Cleaning out old e-mails. A list of things I don’t want to forget, but my e-mail quota won’t allow me to save.
Terra Nova Blog
http://terranova.blogs.com
from the e-mail circulated:
Authors are Hunter and Lastowka (authors of “The Laws of the Virtual Worlds”), Julian Dibbell (author of My Tiny Life and Wired contributing editor) and me (author of “Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier”). The purpose of the blog is to report and comment on critical
developments in the area of emergent collective reality spaces, aka virtual worlds. Our focus is not on the worlds themselves but on the economic and legal implications of the behavior they generate.
developments in the area of emergent collective reality spaces, aka virtual worlds. Our focus is not on the worlds themselves but on the economic and legal implications of the behavior they generate.
An Intentionally Selective and Incomplete Bibliography of Play and Video
Games by Christian Sandvig and David Brandon
http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/classes/SP03/396-5/Play_Bibliography.pdf
Joystick101.org’s column on Chris Crawford, game designer.
http://www.joystick101.org/story/2003/8/23/15919/0102
“Playing the Story, Computer Games as a Narrative Genre” by Jonas Carlquist http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-02/jc.pdf
applied media and simulation games center (amsgc)
http://www.coe.iup.edu/amsgc
Journal of Virtual Environments (formerly: Journal of MUD Research): http://www.brandeis.edu/pubs/jove/
Materials from “Academic Day” recently held at GDC Europe
http://www.igda.org/academia/events.php (and pictures on Jason Della Rocca’s blog)
Game-Research.com website
http://www.game-research.com/
Matteo Bittanti – game blog
http://www.mbftoday.blogspot.com/
And finally – a slew of resources generated from the GamesNetwork Listserv “Games vs. Movies” Thread (to be sorted through later – and all credit to the list for submitting these):
http://www.game-research.com/art_myths_of_gaming.asp
http://www.game-research.com/business.asp
http://www.mpaa.org
http://www.mpaa.org/useconomicreview
http://www.theesa.com
http://www.theesa.com/industrysales.html
http://www.dungeonsanddreamers.com/brad.html
http://www.indiemagazine.co.uk/cgi-bin/news.cgi?section=1&id=1763
http://www.igda.org/academia/IGDA_2003_Academic_Day_Seamus.zip (caution – zip file)
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20030605/carless_01.shtml
http://www.mpaa.org
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3188873.stm
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