I use Google a lot when I’m writing some of my posts. Typically the ones about game design theory. It turns out, there is a whole literature about game design from academics and professional game designers in the video game industry. The little bit I’ve read has lot of the same ideas people in the amateur table top RPG blog network talk about. It seems like it might be a far more robust conversation since these folks are actually getting paid to think about and research this stuff and thus have more time than most hobbyists to work on their ideas.

I’m going to start digging into it more but if anyone has books, academic journals or essays they would recommend in this area I’d be interested in hearing about it.

Thanks for reading.