TY - JOUR AU - Ruggill, Judd AU - Nichols, Randall James AU - Moeller, Ryan M. AU - McAllister, Ken S. PY - 2010/11/04 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Preface: A Community of Players JF - Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture JA - EJCGC VL - 4 IS - 2 SE - Perspectives DO - 10.7557/23.6039 UR - https://eludamos.org/index.php/eludamos/article/view/vol4no2-1 SP - 133 AB - The articles in this section were initially developed for and presented at the 2010 conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fswtxpca.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFwy3uuFx_GOQWBph4YZHoul0KaUw">http://swtxpca.org/</a>). The conference, which began as a small, regional meeting in the 1970s, has since become international in scope, with upwards of a thousand presentations delivered by participants from dozens of countries. Yet despite its size, the conference maintains a friendly, casual, and intellectually robust atmosphere. ER -