Not-games, player privilege and counter-gaming

Some links with thoughts concerning the state of affairs of video games, what they are, what they're supposed to do, and how player expectation and privilege can be subverted; as dialogue, as not-fun, as anti-commercialism.

http://www.notgames.colognegamelab.com

http://notgames.org/blog/2010/03/19/not-a-manifesto

http://tale-of-tales.com/tales/RAM.html

http://www.mikejones.tv/journal/2010/2/14/most-computer-games-arent-games-at-all.html

http://critdamage.blogspot.com/2010/07/death-of-player.html

http://critdamage.blogspot.com/2010/08/player-privilege-why-it-is-still-just.html

http://www.copenhagengamecollective.org/uploads/On%20Abusive%20Game%20Design%20%28web%29.pdf

https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/download/attachments/7143524/countergaming.galloway.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1207715401000

"‘Fun’ is a blunt weapon used to injure and exclude. Please take your ‘fun’ elsewhere." -- Stephen Lavelle