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The In-game Economics of Ultima Online

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:33:30 PDT

Figure 1 illustrates the original design of the macro-economy. Notice that all of the drain paths lead back up to the top, forming a closed loop. The impetus for this...

Where Everybody Knows Your (Screen) Name: Online Games as "Third Places"

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:28:48 PDT

Media scholars have become increasingly concerned with the possible negative social and civic impacts brought on by the diffusion of both traditional media like...

* Katamari Damacy – A Critique: Part One

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:08:34 PDT

Many people claim to be video game critics. Hardly any are. They are video game reviewers. There is a clear distinction between a review of a work – a movie, a book, a...

September 13, 2006

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:55:39 PDT

Fils-Aime: Wii Console Profitable At Launch [09.14.06] While it has become customary for console manufacturers to sell the hardware, at least initially, at a loss,...

I Have No Words & I Must Design

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:50:11 PDT

There's a lotta different kinds of games out there. A helluva lot. Cart-based, computer, CD-ROM, network, arcade, PBM, PBEM, mass-market adult, wargames, card games,...

The Epic Ebert Videogame Debate

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 04:43:54 PDT

Via Kotaku, a column at Ebert.com going into some depth on the are-games-actually-art debate. Ebert engaged in a public debate on the subject at last week's Conference on...

what is devbump?

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 04:38:02 PDT

gamecareerguide.com has an article about which game dev job positions are in most need as of recently, with special focus on ones that are open to entry-level applicants....

World Premiere at the Come Out and Play Festival

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 04:36:42 PDT

New York City, September 22 - 24 2006 Will innocents be caught in the cross-fire? Oh, yes. But when your secret weapon is a random act of kindness, it’s only cruel to be...

June 29, 2006

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 04:35:52 PDT

The site is now getting more and more attention internationally. My data was featured in the March 2, 2006 edition of Dagens Næringsliv, a Norwegian newspaper, in an...

alist writes "For week of 9/12-9/14"

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:53:14 PDT

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I Have No Words & I Must Design

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:38:57 PDT

There's a lotta different kinds of games out there. A helluva lot. Cart-based, computer, CD-ROM, network, arcade, PBM, PBEM, mass-market adult, wargames, card games,...

A Journal of Interactive Media

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:14:19 PDT

To see an article, click its [PDF] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button....

Click 23 - by Ben Hoyle

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:54:41 PDT

It is afternoon on at the end of November. It is some time in the middle of the morning. The sun is shining. I am looking out of my window. The street there is empty. The...

The Escapist - Issue #59

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:50:01 PDT

A weekly publication, The Escapist covers gaming and gamer culture with a progressive editorial style. Magazine-style updates offer content for a mature audience of...

THE FREEFORM IDENTITY BEBOP OF EBONI KHAN

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:20:13 PDT

As much as people like unrealistic things in virtual worlds, they love the realistic. Not everyone can shop on Rodeo Drive in real life. Or on 5th Avenue. But you can...

Designer's Notebook

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:16:40 PDT

So here I am, a few years back, firing up Baldur's Gate for the first time. This is gonna be great! A huge multi-disc CRPG with a decent storyline and tons of gorgeous...

Iterative Design

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:04:18 PDT

Needs and Pleasures Design is a way to ask questions. Design research, when it occurs through the practice of design itself, is a way to ask larger questions beyond the...

t.l. taylor -- publication list

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:47:21 PDT

Book Chapters "Becoming a Player: Networks, Structures, and Imagined Futures" in Y. Kafai, C. Heeter, J. Denner, and J. Sun (eds.) Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New...

Library and Other Resources

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:05:19 PDT

Other Bibliographies and Timelines on topics covered in the class: "Journal Articles: Academic Research into Computer Games." Includes sections on: computer games and...

Welcome to Videogame History 101.

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:11:38 PDT

While the point of this site is to cover the varied and interesting 40 year history of all those eater of dots, whether they be the pixels on the screen or the quarters...

Genre and the Video Game

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:57:45 PDT

Games or programs which attempt to simulate a realistic situation, for the purpose of training, and usually the development of some physical skill such as steering (as in...

Daily Almanac for Sep 5, 2006

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:55:38 PDT

Baer and team are successful in creating two interactive TV games—a chase game and a tennis game. They are also able to manipulate a toy gun so that it detects spots of...

Computer Gaming Bibliography

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:54:35 PDT

Aarseth, E. (1997) Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, Johns Hopkins University Press, http://www.hf.uib.no/cybertext Amory, A., Naicker, K., Vincent, J. and Adams, C....

Initiatives/Papers: Games and Professional Practice Simulations (GAPPS)

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:09:05 PDT

Joint Papers * Shaffer, D. W., & Gee, J. P. (in press). Before every child is left behind: How epistemic games can solve the coming crisis in education (WCER Working...

On the Limits of Textual Analysis

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:59:33 PDT

As the title suggests, the feminist reception of Lara Croft as a game character has been ambivalent to say the least. The question itself presupposes an either/or answer,...

What WarioWare can teach us about Game Design

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:51:15 PDT

The story: Wario, realizing there is lots of money to be made in video games, decides to found his own game company. The resulting game: Play through a rapid-fire series...

Games Telling stories?[1]

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:44:23 PDT

As questions go, this is not a bad one: Do games tell stories? Answering this should tell us both how to study games and who should study them. The affirmative answer...

The Game, the Player, the World: Looking for a Heart of Gameness

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:46:09 PDT

The method I am applying here is to go through seven previous definitions of games, pick out their similarities and point to any modifications or clarifications needed...

LUDOLOGY MEETS NARRATOLOGY: Similitude and differences between (video)games and...

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:49:10 PDT

Our major problem is the actual situation of the study of traditional games: lack of clear definitions and theories; more functionalist approach rather than formalist;...

Overview: Survey Research

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:17:58 PDT

Surveys represent one of the most common types of quantitative, social science research. In survey research, the researcher selects a sample of respondents from a...

Sections

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:17:17 PDT

Jordan, Brigitte and Austin Henderson. 1995. "Interaction Analysis: Foundations and Practice." The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 4(1): 39-103. Last Updated by CM on...

Public Interest Anthropology at Penn

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:16:48 PDT

Methods How to Do Ethnographic Research: A Simplified Guide. The following section was authored by Barbara Hall and is intended to provide general, simplified information...

August/September 2005 Volume 1, Issue 6

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:08:53 PDT

In this special issue of Innovate, we focus on the role of video game technology in current and future educational settings. Jim Gee opens the issue with a key question:...

The Daedalus Gateway - The Psychology of MMORPGs

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:59:42 PDT

I surveyed MMORPG players for the first time in the Fall of 99. Since then, I've surveyed over 35,000 MMORPG players from most of the popular US MMORPGs. Over the past 5...

HEARTS, CLUBS, DIAMONDS, SPADES: PLAYERS WHO SUIT MUDS

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:51:58 PDT

Most MUDs can trace their lineage directly back to Trubshaw's 1978 game (Bartle, 1990b; Burka, 1995) and, perhaps because of this heritage, the vast majority are regarded...