Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Queer Game Studies, "On FeministWhorePurna and the Ludo-material Politics of Gendered Damage Power-ups in Open-World RPG Video Games"

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For the upcoming book Queer Game Studies (2017), I contributed a chapter on the "FeministWhore" scandal in the game Dead Island...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

Forever BUTT

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The cover of BUTT Magazine #18 This doesn't really have anything to do with games, directly, but: I want to talk briefly about a gay ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Game Development Studies reading list, Fall 2015

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In the vein of "Platform Studies" or "Code Studies", we might consider a "Game Development Studies" ("...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Videogames for Humans, edited by Merritt Kopas

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The first reaction most people had was, "it's bigger than I expected." 575 pages to be exact. But that obfuscates the actual...
Friday, October 17, 2014

"Quality product": on Jagged Alliance 2 by Darius Kazemi

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Much like Anna Anthropy's study of ZZT , Darius Kazemi's study of Jagged Alliance 2 for Boss Fight Books is a quick read but feel...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Liner Notes: Intimate, Infinite (part 1)

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These are some notes about my process / intent in making my game Intimate, Infinite . Spoiler warning is in effect for this game as well a...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

"I'm young and I love to be young": on ZZT, by Anna Anthropy

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Anna Anthropy's book "ZZT" is impressive. In only 129 pages, she gives a robust and accessible technical overview of the ga...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

On video game corridors in "Elements of Architecture"

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I wrote about video game corridors for the huge expensive hardcover 1000+ page Rem Koolhaas book-set "Elements of Architecture" ...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

What should you learn in Games 101?

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I'm teaching an undergraduate "Games 101" class at Parsons this Fall semester, and putting together the syllabus has been... n...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Radiator Book Club: Architecture, design and criticism.

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Book Club posts recommend books and approaches to consuming them for today's go-getting game developer / enthusiast. ARCHITECTURE The...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Radiator Book Club: the Game Design Bibles

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Several independent parties have asked me for book recommendations and stuff, so now I'm starting a series of posts about books to read,...
Friday, April 6, 2012

Book Club, level design edition

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Here are some books I've been reading, most of them about halfway through. I haven't bought any of these; they're all from my un...