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Websites belonging to researchers whose main research area is game studies.
http://www.designersnotebook.com/
Game designer and theorist. Archive of columns published in Gamasutra, other articles, list of print publications, pages describing game philosophy.
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~rabartle/
(Ln(x))3. The everyday weblog of MUD Scholar Richard Bartle.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/
Personal weblog of Terra Nova contributor. Includes links and other resources.
http://www.deepfun.com/
Articles, links, and weblog chronicling personal search for games and toys, ideas and innovations, people and events that enhance our capacity for having fun.
http://www.juliandibbell.com/
Personal site contains articles and writing samples including research on MMORPG economies and "A Rape in Cyberspace."
http://www.jorisdormans.nl/home.php
Website of Dutch independent game scholar Joris Dormans. His articles on games and related subjects can be found here.
http://eladhari.blogspot.com/
Gotland University in Sweden and University of Teesside in England. Personal weblog and notes for Ph.D. work on MMORPGs.
http://www.maryflanagan.com/
Digital media artist, author, educator, and designer.
http://www.ludology.org/
Independent. Weblog, articles, games. Research on political games, simulations, ludology.
http://psychology.utoledo.edu/default.asp?id=99
University of Toledo. Research on the impact of violence in computer and video games on children. List of publications.
http://www.jesperjuul.dk/
IT University of Copenhagen. Articles, reviews, thesis, games.
http://finegamedesign.com/
Professional and academic articles, presentation, and interviews game design philosophy, MMORPG design, and game education.
http://home.nvg.org/~kirk/
Brief presentation of his doctoral thesis on videogame history and a few links.
http://www.klastrup.dk/
Researching the construction of story in virtual worlds. Background in hypertext theory. Weblog and publications.
http://www.uib.no/people/smkrk/
Phd scholar at the University of Bergen, Norway. Abstract of his doctoral project: Play and Mediation in Computer Games, links to papers.
http://konzack.blogspot.com/
Aalborg University. Research on computer games and ludology. Weblog and articles.
http://www.playability.de/
Graphic facilitation, graphic recording, visualizations, and sketchnotes.
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~mactavis/
Focuses on the performative and participatory elements of computer game play. Also researches hypertext theory and interactive, streaming video.
http://nickm.com/
Theorist and author/developer specialising in interactive fiction, often in the crossover between game and literature. Games, fiction, publications and links.
http://torillsin.blogspot.com/
Volda University College. Weblog. Research on MUDs.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~bpn2f
University of Virginia. Dissertation deals with games and generative art in the context of conflicting design philosophies: hermeneutic and algorithmic. CV, descriptions of dissertation and projects, list of publications.
http://www.cpandfriends.com/
Interactive media designer who has also written on games. Papers and descriptions of projects are available.
http://shinyspinning.com/
Weblog, articles and projects centered around multiplayer games, women and technology, emergence in communities and games and serial and reconfigurable narrative.
http://www.wordwrap.de/
Germany. Weblog, articles, conference calls. Research on computer games and hypertext.
http://www.jonassmith.dk/weblog/
PhD student at the IT University of Copenhagen. Personal weblog and CV.
http://www.laurientaylor.org/
Professional and academic articles, presentations, and links to other resources.
http://www.it-c.dk/people/tosca/
IT University of Copenhagen. Articles, activities, teaching.
http://jilltxt.net/
Weblog. Links to publications and other resources.
http://www.nickyee.com/
Research is both quantative and qualitative, and is particularly centred on players of EverQuest and other Massive Multi-Player Online Games.
http://www.ericzimmerman.com/
Game designer, artist, and academic at NYU exploring the theory and practice of game design. Essays, links, teaching.
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