2025: Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2025: Games at the Crossroads

Papers

• An NLP Interface for Social AI Agents in The Resistance: Avalon

  Harrison West, Matthew Fendt

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• Dark Souls, Implied Player and Stoic Ethics

  Fabrizio Matarese

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• Temporal Agency and Timeplay in Video Games

  Karthik Kuduva Gopinath, Jussi Holopainen

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• Reconceptualizing LLM-Induced Hallucinations as Game Features

  Kate Vi, Mingzhe Chen, Yuqian Sun, Yuhao Ming, Feng Wang

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• 'Anecdotal Evidence': A Holistic Approach to the Ecological Analysis of Videogames

  David Harold ten Cate

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• Sonic Lead: A Survey of Sound-First Games

  Vadim Nickel, Gabriel Vigliensoni

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• Typological analysis of pay-what-you-want donation behavior in virtual world

  Hisayuki Kunigita, Amna Javed, Youji Kohda

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• The Evolution of Women and Gender Representation in computerized RPGs: The Baldur's Gate Paradigm

  Georgios Kougioumtzoglou, Angelica Antonakis, Anastasios Theodoropoulos

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• Game Engine for Change, A framework for Balancing the Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Player States at the Heart of Game Design

  Lindsay Grace

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• The Impact of Game Live Streaming on In-Game Purchases of Chinese Young Game Users

  Li Jiaxin, Yuhsuke Koyama

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• Dicey Rules. System Design and Automation in the Baldur's Gate Series

  Mateusz Felczak

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• Selling Time: Time-Centric Language in Video Game Marketing on Steam

  Thomas Byers, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen

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• Is Eports Spectating Associated with Gambling Behaviour?

  Joseph Macey, Topias Mattinen

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• Play, Pay, Profit: Exploring When Gaming Becomes Gambling

  Topias Mattinen, Joseph Macey, Juho Hamari

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• Ludus Triumphorum. A Ludological Introducion to Tarot

  Fabrizio Matarese

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• My Teammate is an AI: Evaluating Generative AI in Game Asset Creation through a Post-GameJam Study

  Stephen Bezzina, Alexiei Dingli

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• Playing to win or playing not to lose: Measuring engagement, enjoyment, and performance in the gamification of tasks with positive or negative framing

  Joshua Juvrud, Angela Craddock, Jane Manson, Sophie Nickel

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• Assessing Empathy Across Game Fidelity Levels: A Case Study of 3D and Text-Based Versions of Brukel

  Szeyi Chan, James Cox III, Ala Ebrahimi, Bob De Schutter

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• Analyzing Emergence in Pac-Man's Mazes with Systemic Reverberation

  Jared Pettitt, Nathan Altice

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• The Production of Machinic Subjectivity in Online PC Games

  Jinho Seo

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• Beyond the Rulebook: An Autoethnographic Journey into the Craft of Game Design

  Jess Rahbek

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• Death at the Crossroads of Subjecthood in Happy Wheels (Fancy Force, 2010)

  Heather Maycock

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• Adaptive Scenario Selection in Serious Games Using Finite State Machines and Agent-Based Models

  Melissa Rêgo Rodrigues

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• Exploring Compatible Interaction Preferences with a Puzzle Video Game

  Samuel Gomes, Luis Costa, Marta Couto, Sandra Gama, Carlos Martinho, Joao Dias, Geraldo Xexéo, Ana Moura Santos

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• "I Used to Be an Adventurer Like You": Fear of Missing Out in The Elder Scrolls Online

  Martin Moritz, Jaakko Peltonen

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• Analyzing the Challenge of Navigation through the Metroid Series

  Keaton Hoek, Jose Zagal

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• Platform alternatives or platform power: Custom and commercial game engines in the work of foreigners in Czech game production

  Jan Houška

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• Effects of a local multiplayer cooperative game club for the development of children's social skills

  Isabella Aura, Nicolas Boucht

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• The Moving Pictures Factory": Designing a Game-based Platform for Cinema Literacy

  Iro Voulgari, Theodora Malliarou, Pantelis Panteloglou, Evangelia Kourti

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• Designing Anthrogames: Theory, Methods, and AI Integration in Cultural Gaming

  Michael Hoffmann, Adrian Paschke

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• "Covertly Using" Generative AI in China's Game Industry

  Ningxi Guo, Wen Wen

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• Critical practices in Japan regarding the historical twin relationship between contemporary art and contemporary games: A case study of the curatorial work for the exhibition art bit -Contemporary Art and Indie Game Culture-

