[Purple-Blurb] Jesper Juul Monday on videogame making and videogame theory

[Nick Montfort]

Dear Purple Blurbers,

This coming Monday (October 27) at 6pm, Jesper Juul, who is now working at 
the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, will speak about his experiences 
creating videogames. Jesper is very well-known as a videogame theorist; 
he's written Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional 
Worlds (MIT Press, 2005) and is finishing a book on casual games. But he 
develops games, too, including a delightful matching-time game that was a 
project while he was also studying the history of these sorts of games and 
theorizing them.

On Monday we'll have the rare chance to hear in depth about how the 
practice of making games, and the literal and more figurative writing that 
is involved in doing this, influences his theoretical understanding, and 
vice-versa.

Our meeting on Monday is in the Trope Tank (14N-233). The last Purple 
Blurb with Steve Meretzky has a special location, but we are back in our 
usual one this time:

  Jesper Juul
  Monday
  Oct 27
  6pm
  The Trope Tank (14N-233)

I'll hope to see many of you.

  -Nick

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-   Nick Montfort         nickm at nickm.com   http://nickm.com
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-   Assistant Professor of Digital Media
  -  Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies
-   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  -  77 Massachusetts Avenue, 14N-233
-   Cambridge, MA 02139-4307