Literary gaming

Ludicity and literariness in the digital age

Ludic books and literary "games"

Methodology and structure

Playing with rather than by rules

Ludology and its philosophical foundations

Playfulness as aesthetic tool and weapon

Games, play and literature

Literature born digital

Art games versus game art

Between ludicity and literariness

Cognitive frameworks for reading and gameplay

Viewing axolotls : approaching the ludic in digital literature

The literary-ludic spectrum

Approaching functional ludo-stylistics

"The pen is your weapon of choice" : ludic hypertext literature and the play with the reader

Alea : Deena Larsen's Firefly

Ilinx : Richard Holeton's Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

Mimicry : Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl

Agon : Robert Kendall's clues

Discussion

"Love poem or break up note?" : ludic hypermedia fiction and loss of grasp

Heuristic ergodicity in games and digital interactive art

Analyzing loss of grasp : fallaciousness, heuristic ergodicity and cybertextuality

"Your innocence drifts away" : anti-ludicity and ludic mechanics in the Princess Murderer

Antiludicity as subversive design practice

"Clicking" damsels in distress : the Princess Murderer and its antiludic agenda

Of windsighs and wayfaring : Blue Lacuna, an epic interactive fiction

IF as the classic hybrid between adventure game and literary narrative

Blue Lacuna : epic, novel and game

A ludostylistic approach to analyzing Blue Lacuna

The paradox of poetic gaming : evidence of everything exploding

Digital detournement in game art and art games

Pop-surrealism and poetry gaming : Jason Nelson's evidence of everything exploding

From paidia to ludus : The Path, a literary auteur game

To game or not to game : slowness, drive and allusive fallacy

The Path : transmediation, tragedy, trauma

A ludostylistic analysis of The Path.