Playing the Game
The Culture of Digital Games
Playing the Game: The Culture of Digital Games
Cheating
The following articles provide interesting discussions relevant to
the question of cheating in digital games. If you find any more please
.
Bedigian, Louis and Consalvo, Mia (n.d.). Is
It Wrong To Cheat? Gamezone.
Retrieved 28th January 2007 from here.
Short interview with Mia
Consalvo.
Bowyer, J. Barton (1982). Deception in War & Magic, Games
& Sports, Sex & Religion, Business & Con Games, Politics
& Espionage, Art & Science. New York, NY: St Martin's Press.
Consalvo, Mia
(2005a). Gaining Advantage: How Videogame Players Define and Negotiate
Cheating. Presented at the DiGRA Changing
Views: Worlds in Play Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2005.
Retrieved 10th November 2005 from here.
Consalvo, Mia
(2005b). Cheating Can be Good For You: Educational Games and Multiple
Play Styles. On the Horizon 13(2).
Consalvo, Mia (2007). Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames.
Cambridge, MA: MIT.
DeKoven, Bernie (2002). The Well-Played Game: A Playful Path to
Wholeness. 3rd ed. Lincoln, NE: Writers Club. Retrieved 11th November
2005 from here. Chapters
2, 3 and 5 are relevant to a consideration of cheating.
Järvinenansz, Aki (2003). Making and Breaking Games: A Typology of
Rules. In: Marinka Copier and Joost Raessens (eds) Level
Up: Digital Games Research Conference Proceedings (CD-ROM).
Utrecht: University of Utrecht, pp. 68-79. Retrieved 7th August 2005
from here.
Kimppa, K. K. and Bissett, A. K. (2005). The Ethical Significance
of Cheating in Online Computer Games. International
Review of Information Ethics 4 (December 2005).
Kücklich, Julian (2004).
Other Playings: Cheating in Computer Games. Other
Players Conference Proceedings. Copenhagen: IT University of
Copenhagen. Retrieved 7th August 2005 from here.
Kücklich, Julian (2007).
Set DeusEx.JCDentonMale bCheatsEnabled True: Cheating as a Way to Enhance
Player Experience in Deus Ex. In: Amyris Fernandez, Olli Leino
and Hanna Wirman (eds) Extending Experiences. University of Lapland
(forthcoming). Retrieved 15th December 2005 from here.
A discussion of the pleasures of cheating within
Deus Ex.
Parker, Jim (2007). Cheating by Video Game Participants. Loading...
1(1). Available here (requires free registration).
Salen, Katie and Zimmerman, Eric (2004). Rules of Play: Game Design
Fundamentals. Cambridge, MA: MIT, pp. 266-85. A
useful classification of player types, including the cheat and
the spoilsport.
Suits, Bernard (1990). The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia.
Boston: David R. Godine. Chapter 4 discusses 'Triflers,
Cheats, and Spoilsports'.
Taylor, T.L. (2003), Power Gamers Just Want To Have Fun?: Instrumental
Play In A MMOG. In: Marinka Copier and Joost Raessens (eds) Level
Up: Digital Games Research Conference Proceedings (CD-ROM).
Utrecht: University of Utrecht, pp. 300-11. Retrieved 7th August 2005
from here.
Zetterström, Joel (2005). A Legal Analysis of Cheating in Online
Multiplayer Games. Göteborg University. March. Retrieved 29th December
2005 from here.
A master's thesis which addresses many aspects
of online cheating, focusing particularly on the legal.

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