Mila Zhu, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Coordinator of the EDUC Program at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Her work centers on Ludic Scholarship, integrating game-based learning, play, and narrative into educational inquiry. As the series editor of Ludic Scholarship: Games, Learning, and Innovative Pedagogy, she advances interdisciplinary approaches that merge gamifi cation, ludology, and pedagogy to reimagine how knowledge is created, performed, and experienced.

• Game Start: The NPC, the Frog, and the Infinite Void - Game Start: Ludus, StrataPlay, and the Lorekeeper - Player One: Contours of Cacophony - Player Two: Nourishing Legacies - Player Three: TnT the Word RPG - Player Four: The Ultimate X Collab™ - Player Five: Überfrau Manifesto - GG: Dumb Ways to Die as a Lorekeeper - Acknowledgement - References

Mila Zhu, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Coordinator of the EDUC Program at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Her work centers on Ludic Scholarship, integrating game-based learning, play, and narrative into educational inquiry. As the series editor of Ludic Scholarship: Games, Learning, and Innovative Pedagogy, she advances interdisciplinary approaches that merge gamifi cation, ludology, and pedagogy to reimagine how knowledge is created, performed, and experienced.

• Game Start: The NPC, the Frog, and the Infinite Void - Game Start: Ludus, StrataPlay, and the Lorekeeper - Player One: Contours of Cacophony - Player Two: Nourishing Legacies - Player Three: TnT the Word RPG - Player Four: The Ultimate X Collab™ - Player Five: Überfrau Manifesto - GG: Dumb Ways to Die as a Lorekeeper - Acknowledgement - References

Mila Zhu, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Coordinator of the EDUC Program at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Her work centers on Ludic Scholarship, integrating game-based learning, play, and narrative into educational inquiry. As the series editor of Ludic Scholarship: Games, Learning, and Innovative Pedagogy, she advances interdisciplinary approaches that merge gamifi cation, ludology, and pedagogy to reimagine how knowledge is created, performed, and experienced.

• Game Start: The NPC, the Frog, and the Infinite Void - Game Start: Ludus, StrataPlay, and the Lorekeeper - Player One: Contours of Cacophony - Player Two: Nourishing Legacies - Player Three: TnT the Word RPG - Player Four: The Ultimate X Collab™ - Player Five: Überfrau Manifesto - GG: Dumb Ways to Die as a Lorekeeper - Acknowledgement - References