  Daichi Nakagawa

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• "I felt like I was them. I just didn't know it.": Exploring Queer Identity through TTRPG Play

  Jailyn Zabala, Josie Zvelebilova, Alexandra To

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• Identifying Differential Perceptions of Video Game Players Based on Gaming Platform

  Jeffrey Stone

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• Party, but for whom? Accessibility, inclusivity and equity in Finnish game industry events

  Taina Myöhänen

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• A Longitudinal Look Into University Student Video Game Designs

  Alan Tapscott, Carlos León, Óliver Pérez, Joaquim Colás

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• Designing a toolkit for visualising desirable sustainable futures in video games

  Niva Kay, Gabriela Baron, Joost Vervoort, Maria Armoudian

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• Revisiting the Magic Circle for Critical-ethical Reflection through Artistic Installation Game Design

  Xiaoou Ji, Steven Malliet

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• Parties, partying, and party games in single-player videogames

  Petri Lankoski, Tanja Välisalo

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• Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion

  Thomas Apperley

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• Pluralist Game Studies: Practical Tools for the Crisis of (Inter)disciplinarity

  Leland Masek Masek

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• Finnish lapsed players and (game) cultural expectations

  Elisa Wiik

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• Games in Cultural Venues Using Public VR: Designing Motion-Tracked and Story-Driven Experiences

  Anastasios Theodoropoulos, Angeliki Antoniou, George Lepouras

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• The Role of Games in Cultural Dissemination: A Comparative Analysis of Multilingual Reviews

  Yuhsuke Koyama, Li Jiaxin

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• "A train is passing through Stardew Valley": Post, Complex, and Cyberpastoral Video Games

  Mitch Losito

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• The Benefits of Banding: Overcoming Barriers to Community Participation Among Magic: The Gathering Players

  Chelsea Russell, Michael Tisi, Michael Nixon

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• Exploring Inaction Inertia and Proactive Procrastination among MMORPG Players

  Bin Yin, Yuan Zhong

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• Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-design with Two Communities

  Chris Coward, Nisha Devasia, Jin Ha Lee

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• Losing Intentionally: Comedic Resistance to Meritocratic Genshin Impact

  Honghan Song

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• A Conceptual Framework for Socienactive Scenarios of Play: a Pilot Study

  André Luiz Brandão, Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas

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• The Politics of Care: The Possibilities and Limits of Video Games for Political Campaign and Propaganda in Lugawan ni Leni (2022) and Let Leni Lead (2022)

  Christoffer Mitch Cerda

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• From Paper to Pixels: Horrific Remediation in Inscryption

  Alex Reid, Marc Elliott

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• Unraveling Grief: Design Space Analysis of Death-themed Games

  Bingxiao Luo, Perttu Hämäläinen, Heidi Rautalahti

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• From Myth to Market: Lessons from Black Myth: Wukong's Success

  Flint Xiaofeng Fan

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• Redefining Play: A Novel Framework for Differentiating Agency and Autonomy in Video Games

  Xuechen Xu, Jen Beeston, Alena Denisova

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• Intergenerational Dynamics and Coping Strategies from Workshopping Games on Acculturative Stress with First-Generation Latine Communities

  Samantha Conde, Aviv Elor, Sri Kurniawan

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• Neocolonialism in Video Games: the Social Discourse of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)

  Cansu Parlak, Erdinç Kaygusuz

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• The Rise of Gamer-Consumers: Anger, Protests, and Divisions in South Korean Gamer Activism

  Yeonwoo Lee, Solip Park

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• Choose Your path Quickly: The Many Crossroads of the Interactive Movie

  Jakub Majewski, Scott Knight

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• Scary Business: Mascot Horror as Product and Reflection of Platformisation

  Ida Martine Gard Rysjedal, Tegan Pyke

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• Gameful IoT Repair

  Violet Owen, Michael Stead, Paul Coulton

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• Embody Kin with Games: Redefining Player-Game Relationships through Kinship Embodiment

  Xuanyu Hao

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• Outlining the spectrum of values of self-identified gamers

  Jukka Vahlo, Maria Ruotsalainen, Kai Tuuri, Aki Koponen

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• After All, Caesar Never Was a Quitter: Struggling with the past in early game design

  Corine Gerritsen, Angus Mol

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• TREEgame Design Reflections and Dispatches from Treewhere

  Thomas Brandstetter, Margarete Jahrmann, Stefan Glasauer

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