Play Story Press is excited to release the first four volumes of Analog Game Studies along with the GENeration Analog 2021 Proceedings. Analog Game Studies GENeration Analog 2021
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Publishing How-To Zoom Roundtable
Play Story Press hosted a Publishing How-To Zoom Roundtable. The session focused on a variety of innovative ways to share scholarly ideas to make the most impact. We also offered tips for building communities of practice to help grow fields of knowledge. The panelists shared their stories and perspectives, and helped facilitate group discussions and Q&A with attendees: -Drew Davidson & Brad King - Editors at Play Story Press -Lindsay Grace - Knight Chair in Interactive Media at the University of Miami -Zoe Wake Hyde - Director at Radish Press -David Thomas - Co-Founder of Professors at Play Key Takeaways...
The Pleasure of Playing Less
Play Story Press is excited to release The Pleasure of Playing Less, by Sultan A. Alharthi, Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, Olaa Alsaedi, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum and Jessica Hammer In this book, we explore the pleasure of playing less through a collective experience of playing the Kittens Game -- a self-described “Dark Souls of incremental gaming”. We draw on techniques of close reading and hermeneutics to ground our analysis and supplement our individual reflections on how these games incentivize players to play less and plan more. The Pleasure of Playing Less: A Study of Incremental Games Through the Lens of Kittens
UM School of Communication – Founding Society Member
We’re excited to share that the School of Communication at the University of Miami has joined the Play Story Press™ Society as a founding member. With a focus on the study and practice of communication as foundational to every human endeavor, their generous philanthropic contribution supports the open design and dissemination of knowledge that has a positive impact. We’re powered by input and involvement from our consortium, our contributors, and the community at large. We invite people to participate so that we can explore and create a better future together. Thanks to the UM School of Communication for their support!
The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: The Witcher & The Mandalorian
Play Story Press is excited to release two Psychgeist of Pop Culture books. The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: The Witcher, edited by Rachel Kowert, PhD In a world where mean are monsters and monsters are men - who is the real monster? The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: The Witcher delves into the psychology of the characters and stories of this popular franchise. From the original book collection to best-selling video game series, to the hugely popular Netflix show, The Witcher is a transmedia experience that has captivated hearts and minds across the globe. In this series of edited essays, we...
Meaningful Play Proceedings
Play Story Press Play is excited to release the Meaningful 2024 Proceedings. Meaningful Play is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars, industry professionals and games practitioners together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways. Meaningful Play Proceedings
What Happens When We Play
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...
Well Played V14 N1: For the Love of 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 share a fun range of perspectives on our love of games. Well Played V14 N1: For the Love of Games
Meet Me at the Fair
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,...
Interactive Storytelling Art
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