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 Send to email | The History of RPGs: The Game List [Academia Is Fun] in Academia is funclassicsCultureHistory of rpgsRpgSyllabus |  By Maggie Greene
el 24-May-2008 |  I've mentioned Michael Abbot's efforts at putting together a great syllabus for his 'history of RPGs' class, which has thus far produced a flurry of discussion and a reading list; he's now put together a list of games and the number of people who have recommended them (I'm dying to know which ones will make the final cut). He does mention a few key points:
Games like X-Com and Zelda: Ocarina of Time clearly stretch the definition of "RPG." Many respondents argued these titles illustrate how great games have effectively incorporated RPG elements into other genres like strategy or adventure games. This makes sense to me. Given the short time I have available to me (one semester), I will try to illustrate these influences as best I can without veering too far off the RPG track.
... While it's very interesting for me to consider how many people recommend game X over game Y, ultimately this project isn't an RPG popularity contest, and I must choose a collection of games that best serve my pedagogical goals.
It is interesting to look at both the spread of games and how many votes certain games garnered (Chrono Trigger tops the list); it'll be interesting to see what makes the final cut.
RPG Syllabus - the data [The Brainy Gamer]
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| The History of RPGs: The Game List [Academia Is Fun] | | I've mentioned Michael Abbot's efforts at putting together a great syllabus for his 'history of RPGs' class, which has thus far produced a flurry of discussion and a reading list; he's now put together a list of games and the number of people who have recommended them [..] Read complete article | | Published 24-May-2008 by Maggie Greene in Academia is funclassicsCultureHistory of rpgsRpgSyllabus
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We mentioned Michael Abbot (of the Brainy Gamer) and his efforts to put together a great syllabus for his history of RPGs class; as promised, he's now posted the reading list (required readings will be culled from this list, but it's a pretty nice little bibliogra [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-May-2008 by Maggie Greene in AcademiaAcademia is funCultureGamesReadingRpgs
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| Mapping the Future: Academia and Community [Academia] | | I've really been enjoying GameSetWatch's series called 'The Game Anthropologist,' which (among other things) looks at various gaming communities — this week is a look at one of my favorite blogs, Michael Abbott's The Brainy Gamer. We've looked at Abbott's efforts to create (pretty collect [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Aug-2008 by Maggie Greene in Academia Culture game studies Michael abbott
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| The History Of Video Game Art In Reverse [Art] | | The main hallway of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City is a spiral. When you walk through it, ascending several flights in the process, paintings all to your right, you get the sense of walking through an artistic history. Last week I visited the museum to see an exhibition of [..] Read complete article | | Published 05-Jan-2010 by Stephen Totilo in Art GraphicsOriginalTopVasily Kandinsky
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