Tag: games

Jeff Tidball contends that the Second Person collection deals too much with the mechanics of narrative and too little with the emotion it can evoke.

Erik Mona takes a first step toward measuring the cultural impact of Gygax and Arneson's Dungeons & Dragons by providing a pocket history of the game's generation and evolution. Mona explains the addition of character development as a game goal - the innovation that distinguishes D&D from its predecessors, and started the role-playing revolution.

Markku Eskelinen reiterates the bounds of ludology.

Mark Barret cautions against reinventing the wheel in this riposte to Cyberdrama and to Janet Murray's essay.

Brenda Laurel takes a turn at the rules of operation for Interactive Fiction.

Who says hypertext readers have more brains than gamers? Not Henry Jenkins.

Stephanie Strickland makes marks an intervention across the "I."

Applying games to games, Celia Pearce uses The Sims to showcase six keywords.

Jesper Juul maps the "flow" state of gameplay onto innerspace and elsewhere.

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