Jonas Heide Smiths notesblog

Susana Toscas, Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsens og min computerspilgrundbog “Understanding Video Games” har i følge forlaget solgt hæderligt i sine første 8 måneder. Ole Ertløv Hansen har I øvrigt netop anmeldt den i tidsskriftet MedieKultur. OEH har pæne ting og sige, men hæfter sig også ved en række kritikpunkter, hvoraf flere er rimelige nok.
Bogen kan købes hos [...]

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 [...]

Forthcoming, in review, work-in-progress etc.
Tychsen, Anders & Smith, Jonas Heide (in review for journal publication). Playing Stories: Communication in Role-Playing Games.
Smith, Jonas Heide (submitted for special issue of Games & Culture). Trusting the Avatar. [Draft version].
Academic publications
Just, Sine Nørholm & Smith, Jonas Heide (2009). Playful Persuasion: The Rhetorical Potential of Advergames. Nordicom Review, vol. [...]

Simon, Susana and I just (finally) received the actual/physical signed publishing contract for our text-book adventure. We will publish with Routledge (US) and have agreed to deliver the final manuscript by August 1st.If any one of you, faithful readers, is interested in reading one or more section(s) to comment we would of course be [...]

Back in October I reported on the progress of our text-book project (very dated info here).Now, I’m thrilled to report that we’ll be signing a contract with a major publisher.Final manuscript will be due some time this summer. Yep, book-making is a slow and careful art.