Well Played -- Vol. 4, No. 1

PART ONE: DIGRA

• Where’s BattleTech in MechWarrior Online? A Case Study in Game Adaptation Hans-Joachim Backe
• Cause No Trouble: The Experience of “Serious Fun” in Papers, Please Oscar Moralde
• Playing for the plot: Blindness, agency, and the appeal of narrative organization in Heavy Rain Fanny A. Ramirez
• Taking Apart the Provocation Machine: Ian Bogost's A Slow Year Thomas H. Rousse
• Spore’s Playable Procedural Content Generation Gillian Smith
• What Hockey Wants: Drama, Narrative, and Sports Jeff Watson

PART TWO: GAMES LEARNING SOCIETY

• Elder Scrolls Online: How ESO encourages group formation and cooperative play Michelle Aubrecht, Jeff Kuhn, Justin Eames
• Acting in the Light and on Fayth: Ritualized Play in Journey and Final Fantasy X Kyrie Eleison H. Caldwell
• Well Played & Well Watched: Dota 2, Spectatorship, and eSports Chris Georgen
• Magic the Gathering: A Learning Game Designer’s Perspective Dan Norton
• For the Records – Understanding Mental Illness Through Metaphorical Games Doris C. Rusch
• Gaming a Non-Game? A Long Term (Self)-Experiment about FarmVille Heinrich Söbke
• The Stanley Parable Phil J. Dougherty III