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jill/txt A psuedonymous blogger complained about a friend who’d lived off welfare while the blogger had paid taxes, and the friend found the blog entry and told the real story in a comment to the original post yesterday the blogger admitted...Game designer, consultant and author. Site includes weblog, publications and other resources.
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Greg Costikyan You can find the long and boring bio here, but briefly: I've designed more than 30 commercially published board, roleplaying, computer, online, and mobile games, including 5 Origins Award winners. I've written scads of articles on games and the industry,...Brief presentation of his doctoral thesis on videogame history and a few links.
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Jørgen Kirksæther A commercial presentation of the doctorate project is here. The link farm is coming along (but not yet complete Research in the Digital Garbage Dump The Structure of Video Game Narration Videospillhistorie101 (N Apparantly down at the moment. I you're...IT University of Copenhagen. Articles, reviews, thesis, games.
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Jesper Juul I am a video game theorist. These are my publications. I am an assistant professor in video game theory and design at the Center for Computer Game Research Copenhagen (I also have a phd from the same institution I am...University of Bergen. Editor in chief of Gamestudies.org and the originator of cybertext theory. The first chapter of his book, Cybertext, is available, as are a few other early articles.
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Espen Aarseth's Web site This site is no longer updated (not that it ever was I no longer work at Dept. of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen...Hunter College, NY. Digital media artist, research among other things on games.
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mary flanagan web On this site you will find links to creative work, shows events, writing, cv, course materials, and my research projects for girls, including the RAPUNSEL project and The Adventures of Josie True funded by the NSF. Franais ici Where am...Volda University College. Weblog. Research on MUDs.
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thinking with my fingers Blogger about objectionable content. What does this mean? BlogThis! thinking with my fingers writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers Isaac Asimov Wednesday, October 26, 2005 Grunt Somehow, Agirra has achieved the rank of Grunt The ranks reflect...Aalborg University. Research on computer games and ludology. Weblog and articles.
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Ludologica Blogger about objectionable content. What does this mean? BlogThis! Ludologica ISSN:1601-6025 Weblog on ludology and game research. Lars Konzack. Multimedia researcher at Aalborg University in Denmark. email: konzack [att] hum [dot] aau [dot] dk other blogs: Greg Costikyan Mirjam Eladhari...Germany. Weblog, articles, conference calls. Research on computer games and hypertext.
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WORDWRAP wordwrap Publikationsliste list of publications Artikel Papers Reviews Activities [more words] My current haunt: BLUE MARS. Award-winning Frankfurt-based web design agency more BLUE MARS new window] War Of The Worlds USA 2005, dir. Steven Spielberg For neither do man live, nor...IT University of Copenhagen. Articles, activities, teaching.
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Homepage Susana P. Tosca My research interests include computer games, digital textuality, hypertext and popular culture. My book, Literatura Digital, came out last spring in Spanish only, you can dowload info here. Places to be I am on maternity leave for a year, from...University of North Carolina. Research on the impact of violence in computer and video games on children. List of publications.
http://www.utoledo.edu/psychology/FunkVita.html
Independent. Weblog, articles, games. Research on political games, simulations, ludology.
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Ludology.org Videogame Theory If you want to learn more about the upcoming King Kong game, click here to read the NYTimes article (free registration required It has some interesting bits of information but fails to say how pissed Jackson was at EA (even...Phd scholar at the University of Bergen, Norway. Abstract of his doctoral project: Play and Mediation in Computer Games, links to papers.
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Rune Klevjer A conference on computer game aesthetics University of Bergen, Norway October 14-15, 2005 I am a currently finishing the PhD dissertation Gunplay. The aesthetic of the single-player First Person Shooter, and contribute regularly on the Bristol-based game research blog Power...Game designer, artist, and academic at NYU exploring the theory and practice of game design. Essays, links, teaching.
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Eric Zimmerman Welcome to the extremely low-tech website by and about Eric Zimmerman. Who am I? NEWS The site is unfinished, but the rest is coming sometime sooner or later. Due to popular demand, I am working on getting the PowerPoint presentations...Research is both quantative and qualitative, and is particularly centred on players of EverQuest and other Massive Multi-Player Online Games.
