Ernest AdamsThe Designer's Notebook

Print Articles

Papers and articles that have appeared in books, magazines, and proceedings.

This list doesn't include my books, Designer's Notebook columns or other on-line articles. My more recent lectures do not appear on this list because I often don't have them written up in paper form in time to get them into the proceedings. However, you can find many of them on the Lectures page.

"S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl: Ludic Space as Memorial." Space Time Play. von Borries, Friedrich, Steffen P. Walz, and Matthias Böttger, editors. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag AG, 2007.

"Will Computer Games Ever Be a Legitimate Art Form?" Journal of Media Practice, volume 7, number 1, 2006.

"Interchangeable Dialogue Content." Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames. Bateman, Chris, editor. Boston, Massachusetts: Charles River Media, 2006.

"Introduction." 21st Century Game Design. Bateman, Chris and Richard Boon. Boston, Massachusetts: Charles River Media, 2005.

"Design Considerations for Interactive Storytellers." Developing Interactive Narrative Content (a Sagas and Sagasnet Reader). Bushoff, Brunhild editor. Munich: High Text Verlag, 2005. 1-18.

"Getting into the Game: Skills and Careers in Game Development," Game Developer 2002 Game Career Guide, Fall 2002. [ Read it in PDF format (319 KB file). ]

"The Four Myths of Game Design," Game Developer magazine, volume 7, number 12, December 2000. [ Read it in PDF format (203 KB file). ]

"Immortality for Game Developers," Game Developer magazine, volume 6, number 4, April 1999.
[ Read it in PDF format (63 KB file). ]

"Celluloid to Silicon: A Sermon for Newcomers from Hollywood," Proceedings of the 8th Computer Game Developers' Conference, April 1994. [ Read it online ]

"Programming the CD-I Player," Proceedings of the 6th Computer Game Developers' Conference, April 1992.

"The Problems and Promise of On-Line Games," Proceedings of the 5th Computer Game Developers' Conference, April 1991.

"Relational Database Design: A Tutorial and Case Study for Egyptologists," Adams, Ernest W. and Strudwick, Nigel, Informatique et Egyptologie 7 (Paris 1990).

"An On-Site Archaeological Database," Adams, Ernest W. and Foley, Mary Ellen, WissenschaftlicheZeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 37 (1988) 3.