by bgacademics | Dec 16, 2024 | Victory Points
December 2024Mel Gomez-Erickson, MA, LMHC Social deduction games have been around since the 1980s. I remember playing Mafia in the cafeteria during lunch in middle and high school back in the early 2000s. Later, in college, my friends introduced me to Shadowhunters....
by bgacademics | Oct 27, 2024 | Events
Board Game Academics will be hosting two panels at PAX Unplugged this year, so be sure to join us to learn more about the use of tabletop games in educational settings, how to increase student engagement with games, and the path to greater inclusion and increased...
by bgacademics | Apr 11, 2024 | CFP
Board Game Academics (BGA) is a journal and conference dedicated to the exploration of critical issues within the distinct yet overlapping communities of tabletop board and role-playing games. We’re now accepting proposals for our 2024 conference and 2025...
by bgacademics | Feb 16, 2024 | Eric Zimmerman, Issue 1
Note from the Editors: Eric Zimmerman is an award-winning game designer, Arts Professor and founding faculty at the NYU Game Center, and a co-founder of the Institute of Play, a nonprofit that looks at the intersection of games and learning that designed public...
by bgacademics | Feb 16, 2024 | Issue 1
Board Game Academics, March 2024 Published in Vol 1.DOI: https://doi.org/10.70380/lk0gbo9a3Susan AsburyAssistant Professor of History, Middle Georgia State University An 1899 Parker Brothers game catalog ad prominently featured two Spanish–American War board games—The...
