| 2024 | DIGRA | Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Chile: Early History, Context, and Adoption. | Mary Chvez, Alonso Cerda, Sebastin Daz, Jos P. Zagal |
| 2023 | DIGRA | Considering Large Student Teams in Game Development Education: A Post-Mortem. | Jos P. Zagal |
| 2022 | DIGRA | Sustainability in City-Building Games. | Morgan Cox, Jos P. Zagal |
| 2020 | DIGRA | An Overview of Institutional Support for Game Students in Higher Education. | Jos P. Zagal |
| 2020 | FDG | Narrative Goals in Games: A Novel Nexus of Story and Gameplay. | Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Jos P. Zagal, Michael S. Debus |
| 2020 | ICIDS | GFI: A Formal Approach to Narrative Design and Game Research. | Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Jos P. Zagal, Michael S. Debus |
| 2017 | DIGRA | War Ethics: A Framework for Analyzing Videogames. | Jos P. Zagal |
| 2017 | FDG | Meaning without consequence: virtue ethics and inconsequential choices in games. | Jeff L. Nay, Jos P. Zagal |
| 2016 | DIGRA | Good Violence, Bad Violence: The Ethics of Competition in Multiplayer Games. | C. Thi Nguyen, Jos P. Zagal |
| 2014 | DIGRA | Designing Inside the Box or Pitching Practices in Industry and Education. | Roger Altizer, Jos P. Zagal |
| 2014 | FDG | Pitch perfect or exploring pitching practices in industry and games education. | Roger Altizer, Jos P. Zagal |
| 2014 | FDG | Examining 'RPG elements': Systems of character progression. | Jos P. Zagal, Roger Altizer |
| 2013 | DIGRA | Understanding Japanese Games Education. | Jos P. Zagal |
| 2013 | FDG | Dark patterns in the design of games. | Jos P. Zagal, Staffan Bjrk, Chris Lewis |
| 2013 | FDG | Cultural differences in game appreciation: A study of player game reviews. | Jos P. Zagal, Noriko Tomuro |
| 2011 | DIGRA | A Survey of Final Project Courses in Game Programs: Considerations for Teaching Capstone. | Jos P. Zagal, John Sharp |
| 2009 | DIGRA | You Played That? Game Studies Meets Game Criticism. | David Thomas, Jos P. Zagal, Margaret Robertson, Ian Bogost, William Huber |
| 2009 | DIGRA | Ethically Notable Videogames: Moral Dilemmas and Gameplay. | Jos P. Zagal |
| 2009 | DIGRA | Workshop: Ethics in Videogames [Extended Abstracts]. | Jos P. Zagal, Karen Schrier, Miguel Sicart |
| 2009 | FDG | Characterizing and understanding game reviews. | Jos P. Zagal, Amanda Ladd, Terris Johnson |
| 2007 | DIGRA | Temporal Frames: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis of Game Temporality. | Jos P. Zagal, Michael Mateas |
| 2007 | SIGGRAPH | GameLog: fostering reflective gameplaying for learning. | Jos P. Zagal, Amy S. Bruckman |
| 2005 | DIGRA | Evolution Of Space Configuration In Videogames. | Clara Fernndez-Vara, Jos P. Zagal, Michael Mateas |
| 2005 | DIGRA | Towards an Ontological Language for Game Analysis. | Jos P. Zagal, Michael Mateas, Clara Fernndez-Vara, Brian Hochhalter, Nolan Lichti |