Book Review: Critical Play: Radical Game Design by Mary Flanagan

Critical Play: Radical Game Design by Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 353 pp., ISBN 978-0-262-06268-8

THE PAST DECADE HAS SEEN A RAPID EXPANSION in the field of academic writing on the subject of computer and video games. The formerly marginalized field is now receiving its scholarly due as part of an increased focus on popular culture influenced by the development of Cultural Studies departments in universities. Early contributors to this scholarly field, such as Michel de Certeau and Dick Heb...

Critical Thinking by Alec Fisher (Book Review)

Rules of play: game design fundamentals

Why should wait for some days to get or receive the rules of play game design fundamentals book that you order? Why should you take it if you can get the faster one? You can find the same book that you order right here. This is it the book that you can receive directly after purchasing. This rules of play game design fundamentals is well known book in the world, of course many people will try t...

Book review: Crime and Everyday Life by Marcus Felson and Mary Eckert, 5th edition

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Rhetoric, Embodiment, Play: Game Design as Critical Practice in the Art History of Pompeii

This paper explores the consequences of using the game engine Unity to construct 3-D models of Pompeian houses, linked to art and spatial databases, as an ongoing research colloquium for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities. Rather than serving as a neutral piece of visualization software, the game engine functions as critical tool because, more than any other visualiz...