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Master of Electronic Art
Spatiality and Interaction
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Cyber Games Week ten
Overview Gaming has become a multibillion-dollar industry, superseding the film industry as the top entertainment, and whether or not the debate over its validity as an art form is resolved, it is here to stay. Cyber games come in different genres: strategic, shooters, god games and action/adventure. Earliest examples of games, like the Dungeons and Dragons, were text based. Spacewar! is generally considered to be the first computer game, developed by Stephen Russell in 1962. However the first commercially available game was Pong, released by Atari in 1973. Since the 90s multiplayer games like Doom were introduced. This change was theoretically driven and happened nearly a decade after the technology of networked home computers was already in place. The history of the development of gaming runs parallel to that of the development of the computer, and because of the lucrative status cyber game industry enjoys, most advances in the 3d technology comes from there.
Mary Flannagan , Warlpiri Media Design , Toshio Iwai, Stephan Eichhorn, Tjark Ihmels, KP Ludwig John, Michael Touma , Otto Mopps, Webster Lewin, Bill Barminski, Jerry Hesketh , Juttz Kirchgeorg, Youn H Lee, Jaques Servin, Paula Levine, Open Source Media Art Project, Timothee Ingen-Housz, Ben Benjamin John F Simon, Peter Broadwell & Rob Myer, Scott Sona Snibble, Natalie Bookchin, John Klima, Cory Arcangel, jodi, Feng Mengbo; Ann-Marie Schleider, John Leandre & Brody Condon;
Primary Reading Graham, Beryl Serious Games exhibition link
Flanagan, Mary The Sky is Falling: Why are Virtual Worlds so Desolate?
More Art of Computer Game Design - Chris Crawford - online book Artificial Zine (Denmark) essays on games Digital Games Research Association Gamasutra game development site Gamelab - independent game developer GameOn - UK exhibit on history of computer games Henry Lowood course in game design with links Holopainen, Jussi & Meyers, Stephan Neuropsychology and Game Design
Juul, Jesper Clash between game and narrative
Kim, Amy Jo Ritual Reality: Social Design for Online Gaming Environments Mnookin, J Virtual(ly) Law: The Emergence of Law in LambdaMOO Roberts, Hedley Interactive Game Design Course examples of Director based work & theory Schneider, Ann Marie Does Lara Croft Wear Fake Polygons?
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