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The Georgia Institute of Technology Persuasive Games Open Texture Water Cooler Games
Ian Bogost - videogame theory, criticism, design
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books
Racing the Beam
The Atari Video Computer System

An accessible book about the Atari VCS as a platform. Co-authored with Nick Montfort.

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.

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.

more books...
games
Persuasive Games
The game studio I co-founded. We make games about social and political issues.
Guru Meditation
A medititation game for Atari VCS and iPhone
A Television Simulator
CRT Emulation for the Atari VCS
Honorarium
An art game for EA's Sims Carnival
more games...
writing
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June 30, 2009
Gestures as Meaning
On Brenda Brathwaite's Train and gestural interfaces. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra
May 28, 2009
I want my 99ยข back
On cognitive dissonance and the iPhone. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra.
April 2, 2009
Familiarity, Habituation, Catchiness
On "Bushnell's Law" and why it is misunderstood. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra
February 17, 2009
Videogame Kitsch
On mass-market sentimentalism in videogames. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra.
January 21, 2009
The Proceduralist Style
On an artistic style in contemporary videogames. From my "Persuasive Games" column at 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
more teaching...
blog
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July 3, 2009
New Guru Meditation Update Available
Adds new sound settings, high score reset
July 1, 2009
Letter of Inquiry Template
With apologies to my journalist friends
June 26, 2009
Two Notes on Existential Angst
June 22, 2009
Can't Continue Error
Apple Rejects Commodore 64 iPhone App
more blogishness...
I also blog at Water Cooler Games. Most recent story there: New Journal: The Computer Game Education Review.
photography
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speaking
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Next: July 3, 2009
Official Judge
Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009 Finals
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