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Nick Yee's Homepage Findings of online survey research. Presentations of both quantitative and qualitative data. Canvas and Stone Hidden Agenda Catching The Phoenix Love In Four Acts Virtual Violence Beyond Tops Bottoms Rethinking Tibet Collection of thoughts and ideas on language, culture and...Researching networked multi-user virtual worlds, and especially the high-intensity interaction between humans originating from the world of 3D games.
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Research My research interest and area includes networked multi-user virtual worlds (net-VEs) and their applications. Especially, the interaction between human participants, and also the interaction between the virtual world and the participating humans are problem areas that raise a number of...Focuses on the performative and participatory elements of computer game play. Also researches hypertext theory and interactive, streaming video.
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Andrew Mactavish: Home I teach courses in the practice and theory of multimedia design, digital media (image, video, audio and interactivity. ETC. CV (Coming someday) Biography (warning: lots of video) Photography RESEARCH PROJECTS 1) Producing Pleasures: The Cultural Politics of Creative Computer Game...Theorist and author/developer specialising in interactive fiction, often in the crossover between game and literature. Games, fiction, publications and links.
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Nick Montfort Montfort zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba nickm.com (oct 11) cse 130 section 101 information Oct-06 Riddle Machines a talk on a panel at the NMC New England Conference, Yale; audio now available Sep-26 How Stella Got Her Text Back a talk at Elective Affinities,...Interactive media designer who has also written on games. Papers and descriptions of projects are available.
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Celia Pearce Friends ...Recent work attempts to unify existing theories of play within a semiotic framework.
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Myers Homepage The contents of this communication are the sole responsibility of David Myers and do not necessarily represent opinions or policies of Loyola University New Orleans...Interested in the psychological dimensions of technology use in work and leisure; gender and leisure; computer games and internet use; media psychology and media effects.
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/science/psychol/bryce.htm
University of Virginia. Dissertation deals with games and generative art in the context of conflicting design philosophies: hermeneutic and algorithmic. CV, descriptions of dissertation and projects, list of publications.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~bpn2f
Game designer and theorist. Archive of columns published in Gamasutra, other articles, list of print publications, pages describing game philosophy.
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Cover Map a member ofserving clients and teaching in Click a flag for more details. Use back button to return.If Internet Explorer reports that it has blocked active content on my site, please select “Allow blocked content” from the information bar....Researching the construction of story in virtual worlds. Background in hypertext theory. Weblog and publications.
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Klastrup's Cataclysms This is the research diary of Lisbeth Klastrup, sharing her thoughts on life, universe, persistent online worlds, games, interactive stories and internet oddities with you. I am an Assistant Professor at DIAC at the IT University at Copenhagen. This fall...Weblog, articles and projects centered around multiplayer games, women and technology, emergence in communities and games and serial and reconfigurable narrative.
http://shinyspinning.com
Weblog about videogames and popular culture and essays about first-person shooters written from a cultural studies perspective.
http://www.geocities.com/yllohwood
PhD Student, University of Seville. Research on the evolution of video games from a formal/audiovisual point of view. Portfolio and CV.
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Alfonso Boullon Sabin's website In this website you will find information about the more admissible side of my life At present, I live in Tenerife, but you might find me in Sevilla or Barcelona. Curriculum I am a PhD student at University of Seville...Professional and academic articles, presentation, and interviews game design philosophy, MMORPG design, and game education.
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Fine Game Design David Kennerly This is a syllabus and problem set for Jon Orwant Bruce Blumberg's class at MIT on game design. ConQuest (September 3-5, 2005) TableStar Games We'll be testing new prototypes for board games at this upcoming convention. If you're in the...Virtual exhibits from the University of Waterloo, Ottawa, Canada. Dedicated to research and the collection, preservation, and exhibition of games and game-related objects.
http://gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca//
Offers links to game technology and articles on research and courses.
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Current book project is complete: Start Your Engines: Developing Driving and Racing Games for Paraglyph Press. O'Reilly link to this book. I was again a finalist for a Canadian New Media Award, second consecutive time. I am blessed and honoured....University of Melbourne. PhD candidate studying the political content of role-playing videogames.
http://benhourigan.com/
Professional and academic articles, presentations, and links to other resources.
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Laurie N. Taylor: PhD Candidate in Digital Media and Literature D candidate in digital media in the Department of English, University of Florida. My research focuses on video games, and my dissertation is on horror video games. Please check out my CV, search this site, or contact me for more...Studies games and technology. Full-time lecturer at Kolej Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia. Personal blog and research listing.
http://stephen.mob1900.com
Website of Dutch independent game scholar Joris Dormans. His articles on games and related subjects can be found here.
