Emergent Game Group @ GT's Experimental Game Lab

Publications

Pearce, C., Ashmore, C. (Forthcoming). "Principles of Emergent Design in Online Games: Mermaids Phase 1 Prototype." SIGGRAPH Sandbox, July 2007.
Fron, J., Fullerton, T., Morie, J. & Pearce, C. (aka Ludica) (Forthcoming). "Getting Girls Into the Game: Towards a Virtuous Cycle." Beyond Barbie and Mortal Combat. Yasmin Kafai, Carrie Heeter, Jill Dener and Jen Sun, Editors.
Fron, J., Fullerton, T., Morie, J. & Pearce, C. (aka Ludica) (2007). "Playing Dress-Up: Costume, roleplay and imagination." Philosophy of Computer Games Online Proceedings, January 2007.
Pearce, C. (2007). "Communities of Play: The Social Construction of Identity in Persistent Online Game Worlds." Second Person, Noah Wardip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan, Editors. Cambridge, The MIT Press.
Pearce, C. (2006). "Games as Art: The Aesthetics of Play." in Fluxus and Legacy, special issue of Visible Language, Ken Friedman and Owen Smith, issue eds.; Sharon Poggenpohl, series editor and publisher.
Pearce, C. (2006). "Productive Play: Game Culture from the Bottom Up." Games & Culture, Issue 1, Volume 1, Winter 2006.
Fron, J., Fullerton, T., Morie, J. & Pearce, C. (aka Ludica) (2005). "Sustainable Play: Towards A New Games Movement for the Digital Age." Digital Arts & Culture Conference Proceedings, Copenhagen, December 2005.
Pearce, C. (2005). "Theory Wars: An Argument Against Arguments in the so-called Ludology/Narratology Debate." Digital Games Research Association Proceedings, June 2005.
Pearce, C. (2005). "The Art of Worldbuilding: A Conversation with Raph Koster." Game Studies Journal, Volume 5, Issue 1, May 2005. http://www.gamestudies.org/0501/pearce/
Pearce, C. (2004). "Towards a Game Theory of Game." in Wardrip-Fruin, N. & Harrigan, P. (eds.). First Person: New Media as Story, Performance and Game. Cambridge, MIT Press. http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/tamagotchi
Pearce, C. (2003). "Game Noir: A Conversation with Tim Shafer." Game Studies, Volume 3, Issue 3, May 2003. http://www.gamestudies.org/0301/pearce/
Pearce, C. (2002). "Story as Play Space: Narrative in Games." King, L. (ed.) Game On Exhibition Catalog. London, Lawrence King Publishing Limited.
Pearce, C. (2002). "The Player with Many Faces: A Conversation with Louis Castle." Game Studies, Volume 2, Issue 2, December 2002. http://www.gamestudies.org/0202/pearce/
Pearce, C. (2002). "Emergent Authorship: The Next Interactive Revolution." Computers & Graphics,Winter 2002
Pearce, C. (2002). "Sims, BattleBots, Cellular Automata, God and Go: A Conversation with Will Wright." Game Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1, July 2002. http://www.gamestudies.org/0102/pearce/
Pearce, C. (1997). The Interactive Book: A Guide to the Interactive Revolution. Indianapolis, Macmillan Technical Publishing.
Pearce, C. (1997). "Beyond Shoot Your Friends," Digital Illusion, ed. Clark Dodsworth. New York, Addison-Wesley.
Pearce, C. (1994). "The Ins & Outs of Nonlinear Storytelling." Computer Graphics, Volume 28, Number 1, May 1994.

News

5.09.07
Celia Pearce discusses Mermaids game and the Digital Media program at Georgia Tech in an interview on Gamasutra.

4.24.07
Celia Pearce will present a lecture at Savannah College of Art and Design on Emergent Game Group's Mermaids game, a MMOG created around the principle of utilizing large-scale emergent group behavior as a design material. For details, click here.

4.12.07
Celia Pearce will present the Emergent Game Group's Mermaids game prototype at the Indie MMOG Conference in Minneapolis this weekend in a presentation entitled: Designing Unconventional Games Using Conventional Game Engines. Pearce will talk about the number of ways in which the game has pushed MMOG game conventions and technology. To learn more, visit http://www.mmogamedev.info/

2.14.07
Mermaids Demo to Preview at GDC The first full prototype of the Mermaids project will be shown at the Game Developers Conference in the Multiverse booth, where it will be used to demonstrate its game engine, which is being used for the project. For more info on Multiverse go to http://www.multiverse.net. To learn about GDC, visit http://www.gdconf.com/.

12.13.06
11 Alive News interviews Celia Pearce about Mermaids design and prototypes presented at Demo Day