game studies

• queer game studies - bo ruberg and adrienne shaw (2017)
• play matters - miguel sicart (2017)
• uncertainty in games - greg costikyan (2015)
• a play of bodies: how we perceive video games - brendan keogh (2018)
• handmade pixels: independent video games and the quest for authenticity - jesper juul (2019)
• how games move us: emotion by design - katherine isbister (2017)
• playing with feelings: video games and affect - audrey anable (2018)
• video games have always been queer - bo ruberg (2019)
• feminism in play - eds. kishonna l. gray, gerald voorhees, and emma vossen (2018)
• woke gaming: digital challenges to oppression and social injustice - eds. kishonna l. gray and david j. leonard (2018)
• gaming at the edge: sexuality and gender at the margins of gamer culture - adrienne shaw (2015)
• the queer games avant-garde: how lgbtq game makers are reimagining the medium of video games - bo ruberg (2020)
• homebrew gaming and the beginnings of vernacular digitality - melanie swalwell (2021)
• making games for impact - kurt squire (2021)
• making games: the politics and poetics of game creation tools - stefan werning (2021)

miscellaneous academia

• hamlet on the holodeck: the future of narrative in cyberspace - janet murray (2017)
• poetic operations: trans of color art in digital media - micha cárdenas (2022)
• glitch feminism: a manifesto - legacy russell (2020)
• a little devil in america: notes in praise of black performance - hanif abdurraqib (2021)
• belly of the beast: the politics of anti-fatness as anti-blackness - da'shaun l. harrison (2021)

fiction

• house of leaves - mark z. danielewski (2000)