Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing

Edmond Y. Chang is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. He has published on queer games, digital humanities, popular culture, and speculative literature of color including “Queergaming” in Queer Game Studies (2017), “Why Are the Digital Humanities So Straight?” in Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities (2021), and “Gaming While Asian” in Made in Asia/America (2024). He is an editor for Analog Game Studies and a contributing editor for Gamers with Glasses.Timothy J. Welsh is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. He is the author of Mixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) as well as articles on video games, interactive narrative, and digital society such as “(Re)Mastering Dark Souls” (Game Studies, 2021) and “Doing Nothing in San Andreas: Contesting the Value of Play in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V” (Configurations, 2024). He is managing editor of the Journal of Games Criticism.

• Introduction: Gaming Our Classrooms Lore I: Literary Gaming 1 ImmorTall 2 Tetris 3 The Beginner’s Guide 4 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 5 BioShock 6 Assassin’s Creed 7 Undertale Side Quests I Lore II: Literature and Video Games 8 The Sims 10 Portal 11 Red Dead Redemption 12 Super Columbine Massacre RPG! 13 Dark Souls 14 NBA 2K18 15 Pokémon GO 16 Minecraft Side Quests II Lore III: Gamifying Literature 17 Loved 18 Animal Crossing: New Horizons 19 Dragon Age: Origins 20 Barbie Dreamtopia: Adventure Games 21 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 22 Queers in Love at the End of the World 23 When Rivers Were Trails 24 Gone Home Side Quests III Lore IV: Getting Messy9 The Walking Dead