Dr. Alison Gazzard has published widely on a range of ideas about game play, game design, interactive media technologies, and histories of games in journals such as Game Studies, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies and Games and Culture. Her books include Mazes in Videogames: Meaning, Metaphor and Design published by McFarland in 2013, and Now the Chips Are Down: The BBC Micro, published by MIT Press in 2016 as part of the Platform Studies series.