Analog Game Studies: Volume I (Volume 1)

Analog Game Studies is a bimonthy journal for the research and critique of analog games. We define analog games broadly and include work on tabletop and liveaction roleplaying games, board games, card games, pervasive games, gamelike performances, carnival games, experimental games, and more. Analog Game Studies was founded to reserve a space for scholarship on analog games in the wider field of game studies.
There’s an old cliché in role-playing games where a rag-tag set of adventurers each walk into a bar alone and then leave together as a party ready to embark on an epic quest. For Analog Game Studies, it was the hotel bar at the Wardman Park Marriot in Washington, DC on March 29th, 2013 during the 43rd annual Popular Culture Association conference. At this bar, our heroes shared stories about how the analog had been exiled from the Kingdom of Games by the currently reigning digital aristocracy. There was hope, however, as our heroes also brought with them tales of how grassroots communities throughout the land practiced the lost and forbidden arts of the analog in secret. Determined to restore balance to the kingdom, our heroes purchased a web domain, installed WordPress, and started publishing…