Anatomy of a Game

• Read chapters 2-12, 14, 22 from Salen and Zimmerman
• Conceptual Play - Worked Example - Quest Atlantis

Games and Culture

• Gadamer (100-125)
• Bateson (314-328)
• Castronova (economy)
• Squire & Steinkuehler (Star Wars chapter)
• Dibbell (Rape in Cyberspace & Gold Farmers)
• Bartle (Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds)
• Jenkins (Games as Narrative)
• Gee (Why Videogames for Learning)
• Turkle (Who am We or Life on Screen)
• Thomas and Brown (dispositions and Warcraft)
• Laurel (Storytelling: A Feminist Approach)

Games and Learning

• Gee (Games and Learning Book)
• Kafai (JSET)
• Squire (Games as Ideological Worlds)
• Barab (Science Ed or Plato)
• Steinkheuler (MCA)
• Shaffer (Harvard Rev)
• TBA