Play Is The Thing

In our second episode, Max goes to visit James Wallis, game designer, writer, thinker and historian (but, allegedly, not an academic!) James mentions a lot of books, writers and games: here are some possibly helpful links- if there's anything else you would like info on, just get in touch @playisthething1 on twitter Our Facebook group "Play is the thing" playisthethingpod@gmail.com Notes: Empire of the petal throne: https://www.tekumel.com/ Richard bartle's work on player types: https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/bartle-s-player-types-for-gamification Gary alan Fine's book, shared fantasy: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Shared_Fantasy.html?id=rLlLbN0XuSEC&redir_esc=y Boethian maths: https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasure-the-arithmetic-of-boethius Ars Amatoria (NOT amorata, because I'm not just an idiot, I'm a pretentious idiot): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Amatoria Keith Johnstone's book Impro is here: https://www.keithjohnstone.com/