links for 2010-03-06

“War­i­oWare, final­ly, is fas­ci­nat­ing because of its mes­sage to game schol­ars: we can reflect upon games by mak­ing them. Exper­i­men­tal games are a pow­er­ful tool for think­ing about and com­mu­ni­cat­ing ideas about games.” Real­ly nice dis­cus­sion of a very strange game.

““Toward a Ludic Archi­tec­ture” is a must-read for ana­lyz­ing and design­ing play and games from an archi­tec­tur­al stand­point. Such a con­tri­bu­tion is par­tic­u­lar­ly applic­a­ble in an era when games extend into phys­i­cal, designed space that is increas­ing­ly per­me­at­ed by devices, sen­sors, and infor­ma­tion net­works, allow­ing for rules and fic­tions to super­im­pose our every­day envi­ron­ments.” A book that might be worth check­ing out.