reading material(s)

read(s) happy player(s):: project utopia / article(s) / reference(s) / technical book(s) / reading(s) / strategy

for this course, you don't need to read too much, although, apart from exploring the online resource(s), I may recommend:

• Holowchak M.A. (2007) Games as Pastimes in Suits's Utopia
• Jarvinen A. (2007) Introducing Applied Ludology: Hands-on Methods for Game Studies
• Susi T., Johannesson M., Backlund P. (2007) Serious Games -- An Overview
• Zagal J.P. (2009) Ethically Notable Videogames: Moral Dilemmas and Gameplay

in addition, it might be worthwhile to become familiar with

• Pascal Rettig -- Professional HTML5 Mobile Game Development (amazon/wrox)
• Robin Hunicke, Marc LeBlanc, Robert Zubek -- MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research

and for the adventurous

• Axelrod R. (1986) An evolutionary approach to norms
• J. Orlin Grabbe -- An Introduction to Quantum Game Theory
• Paul Lockhart -- A Mathematician’s Lament
• James W. (1910) The Moral Equivalent of War

and, of course, you may read more from the reference(s) above and other(s)!

reader's digest(s) -- plagiarism(s)

creativity / participant(s)

and, of course, also students are welcome to include fragments or references that they like!

• creativity is a communical process -- from organic creativity
• I think it is better to take a risk and constantly come up with new ideas, instead of playing it safe and incrementally improving the same concept over and over again -- from Michel Lamoré: innovation or evolution?
• and I almost forgot -- create religion(s)