From the monthly archives: March 2006

To-read

By On 30/03/2006 ·

New games book out: Gaming As Culture: Essays on Reality, Identity And Experience in Fantasy Games

From the description:

Since tabletop fantasy role-playing games emerged in the 1970s, fantasy gaming has made a unique contribution to popular culture and perceptions of social realities in America and around the world. This contribution is [...]

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Fascinating stuff

By On 09/03/2006 ·

The latest issue of SIMULATION & GAMING has an interesting article by Zagal, Rick, and Hsi: Collaborative games: Lessons learned from board games.
It seeks to explore collaborative games, focusing on board games in order to extract principles which can be used by video game designers.

The article makes interesting points, and [...]

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Slouching toward Bethlehem

By On 07/03/2006 ·

There is hope yet. My research project description was just updated.
About time too.

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Talk on games+film at ITU

By On 07/03/2006 ·

Jack Bauer: From TV2 to PS2
09/03-2006 kl. 4PM-6PM i Auditorium 1

Come to a Master Class about media convergence: Jack Bauer: From TV2 to PS2

TV, movies and computer games are merging. Games are being made into movies, entire TV series are released as interactive computer games, and in the [...]

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