Category: Book Announcements

“Making Deep Games – Designing Games with Meaning and Purpose” is soon available on Amazon and can be pre-ordered here: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Deep-Games-Designing-Meaning/dp/1138812129/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482753212&sr=8-1&keywords=Making+Deep+Games “Deep Games” combines theory with practice, lots of case studies and hands on design exercises on how to make games about the human experience using metaphor and allegory. It can be used as a…

Available for preorder “Procedural Content Generation in Games: A textbook and an overview of current research”, by Noor Shaker, Julian Togelius and Mark J. Nelson, will be published by Springer on November 20. It is available for preorder already now at: https://www.amazon.com/Procedural-Generation-Computational-Synthesis-Creative/dp/3319427148/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=pcgbook-20&linkId=cf064284f4aa7d2b4c8585fa20b2b07e

Mobile Gaming in Asia: Politics, Culture and Emerging Technologies by Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser University Springer, 2016 http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789402408249 This book provides holistic approaches to the field of mobile gaming, includes a comprehensive analysis of mobile gaming in the context of Asian smartphones, and develops a local perspective using translated papers published in national languages.

Dear Fellow Educators, Researchers, and Others! My new book on game based learning and pedagogy, “Choosing and Using Digital Games in the Classroom: A Practical Guide” is now in print and available on Amazon and other book retailers: https://www.amazon.ca/Choosing-Using-Digital-Games-Classroom/dp/3319122223/

I am extremely pleased to announce the first collection of stories for Esoteric Gaming, a new website/book project that features accounts of diverse and niche player practice. This is not an academic journal and doesn’t necessarily include deep thoughts, conclusions, or research. Instead, it’s a bevy of detail–a space for us to share extreme, nuanced,…

With complex stories and stunning visuals eliciting intense emotional responses, coupled with opportunities for self-expression and problem solving, video games are a powerful medium to foster empathy, critical thinking, and creativity in players. As these games grow in popularity, ambition, and technological prowess, they become a legitimate art form, shedding old attitudes and misconceptions along the way.

Two new volumes in the Approaches to Digital Game Studies http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/approaches-to-digital-game-studies/ book series have been published.

The anthology “Video Games and the Mind. Essays on Cognition, Affect and Emotion” (eds. Bernard Perron and Felix Schröter) has just been released.

Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music has just been published!

Learning, Education & Games Volume 1 (free to download) – ETC Press (2014) Learning, Education & Games Volume 2 (free to download) – ETC Press (2016) Knowledge Games (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)

Art publisher Silvana Editoriale is releasing the official catalogue of GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY, the largest exhibition on machinima and game-based video art ever staged in Italy​.