Books

• Man, Play and Games [1]
• Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens: The Digital Role-Playing Game
• Guns, Grenades, and Grunts: First-Person Shooter Games
• Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature

Articles

• “MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research“
  
• “Computer Game Criticism: A Method for Computer Game Analysis“
  

Supplemental Reading

• The Language of New Media
• First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game
• Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media
• Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives
• Game Studies
• Psychology of Video Games
• Gamasutra
• Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling
  

[1] Caillois, Roger. Man, Play, and Games. New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1961. Print.