| When the game is not enough: Motivations and practices among computer game modding culture O Sotamaa Games and Culture 5 (3), 239-255, 2010 | 329 | 2010 |
| All The World’s A Botfighter Stage: Notes on Location-based Multi-User Gaming O Sotamaa Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference Proceedings, 2002 | 222 | 2002 |
| On modder labour, commodification of play, and mod competitions O Sotamaa First Monday, 2007 | 130 | 2007 |
| Computer game modding, intermediality and participatory culture O Sotamaa New Media, 1-5, 2003 | 107 | 2003 |
| The Player's Game: Towards Understanding Player Production Among Computer Game Cultures O Sotamaa Tampere University Press, 2009 | 94* | 2009 |
| From hobbyists to entrepreneurs: On the formation of the Nordic game industry K Jørgensen, U Sandqvist, O Sotamaa Convergence 23 (5), 457-476, 2017 | 93 | 2017 |
| Perceptions of player in game design literature O Sotamaa Proceedings of DiGRA 2007 Conference: Situated Play, 2007 | 84 | 2007 |
| Creative user-centered design practices: lessons from game cultures O Sotamaa Everyday Innovators: Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICT’s, 104-116, 2005 | 80 | 2005 |
| Commoditization of helping players play: Rise of the service paradigm J Stenros, O Sotamaa Proceedings of DiGRA 2009 Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in …, 2009 | 66 | 2009 |
| Let me take you to the movies: Productive players, commodification and transformative play O Sotamaa Convergence 13 (4), 383-401, 2007 | 66 | 2007 |
| Game production studies O Sotamaa, J Svelch Amsterdam University Press, 2021 | 65 | 2021 |
| ’Have Fun Working with Our Product!’: Critical Perspectives On Computer Game Mod Competitions O Sotamaa Proceedings of DiGRA 2005 Conference: Changing Views–Worlds in Play 16 (20.6), 2005 | 63* | 2005 |
| Howdy pardner! on free-to-play, sociability and rhythm design in FrontierVille H Tyni, O Sotamaa, S Toivonen Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference …, 2011 | 59 | 2011 |
| Games as Services-Final Report O Sotamaa, T Karppi | 55* | |
| The role of players in game design: a methodological perspective O Sotamaa, L Ermi, A Jäppinen, T Laukkanen, F Mäyrä, J Nummela Proceedings of the 6th DAC Conference, 34-42, 2005 | 45 | 2005 |
| Assembling a game development scene? Uncovering Finland’s largest demo party H Tyni, O Sotamaa Game - Italian Journal of Game Studies, 109-119, 2014 | 41 | 2014 |
| Play, create, share? Console gaming, player production and agency O Sotamaa Fibreculture Journal 16, fcj-109, 2010 | 41 | 2010 |
| Playing it my way? Mapping the modder agency O Sotamaa Internet Research Conference 5, 19-22, 2004 | 36 | 2004 |
| Digital distribution of games: the players' perspective S Toivonen, O Sotamaa Proceedings of the international academic conference on the future of game …, 2010 | 33 | 2010 |
| Studying game development cultures O Sotamaa Games and Culture 16 (7), 835-854, 2021 | 32 | 2021 |