A Playful Path, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our...

Themed spaces have, at their foundation, an overarching narrative, symbolic complex, or story that drives the overall context of their spaces. Theming...

By weaving fictional narratives and problem solving into everyday life, alternate reality games (ARGs) may be able to fill gaps left by traditional...

Digital Playgrounds: Our Kids & Video Games, discusses the importance of play, digital games as the new playground, including an overview of what...

Although reward structures have generally been successful in games, the types of rewards used in education typically impede the learning process. New...

Based on the findings from a series of research studies, Ludoliteracy examines the broader implications for supporting games education.

Meet Me at the Fair: A World’s Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on world’s fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that...

Who am I? How do I live a good life? What is reality? Such perennial questions may seem remote from the pleasures of playing videogames for...

In this book, we begin the work of articulating the challenges and possibilities for non-verbal communication in virtual worlds. Drawing on a wide...