Personal Pages

Costikyan, Greg - Game designer, consultant and author. Weblog, publications and other resources.
http://www.costik.com/

Dekoven, Bernie - Articles, links, and weblog chronicling personal search for games and toys, ideas and innovations, people and events that enhance our capacity for having fun.
http://www.deepfun.com/

Tosca, Susana - IT University of Copenhagen. Articles, activities, teaching.
http://www.it-c.dk/people/tosca/

Parker, J. R. - Offers links to game technology and articles on research and courses.
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~parker/new/welcome.html

Kücklich, Julian - Researches computer game philology, electronic art, and fiction.
http://particlestream.motime.com

Aarseth, Espen - University of Bergen. Editor in chief of Gamestudies.org and the originator of cybertext theory. The first chapter of his book, Cybertext, is available, as are a few other early articles.
http://www.hf.uib.no/hi/espen/

Mortensen, Torill - Volda University College. Weblog. Research on MUDs.
http://torillsin.blogspot.com

Zimmerman, Eric - Game designer, artist, and academic at NYU exploring the theory and practice of game design. Essays, links, teaching.
http://www.ericzimmerman.com/

Frasca, Gonzalo - Independent. Weblog, articles, games. Research on political games, simulations, ludology.
http://ludology.org

Smith, Jonas Heide - PhD student at the IT University of Copenhagen. Personal weblog and CV.
http://www.jonassmith.dk/weblog/

Bartle, Richard - (Ln(x))3. The everyday weblog of MUD Scholar Richard Bartle.
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~rabartle/

Myers, David - Recent work attempts to unify existing theories of play within a semiotic framework.
http://www.loyno.edu/~dmyers/

Yee, Nicholas - Research is both quantative and qualitative, and is particularly centred on players of EverQuest and other Massive Multi-Player Online Games.
http://www.nickyee.com/

Eladhari, Mirjam - Gotland University in Sweden and University of Teesside in England. Personal weblog and notes for Ph.D. work on MMORPGs.
http://eladhari.blogspot.com/

Hook, Brian - News, reviews, articles and a forum related to game design and development.
http://www.bookofhook.com/

Klastrup, Lisbeth - Researching the construction of story in virtual worlds. Background in hypertext theory. Weblog and publications.
http://www.klastrup.dk

Dormans, Joris - Website of Dutch independent game scholar Joris Dormans. His articles on games and related subjects can be found here.
http://www.jorisdormans.nl/home.php

Walker, Jill - Weblog. Links to publications and other resources.
http://jilltxt.net/

Juul, Jesper - IT University of Copenhagen. Articles, reviews, thesis, games.
http://www.jesperjuul.dk

Nowviskie, Bethany - University of Virginia. Dissertation deals with games and generative art in the context of conflicting design philosophies: hermeneutic and algorithmic. CV, descriptions of dissertation and projects, list of publications.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~bpn2f

Kirksæther, Jørgen - Brief presentation of his doctoral thesis on videogame history and a few links.
http://home.nvg.org/~kirk/

Boullón Sabín, Alfonso - PhD Student, University of Seville. Research on the evolution of video games from a formal/audiovisual point of view. Portfolio and CV.
http://www.alu.us.es/a/alfbousab/english-index.htm

Burke, Timothy - Personal weblog of Terra Nova contributor. Includes links and other resources.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/

Konzack, Lars - Aalborg University. Research on computer games and ludology. Weblog and articles.
http://konzack.blogspot.com/

Dibbell, Julian - Personal site contains articles and writing samples including research on MMORPG economies and "A Rape in Cyberspace."
http://www.juliandibbell.com/

Klevjer, Rune - Phd scholar at the University of Bergen, Norway. Abstract of his doctoral project: Play and Mediation in Computer Games, links to papers.
http://www.uib.no/people/smkrk/

Pearce, Celia - Interactive media designer who has also written on games. Papers and descriptions of projects are available.
http://www.cpandfriends.com/

Manninen, Tony - Researching networked multi-user virtual worlds, and especially the high-intensity interaction between humans originating from the world of 3D games.
http://www.tol.oulu.fi/~tmannine/research.html

Montfort, Nick - Theorist and author/developer specialising in interactive fiction, often in the crossover between game and literature. Games, fiction, publications and links.
http://nickm.com/

Kennerly , David - Professional and academic articles, presentation, and interviews game design philosophy, MMORPG design, and game education.
http://finegamedesign.com/

Flanagan, Mary - Hunter College, NY. Digital media artist, research among other things on games.
http://www.maryflanagan.com/

Hourigan, Ben - University of Melbourne. PhD candidate studying the political content of role-playing videogames.
http://benhourigan.com/

Taylor, Laurie - Professional and academic articles, presentations, and links to other resources.
http://www.laurientaylor.org/

Funk, Jeanne B - University of Toledo. Research on the impact of violence in computer and video games on children. List of publications.
http://psychology.utoledo.edu/default.asp?id=99

Adams, Ernest W. - Game designer and theorist. Archive of columns published in Gamasutra, other articles, list of print publications, pages describing game philosophy.
http://www.designersnotebook.com/

Mactavish, Andrew - Focuses on the performative and participatory elements of computer game play. Also researches hypertext theory and interactive, streaming video.
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~mactavis/

Poremba, Cindy - Weblog, articles and projects centered around multiplayer games, women and technology, emergence in communities and games and serial and reconfigurable narrative.
http://shinyspinning.com

Järvinen, Aki - Game Researcher and Designer. Personal weblog, design diary, and research in progress.
http://www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net/index.html

Rau, Anja - Germany. Weblog, articles, conference calls. Research on computer games and hypertext.
http://www.wordwrap.de/

Hunicke, Robin - Northwestern University. Personal weblog, CV, and links to research and projects on player experience in computer games.
http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/

Barr, Brandon. - Texturl is the weblog of Brandon Barr, an advertising copywriter interested in the intersections between electronic media, advertising and poetry.
http://texturl.net/