A group for scholars investigating analog games such as tabletop RPGs, Live Action Role Playing Games (Larp), and board games.
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S. Harlin/Hayley Steele deposited The Maker Turn in Classroom Games: An Articulation of Gamemaking in Education in the group
Analog Game Studies on MLA Commons 6 months agoThis paper offers an articulation of a teaching methodology that I call Gamemaking in Education (GME). This educational approach emphasizes student gamemaking rather than gameplay. In this paper, I discuss what GME is, review some cases in which other educators have used what might be called GME in college classrooms, and situate GME as an…[Read more]
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S. Harlin/Hayley Steele deposited The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans in the group
Analog Game Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAggregate larp rules are a type of code that runs on humans. Code can be thought of as a linguistic form that is both declarative and imperative; it is both truth and command (Buswell 2009). In aggregate larp, elements of the game’s
diegesis are rendered codic, or playable, allowing players a degree of autonomy from game staff. Through the m…[Read more] -
S. Harlin/Hayley Steele created the group
Analog Game Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months ago