From P2P Foundation

living in a virtual world gives us the status of citizen there, and our rights have to be recognized and enforced.

- Virtual Citizens Association [1]

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Resources 2.1 Key Articles 2.2 Key Blogs 2.3 Key Books 2.4 Key Experts 2.5 Key Resources 2.6 Key Videos 2.7 Key Tags 3 Various Links 3.1 Known Distributed Systems 3.2 Studies on Gamers 3.3 Some Open Source 3D Tools 4 P2P Gaming Concepts

Introduction

These pages cover metaverses, 3D worlds and trends, and immersive gaming worlds, as well as Play Ethic developments. See Pat Kane's summary of the Impact of Play on Business Organization

To put the trend toward P2P-based virtual worlds into the context of gaming developments, please read this introduction by Gwendal Simon.

Check out the typology of Virtual Worlds; Clay Shirky argues that Multi-players Games and Non-gaming Metaverses are Fundamentally Different

We support the goals of the Organization for Transformative Works

Resources

Key Articles

1. Games as P2P Utopia: Alexander Galloway on the World of Warcraft and Utopia
2. Game Modding and Education: excerpts of a thesis on using entertainment for eduction, that goes beyond the failed edutainment model.
3. The Power of Play: essay by Pat Kane for Soundings magazine. In conversation with Ephemara in Dialoguing Play
4. Play Struggle, excerpts of the book Hacking Capitalism by Johan Soderbergh.
5. Considering Participatory Design and Governance in Player Culture by T.L. Taylor: Players are central productive agents in game culture and more progressive models are needed for understanding and integrating their work in these spaces. Drawing on the long tradition of participatory design this piece explores some alternative frameworks for understanding the designer/player relationship.
6. The Governance of Virtual Worlds. Thomas M. Malaby (focuses on Second Life as case study)
7. Inequality in Synthetic Worlds. Edward Castronova.
8. Video Games for Politics, Activism and Advocacy. Ian Bogost.
9. Klang, Mathias, "Avatar: From Deity to Corporate Property - A Philosophical Inquiry into Digital Property in Online Games

Also:

1. Short intro but with lots of links to critical and independent gaming culture.
2. What is Play?. Toward a Universal Definition. By Gwen Gordon.
3. Integral Play. Developmental levels in play. By Gwen Gordon.

Key Blogs

1. The Play Ethic blog of Pat Kane. Watch or listen to Pat Kane on the Play Ethic
2. Terra Nova http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/ is "a blog about virtual worlds and their implications." (Academic) game research and virtual worlds in general.
3. GameTunnel http://www.gametunnel.com/ is "the web's home for independent video games." Other indie game sites linked at the bottom of the main page.
4. The Second Loop: on the interaction between real-life and our avatars
5. Game Politics: "where politics and video games collide"; monitors conflicts between platforms and user communities

Key Books

1. Bernie DeKoven explains Coliberation strategies in his book The Well-Played Game
2. Pat Kane. The Play Ethic
3. Pat Kane reviews the books Synthetic Worlds and Second Lives
4. McKenzie Wark, whose Hacker Manifesto is a classic for our times, has published a new draft book open for discussion, on Gamer Theory
5. Ed Halter's book, From Sun Tzu to Xbox "a definitive history of the longstanding relationship between games and military culture, from wargaming's roots in ancient civilizations, to the Cold War development of computing for battle, to a recent crop of Pentagon-funded shoot-'em-ups, big-budget commercial titles and homemade hacks".
6. Barbara Ehrenreich. Dancing in the Streets. A history of collective joy
7. The Ecology of Games, focuses on learning effects
8. Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet

Key Experts

1. Pat Kane
2. McKenzie Wark
3. Gwen Gordon

Key Resources

1. Fan History records the history of Fan Fiction and other fan communities.
2. The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research

