| Hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades: Players who suit MUDs R Bartle Journal of MUD research 1 (1), 19, 1996 | 4558 | 1996 |
| Designing virtual worlds RA Bartle New Riders, 2004 | 2826 | 2004 |
| Virtual worlds: Why people play R Bartle Massively multiplayer game development 2 (1), 3-18, 2005 | 245 | 2005 |
| Interactive multi-user computer games R Bartle December, 1990 | 158 | 1990 |
| Pitfalls of virtual property RA Bartle Np, Apr, 2004 | 143 | 2004 |
| From MUDs to MMORPGs: The history of virtual worlds RA Bartle International handbook of internet research, 23-39, 2010 | 128 | 2010 |
| Early MUD history R Bartle En ligne.< http://www. mud. co. uk/richard/mudhist. htm, 1990 | 121 | 1990 |
| Virtual worldliness: What the imaginary asks of the real RA Bartle NYL Sch. L. Rev. 49, 19, 2004 | 104 | 2004 |
| Beyond game design: Nine steps toward creating better videogames C Bateman Cengage Learning, 2009 | 90 | 2009 |
| Hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades: players who suit MUDs. 1996 R Bartle URL: http://mud. co. uk/richard/hcds. htm [accessed 2015-04-20][WebCite …, 2003 | 80 | 2003 |
| Evaluating and modelling hanabi-playing agents J Walton-Rivers, PR Williams, R Bartle, D Perez-Liebana, SM Lucas 2017 IEEE congress on evolutionary computation (CEC), 1382-1389, 2017 | 65 | 2017 |
| Why Governments aren’t Gods and Gods aren’t Governments RA Bartle First Monday 7, 2006 | 46 | 2006 |
| Virtual worldliness RA Bartle The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds, 31-54, 2006 | 36 | 2006 |
| Understanding the limits of theory R Bartle Delmar, 2009 | 34 | 2009 |
| Presence and flow: Ill-fitting clothes for virtual worlds. R Bartle Techne: Research in Philosophy & Technology 10 (3), 2007 | 33 | 2007 |
| MMOs from the inside out R Bartle The History, Design, Fun, and Art of Massively-Multiplayer Online Role …, 2016 | 31 | 2016 |
| Incremental game mechanics applied to text annotation C Madge, R Bartle, J Chamberlain, U Kruschwitz, M Poesio Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play …, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
| A" Digital culture, play and identity: A world of warcraft reader" reader R Bartle Game Studies 10 (1), 17, 2010 | 25 | 2010 |
| Alice and Dorothy play together R Bartle MIT Press, 2009 | 25 | 2009 |
| A self of sense R Bartle Available on April 9, 2005, 2003 | 25 | 2003 |
