Press Start

Aims & Scope

Press Start welcomes submissions from undergraduate and (post)graduate students (and from those who have graduated within the last year), from any discipline and from any higher education institution. This policy acknowledges the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of game studies and the growing international interest in this area. We are interested in any academic work that relates to video games, non-digital games, and game design. Increasingly, students from more established disciplines (including, but not limited to, communications, media studies, psychology, philosophy, sociology, film and television studies, literature, history, computing science, and history of art) choose to do research on a game-related topic that intersects with their primary discipline: Press Start is an ideal venue for the publication of such work. Submitting work to the journal is also an excellent opportunity to hone your writing skills, as you will receive feedback on your writing from at least two of your peers. Submissions may be based on a piece of work you have already written for your course, or you may opt to write an original piece for submission to the journal. We publish scholarly critical essays that contain 5000-8000 words (including references and abstract) and book reviews that are constructive but academically kind and contain 1200-1500 words.

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