LUC Libraries: Games

The book looks at change gaming culture into a more diverse, all inclusive culture: for LGBTQ, for women, for people of color, etc.

The teenage phenoms behind the viral video game Tampon Run share the story of their experience at Girls Who Code and their rise to fame.

A look at women computer programmers, includes a life skill vocational guide.

This book is divided into three major sections that address major issues of social exclusion, power and liberatory fantasies in virtual play

n the first book dedicated to bridging game studies and queer theory, Ruberg resists the common, reductive narrative that games are only now becoming more diverse. Revealing what reading D. A. Miller can bring to the popular 2007 video game Portal, or what Eve Sedgwick offers Pong, Ruberg models the ways game worlds offer players the opportunity to explore queer experience, affect, and desire.

Videogame development is usually seen as a male dominated field; even playing videogames is often wrongly viewed as a pastime for men only. But behind the curtain, women have always played myriad important roles in gaming