Summary:

The Missing Chapter Project asks students to compose a supplementary chapter for Ian Bogost's How to Do Things with Videogames. Students' chapters will follow approximately the same format as the 20 main chapters in Bogost's book and meet the following parameters:

• At least 2,000 words
• At least two appropriate scholarly sources
• References and comments in footnotes (or endnotes)
• Appropriate subject and title

Students' chapters should cover a subject not already specifically addressed in Bogost's book. We will read excerpts from the book in class to familiarize ourselves with it. Chapters will be submitted as .pdf files.

Sample Chapters (from previous students):

• Representation
• Therapy
• Humor
• Humor 2
• Management
• Morality

Deliverables:

• Design Plan (10 possible points)
• Chapter (80 possible points)
• Postmortem (10 possible points)

Resources:

Video gaming scholarly journals

• Game Studies
• Games and Culture
• Eludamos
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• International Journal of Role-Playing