
  Hocking, Clint: Game Designers' Rant 2008

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11.08.09
  Hocking, Clint: i-fi: Immersive Fidelity in Games

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  Juul, Jesper: Rules and Fiction (optional!)

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  King, Geoff / Krzywinska, Tanya: Realism, Spectacle, Sensation

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  Boal, Augusto: Theatre of the Oppressed

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  Frasca, Gonzalo: Videogames of the Opressed
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  Adams, Ernest: Postmodernism and the Three Types of Immersion
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  Bartle, Richard: Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players who suit MUDS

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  Taylor, T.L.: Finding New Worlds (From Play Between Worlds)

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  Consalvo, Mia: Cheating. Gaining Advantage in Videogames

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11.17.09
  Csíkszentmihályi, Mihály: Flow. The Psychology of Optimal Experience.

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07.31.09
  Flanagan et al.: Values at Play

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09.08.09
  Takahashi, Dean: Ethics of Game Design

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07.31.09
  Kutner, Lawrence & Olson, Cheryl: The Big Fear (excerpt from Grand Theft Childhood?)

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  Kutner, Lawrence, and Cheryl Olson: Grand Theft Childhood?

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  always_black: Bow, Nigger

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  McGonigal, Jane: This is not a game: Immersive Aesthetics and Collective Play

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  Nitsche, Michael: Claiming its Space: Machinima

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  Bogost, Ian: Comparative Videogame Criticism

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  Gingold, Chaim: What WarioWare Can Teach Us About Game Design

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  Robinett, Warren: Adventure as a Video Game: Adventure for the Atari 2600

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  Wyckoff, Richard: Postmortem: DreamWorks Interactive’s Trespasser

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  Rouse, Richard: Game Analysis: Centipede

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  Raessens, Joost: Playful Identities, or the Ludification of Culture

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  Goldstein, Jeffrey: Immortal Kombat: War Toys and Violent Video Games

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  Turkle, Sherry: Aspects of the Self

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  Gee, James Paul: Semiotic Domains: Is Playing Videogames A "Waste of Time"?

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  Johnson, Steven: Games (Everything Bad Is Good For You)

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07.31.09
  Well Played

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07.31.09
  Bogost: Persuasive Games: Performative Play

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09.08.09
  Rusch, Doris: Mechanisms of the Soul - Tackling the Human Condition in Videogames

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11.01.09
  Bogost: Persuasive Games: Gestures as Meaning

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07.31.09
  Bully - Kirk Battle (L.B. Jeffries)

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07.31.09
  Shadow of the Colossus - Nick Fortugno

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  Montfort: Portal of Ivory, Passage of Horn

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  Rusch: Staring into the Abyss - A Close Reading of Silent Hill 2

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07.31.09
  Hocking: Ludonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock: The Problem of What the Game is About

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10.30.09
  Mary Flanagan - Designing for Critical Play

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