Goblin from Arthur Rackham illustrations for Rosetti's Goblin Market

Spring 2006: LIT 4930 :: Gaming Cultures

Rules of Play (online version through library website and available at Goerings)
One book assigned to you or your group (please use the library for this to keep your book costs reasonable. Let me know if the library doesn't have a copy and I can probably put my own copy on reserve.)
One game, assigned to you or your group
*You'll also be spending $20-30 in supplies for your projects, so just be aware of this in your book costs.

Individuals or Groups can choose to review the following texts:

Twisty Little Passages by Nick Montfort
Reskin by Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth
Reload: rethinking women + cyberculture by Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth
Gender Inclusive Game Design by Sheri Graner Ray
The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology by Salen and Zimmerman,
Screenplay: Cinema/Videogames/Interfaces by Geoff King and Tanya Krzywinska
Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database by Lev Manovich
Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds by Jesper Juul
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee
Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga
The Oxford Guide to Card Games (this would need to be presented in week 4)
First Person : New Media as Story, Performance, and Game by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Pat Harrigan
The Video Game Theory Reader by Mark J. P. Wolf
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature by Espen Aarseth
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, David Bellos (Translator)
The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
Everquest Reader, by Eric Hayot and Edward Wesp
Shared Fantasy, by Gary Alan Fine
The Ambiguity of Play
The Oxford Guide to Board Games (this would need to be presented in week 5)
List of articles
The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers from Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit(this would need to be presented in week 5)

DDR/arcade
Console 1 player
Console 2+ players
Console Multiplayer inviting
Console Multiplayer, high skill level
Computer, 1 player
Computer, Multiplayer, MMORPG
Text based
Mobile
Sim/world builder
Sims
List of games for health: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051031/chen_01.shtml
Educational Game
Special Genres [girl or "pink" games, trivia games, betting games, texts that are games (like Dictionary of the Khazars and Stretchtext)]

For all, readings from Games & Culture: http://gac.sagepub.com/

Serious Games: Name(s)
WaterCoolerGames.org
http://www.gamestudies.org/0401/woods/

Sexuality in Games: Name(s)
Mia Consalvo on FF
http://www.gaymer.org/
http://www.armchairarcade.com/aamain/content.php?article.27
http://www.killerbetties.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=436