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

Professors at Play AI Playbook The Professors at Play AI PlayBook explores the intersection of playful pedagogy and AI in the higher education classroom. Through specific AI tools and examples, thi...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

ToDIGRA (https://todigra.org/) is a quarterly, international, open access, refereed, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to research on and practice in all aspects of games. ToDiGRA captures the wide ...Book Details

ToDIGRA (https://todigra.org/) is a quarterly, international, open access, refereed, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to research on and practice in all aspects of games. ToDiGRA captures the wide ...Book Details

The Proceedings of the 2023 Connected Learning Summit feature 6 peer-reviewed research papers accepted for presentation at the 2023 Connected Learning Summit....Book Details

The Proceedings of the 2022 Connected Learning Summit feature 15 peer-reviewed research papers accepted for presentation at the 2022 Connected Learning Summit. The Connected Learning Summit community ...Book Details

The Proceedings of the 2020 Connected Learning Summit feature 23 peer-reviewed research papers accepted for presentation at the 2020 Connected Learning Summit. The Connected Learning Summit community ...Book Details

The Proceedings of the 2019 Connected Learning Summit features research and presentations from the 2019 Connected Learning Summit, held at the University of California, Irvine in October 2019. The pro...Book Details

The Proceedings of the 2018 Connected Learning Summit features research and presentations from the inaugural Connected Learning Summit held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in August, 2018...Book Details

Well Played Post-Mortems on AR and VR Games Volume 13 Number 1 (Initially released in January, 2024) Introduction Drew Davidson Paws and Presence: The Impact of a Quadrupedal Avatar on Virtual R...Book Details

Well Played eSports and Community Volume 12 Number 1 Barry Joseph, Stan Altman and Nick Fortugno (Initially released in January, 2023) The City College of New York Introduction: Esports as Commu...Book Details

Well Played Ethics Volume 11 Number 1 José P. Zagal (Initially released in July, 2022) To Ethically Play Well José P. Zagal The Dilemmas of a Disco Cop 5: Ethically Well Played Experiences in...Book Details

Well Played Playable Theatre Volume 10 Number 2 Celia Pearce and Nick Fortugno (Initially released in July, 2021) Introduction: Building a Plane in Mid-Air Celia Pearce TPK in Elsinore: The Lar...Book Details

Well Played Escape Rooms Volume 10 Number 1 Clara Fernández-Vara and Ira Fay (Initially released in April, 2021) Introduction Clara Fernández-Vara and Ira Fay A Descriptive Schema for Escape ...Book Details

Well Played The Sporting Mindset Volume 8 Number 3 John Sharp (Initially released in September, 2019) Introduction John Sharp Exploring the Sporting Metagames of Competitive Android: Netrunner ...Book Details

Well Played Intergenerational Play Volume 8 Number 2 Eric Klopfer (Initially released in September, 2019) Introduction Eric Klopfer Games, Play, Meaning and Minecraft Diane Carr & Cheesyca...Book Details

Well Played Connected Learning Summit Volume 8 Number 1 (Initially released in May, 2019) The Logical Journey of Reimagining “Zoombinis:” Adventure, Research, and Computational Thinking Jodi ...Book Details

Well Played Meaningful Play and Games for Social and Emotional Learning Volume 7 Number 2 Susan E. Rivers and Heidi McDonald (Initially released in February, 2018) iThrive Games Founder’s Lette...Book Details

Well Played Analog Games Volume 7 Number 1 Ira Fay (Initially released in February, 2018) Introduction Ira Fay Distribution, Deckbuilding, and Design in Star Wars: The Card Game Nick Bestor N...Book Details

Well Played Games, Value and Meaning Volume 6 Number 3 (Initially released in September, 2017) Agency, Identity, Sex, Gender, and Pokémon Go Allison Bannister So Close You Can Feel Her Prostitu...Book Details

Well Played European Videogames of the 1980s Volume 6 Number 2 Clara Fernández-Vara and Bennett Foddy (Initially released in June, 2017) European Videogames of the 1980s Clara Fernández-Vara &...Book Details

Well Played Let's Play Volume 6 Number 1 Moses Wolfenstein and Drew Davidson (Initially released in January, 2017) Introduction Moses Wolfenstein Well Played let's play: 6.1 Videos Who Needs V...Book Details

Well Played GLS and DiGRA Volume 5 Number 2 (Initially released in May, 2016) PART 1: DIGRA EVE is Real: How conceptions of the 'real' affect and reflect an online game community Marcus Carter, ...Book Details

Well Played Games, Value and Meaning Volume 5 Number 1 (Initially released in April, 2016) A Narrative Dream: The Unfinished Swan Eric Guadara Handling Differences in Skills between Parents and ...Book Details

Well Played Diversity in Games Volume 4 Number 3 Jane Pinckard and Clara Fernández-Vara (Initially released in November, 2015) Introduction Celia Pearce From Pixel Babes to Active Agents – H...Book Details

Well Played Learning and Games Volume 4 Number 2 Stephen Jacobs and Ira Fay (Initially released in September, 2015) Introduction Stephen Jacobs Medulla: A 2D sidescrolling platformer game that ...Book Details

Well Played DiGRA & GLS Volume 4 Number 1 Sean Duncan and Caro Williams (Initially released in April, 2015) PART ONE: DIGRA Where’s BattleTech in MechWarrior Online? A Case Study in Game A...Book Details

Well Played Seriously Weird Volume 3 Number 2 Emily Flynn-Jones (Initially released in September, 2015) Introduction Emily Flynn-Jones Part One: Out of Control Weird WarioWare Instructi...Book Details

Well Played Games, Value and Meaning Volume 3 Number 1 (Initially released in February, 2014) Assassin’s Creed III: The Complete Unofficial Guide, a Teacher’s Limited Edition Wade Berger, P...Book Details

Well Played Theories of Well Played Volume 2 Number 2 John Sharp (Initially released in September, 2013) Introduction John Sharp Inhabiting Games Well (If not Uncomfortably...) Casey O’D...Book Details

Well Played Games, Value and Meaning Volume 2 Number 1 (Initially released in November, 2012) Stories from the Seats of Power: Chopper versus Chopper as dueling Travelogues Matthew Thomas Payne...Book Details

Well Played Romance in Games Volume 1 Number 4 Jane Pinckard (Initially released in July, 2012) Technology and emotion: Playing for the love of the game Richard E. Ferdig & Kristine E. Pyt...Book Details

Well Played Games, Value and Meaning Volume 1 Number 3 (Initially released in May, 2012) Time Tech and Tales: The fall and rise of the popularity of narration in games seen through Monkey Island...Book Details

Well Played Games, Value and Meaning Volume 1 Number 2 (Initially released in February, 2012) BioShock and Portal: A Discussion of Poetics Yotam Haimberg We should be heroes… A case study ...Book Details

Well Played Games, Value and Meaning Volume 1 Number 1 (Initially released in October, 2011) These essays were part of the Well Played Sessions at GLS 7.0, the 2011 Games+Learning+Society Confer...Book Details

Creative Chaos (2nd Edition): Learning Lessons on Inclusion & Innovation Creative Chaos describes the dynamic process of collaborative design and development within interdisciplinary teams as...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

In the spring of 2005, an experimental game was prototyped in seven days. This little experiment was Tower of Goo, and it was the seed that led to the development of the independent video game, ...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

Before the multibillion computer game industry, there was Dungeons & Dragons, a tabletop game created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1974. D&D captured the attention of a small but influent...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