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Video Games

A guide that provides resources and guidance for students, staff, and faculty interested in games design and studies

Purpose

These resources from outside USC are meant to give patrons access to research that is more quickly and consistently updated.  These resources include archives, conference proceedings, and online journals.

Journals and Magazines

Critical Distance

An online journal that hosts articles by and for people interested in game analysis. The website includes articles and podcasts by site contributors and highlights works by writers outside the website.


Game Studies

A international open access journal focused on the analysis of computer games.


International Journal of Computer Games Technology

An international open access journal about games technology.


Play the Past

A website dedicated to analyzing the portrayal of history, culture, and the act of preservation in games.


Press Start

An open access journal that publishes scholarly articles by undergraduate and graduate students.

Conferences

Game Development Conference(GDC)

The GDC presents a wide range of talks on the development of modern games ranging from Indie to AAA. These discussions cover art design, player interaction, marketing, programming, and more.


DiGRA- Digital Games Research Association

The DiGRA supports international video game conferences. The website linked above includes the conference proceedings and the open access journal "Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association".


Foundations of Digital Games(FDG)

The FDG focuses on the development and study of digital games. The proceedings are archived in the Association for Computing Machinery  (ACM) Digital Library, 

Archives

Black Games Archive

An database of games, creators, and scholarship about black people and culture in video games.


Flashpoint Archive

The Flashpoint Archive is one of the largest archives for games and animations created  using Adobe Flash software. Flash widely used to create online games and animations until Adobe stopped supporting it in 2017.


LGBTQ Video Game Archive

A database of queer content in games starting from the 1980s to the present.