Erasmus – In Praise of Folly

Friedrich Schiller – Notes on the Aesthetic Education of Man

Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Karl Groos – The Play of Animals

Sigmund Freud – Creative Writers and Daydreaming

Sigmund Freud – Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Jean Piaget – The Child’s Conception of the World

Melanie Klein – Personification in the Play of Children

Melanie Klein – The Importance of Symbol-Formation in the Development of the Ego

Vygotsky – Play and its Role in the Mental Development of the Child

Johan Huzinga -Homo Ludens

Von Neumann, Morgenstein – Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour

Erik Erikson – Childhood and Society

John Nash – Noncooperative Games

Wittgenstein – Philosophical Investigations

Melanie Klein – The Psychoanalytic Play Technique

Jean Piaget – The Child’s Construction of Reality

Eugen Fink – Spiel als Weltsymbol

Roger Caillois – Man, Play and Games

Jean Piaget – Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood

Kostas Axelos – Vers la Pensee Planetaire

Jacques Derrida – Writing and Difference

Jacques Derrida – Of Grammatology

Yale French Studies: Games, Play and Literature

Ingeborg Heidemann – Der Begriff des Spieles und ds aesthetische Weltbild in der Philosophie der Gegenwart

Susanna Millar – The Psychology of Play

Kostas Axelos – Le Jeu du Monde

Gilles Deleuze – The Logic of Sense

John Caputo – Being, Ground, and Play in Heidegger

Brian Sutton-Smith – The Study of Games

Brian Sutton-Smith – Child’s Play

Donald Winnicott – Playing and Reality

Gregory Bateson – Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Erving Goffman – Frame Analysis

Yale French Studies: Inside the Play, Outside the Game

Augusto Boal – Theatre of the Oppressed

Robert Fagen – Animal Play Behaviour

Spariosu – Literature, Mimesis, and Play

Computers and Composition (journal) founded

Peter Smith (ed) – Play in Animals and Humans

Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, June – Game and the Theories of Game

Janet Skirrow – Hellivision

Michel Picard – La lecture comme jeu

Mihai Spariosu – Dionysus Reborn

Mihai Spariosu – God of Many Names

Augusto Boal – Games for Actors and Non-Actors

Julian Stallabrass – Just Gaming: Allegory and Economy

Brian Sutton-Smith – Ambiguity of Play

Mihai Spariosu – Wreath of Wild Olive

Espen Aarseth – Ergodic Literature

Marie-Laure Ryan (ed) – Cyberspace Textuality

Janet Murray – Hamlet on the Holodeck

DAC Conference Bergen

DAC Conference Georgia

David Sheff – Game Over Press Start to Continue

DAC Conference Bergen

Cybertext Yearbook founded

DAC Conference Brown University

Mark Wolf – Medium of the Video Game

Journal of Game Studies founded

Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference

DAC Conference Melbourne

DiGRA Conference Utrect

Mark Wolf (Ed) – Video Game Theory Reader

Eric Zimmerman – Rules of Play

Raph Koster – Theory of Fun

Pat Harrigan (Ed) – First Person: New Media as Story

DAC Conference Copenhagen

DiGra Conference Vancouver

Aesthetics of Play Conference

Jesper Juuls – Half-Real

Eric Zimmerman – The Game Design Reader

Nate Garrelts – Digital Gameplay – Essays…

Andrew Burn (Ed) – Computer Games: Text Narrative, Context

TL Taylor – Play Between Worlds

Game and Culture (Journal) founded

Alexander Galloway – Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture

DAC Conference Perth

DiGRA Conference Tokyo

McKenzie Wark – Gamer Theory

Pat Harrigan (Ed) – Second Person: Role-Playing and Story

Ian Bogost – Pervasive Play

Drew Davidson (ed) – Space, Time, Play

Eludamos (journal) founded

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Steve Jones – The Meaning of Video Games

Ian Bogost, Nick Montfort – Racing the Beam

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