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Trying searching these subject links in the library's catalog to find books that have been tagged as being about these topics:

Board Games

Educational Games

Video Games

Video Games -- History

Video Games -- Social Aspects

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The Oxford Book of Board Games by David Parlett
Call Number: GV1312 .P37 1999
ISBN: 0192129988
Publication Date: 1999-06-03
The Oxford History of Board Games investigates the principles of board games throughout the ages and across the world, exploring the fascinating similarities and differences that give each its unique appeal, and drawing out the significance of game-playing as a central part of human experience - as vital to a culture as its music, dance, and tales.
It's All a Game by Tristan Donovan
Call Number: GV1312 .D66 2017
ISBN: 9781250082725
Publication Date: 2017
In It's All a Game, British journalist and renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games.
Queer Game Studies by Bonnie Ruberg (Editor); Adrienne Shaw (Editor)
Call Number: GV1469.17.S63 Q44 2017
ISBN: 9781517900366
Publication Date: 2017
Video games have developed into a rich, growing field at many top universities, but they have rarely been considered from a queer perspective. Queer Game Studies provides a welcome corrective, revealing the capacious albeit underappreciated communities that are making, playing, and studying queer games.
Second Person: Role-playing and Story in Games and Playable Media by Pat Harrigan (Editor); Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Editor); Michael Crumpton (Designed by)
Call Number: GV1469.17.S63 S43 2007
ISBN: 9780262083560
Publication Date: 2007
Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, interactive fictions, massively multiplayer games, improvisational theater, and other "playable media."
Retrogame Archeology: Exploring Old Computer Games by John Aycock
Call Number: GV1469.15 .A93 2016
ISBN: 9783319300023
Publication Date: 2016
Drawing on extensive research, this book explores the techniques that old computer games used to run on tightly-constrained platforms. Retrogame developers faced incredible challenges of limited space, computing power, rudimentary tools, and the lack of homogeneous environments.
Playthings in Early Modernity: Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games by Allison Levy
Call Number: GV1200 .P53 2017
ISBN: 1580442609
Publication Date: 2017-02-22
An innovative volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory, Playthings in Early Modernity emphasizes the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. Thus, the titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part of daily life, a strategic psychosocial endeavor.

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