Mark J. P. Wolf

Author of The Video Game Theory Reader

About the Author

Mark J. P. Wolf is a Full Professor in the Communication Department at Concordia University Wisconsin, USA. His books include Abstracting Reality, The Medium of the Video Game, Virtual Morality, The Video Game Explosion, Myst and Riven: The World of the D'ni, Before the Crash, Encyclopedia of Video show more Games, Building Imaginary Worlds, The LEGO Studies Reader, Video Games Around the World, and Revisiting Imaginary Worlds. He is also the founder of the Imaginary Worlds book series. With Bernard Perron, he is the co-editor of The Video Game Theory Reader 1 and 2, and the Landmark Video Game book series. show less

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The Video Game Theory Reader (2003) 112 copies

The Medium of the Video Game (2002) 77 copies

Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation (2012) 54 copies

The Video Game Explosion: A History from PONG to PlayStation and Beyond (2007) 31 copies

The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions) (2017) 25 copies

The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies (2013) 21 copies

Before the Crash: Early Video Game History (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series) (2012) 16 copies

Myst and Riven: The World of the D'ni (2006) 12 copies, 1 review

Video Games Around the World (The MIT Press) (2015) 10 copies

Encyclopedia of Video Games [2 volumes]: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming (2012) 8 copies

Revisiting Imaginary Worlds: A Subcreation Studies Anthology (2016) 8 copies

Virtual Morality: Morals, Ethics and New Media (Counterpoints) (2003) 6 copies

LEGO studies : examining the building blocks of a transmedial phenomenon (2014) 6 copies

Exploring Imaginary Worlds: Essays on Media, Structure, and Subcreation (2020) 6 copies

The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions) (2018) 4 copies

Abstracting reality : art, communication, and cognition in the digital age (2000) 3 copies

The world of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (2017) 3 copies

World-Builders on World-Building: An Exploration of Subcreation (2020) 3 copies

Video Games FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Games and Gaming Culture (FAQ Pop Culture) (2017) 3 copies

101 Enigmatic Puzzles: Fractal Mazes, Quantum Chess, Anagram Sudoku, and More (1) (2020) 1 copy

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Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work, its Precursors and its Legacies (Cormarë) (2019) — Contributor — 28 copies

Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon (2016) — Contributor — 20 copies

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Myst and Riven: The World of the D'ni (Landmark Video Games) by Mark J. P. Wolf

It's a perhaps too detailed book about the Myst and Riven games that (as another commenter said) felt like a sloppy and unfinished walkthrough. I recommend watching the YouTube videos on the making of Myst and the Myst Lore and perhaps some interviews of the Cyan founders, because perhaps you will find it more interesting and engaging.

These are the videos I watched and that complete the thinking and the work behind the game and its Lore:

A Brief History of... Myst show more (https://youtu.be/h4wWITMUop0)

How Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM (https://youtu.be/EWX5B6cD4_4)

I also saw the trailer for the new Cyan project Firmament and I'm so excited, so I'm gonna drop it here as well for the hype! (https://youtu.be/9-DpB7tXs4g) show less

Oct 25, 2022