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Joris Dormans Independent Game Scholar Home This site serves as a portfolio for my games research, gaming hobby and programming endeavors. Here you can find several articles I wrote about games, reviews of games and books on games, software I created and more. Feel free to...Researches computer game philology, electronic art, and fiction.
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particle stream All content on this website (including text, photographs, images, and any other original works unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons License. about this blog hi! my name is julian raul kcklich and this is my blog. particle...Personal site contains articles and writing samples including research on MMORPG economies and "A Rape in Cyberspace."
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JULIAN DIBBELL Y of a dubious proposition This Boy's Life my BIO, sweetened, condensed scribble, scribble, scribble selected TEXTS, published and unpublished but enough about you the LATEST news about me worth mentioning...Texturl is the blog of Brandon Barr, an advertising copywriter interested in the intersections between electronic media, advertising and poetry.
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texturl: the website of Brandon Barr Filed under musings advertising 8212; Brandon Barr 10:10 am Over the next few weeks, I’m keeping my eyes on three more examples of online narratives tied to commercial ventures (like examples of narratising that I wrote about here, here, here,...Interested in the psychological dimensions of technology use in work and leisure; gender and leisure; computer games and internet use; media psychology and media effects.
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psychology My research interests include My research interests are mainly related to the psychological dimensions of technology use in work and leisure; gender and leisure; computer games and internet use; media psychology and media effects. I m currently involved in the...University of Toledo. Research on the impact of violence in computer and video games on children. List of publications.
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The University of Toledo Department of Psychology Jeanne B. Funk The problem of violence in society and its impact on children is my general area of research interest. Specifically, I am examining the impact of media violence, particularly violence in video and computer games, on children's adjustment and behavior. I...Articles, links, and weblog chronicling personal search for games and toys, ideas and innovations, people and events that enhance our capacity for having fun.
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DeepFUN with Bernie DeKoven Email this page to a friend! Design: Julie Wolpers dba Webcurrent Communications...News, reviews, articles and a forum related to game design and development.
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Game and movie production process comparison Trade Skills Starting a Game Company Mod as Gateway to Game Development Pyrogon Postmortem Quake 3 Networking Model Explained Updated Book List and Articles on the Design of Online Economies New Book Reviews Vampire...Personal blog of Terra Nova contributor. Includes links and other resources.
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Easily Distracted Distracted is now at http weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke. April 6, 2005 Slow blogging for now, both because I'm horribly overwhelmed with work and because I'm slogging away at a transfer of this blog to WordPress, which involves some drudgery AND a learning...Personal blog of new media scholar.
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F i l o l i Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay Robert Frost Posted by Elin at 05:14 PM Permalink Tell a Tale (0 The Web Elsewhere 0) Just a comment...PhD student at the IT University of Copenhagen. Personal weblog and CV.
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The Distant Sound of Trumpets weblog of Jonas Heide Smith Danish computer game use is predicted by… October 26th, 2005 The frequency of use of PC (computer) games by Danes is predicted by three variables: Gender, age, and occupation. Men play more, young people play more, and unemployed, students, and...Gotland University in Sweden and University of Teesside in England. Personal blog and notes for Ph.D. work on MMORPGs.
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Models for Life in Virtual Game Worlds Mirjam Eladhari Blogger about objectionable content. What does this mean? BlogThis! Models for Life in Virtual Game Worlds Notes about my PhD work Player character mind models for deep characterization and emergent story construction in massively multiplayer game worlds Friday, October 21,...(Ln(x))3. The everyday blog of MUD Scholar Richard Bartle.
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QBlog Update any relevant links or feeds to the new URL, please. Latest entries. Archived entries. About this blog. Copyright 2005 Richard Bartle (richard@mud.co.uk...Game Researcher & Designer. Personal blog, design diary, and research in progress.
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Games without Frontiers blogging the Ph.D. Entries gaming diary game selibacy not! New year's gaming galore San Andreas board gaming chapter in progress Emotions, Rhetoric, Mechanics genre spotting genrification There just might be and end to the thesis. I've just secured a month of study leave...Northwestern University. Personal blog, CV, and links to research and projects on player experience in computer games.
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