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.
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games
Persuasive Games
The game studio I co-founded. We make games about social and political issues.
A Slow Year
A chapbook of game poems for Atari VCS, PC, and Mac
Water Cooler Games
Videogames with an Agenda - website archive
Guru Meditation
A medititation game for Atari VCS and iPhone
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writing
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September 21, 2009
Little Black Sambo
On the aftermath of an accidental racial slur in Scribblenauts. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra.
September 3, 2009
Videogames are a Mess
My DiGRA 2009 Keynote, on Videogames and Ontology
September 2, 2009
You Played That? Game Studies Meets Game Criticism
My Position Paper on Game Criticism, DiGRA 2009
July 28, 2009
This Is Only a Drill
On games as drills for banal tasks. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra.
June 30, 2009
Gestures as Meaning
On Brenda Brathwaite's Train and gestural interfaces. 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
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blog
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November 7, 2009
Speculative Realism Notes
Observations from SLSA
November 4, 2009
Alien Phenomenology
Abstract for my SLSA plenary
November 3, 2009
Pretty Girls for Nixon
An image and a story on a theme, circa 1972
November 1, 2009
Atari Hacks and Demakes
My Spring 2010 seminar
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photography
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speaking
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Next: November 13, 2009
Mobile Games
UCLA Mobile Media Symposium
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