Ludology: Game Design and a Theory of Play

I am currently doing an independent study under Mark Tribe, Rhyzome.org founder and director of Art and Technology at the Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. The title of the independent study is Ludology: Game Design and Theory of Play.

The syllabus for this course can be found here: word | HTML

Two writing samples:

For the first week of class I analyzed the difference between Art Games and Game Art: word | HTML

For the seventh week of class I analyzed the second half of Johan Huizinga's influential book Homo Ludens: word | HTML

 

This page looked empty without a picture, so I decided to add a picture I took of the sunset in Kyoto.

Sunset in Kyoto (click image to enlarge).