Technologies
Materials
What Is a Video Game? (game)
Manifesto for a Ludic Century: The 21st Century Will Be Defined by Games (reading)
The Game Design of Art (reading)
Game Rules As Art (reading)
How To Turn a Museum Into an Arcade (reading)
Towards an Art History for Video Games (reading)
Level Design Lessons (reading)
The Taxonomy of Narrative Choice (game)
The Other Side of Braid (reading)
Queer Female of Color: The Highest Difficulty Setting There Is? Gaming Rhetoric as Gender Capital (reading)
Gamification is Bullshit (reading)
What Games Can Learn from the Engagement Layers of Papers, Please (reading)
Minecraft: The Story of Minecraft (video)
The Minecraft Generation (reading)
A Journey to the End of the World (of Minecraft) (reading)
The History of Minecraft (reading)
What Were ‘Minecart Boosters’? Minecraft, Digital Distribution and Preservative Labor (reading)
Games
Introduction… What are games and what is art?
Passage (2007)
Hair Nah (2020)
Super Mario Bros (1983)
Braid (2008)
Problem Attic (2013)
The Marraige (2007)
Black Room (2017)
Everything Is Going to Be Ok (2017)
The Museum of Anything Goes (1995)
Choice
Universal Paperclips (2017)
Papers, Please (2013)
The Stanley Parable (2013)
Undertale (2015)
This War of Mine (2014)
Narrative
Disco Elysium (2019)
Kentucky Route Zero (2013)
Norco (2022)
Gone Home (2013)
What Remains of Edith Finch? (2017)
System
Tetris (1984)
The Sims (2000)
Monument Valley (2014)
Antichamber (2013)
Time
Superhot (2016)
Outer Wilds (2021)
Difficulty
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (2017)
Dark Souls (2011)
Dwarf Fortress (2006)
Community
Minecraft (2009)
Second Life (2003)
Journey (2012)
Killer Queen (2013)
Controls
Duck Hunt (1984)
Flappy Bird (2013)
Pokemon Go (2016)
Dance Dance Revolution (1998)
Comedy
Put on Your Makeup in the Dark (2018)
Portal (2007)
Job Simulator (2016)
Octodad (2010)
Horror
Resident Evil (1996)
Five Nights at Freddy’s (2014)
Inscryption (2021)