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Toward a Ludic Architecture: The Space of Play and Games Toward a Ludic Architecture is a pioneering publication, architecturally framing play and games as human practices in and of space. Filling ...Book Details

ADE for Games: Approaches to Anti-Racism, Decolonization, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Games Research and Creation The last decade has witnessed the emergence of critical game studies and crit...Book Details

Taylor Swift is the voice of generations. Her words are the soundtrack to our lives. She is the best selling artist of all time with millions of fans who proudly call themselves Swifties. But her lega...Book Details

A lot of us have a special game that inspired us to get more deeply involved in making, studying and playing games as part of our professional and personal lives. It may be *the* game for you or just ...Book Details

In current digital games, classic fictional worlds are transformed into ludofictional worlds, spaces rich in characters and emotions that are especially affected by the intervention of a player. In th...Book Details

Roll for Learning: 51 Micro Tabletop Role-Playing Games to Use in the Classroom is an edited book featuring a curated collection of original micro tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs). Micro TTRPGs ha...Book Details

Why does the tail wag the brain? What is virtual autism? Why can't our avatars walk hand-in-hand? Will a nonverbal Babel fish save the world? Jeffrey Ventrella, a seasoned virtual worlds programmer an...Book Details

Recent times have witnessed an explosion in forms of media that fall under the umbrella of "pop culture". However, no series represents this phenomenon more clearly than Netflix's own Stranger Things....Book Details

Bluey is an award-winning animated children’s series centering on the titular Bluey: a curious, inexhaustible 7-year old (in human years) anthropomorphized Blue Heeler puppy, and her family - little...Book Details

The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Umbrella Academy takes a deep dive into the world of the Hargreeves family and sheds new light on the gothic allure of this series. In this collection of essays, readers...Book Details

Well Played is a concept of providing in-depth close readings of games that parse out the various meanings found in the experience of playing a game. Around Halloween in 2020, the Well Played Journal ...Book Details

Creative Chaos (1st Edition): Learning Lessons on Inclusion & Innovation Creative Chaos describes the dynamic process of collaborative design and development within interdisciplinary teams as t...Book Details

Tabletop: Analog Game Design In this volume, people of diverse backgrounds — tabletop game designers, digital game designers, and game studies academics — talk about tabletop games, game cultur...Book Details

Well Played 3.0: Games, Value and Meaning Following on Well Played 1.0 and 2.0, this book is full of in-depth close readings of games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experien...Book Details

Well Played 2.0: Games, Value and Meaning Following on Well Played 1.0, this book is full of in-depth close readings of games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of pl...Book Details

Cross-Media Communications: An Introduction to the Art of Creating Integrated Media Experiences This text is an introduction to the future of mass media and mass communications – cross-media comm...Book Details

Well Played 1.0: Games, Value and Meaning What makes a game good? or bad? or better? Games can be “well played” in two senses. On the one hand, well played is to games as well read is to books....Book Details

Beyond Fun: Serious Games and Media This book focuses on strategies for applying games, simulations and interactive experiences in learning contexts. The contributors orchestrated this collection t...Book Details

stories in between: narratives and mediums @ play This is a unique text exploring the interplay between stories and media. The discussion focuses around the Myst narrative as it moves across media ...Book Details