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Three Dice

November 26, 2012 Jess Leave a comment

Three Dice: A Game Villanelle Choose three dice – one black, one white, one gray. Keep them with you always.…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: challenge, game design, poetry

Who Cares About Character Gender?

November 1, 2012 Jess 7 Comments

As someone who does research on gender and games, I often hear the conventional wisdom that men prefer to play…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: games, gender, league of legends

State of the Instructional Art

August 28, 2012 Jess Leave a comment

Since I wrote about Dread, I’ve found myself noticing instructional design choices in role-playing games – and realizing that there’s…

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Posted in: Games, Teaching Filed under: instructional design, role-playing games

My Other Blogging Life

July 20, 2012 Jess Leave a comment

For the past six months, I’ve been part of a blogging collective over at Gaming as Women. I write on…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: design, gaw, role-playing

Portals and Intutitions

June 22, 2012 Jess Leave a comment

If you haven’t yet heard, Valve announced Teach With Portals, a new initiative to help students learn about physics by…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: games, intuition, learning, pfl, physics, portal

The View from AERA

April 17, 2012 Jess 3 Comments

Hello from AERA! Today I presented Playing History, the research project on tabletop role-playing games and historical literacy that I did…

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Posted in: Ars Magica Filed under: aera, conference, playing history

Making Horror, Selling Dread

April 12, 2012 Jess 24 Comments

The brilliant and inimitable Vincent Baker went to a horror convention and tried to sell horror role-playing games – and it…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: dread, games, instructional design, role-playing games

Pizza Box Maps and Game Ephemera

April 3, 2012 Jess 2 Comments

I just found out about the Play Generated Map and Document Archive, which organizes and preserves role-playing game ephemera like…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: imaginative space, research methods, role-playing games

Eleven from 2011, Non-Fiction Edition

January 20, 2012 Jess 2 Comments

I recently posted my eleven favorite fiction books from 2011; here are their non-fiction counterparts. (You’ll notice I’m reading a…

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Posted in: Reading List Filed under: best-of, books, recommended

Notes on Reading

January 18, 2012 Jess Leave a comment

Welcome, friends, to another year of my reading life! Every year at about this time, I take a minute to…

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Posted in: Reading List Filed under: books

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