Oyundergi – Journal of Games, the first Turkish academic journal which deals with digital and video games and game studies is awaiting your Turkish or English submissions for its first issue! Oyundergi is a non-profit, open-access, crossdisciplinary academic journal, that will publish two issues a year at oyundergi.com.tr and oyundergi.org .
Oyundergi accepts previously unpublished Turkish or English full articles focused on games and gaming, through a double-blind review process. The journal also accepts contribution from industry in the form of “Letters to Editor” and book reviews. The range of possible topics includes (but is not limited to):
- Games and gaming
- Theories and aesthetics of play
- Games and art
- Game culture
- Games and education
- Game design
- Casual games
- Social Games
- Gamification
- Game industry (in Turkey or internationally)
- Marketing and financing the game industry
- Games and transmedia
- Localization and cross-cultural study of games
- Games in health applications
- Player research and Game User Research
- Video Games and law
- Serious games
- Histories of games
- Presentation of race, gender, space and time in games
- Table-top, traditional and analog gaming
Oyundergi is published with the support of Oyunder (The Turkish Association for Game Developers and Publishers). Please check the submission guidelines and submit your work to: cfp [at] oyundergi [dot] org
Submission Dates
Full Paper Submit Deadline: 31st of May, 2015
Publication Date: 1st of December, 2015
Submission Guidelines
Full Papers
Oyundergi accepts previously unpublished full papers for submission. The submission should include these files;
Your article with no ID associations
Turkish or English only
Between 3000-8000 words including References and Endnotes
Please include a 300 word abstract
Please include several keywords.
Text with 12-points Times New Roman
Main title with centered and bold 14-points Times New Roman
Subheadings with 12-points bold Times New Roman
Please do not use Footnotes, instead use Endnotes
Please number figures, tables and images
Please use APA format referencing (http://www.apastyle.org/)
A seperate file with your name, title, institution and contact information
Letter to Editors and Book Reviews
Oyundergi accepts non-academic or academic letters to editors that deals with industry perspective or responses to previously published work. Oyundergi also accepts book reviews about relevant publications. Letters and book reviews do not go through peer-review yet the editors always keep the right to publish or not publish them;
Your letter/book review with your name, title, institution and contact information
Turkish or English only
Between 500-3000 words including References and Endnotes
Text with 12-points Times New Roman
Main title with centered and bold 14-points Times New Roman
Subheadings with 12-points bold Times New Roman
Please do not use Footnotes, instead use Endnotes
Please number figures, tables and images
If you have references please use APA format referencing (http://www.apastyle.org/)
