April 2025

Play Story Press is excited to release What Happens When We Play, edited by Rebecca Rouse, Björn Berg Marklund, and Anna-Sofia Alklind Taylor What Happens When We Play: A Critical Approach to Games User Experience Design & Education brings together research and reflection from both faculty and graduate students involved in University of Skövde’s Games User Experience (GUX) Master’s program, launched in 2020. The collection shares insights from the new GUX curriculum, which takes a critical-making approach, combining practical projects done in collaboration with game studios, critical cultural theory and history, and design theory and hands-on work in the practice...

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Well Played and Play Story Press have released Well Played V14 N1: For the Love of Games. This issue of the Well Played Journal is a companion to the book, Well Played: For the Love of Games. The book curates authors and their submissions, and this issue provided an open call for participation. Together, they share a fun range of perspectives on our love of games. Well Played V14 N1: For the Love of Games  

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Play Story Press is excited to release Meet Me at the Fair, edited by Laura Hollengreen, Celia Pearce, Rebecca Rouse, and Bobby Schweizer. Together with the Olympics, world’s fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A World’s Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on world’s fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate world’s fairs in their multiple aspects: political,...

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Play Story Press is excited to release the Interactive Storytelling Art book series, which has presented innovative interactive digital narrative artworks shown at the ARDIN (Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narrative) main conference, ICIDS (International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. Interactive Storytelling Art

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