MIT Open Coursware で、Introduction to Videogame Studies なるものを発見した。
Introduction と言いながら本格的で、テーマも幅広い。参考文献は40あります。各週の内容をざっと。Cheating(ずる、不正行為)だけでもひとつのテーマになっているのか。この授業には、プログラミングなどの内容は入っていないようだ。
- Week1: Introduction to the Course
- Week2: Defining Games
- Week3: Defining Games (cont.), Games as Digital Media
- Week4: Games as Cybertexts, The Social Contract of Games
- Week5: Cheating, Player Experience: Agency
- Week6: Games as Narrative
- Week7: Player Experience: Immersion, Types of Players
- Week8: Hardcore vs Casual Players, Identity
- Week9: Representation, Games as Systems
- Week10: Fictional Worlds, Games as Simulations
- Week11: Game Spaces, Games as Performance
- Week12: Value Systems
- Week13: Game Aesthetics, Criticism and Journalism
- Week14: Game Culture: Communities, Game Culture: Violence