[Air-l] Game Studies: first issue out

[Reinhold Grether]

Game Studies
the international journal of computer game research
issue 1
july 2001
is out
<http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/>

"Game Studies is a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to
games research, web-published 3-4 times a year at
<www.gamestudies.org>
Our primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative
aspects of computer games."

"Our mission - To explore the rich cultural genre of games;
to give scholars a peer-reviewed forum for their ideas and
theories; to provide an academic channel for the ongoing
discussions on games and gaming."

Espen Aarseth
Computer Game Studies, Year One
<http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/editorial.html>

Marie-Laure Ryan
Beyond Myth and Metaphor
The Case of Narrative in Digital Media
<http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/ryan/>

Jesper Juul
Games Telling stories?
A brief note on games and narratives
<http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/juul-gts/>

Selmer Bringsjord
Is It Possible to Build Dramatically Compelling Interactive
Digital Entertainment 
(in the form, e.g., of computer games)?
<http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/bringsjord/index.html>

Markku Eskelinen
The Gaming Situation
<http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/eskelinen/>

Jesper Juul
The repeatedly lost art of studying games 
Review of Elliott M. Avedon & Brian Sutton-Smith (ed.):
The Study of, Games, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
1971. 530 pages
<http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/juul-review/>

Gonzalo Frasca
The Sims: Grandmothers are cooler than trolls
<http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/frasca/>