Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

By D. Kushner. 2003

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Learning to Act by Predicting the Future (2016, methodology): “We use the classical ﬁrst-person game Doom, which introduced immersive three-dimensional games to popular culture (Kushner, 2003).”
Balancing the Tensions Between Rationalization and Creativity in the Video Games Industry (2007, background): “A remarkable trend is that of first-person shooter games, which are some of the most immersive, visceral, and controversial games available (Kushner 2003).”
Procedural content generation for games: A survey (2013, background): “In the early-to-mid-1990s, the successful game development company id created popular commercial games such as Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, and Doom with a single full-time content developer in a team of five or six game developers [Kushner 2003].”
Privilege, Power, and Dungeons & Dragons: How Systems Shape Racial and Gender Identities in Tabletop Role-Playing Games (2017, background): “From influencing the designs of myriad video game titles and tropes (Harris, 2015; Kushner, 2004) to shaping the experiences of the aforementioned literary superstars, D&D has seeped into multiple facets of culture.”