Careful Play

  • Wikipedia, Play Therapy, c. 1903
  • Jean Piaget, Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood, 1962
  • Viola Spolin, Improvisation for the Theater, 1963
  • Keith Johnstone, Impro, 1981
  • Viola Spolin, Theater Games for Rehearsal, 1985
  • Viola Spolin, Theater Games for the Classroom, 1986
  • John Hughes, Therapy is Fantasy, 1988
  • Keith Johnstone, Impro for Storytellers, 1994
  • R. Keith Sawyer, “Improvisation and the Creative Process,” 2000
  • Viola Spolin, Theater Games for the Lone Actor, 2001
  • Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “Integrating Disability,” 2002
  • Ron Edwards, Sex and Sorcery, 2003
  • Mike Pohjola, “The Manifesto of the Turku School,” 2003
  • Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling, 2003
  • Jeepform, “Jeepform,” 2007
  • Michael White, Maps of Narrative Practice, 2007
  • George E. Lewis, A Power Stronger Than Itself, 2009
  • Jesse Burneko 2010, “Play Passionately: State of the Union,” 2010
  • Christopher Chinn, “The Same Page Tool,” 2010
  • Matthijs Holter and Emily Care Boss, “Play With Intent,” 2012
  • Molleindustria, “Toward Independence,” 2012
  • Lizzie Stark, “How to Debrief a Freeform Game,” 2012
  • Martin Ralya, Unframed: The Art of Improvisation for Game Masters, 2014
  • Angela M. Carter, “Teaching with Trauma,” 2015
  • Kate Manne, “Why I Use Trigger Warnings,” 2015
  • Terrorbull Games, “Manifesto,” 2015
  • Miranda Tufnell and Chris Crickmay, Body Space Image, 2015
  • Earl Vickers, “‘Yes, and’: Acceptance, Resistance, and Change,” 2015
  • Guy A. Boysen, et al., “Instructors’ Use of Trigger Warnings,” 2016
  • Alison Phillips Sheesley, et al., “Comedic Improv Therapy,” 2016
  • Guy A. Boysen, “Evidence-Based Answers to Questions About Trigger Warnings,” 2017
  • P. H. Lee, “The Luxton Technique,” 2017
  • Kimberly Brown, Slaying Dragons, 2018
  • Jason Cordova, “Paint the Scene,” 2018
  • Jason Cordova, “The 7-3-1 Technique,” 2018
  • David Shugars, “The GMDK Guide to PDF Accessibility,” 2018
  • Nathan Stein, “Looking Seriously at Improvisational Comedians,” 2018
  • Karen Twelves, Improv for Gamers, 2018
  • The Bodhana Group, Wizards, Warriors, and Wellness, 2019
  • Anna-Maija Laine, “Creating an Independent Work of Fiction,” 2019
  • Stephen Madigan, Narrative Therapy, 2019
  • Sean K. Reynolds and Shanna Germain, Consent in Gaming, 2019
  • Kienna Shaw and Lauren Bryant-Monk, TTRPG Safety Toolkit, 2019
  • David Shugars, “The Five Laws of RPG Science,” 2019
  • Benjamin W. Bellet, et al., “Trigger Warnings and Resilience,” 2020
  • Abigail Rose Conte, “The World We Built,” 2020
  • Felix Gardner, “The Actualities of Actual Play,” 2020
  • Matthew Guzdial, et al., “Procedural Content Generators,” 2020
  • Payton J. Jones, et al., “Helping or Harming?,” 2020
  • Ludoverse, “Teaching Role-Playing Games, Part 1,” 2020
  • Ludoverse, “Teaching Role-Playing Games, Part 2,” 2020
  • Ludoverse, “Teaching Role-Playing Games, Part 3,” 2020
  • Jonathan Mendoza, “Gaming Intentionality,” 2020
  • Maria Mison, “How to Make Your RPG/Story Game More Healing/Therapeutic,” 2020
  • Natalie the Knife, “Support Tools Compilation,” 2020
  • Anita Sarkeesian, Kienna Shaw, and Lauren Bryant-Monk, “How to Talk About Safety & Consent in TTRPGs,” 2020
  • Sloane, “Stellate Story,” 2020
  • Jacob Wood, Accessible Gaming Quarterly, 2020 - Present
  • Write Inclusion, Fact Sheets, 2020 - Present
  • Analog Gaming Blog, “Making Your Game Accessible is Easy,” 2021
  • Sharang Biswas and Lucian Kahn, “The Social Contract of Play,” 2021
  • Guy A. Boysen, et al., “Trigger Warning Efficacy,” 2021
  • Oz Browning, “Left Play,” 2021
  • Autumn Caines, “The Weaponization of Care,” 2021
  • Moira Donegan, “How Domestic labor Became Infrastructure,” 2021
  • Gift of Gabes, “Safety Tools & Wellbeing,” 2021
  • Zora Gilbert, “Boundaries and Escape Routes,” 2021
  • Anne M. Goodall, Magic, Adventure and Social Participation, 2021
  • Leah Horlick, “The Void Gazes Back: Online Safety for Poets,” 2021
  • Stephen Payne, “Roleplaying Games Were Around Hundreds of Years before D&D,” 2021
  • Ai-Jen Poo, “Care Has Always Been Infrastructure,” 2021
  • Lotte Reinbold, “Lines and Veils, and Other RPG Safety Tools,” 2021
  • Elsa Sjunneson, Fate Accessibility Toolkit, 2021
  • Liber Ludorum, “The Trouble with Trigger Warnings,” 2022
  • Laura Mauldin, “Care Tactics,” 2022