Optional readings to help with PS #1:

• Informal concise rules for Go
• Formal concise rules for Go
• Minimax tutorial

Readings for Sept. 12:

• Rabin, Steve, ed. AI Game Programming Wisdom. Sections 1.1, 1.3, 1.4 and 6.4.
• Human-level AI's Killer Application: Interactive Computer Games

Readings for Sept. 19:

• Hofstadter, Douglas H. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, Preface 5, Preface 7, Chapter 7, and pages 360-361. Basic Books.
• Polya, G. How To Solve It, 2nd ed. Pages 234-251. Princeton Science Library.
• Rabin, Steve, ed. AI Game Programming Wisdom. Sections 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 8.1. Charles River Media, Inc.

Readings for Sept. 26:

• Game Design: Theory and Practice. Chapter 17.

Readings for Oct. 3:

• Möller & Hanes. Real-time Rendering, selected readings.
• (Jon's reading)

Readings for Oct. 10:

• Jackson, Steve. GURPS table of contents.
• Gygax, Gary. Dungeon Masters Guide saving throw table and magic item lists.
• (role playing reading)

Readings for Oct. 17:

• Bates, Bob. Genre-specific Game Design Issues.. In Game Design: The Art & Business of Creating Games, Prima Tech.

Readings for Oct. 24: none.

Readings for Oct. 31:

• Cheshire, Stuart. The Monopoly Effect.
• Cheshire, Stuart. Stuart's Law of Quadratic Reliability
• Lambright, Rick. Distributing Object State for Networked Games Using Object Views, Gamasutra.
• Leonard, Tom. Postmortem: Looking Glass's Thief: The Dark Project, Gamasutra.

Readings for Nov. 7:

• Adams, Ernest. Designing and Developing Sports Games

Readings for Nov. 14:

• Game Design: Theory and Practice. Interview with Will Wright.
• Game Design: Theory and Practice. The Sims.
• Friedman, Ted. Making Sense of Software: Computer Games and Interactive Textuality.
• Geryk, Bruce. A History of Real-Time Strategy Games

Readings for Nov. 21:

• (to be added)

Readings for Dec. 5:

• (to be added)