2016: Proceedings of DiGRA/FDG 2016 Conference

Papers

• Game Essays as Critical Media and Research Praxis

  Stephanie de Smale

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• Game Jams as an Opportunity for Industry Development

  Salas Kristy de, Ian Lewis, Ivan Bindoff

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• Toward Ludic Gerontechnology: a Review of Games for Dementia Care

  Claire Dormann

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• Good Violence, Bad Violence: The Ethics of Competition in Multiplayer Games

  C. Thi Nguyen, José P. Zagal

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• Creative Communities: Shaping Process through Performance and Play

  Lynn Parker, Dayna Galloway

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• An Impression of Home: Player Nostalgia and the Impulse to Explore Game Worlds

  Robin J. S. Sloan

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• 4x Gamer as Myth: Understanding through Player Mythologies

  Johnathan Harrington

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• Prank, Troll, Gross and Gore: Performance Issues in Esport Live-Streaming

  Veli-Matti Karhulahti

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• “We Don’t Sell Blocks” Exploring Minecraft’s Commissioning Market

  Panagiotis Koutsouras, Sarah Martindale, Andy Crabtree

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• The Impact of Co-Located Play on Social Presence and Game Experience in a VR Game

  Maureira Marcello A. Gómez, Fons Verbeek

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• Super Mario as a String: Platformer Level Generation Via LSTMs

  Adam J. Summerville, Michael Mateas

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• BioGraphr: Science Games on a Biotic Computer

  Lukas C. Gerber, Michael C. Doshi, Honesty Kim, Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse

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• Critical Alternative Journalism from the Perspective of Game Journalists

  Patrick Prax, Alejandro Soler

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• Four Lenses for Designing Morally Engaging Games

  Malcolm Ryan, Dan Staines, Paul Formosa

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• Interactive Biotechnology: Design Rules for Integrating Biological Matter into Digital Games

  Lukas C. Gerber, Honesty Kim, Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse

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• Behaviour Change Wheel Driven Normative Feedback in a Serious Game for Energy Conservation

  Lindsay Wells, Salas Kristy de, Ian Lewis

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• Combining Speech Intervention and Cooperative Game Design for Children with ASD

  Natalie Lyon, David I. Leitman, Jichen Zhu

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• Discovering Social and Aesthetic Categories of Avatars: A Bottom-Up Artificial Intelligence Approach Using Image Clustering

  Chong-U Lim, Antonios Liapis, Fox D. Harrell

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• GameNet and GameSage: Videogame Discovery as Design Insight

  James Ryan, Eric Kaltman, Timothy Hong, Katherine Isbister, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

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• Designing a Serious Game for General Practice Management

  Jan Strien, Ronald Batenburg, Fabiano Dalpiaz

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• The Emancipated Player

  Gerald Farca

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• Critical Acclaim and Commercial Success in Mobile Free-to-Play Games

  Kati Alha, Elina Koskinen, Janne Paavilainen, Juho Hamari

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• Source Code and Formal Analysis: A Hermeneutic Reading of Passage

  Ea Christina Willumsen

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• Selling out the magic circle: free-to-play games and developer ethics

  Philipp Jordan, Wayne Buente, Paula Alexandra Silva, Howard Rosenbaum

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• “Who Am ‘I’ in the Game?”: A Typology of the Modes of Ludic Subjectivity

  Daniel Vella

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• “Playing RPG Maker”? Amateur Game Design and Video Gaming

  Pierre-Yves Hurel

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• Designing Unconventional Use of Conventional Displays in Games: Some Assembly Required

  William Goddard, Alexander Muscat

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• The Journey to Nature: The Last of Us as Critical Dystopia

  Gerald Farca, Charlotte Ladevèze

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• You Say Jump, I Say How High? Operationalising the Game Feel of Jumping

  Martin Fasterholdt, Martin Pichlmair, Christoffer Holmgård

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• Conventions within eSports: Exploring Similarities in Design

  Samer Al Dafai

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• Paratextual Play: Unlocking the Nature of Making-of Material of Games

  René Glas

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• Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Techniques for Creating Poetic Gameplay

  Alex Mitchell

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• Enacting aporia: Roger Caillois’ game typology as formalist methodology

  Michel Ottens

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• The Diversity of Attitudes towards Play at the Workplace – A Case of an Academic Community

  Timo Nummenmaa, Ville Kankainen, Sampo Savolainen, Annakaisa Kultima, Juho Karvinen, Kati Alha, Antti Syvänen, Heikki Tyni

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• First-Person Walkers: Understanding the Walker Experience through Four Design Themes

  Alexander Muscat, William Goddard, Jonathan Duckworth, Jussi Holopainen

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• Three Shadowed Dimensions of Feminine Presence in Video Games

  Rughiniș Cosima, Rughiniș Răzvan, Elisabeta Toma

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• Grouches, Extraverts, and Jellyfish: Assessment Validity and Game Mechanics in a Gamified Assessment

  Laura Levy, Rob Solomon, Jeremy Johnson, Jeff Wilson, Amy Lambeth, Maribeth Gandy, Moore Joann, Jason Way, Ruitao Liu

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• A Statistical Analysis of Player Improvement and Single-Player High Scores

  Aaron Isaksen, Andy Nealen

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• Design Lessons From Binary Fission: A Crowd Sourced Game for Precondition Discovery

  Kate Compton, Heather Logas, Joseph C. Osborn, Chandranil Chakrabortti, Kelsey Coffman, Daniel Fava, Dylan Lederle-Ensign, Zhongpeng Lin, Jo Mazeika, Afshin Mobramaein, Johnathan Pagnutti, Husacar Sanchez, Jim Whitehead, Brenda Laurel

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• Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree approach for Geometry Friends

  Rui Soares, Francisco Leal, Rui Prada, Francisco Melo

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• Using Interactive Social Story Games to Teach Social Skills to Children with Autism

  Jichen Zhu, