Resources

Classics in the field and current research

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Audio / Video / Discussion

• Games Studies Study Buddies
• JRPG Book Club
• The Pixels – Mage Cast
• Retrograde Amnesia
  • Featured in Wired article on video game book clubs
• Trying To Be Kind
• Retronauts
• With a Terrible Fate
• Jacob Geller
• Screen Therapy

Books

• Homo Ludens, by Johan Huizinga
• Philosophical Investigations, by Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Laws, by Plato
• The Moral Judgment of the Child, by Jean Piaget
• Football in Sun and Shadow, by Eduardo Galeano
• Coach and Against the Rules (podcast), by Michael Lewis
• Man, Play, and Games by Roger Caillois
• Game Over, by David Sheff
• Reality is Broken, by Jane McGonigal
• In Praise of Shadows, by Junichiro Tanizaki
• Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database, by Alan Liu
• The Language of New Media, by Lev Manovich
• Art and Illusion, A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, by Ernst Gombrich
• How to Play Video Games, Payne and Huntemann ed.
• Dionysus Reborn, by Mihai Spariosu
• Cybertext, by Espen Aarseth
• Hamlet on the Holodeck, by Janet Murray
• Boss Fight Books, various, Gabe Durham ed.
• Legends of Localization, by Clyde Mandelin
• Games: Agency as Art, by C. Thi Nguyen
• Art of Game Design, by Jesse Schell
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin

Web / Journals

• Game Design Forum
• Game Studies
• Journal of Games Criticism
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• Eludamos
• Video Game History Foundation
• Beyond the dull binary (with a dropbox link to readings)
• Posts by Mike Sell
• First Person Scholar
• Games and Culture
• Simulation & Gaming
• Critical Distance Compilations

For more, see the University of Michigan Library Research Guide

Also, Critical Distance’s Resources for Writers and IGDA’s resource library