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	Richard A. Bartle: Players Who Suit MUDs URL: http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm ODP description: Discusses whether MUDs are games, pastimes, sports or entertainments and suggests four kinds of player: achiever, explorer, socializer or killer.
	Kennerly, David. "Fun is Fine: Toward a Philosophy of Game Design" URL: http://finegamedesign.com/fun_is_fine.html ODP description: Argues that honest game design begins and ends with "fun" considered philosophically. Page title: Fun is Fine: Toward a Philosophy of Game Design
	Unsworth, John. "Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality" URL: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/Virtual.Community.html ODP description: Essay discussing communities in MOOs, using PMC-MOO as a case study and discussing scholarly and pedagogical trajectories of MOOs. 1996. Page title: Living Inside the (Operating) System
	Making Sense of Software: Computer Games and Interactive Textuality URL: http://www.duke.edu/~tlove/simcity.htm ODP description: Essay about video games including an analysis of SimCity written by Ted Friedman. Page title: SimCity Essay
	Goldstein, Jeffrey. "Does Playing Violent Video Games Cause Aggressive Behavior?" URL: http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/papers/goldstein.html ODP description: Quick and very sharp critique of the validity of recent research on video games and violence. Page title: JEFFREY H
	Klevjer, Rune. "In Defence of Cutscenes" URL: http://www.uib.no/people/smkrk/docs/klevjerpaper.htm ODP description: Article situating cutscenes in games in relation to popular culture and narrative, arguing against the radical ludologist position that they are extraneous. Page title: the cutscene is an essential part of a gameÃ¢â¬â¢s rhetorical and intertextual address to the player, a dimension of computer game
	Anderson, Craig A. and Karen E. Dill. "Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and in Life" URL: http://content.apa.org/journals/psp/78/4/772.html ODP description: Abstract of article showing increased aggression in video game players. Full text by subscription. Page title: PsycARTICLES - View Full Text
	Castronova, Edward: Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=294828 ODP description: Abstract of report on the economy of Everquest, arguing that this virtual world has as real an economy as most nation states. Full text by subscription only. Page title: SSRN-Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier by Edward Castronova Page description: SSRN-Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier by Edward Castronova
	Juul, Jesper. "A clash between game and narrative" URL: http://www.jesperjuul.dk/thesis/ ODP description: MA thesis by a Danish ludologist arguing that games are not narrative. Links to his other work. 1999. Page title: A clash between game and narrative

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