Key Videos

1. Second Skin: how lives have been changed by Massive Multiplayer Online Games.
2. Cory Ondrejka on User Generated Content at Second Life
3. Interacting Locally and Globally through Games
4. Introduction to Second Life
5. Jochi Ito on MMORPGs
6. Joi Ito on Commons-based Licenses and Games
7. McKenzie Wark on Gaming
8. My Second Life

Key Tags

Delicious Tag: P2P Gaming ; Play Ethic

Various Links

1. Wikipedia has a list of open source games
2. Liberated Games has a list of free, legal games for download

Known Distributed Systems

• NPSNET (Naval Postgraduate Scholl of Moterey)
• Spline (Mistsubishi Elecronic Research Laboratory)
• Massive (University of Nottingham)
• Continuum (France Telecom R&D)
• Score (INRIA)
• Open Source Metaverse Project
• Croquet Project
• Virtual Object System
• VREng: Interactive and Distributed 3D Application over the Internet using Unicast or Multicast

Studies on Gamers

• The Psychology of MMORPGs
• The Demographics, Motivations and Derived Experiences of Users of Massively-Multiuser Online Graphical Environments

Some Open Source 3D Tools

• Ogre, open source real time 3D rendering engine
• OpenSceneGraph, open source high peformance 3D graphics toolkit
• Blender, open source software for 3D modeling and rendering
• Xfrog, a procedural 3d organic modeling and animation software program
• X3D, Open Standards XML-enabled 3D file format
• Panda 3D, a free animation system in Python, created by Disney and the Carnegie Mellon University

P2P Gaming Concepts

Articles in category "Gaming"

There are 111 articles in this category.

3 360 Degree Geotagged Photos A Alternate Reality Games Amateur Collectives Association of Virtual Worlds Augmentology Avatar B Big Games Big Games Podcasts Bill of Players Rights Bogost, Ian C Casual Games Collaborative Virtual Environment Collective Choice Systems Consumer Guide to Virtual Worlds Convergence Culture and the Games Industry Creatures Croquet D Dancing in the Streets Deludology Democracy Island Dialoguing Play Diamond Touch E Ecology of Games Education Arcade Education in Second Life Eduverse Foundation Eyjolfur Guomundsson on Virtual Economies F Fan History Fandom Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers Free Game Free Game Arts Free Gamer Free Roleplay From Sun Tzu to Xbox G Game Currencies Gamer Intelligence

G cont. Gamer Theory Games as P2P Utopia Games for Change Games in Education Gaming - Economics Gaming - Governance Goldfarming I Ian Bogost on Persuasive Games and Civic Engagement Impact of Play on Business Organization Infosocialism Intraverse Introduction J Jochi Ito on MMORPGs John Lester on Second Life Jonathan Cabiria on Virtual Environments for Social Justice Julian Dibbell on Play Money K Kevin Slavin on Big Games L Ludocapitalism and the scarcity in gaming worlds M MMOLE MPML MUVE McGonigal,Jane McKenzie Wark on Gaming Metanomics Metaverse Economies Metaverse Metrics Metaverse Roadmap Metaverses Money for Nothing Multiverse My Tiny Life O Open Game License Open Gaming Open Gaming Foundation Open Pandora Open Roleplaying Open Sim Open Source Game Development

O cont. Open Source Metaverse Organization for Transformative Works P PMOG Paraverse Passively Multiplayer Online Game Pat Kane on the Play Ethic Peer to Peer Virtual Worlds Peers at Play Play Money Play Struggle Player-Created Content Player-centered Design R Robin Hunicke on User-Generated Content in Games S STEP Sampo Karjalainen about Open-ended Play Second Life Second Life Herald Second Lives Second Skin Serious Games Serious Games Initiative Social Gaming Social Question Sofa Web Solipsis Synthetic Inequality Synthetic Worlds V VastPark Virtual Citizens Association Virtual Economy Virtual Gaming Currencies Virtual Objects Economy Virtual Worlds W Well-Played Game WikiWorlds World of Warcraft - Governance