BioShock and Portal: A Discussion of Poetics
Yotam Haimsberg
We should be heroes… A case study of community building as a dominant strategy
Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen
Cracking the Code: Untangling Game Structure, Properties and Player Experience
Elizabeth Goins
A Life in Baseball, Digital and Otherwise
Abraham Stein
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 open to submissions that will be released on a regular basis.
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.
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