Technologies 

Flowlab

Twine

RPG Maker

p5.js

Unity

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?

  1. Passage (2007)

  2. Hair Nah (2020)

  3. Super Mario Bros (1983)

  4. Braid (2008)

  5. Problem Attic (2013)

  6. The Marraige (2007)

  7. Black Room (2017)

  8. Everything Is Going to Be Ok (2017)

  9. The Museum of Anything Goes (1995)

    Choice

  10. Universal Paperclips (2017)

  11. Papers, Please (2013)

  12. The Stanley Parable (2013)

  13. Undertale (2015)

  14. This War of Mine (2014)

    Narrative

  15. Disco Elysium (2019)

  16. Kentucky Route Zero (2013)

  17. Norco (2022)

  18. Gone Home (2013)

  19. What Remains of Edith Finch? (2017)

    System

  20. Tetris (1984)

  21. The Sims (2000)

  22. Monument Valley (2014)

  23. Antichamber (2013)

    Time

  24. Superhot (2016)

  25. Outer Wilds (2021)

    Difficulty

  26. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (2017)

  27. Dark Souls (2011)

  28. Dwarf Fortress (2006)

    Community

  29. Minecraft (2009)

  30. Second Life (2003)

  31. Journey (2012)

  32. Killer Queen (2013)

    Controls

  33. Duck Hunt (1984)

  34. Flappy Bird (2013)

  35. Pokemon Go (2016)

  36. Dance Dance Revolution (1998)

    Comedy

  37. Put on Your Makeup in the Dark (2018)

  38. Portal (2007)

  39. Job Simulator (2016)

  40. Octodad (2010)

    Horror

  41. Resident Evil (1996)

  42. Five Nights at Freddy’s (2014)

  43. Inscryption (2021)