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Developer’s Dilemma
September 19, 2014
My first book, Developer’s Dilemma is available now [MIT Press, Amazon ... Read More »
Introduction: Toward Critical Game Design
January 1, 2023
Abstract: This special issue addresses the epistemological, institutional, and political ... Read More »
The Transition Year: A map-drawing game of post-capitalist futures
June 13, 2022
The Transition Year Cover The Transition Year is a map-drawing ... Read More »
The Flora: A game of long-lived Flora and their many Caretakers
May 1, 2022
The Flora Cover The Flora is a meditative structured freeform ... Read More »
Game Production Studies: Studio Studies Theory, Method, and Practice
October 8, 2020
Independent Videogames Cover Abstract: Dr. O’Donnell’s chapter is rooted in ... Read More »
Designing Dating Games: (Re)Designing the “Oldest Game”
May 14, 2020
Abstract: This chapter explores the background, ethics, and design of ... Read More »
Making Media – Reflections on the Shifts and Swerves of the Global Games Industry
November 9, 2018
Abstract: The games industry is only thirty years old and has ... Read More »
How to Play Video Games – Game Dev Tycoon: Labor
November 9, 2018
Abstract: Game Dev Tycoon is a resource management game about ... Read More »
Platforms in the Cloud: On the Ephemerality of Platforms
July 2, 2018
Published Online: November 14, 2016 Abstract: This essay explores the ... Read More »
What’s in a Game? A Game by any Other Name Would Play so Sweet…
July 2, 2018
Available via New Media & Society. Review essays can serve ... Read More »
Fellowship of Fools
July 2, 2018
We are all Fools on our journeys through this world. ... Read More »
What’s in a Game? A Game by any Other Name Would Play so Sweet…
March 18, 2018
New Media & Society Journal A review essay examining three ... Read More »
Avatar, Assembled – Engines & Platforms: Functional Entanglements
November 17, 2017
Abstract: Avatars are built upon and play within black boxes—various technologies ... Read More »
The Evolution and Social Impact of Video Game Economics – “Show me the money!”: Shifting Fields of Capital in the Global Game Industry
July 13, 2017
Abstract: The last decade has brought seismic shifts in the videogame ... Read More »
Ethnographic Apps/Apps as Ethnography
July 2, 2017
Along with Samuel Gerald Collins, Matthew Durington, Paolo Favero, Krista ... Read More »