{"id":42135,"date":"2018-01-02T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T11:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=42135"},"modified":"2017-12-09T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T21:49:14","slug":"oneshot-call-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2018\/01\/oneshot-call-games.html","title":{"rendered":"OneShot Call for Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019ve come across calls for papers, presentations, book chapters, and a variety of other things before, but this is the first \u201ccall for games\u201d<\/a> that I\u2019ve encountered, and so I thought I\u2019d share it:<\/p>\n

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OneShot: A Journal of Critical Games<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As culturally-significant artifacts, games have garnered an increasing amount of attention from academia as well as business, marketing, and other industries once considered outside the realm of entertainment. Study of play, now out of its infancy, is likewise enjoying increased clout in industries looking to use this research to motivate, instruct, and develop new work. At this stage of maturity, discussions between and within the densely overlapping game development and studies disciplines have largely been limited to traditional forms of textual and verbal discourse, but that need not continue to be the case.<\/p>\n

OneShot (see Mission Statement below) is seeking games of any genre made by scholars in any discipline about any topic. Projects may be single-authored or collaborative. Submissions should include a framing text\/video piece by the game developer(s) to explain the context and goals of the project and describe what it is; a journal entry-style textual or video log of the game development process with particular attention to overcoming design and logistics challenges; and the game itself, preferably in HTML or other web-compatible format for ease of accessibility and hosting. Editors will do their best to work with designers using alternative formats. The journal welcomes submission of:<\/p>\n