Hi all! Just sharing a link and TOC for the latest issue of Well Played, which is a special issue on 1980s European video games. Guest edited by game designers and scholars at NYU's Game Center, Clara Fernandez-Vara and Bennett Foddy. Enjoy! -Laine ------------------------------- ETC Press is excited to announce the release of the second issue of the sixth volume of Well Played, a special issue on European Videogames of the 1980s, edited by Clara Fernández-Vara and Bennett Foddy. http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/volume-6-number-2-european-videogames-1980s Pac-Man for the VIC-20: Game Clones and Program Listings in the Emerging Finnish Home Computer Market Petri Saarikoski, Jaakko Suominen, & Markku Reunanen La Abadía del Crimen: Anatomy of a Cult Video Game in Spain Jaume Esteve Cammelli and Attack of the Mutant Camels: A Variantology of Italian Video Games of the 1980s Riccardo Fassone An Exploration of the Historical Contexts of Nu, Pogodi!, a Soviet Era LCD Game Peter Smith & Joseph Fanfarelli The curious world of The Hobbit: an early example of a dynamic gameworld Helen Stuckey 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: http://press.etc.cmu.edu/ http://press.etc.cmu.edu/wellplayed 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) _______________________________________________ Localgamehist mailing list Localgamehist@flinders.edu.au https://listserver.flinders.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/localgamehist -- Laine Nooney <http://www.lainenooney.com/> MCC <http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/> @ NYU <http://www.nyu.edu/> (incoming July 2017) Assistant Professor