Forum LEVEL

• Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture (de T.L. Taylor)
• A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players (de Jesper Juul)
• Uncertainty in Games (de Greg Costikyan)
• Play Matters (de Miguel Sicart)

• The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games (de Jesper Juul)
• Values at Play in Digital Games (de Mary Flanagan and Helen Nissenbaum)
• Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (de John Sharp)
• Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft® Reader (de Hilde G. Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg)
• Critical Play: Radical Game Design (de Mary Flanagan)
• The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy (de Bernard De Koven)
• The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World (de William Sims Bainbridge)

• Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware: The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (de Dominic Arsenault)
• How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design (de Katherine Isbister)
• I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer / Entertainment System Platform (de Nathan Altice)
• Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform (de Steven E. Jones and George K. Thiruvathukal)
• Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds (de Celia Pearce)
• Developer's Dilemma: The Secret World of Videogame Creators (de Casey O'Donnell)
• Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America (de Michael Z. Newman)

ola small dickie wrote: 4 Apr 2018, 13:15 "The Art of Point-and-Click Adventure Games now available for pre-order
Genre's "visual celebration" 460-page coffee table book filled with classic art and interviews."

https://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/collectio ... ames?aff=3

A beautifully illustrated atlas exploring and mapping the spectacular imaginary cities of video games.

Game urbanist, designer, and writer Konstantinos Dimopoulos, and visual artist Maria Kallikaki have embarked on a virtual journey to explore, catalogue, and map the most spectacular, intriguing, and defining places of this new digital geography.

This is the first volume of a projected three that gather together many of the essays and writings that I have been sharing on this blog over the last several decades. This book focuses specifically on games I have worked on, from LegendMUD up through social games, and is a book of design history, lessons learned, and anecdotes. Richard Garriott was kind enough to write a foreword for the book.

It’s not a memoir or tell-all; the focus is on game design and game history. There’s still nowhere near enough material out there in print covering things like the history and evolution of online worlds (MUDs especially), in-depth dives into decisions made in games by the people who made them, and detailed breakdowns of how they worked. So I hope that this will be useful to scholars and designers, and that players might find it a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes. Just don’t expect salacious stories and secrets.

A History of Video Games in 64 Objects explains how the video game has transformed over time. Inside, you’ll find a wide range of intriguing topics, including:

• The first edition of Dungeons & Dragons—the ancestor of computer role-playing games
• The Oregon Trail and the development of educational gaming
• The Atari 2600 and the beginning of the console revolution
• A World of Warcraft server blade and massively multiplayer online games
• Minecraft—the backlash against the studio system
• The rise of women in gaming represented by pioneering American video game designers Carol Shaw and Roberta Williams’ game development materials

A visual panorama of unforgettable anecdotes and factoids, A History of Video Games in 64 Objects is a treasure trove for gamers and pop culture fans.

Comic book artist, video game writer, and author Wes Locher has just released a non-fiction book that may be of interest to many of you. Entitled Braving Britannia: Tales of Life, Love, and Adventure in Ultima Online, it is a collection of stories about (what else?) the experience of different Ultima Online players and developers.

Here’s the official description:

Welcome to the digital world of Ultima Online where anything is possible. Braving Britannia: Tales of Life, Love, and Adventure in Ultima Online collects interviews with 35 of the game’s players, volunteers, and developers, revealing what they did, where they adventured, and how their lives were changed by the grandfather of MMOs.

In the early 1980s, Yu Suzuki, a young videogame developer working at SEGA developed a series of groundbreaking arcade games – physically impressive, custom-built cabinets that utilised motion control, hydraulics and frenetic pseudo-3D visuals.

SEGA Arcade: Pop-Up History presents five of the most iconic 'body sensation' cabinets – Hang-On, Space Harrier, OutRun, After Burner and Thunder Blade – in a suitably innovative form: as dazzling pop-up paper sculptures.

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Take your place alongside the nine major heroes, engage in a stunning arena battle, and enjoy a charming story told with the game’s signature wit and whimsy. Unfold each page to reveal a spectacular central pop accompanied by booklets of smaller pops.

A brand-new book brings together images from throughout the 40-plus year history of Dungeons & Dragons in one volume for the first time. Titled Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History, it’s an illustrated guide to the original role-playing game that charts the story of its birth in Geneva, Wisconsin all the way to its modern renaissance.

What makes Art & Arcana so special are the creative minds who came together to write it. They include Michael Witwer, author of Empire of the Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons, and Jon Peterson, author of Playing at the World, two of the most well-regarded books on the early history of D&D. Together with filmmaker Kyle Newman and actor Sam Witwer, their depth of knowledge is as substantial as the massive, 440-page coffee table book itself.