Well Played vol. 6(3)

Agency, Identity, Sex, Gender, and Pokémon Go

Allison Bannister

So Close You Can Feel Her

Prostitution, Proximity & Empathy in Grand Theft Auto 5

Elena Bertozzi, Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

Learning at the Farm

Developmental Psychology in Peekaboo Barn

Carly A. Kocurek, Jennifer L. Miller

Taking Over the World, Again?

Examining Procedural Remakes of Adventure Games

Anastasia Salter

 

The Well Played Journal is a forum for in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. It is a reviewed journal with CfPs for submissions that will be released on a regular basis with high-quality essays

Contributors are encouraged to analyze sequences in a game in detail in order to illustrate and interpret how the various components of a game can come together to create a fulfilling playing experience unique to this medium. Through contributors, the journal will provide a variety of perspectives on the value of games.

The goal of the journal is to continue developing and defining a literacy of games as well as a sense of their value as an experience. Video games are a complex medium that merits careful interpretation and insightful analysis. By inviting contributors to look closely at video games and the experience of playing them, we hope to expand the discussion, and show how games are well played in a variety of ways.

The Well Played Journal has been receiving enough quality submissions to be published biannually. We have organized our editorial board so that there are Editors (Ira Fay, Clara Fernández-Vara, Jane Pinckard and John Sharp) help set up a blind peer review process. Our goal is to publish great essays. There won’t be a subscription, although as with all ETC Press publications, all issues will be available for download for free, and we’ll offer print versions for sale through Lulu.com.

For more information, and to purchase or download a copy, visit:

The ETC Press is an academic and open-source publishing imprint that distributes its work in print, electronic and digital form. Inviting readers to contribute to and create versions of each publication, ETC Press fosters a community of collaborative authorship and dialogue across media. ETC Press represents an experiment and an evolution in publishing, bridging virtual and physical media to redefine the future of publication.

All submissions and questions should be sent to:

drew ( at ) andrew ( dot ) cmu ( dot ) edu

For formatting guidelines, see:

http://press.etc.cmu.edu/files/WellPlayed-Guidelines-New.doc.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/etcwellplayed

ISSN 2164-344X (Print)
ISSN 2164-3458 (Online)