Welcome
Together with the Institute for the Future of the Book I produced this website as a way to think about games. We released Version 1.1 back in 2006. Based on the many thoughtful and careful comments people made on it, I revised Gamer Theory and came up with Version 2.0, which is available here. Comments on Version 1.1 are now closed, but we welcome comments and discussion here at Version 2.0. I will probably not produce a Version 3.0 of this book. more ...
A print edition of Gamer Theory was published by Harvard University Press on 18 April 2007. The Harvard edition includes many comments from the 1.1 edition published here in 2006.
Book Chapters
Bradley on 038.
And that is why multiplayer competitions are so popular. Only so many people can obtain rank X or Y, or equipment A or B...
Bradley on 025.
On the contrary, I think the Cave can be controlled. It is controlled by the game designers who build it. They, however,...
FCK on 003.
The Cave is the world the person enters when gaming because they are excluded from the real social world around them, so...
Jae on 011.
Hi Ken,
Great to return to your space.
Jae...
Milo on 001.
I'm happy to see this replaced as the opening. It's a great introduction.
Plus, now it's much easier to find it in th...
Eric on 012.
The game has become god. The cave is the tabernacle. The god gives guidance and direction for life. “Value the high sco...
twel on 212.
"you [LOSE] again"...
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