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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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

Professors at Play & Play Story Press are excited to release Professors at Play ONLINE Playbook, edited by Lisa Forbes and David Thomas. The Professors at Play ONLINE PlayBook collects over 50 techniques and strategies designed to make the online classroom more fun. Rooted in the concept of playful pedagogy, this anthology shares proven approaches […]

We’re excited to share that Games for Change, a non-profit organization working with video games that can have positive change in the world, has joined the Play Story Press™ Society as a founding member. Their generous philanthropic contribution supports the open design and dissemination of knowledge that has a positive impact. We’re powered by input […]

Play Story Press is excited to release Game Design Snacks: Easily Digestible Game Design Wisdom, by José P. Zagal. This is an edited collection of nuggets of game design wisdom. It covers various areas in game design with examples from commercially released videogames. Its goal is to share and raise awareness of excellent game design. […]

Play Story Press is excited to release Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education, by José P. Zagal. It seems like teaching about games should be easy. After all, students enjoy engaging with course content and have extensive experience with videogames. However, games education can be surprisingly complex. This book explores ludoliteracy, or the question […]

We’re excited to share that FableVision Studios, an award-winning multi-media production studio, has joined the Play Story Press™ Society as a founding member. Their generous philanthropic contribution supports the open design and dissemination of knowledge that has a positive impact. We’re an independent non-profit organization powered by input and involvement from the consortium, our contributors, […]