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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December 23, 2009
Puzzling the Sublime
Abstract puzzle games and the mathematical sublime. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra.
December 14, 2009
Platform Studies: Frequently Questioned Answers
Paper written with Nick Montfort for Digital Arts and Cultures 2009
November 27, 2009
The Legume, the Piston, and the Bearded Man
My Contribution to the Speculative Heresy/The Inhumanities Cross-Blog Event
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
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teaching
Atari Hacks, Remakes, and Demakes
Special Topics in Game Design and Analysis, Spring 2010
Introduction to Computational Media
The introductory course for the computational media degree
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blog
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February 9, 2010
Information is Beautiful
...but it's not necessarily informative
February 6, 2010
The Art History of Games
Day 2 and Exhibition Opening
February 4, 2010
The Art History of Games
Day One
February 3, 2010
Objects & Things
DiSalvo joins the party
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photography
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speaking
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Next: February 4, 2010
The Art History of Games
Symposium and Exhibition, at the Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta
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