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Ludoliteracy released

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ETC Press is proud to announce our first publication for 2010 with the release of Jose P. Zagal's, Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education. It seems like teaching about games should be easy. After all, students enjoy engaging with course content and have extensive experience with videogames. However, games education can be surprisingly complex. This book explores ludoliteracy, or the question of what it means to understand games, by looking at the challenges and problems faced by students taking games-related classes. In response to these challenges, this book then describes how online learning environments can be used to support learning...

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Well Played 1.0 is released

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ETC Press is excited and pleased to announce the release of: Well Played 1.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning 22 contributors (developers, scholars, reviewers and bloggers) look closely at some of their favorite video games, and explore the experience of playing those games. Well Played 1.0 is meant to be the first book in a series. We're already planning 1.5 (with contributors writing on the some of the same games found in 1.0) and 2.0 (with contributors writing on new games that aren't covered in 1.0).

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Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center Press Publishes “Beyond Fun: Serious Games and Media”

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Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) Press debuts the publication of "Beyond Fun: Serious Games and Media" this month. The book features the work of more than 15 international contributors examining how games and media can impact learning. Topics include cheating and violence in video games, the use of games in classrooms, and how media tools such as simulations and blogs can foster learning and a new digital, procedural literacy. Instead of completely separate individual articles, the contributors to "Beyond Fun: Serious Games and Media" have orchestrated the articles together, reading and writing as a whole so that concepts...

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Lulu.com and Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center Team Up to Redefine the Book

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Lulu.com, the premier marketplace for digital content on the Internet, is partnering with the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University to showcase new creative endeavors launched through the ETC Press, a new academic publishing imprint. With Lulu.com, ETC Press has flexibility in publishing without the limitations encountered by traditional publishing. ETC Press is an innovative experiment into the future of publication, and as such, authors and contributors who publish through ETC Press will retain ownership of their intellectual property. All ETC Press publications will be released under a Creative Commons license, and will also have associated websites to...

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