I don't know any specifically, but the syllabus has required/suggested reading that would probably be a good place to start: Required Text Designing Virtual W

I don't know any specifically, but the syllabus has required/suggested reading that would probably be a good place to start: Required Text Designing Virtual Worlds. Richard Bartle. Character Development and Storytelling for Games. Lee Sheldon. Suggested Reading Developing Online Games. Mulligan and Petrovsky. Massively Multiplayer Game Development. Thor Alexander et al. Synthetic Worlds. Edward Castronova. Community Building on the Web. Amy Jo Kim My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. Julian Dibbell A Theory of Fun. Raph Koster Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.