[game_edu] Suggestions for Reading

[Mike Sellers]

... And now looking at the wiki page you supplied, I see the MDA paper is
the first link. Okay then. :)


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Mike Sellers <mike at onlinealchemy.com>wrote:


> Off the top of my head I'd suggest Hunicke, et al. on Mechanics, Dynamics,

> Aesthetics (MDA) - http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/MDA.pdf. (I

> seem to be continually suggesting this paper and finding people who don't

> know it. :) )

>

> Also, while not nearly as accessible, Alexander's "A Pattern Language."

> It's not about game design, but the way of thinking it engenders has been

> helpful to me (and of course this has become pervasive in the software

> world, to the point that people forget where the "design patterns" idea

> came from).

>

> Possibly also "Playing Video Games" (Vorderer & Bryant, eds.), but I may

> be biased as I have a chapter in it.

>

> Mike Sellers

>

>

>

> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:14 PM, <coachpayne at aol.com> wrote:

>

>>  Hi Folks:

>>

>> I'm hosting and teaching a ten-day Game Design and Simulation MiniTerm at

>> this school, the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. I've

>> done this at another school, and hosted it here last year. I'm not a

>> professional game designer, but I've used gaming in my science classes

>> since the mid-1970s, from board games to physically active games to

>> computer games.  I'm not an expert, but I listen well and read a lot, and

>> experiment with what I've made. Several of the kids who have taken this

>> MiniTerm, as well as the semester classes I initiated and taught prior to

>> retirement from public education have entered the industry, and others have

>> written me that they have an appreciation of the work that you real

>> designers undertake in producing games.  I still need to continue to

>> research and hear about what is being done now in terms of design,

>> production, and marketing of games of all types.  Below is a list of

>> resources I've read in the past and have available for my students.  Some

>> are good, some are not as accessible. I'd really like to know of other

>> resources that might be available.  If I could solicit suggestions from you

>> of other books or materials, I'd be very appreciative.

>>

>> Here is a list of what I have available for the kids, and that I've read:

>>

>>  Brackeen, David, with Bret Barker. *Developing Games in Java*

>> Brathwaite, Brenda, and Ian Schreiber.* Challenges for Game Designers:

>> Non-Digital Exercise for Video Game Designers*

>> Dille, Flint, and John Zuur Patten.* The Ultimate Guide to Video Game

>> Writing and Design*

>> Koster, Ralph. *A Theory of Fun for Game Design*

>> Perry, David, and Rusel DeMaria. *David Perry on Game Design: A

>> Brainstorming Toolbox*

>> Rogers, Scott.* Level Up: The Guide to Great Video Game Design*

>> Schell, Jesse. *The Art of Game Design*

>> Huizinga, Johan. *Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture*

>> Fullerton, Tracy. *Game Design Workshop*

>> McGonigal, Jane, Reality is Broken:* Why Games Make Us Better and How

>> They Change the World*.

>> Salen, Katie (ed). *The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and

>> Learning*

>> Ladd, Brian, and Jam Jenkins.  *Introductory Programming with Simple

>> Games: UsingJava & the Freely Available Networked Gaming Engine*

>> Gaddis, Tony.* Games & Graphics in C++*

>>

>>  I've also got a recording of Rise of the Video Game,a  five-part series

>> on The Discovery Channel about the history of video gamesthat aired in

>> 2007, also broadcast as *I, Videogame* in Europe.

>>

>> The wiki from an earlier MiniTerm at another school where I taught this

>> is http://saintsgames.wikispaces.com/ .

>>

>> Any help or suggestions would be very welcome!

>>

>> Thanks.

>>

>> --

>>   Charlie Payne

>>  Instructor of Physics

>>  Head Cross Country Coach

>>  North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

>>  Durham, NC

>>  paynec at ncssm.edu

>> 919-416-2765

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