Guide:Texts

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.

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

• Articles section on Roguebasin (Roguelike).

Level Design

• Radiator Blog: Dark Past (part 4): The Useful Post (?) or Randy Smith's "valence theory" of level design. Robert Yang. 2011

See Also

• The Guides section?
• Video Game collection on aaaaarg.
• Play collection on aaaaarg.
• VG Literature on selectbutton.
• Print Publications about Videogames on selectbutton.