Andrew Brown, Jens Carstensen, Robert Christgau, G. Nicholas D'Andrea, Jesse Ehnert, Bob Fingerman, Paul Fuchs, Georg Grosse, Tom Hart, Janet Haven, K. Thor Jensen, Jason Little, James Marks, Stephin Merritt, Dan Novi, Parker Novi, Ethan Persoff, Rebecca Preston, Jesse Reklaw, Greg Saliceti, Jason Shiga, Mishka Shubaly, Art Spiegelman, Dash Spiegelman, Nadja Spiegelman, Steve Stein, Dick Weber, Nancy Weber, Pinky Weitzman

Ludic: James Marks, Stephin Merritt, Jason Shiga, Pinky Weitzman

Mauna Kea: Jens Carstensen

Spooneye!: Andrew Brown, Jens Carstensen, Jesse Ehnert, Mishka Shubaly

Spanish Popeye: Jens Carstensen, G. Nicholas D'Andrea, Hans Gutknecht

Spiraling Shape: Jens Carstensen, Art Spiegelman, Dash Spiegelman

• The Oxford History of Card Games, by David Parlett

• John McLeod's invaluable card games website

• Homo Ludens, by Johan Huizinga

• Rules of Play and The Game Design Reader, by Eric Zimmerman and Katie Salen

• On Game Design and The Art of Computer Game Design, by Chris Crawford

• The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, by Bernard Suits

• The essays of Kory Heath, particularly his epic design histories of RAMBots and Zendo (the obvious inspiration for Ludic,) this short essay on Coercive Rules, and this interview with Tom Vasel

• This article by the redoubtable John Gorenfeld on the even redoubtabler Dani Bunten

• Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy, by Dave Hickey, particularly "The Heresy of Zone Defense"

• Kill The Moonlight by Spoon

• Peanuts Jubilee: My Life and Art with Charlie Brown and Others by Charles M. Schulz