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IMGD Interactive Media and Game Development: Showcase - The Library Collection

Resources for IMGD Research

Featured Books by Faculty

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Book cover of Wandering Games by Professor Melissa Kagen.

Wandering Games - Prof. Melissa Kagen

Featured Journal Articles by Faculty

Procedural Content Generation via Knowledge Transformation by Prof. Gillian Smith (and others)

Integrating Automated Play in Level Co-Creation by Prof. Gillian Smith (and others)

Architecture for Real-Time Granular Synthesis by Prof. Rodney DuPlessis (and others)

The Wanderer as Soldier by Prof. Melissa Kagen

Archival Adventuring by Prof. Melissa Kagen (and others)

Walking, Talking, and Playing with Masculinities in Firewatch by Prof. Melissa Kagen

Zombie Parsifal by Prof. Melissa Kagen

A Day in the Life by Prof. Ben Schneider (and others)

Ode to Short Dialog by Prof. Ben Schneider

Recommended Books

Analysis & Theory

Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds

Game Sound: An introduction to the history, theory, and practice of video game music and sound design

Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture

Playing Oppression

Queer Game Studies

Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology

Understanding Video Game Music

Wandering Games

Anatomy & Modeling

Figure Drawing: Design and Invention

Narrative Design & Game Design

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

The Design of Everyday Things

Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games

Literary Gaming

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals

Production & Management

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

The Scrum Guide

Programming

An Architectural Approach to Level Design

Blood, Sweat and Pixels

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Miscellaneous

Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Game Worlds

Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games

Ready Player One

Video Games Have Always Been Queer

Recommended Journals

Board Game Studies Journal Online

Games and Culture

International Journal of Computer Games Technology

Journal of Games Criticism

Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

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