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 Adaptation
Hans-Joachim Backe

Cause No Trouble: The Experience of “Serious Fun” in Papers, Please
Oscar Moralde

Playing for the plot: Blindness, agency, and the appeal of narrative organization in Heavy Rain
Fanny A. Ramirez

Taking Apart the Provocation Machine: Ian Bogost's A Slow Year
Thomas H. Rousse

Spore’s Playable Procedural Content Generation
Gillian Smith

What Hockey Wants: Drama, Narrative, and Sports
Jeff Watson

PART TWO: GAMES LEARNING SOCIETY

Elder Scrolls Online: How ESO encourages group formation and cooperative play
Michelle Aubrecht, Jeff Kuhn, Justin Eames

Acting in the Light and on Fayth: Ritualized Play in Journey and Final Fantasy X
Kyrie Eleison H. Caldwell

Well Played & Well Watched: Dota 2, Spectatorship, and eSports
Chris Georgen

Magic the Gathering: A Learning Game Designer’s Perspective
Dan Norton

For the Records – Understanding Mental Illness Through Metaphorical Games
Doris C. Rusch

Gaming a Non-Game? A Long Term (Self)-Experiment about FarmVille
Heinrich Söbke

The Stanley Parable
Phil J. Dougherty III

ISSN 2164-344X (Print)
ISSN 2164-3458 (Online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17613/znyx7-0a252