Hussey, Joshua
MWF 3 :00 PM
Park Hall 145
Literature and Games
This course offers an interdisciplinary survey of games through the lenses of literature, culture, and new and old media. Topics, themes, and inquiries of the course will include: games and media theory; fictional works; history of narrative and non-narrative games; issues of identity, race, gender, class, and ability in games; worldbuilding concepts. Students will have the opportunity to analyze games as well as create games in capstone course projects. No previous experience in game design is necessary.
Potential authors/texts: (theory) Donna Haraway, Janet Murray, Lisa Nakamura, Marie Laure-Ryan, Ian Bogost, Espen Aarseth, N Katherine Hayles, Astrid Enslinn, James Paul Gee, Gonzalo Frasca, Alenda Chang, Jay David Bolter, Alexander Galloway; (fiction) William Gibson, Philip Dick, Richard Powers, Neil Stephenson, Jorge Luis Borges, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ernest Cline; (games) Michael Joyce [afternoon, a story], Emily Short [galatea], Eric Barone [stardew valley], Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern [façade], Bandersnatch, Lucas Pope [return of the obra dinn, papers please], Porpentine [howling dogs], Steve Gaynor [gone home], Sam Barlow [her story], Night School [oxenfree], Simogo [year walk], Miller brothers [myst], Zoe Quinn [depression quest]