books
Persuasive Games
The Expressive Power of Videogames
A book about how videogames make arguments: rhetoric, computing, politics, advertising, learning.
Unit Operations
An Approach to Videogame Criticism
A book about comparative videogame criticism: games, philosophy, literature, and art.
Video Computer System
The Atari 2600 Platform
Co-authored with Nick Montfort. Forthcoming 2008.
Elementary Greek
Koine for Beginniners. By Christine Gatchell. Audio companions read by Ian Bogost.
When I was in school, I learned Greek, and I think everyone else should too.
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games
Persuasive Games
The game studio I co-founded. We make games about social and political issues.
Honorarium
An art game for EA's Sims Carnival
Game Poems
Small games focused on constraint and condensation, for Atari VCS
Cruel 2 B Kind
A big public game of benevolent assasination. Created with Jane McGonigal.
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writing
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July 20, 2008
The End of Gamers
Things people do with videogames
June 25, 2008
Performative Play
How gameplay makes changes in the real world. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra.
May 7, 2008
Texture
On the way games can be felt. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra
April 30, 2008
Advertisers have yet to unlock the power of play
Opinion piece published in The Guardian
March 31, 2008
Is Spore For Everyone?
Opinion piece published in Gamasutra
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teaching
Introduction to Computational Media
The introductory course for the computational media degree
The Atari Video Computer System
A seminar on this influential early home videogame console
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blog
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August 9, 2008
Ordinary Olympians
Why athletic excellence alone cannot be appreciated
August 2, 2008
The Geek's Chihuahua
A Review of the iPhone
July 27, 2008
Videogames, circa 1920
July 18, 2008
Learning from Amazon Associates
Referral reports and privacy, insight, surprise
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I also blog at Water Cooler Games. Most recent story there:
Gimmickry, or How Exergaming Went Mainstream.
photography
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speaking
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Next: September 11, 2008
Keynote
Playing the News, The Institute for Interactive Journalism Conference
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