tetris

Literature scholars eager to understand gaming have made early inroads. Markku Eskelinen sets up serious checkpoints.

J. Yellowlees Douglas adds more titles to Eskelinen's catalog of limnal games.

"Where is the text in chess?" asks Espen Aarseth. Rules, play, and semiosis are the (un)common ground between games and stories in "interactive narrativism" and the art of simulation.

Espen Aarseth holds that gameplay, not Lara Croft?s physique, should command the attention of an evolving game studies.

Henry Jenkins uses narrative space to distinguish between different tale-ends.

Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin introduce First Person, an interactive, multi-player collaboration between ebr and the MIT Press.

Narrativists vs. ludologists, material vs. formal constraints: Michael Mateas replies by identifying actors' roles in each division.