Jonas Heide Smiths notesblog

The video games text-book which I have co-written with Susana Tosca and Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen has now left the printers and reached the virtual shelves of Amazon.com.
The book is so interesting that it actually has a (somewhat rudimentary) Companion Website featuring the book’s brief introduction chapter.
If you’re in Denmark, here’s a list of fine web book [...]

I wrote a paper with Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens and Susana Tosca which is now published:
Tychsen, Anders & Smith, Jonas Heide & Hitchens, Michael & Tosca, Susana. Communication in Multi-Player Role Playing Games – The Effect of Medium. Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Berlin: Springer Verlag.
Abstract: The Pen-and-Paper [...]

The University of Copenhagen is hosting the next down-to-Earth but often pleasant public game seminar in our twice-a-year series. Program below:
To Kill or not to Kill – and other presentations on computer games research
Friday November 12, 2004MODINET’s Conference Room 5.2.29a (old KUA)
PROGRAMME:09.15-09.25: Welcome09.25-10.05: Gitte Stald Perspectives on Fascination of Death and Violence in [...]