Guide:Texts
From Game Making Tools Wiki
Brain-food from a variety of fields
Architecture
- How Buildings Learn. Stewart Brand. 1994.
- How Buildings Learn - TV series.
Atmosphere
- Atmosphere as the Fundamental Concept of a New Aesthetics. Gernot Böhme. 1993.
- Performing an Aesthetics of Atmospheres. Stuart Grant. 2013.
Audience, Interaction, Participation, Performance ???
- Participation. Edited by Claire Bishop.
Bodies
Games and Play
- Homo Ludens. By Johan Huizinga. 1955.
- Homo Ludens on Wikipedia.
- Homo Ludens for the People - Notes on Homo Ludens, by Mattie Brice.
- Man, Play and Games. By Roger Caillois. 1961.
Kind-specific
Level Design
- Radiator Blog: Dark Past (part 4): The Useful Post (?) or Randy Smith's "valence theory" of level design. Robert Yang. 2011.
Particular Games
These of course will talk about other things, but use a particular game as a starting point or reference point.
- A Maze of Murderscapes: Metroid II. SR Holiwell. 2015.
- Stray Dogs, or: My Only Verb is Kill (Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days). 'ironcupshrug'. 2011.
- Super Metroid. Ario Barzan. 2009.
- Sons of Big Bucks: Metal Gear Solid 4 and the Video Game Economy. James Clinton Howell. 2012.
See Also
- The Guides section?
- Video Game collection on aaaaarg.
- Play collection on aaaaarg.
- VG Literature on selectbutton.
- Print Publications about Videogames on selectbutton.