Gaming Research: Strategies and Resources a Taxonomy of Means and Ends Kevin Hamilton Associate Professor and Program Chair New Media / School of Art and Design (FAA)

Gaming Research: Strategies and Resources Strategy $$$ as an Engineering Problem growing as non-Engineering Disciplinary Work popular but shrinking as Trespass or Hack meager, ephemeral as Parasite meager, sustainable

Gaming Research as an Engineering Problem How to efficiently deliver and monetize interfaces to increasingly immersive virtual spaces

Gaming Research as an Engineering Problem Console Gaming

Gaming Research as an Engineering Problem Virtual Worlds / MMOG

Gaming Research as an Engineering Problem Education and Training

Gaming Research as an Engineering Problem Education and Training

Gaming Research as an Engineering Problem Pervasive Games

Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work Interpretation and critique of games and their impact Pursuit of disciplinary work within games

Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work (Fine Art) Cory Arcangel Photoshop CS: 110 by 72 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Spectrum", mousedown y=1098 x=1749.9, mouse up y=0 x=4160 (2008)

Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work (Fine Art) Brody Condon after Grunewald

Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work (Fine Art) Brody Condon Twentyfive fold Manifestation

Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work (Fine Art) Jon Haddock Isometric Screenshots

Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work (Fine Art) Scalable City

Gaming Research as Trespass or Hack Non-monetize-able misuse Critical tourism Protest

Gaming Research as Trespass or Hack Non-monetizeable Misuse Radical Software Group

Gaming Research as Trespass or Hack Critical Tourism

Gaming Research as Trespass or Hack Protest SimCopter Hack (@rtmark)

Gaming Research as Trespass or Hack Protest

Gaming Research as Trespass or Hack Protest

Gaming Research as Parasite Depends on industry structures for support and distribution, but income merely covers the cost of development. Game as toy, catalyst to marginal ends.

Gaming Research as Parasite Elektroplankton

Gaming Research as Parasite Flow

Gaming Research as Parasite WTF

Gaming Research as Parasite Bloom

Gaming Research as Parasite Sodaconstructor