In 1981 , a couple of magazine dedicated to Video Games started their publication, Electronic Games and Computer and Video Games, and since then, writing has proliferated and diverged into different branches and forms. However, if we dig deeper, we realize that this is far from the origin of video game criticism, which has implications for how we talk about games today.

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Chapters
0:00 A Brief History of Video Game Criticism
0:28 1) Consumer Writing
1:05 2) Criticism
3:14 3) Theory of the Practitioners - Game Design
3:46 4) External Theory
4:15 5) Internal Theory - Ludology, game studies, play theory
5:28 The divide between different forms of writing
8:10 Unifying Critical Writing

Sources

- Electronic Games Issue 1 [ Ссылка ]

- Computer and Video games Issue 1
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- How to talk about Video Games , Ian Bogost

- Pilgrim in the Microworld , David Sudnow

- Games, Game Design, Game Studies , Gundolf S Freyermuth

- The Art of Game Design , Jesse Schell

- Game Mechanics, Advanced Game Design , Ernest Adams

- Game Feel , Steve Swink

- Hamlet on the Holodeck , Janet Murray

- Computers as Theater , Brenda Laurel

- Cybertext, Espen Aarseth

- Half Real , Jesper Juul

- The Rules of Play , Eric Zimmerman and Katie Salen

- Homo Ludens, J . Huizinga

- Man , Play and Games , Roger Callois

- On the Aesthetic Education of Man , Friedrich Schiller

- How we talk About Games , HeavyEyed [ Ссылка ]

- Ludonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock , Clint Hocking [ Ссылка ]

- GDC channel [ Ссылка ]

- Game Studies Study Buddies Podcast [ Ссылка ]

- Critical Distance [ Ссылка ]

- Game Studies Journal [ Ссылка ]

- Game Design books [ Ссылка ]

- Well Played Journal [ Ссылка ]

- List of Video Game Journals [ Ссылка ]

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