Sky LaRell Anderson

Sky LaRell Anderson, Ph.D., is an award-winning researcher, educator, and game designer. He researches disability and mental health as portrayed in game design and game cultures. He teaches game design, visual media theory, and other topics related to digital culture. He makes games ranging from the silly (Fetch Quest: The Tiniest RPG) to the extremely personal (D.Personal). Play his games for free at SkyLaRell.net.

2021 - Sky LaRell Anderson and Mark R. Johnson, “Gamer Identities in Video Game Live Streamers with Disabilities.” Information, Communication and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1907433

2020 - Mark Brown and Sky LaRell Anderson, “Designing for Disability: Evaluating the State of Accessibility Design in Video Games.” Games and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412020971500

2020 - Sky LaRell Anderson, “Portraying Mental Illness in Video Games: Exploratory Case Studies for Improving Interactive Depictions.” Loading: The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association 13.21: 20-33. https://journals.sfu.ca/loading/index.php/loading/article/view/277

2019 - Sky LaRell Anderson, “Crafting Courses as Game Spaces: Examining Video Games Classes in Communication,” Communication Studies 70.3 (2019): 277-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2018.1539022.

2019 - Sky LaRell Anderson, “The Interactive Museum: Video Games as History Lessons through Lore and Affective Design,” E-Learning and Digital Media 16.3 (2019): 177-195. https://doi.org/10.1177/2042753019834957. [Lead Article] [Most Article Views/Downloads in the Issue]

2019 - Sky LaRell Anderson, “Touchscreen Travelers: Hands, Bodies, Agency, and Mobile Game Players,” Convergence 25.1, special issue on “Haptic Play” (2019): 77-94. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856518807403.

2018 - Sky LaRell Anderson, “Extraludic Narratives: Online Communities and Video Games,” Transformative Works and Cultures 28, special 10th anniversary issue, “The Future of Fandom” (2018). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2018.1255.