Texts and Other Useful Links

Textbook:

A Playful Production Process : For Game Designers (and Everyone)

by Richard Lemarchand

Readings for Discussions:

Week 2: Environmental Storytelling

How to Tell Stories and Guide Players Through Level Design

A tour of the perfect world-building behind Disney’s Tower of Terror

Week 3: Colonialism in Games

Dreaming of a Postcolonial Video Game

White Protagonism and Imperial Pleasures in Game Design (text, not video)

Week 5: Death and Loops in Games

Learn, reset, repeat

To Fatality and Beyond

Week 6: Disability Justice and Games

Ten Principles of Disability Justice

Video Games and Disability Representation

Gaming for All: Disability, Accessibility and Representation

Week 7: Metroidbrainias and Knowledge Based Games

The Best Genre Still Has No Name

What The Heck Is A 'MetroidBrainia'?

Knowledge Based Games, and Why You Should Play Them

Week 8: Emulation and Piracy

The ethics of emulation: how creators, the community, and the law view console emulators

Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit

Forum: What's The Difference Between Emulation and Piracy?

Week 9: Games As Therapy

Can video games help diagnose, monitor, and treat depression?

Exploring the possible mental health and wellbeing benefits of video games for adult players

The Power of Video Games as a coping mechanism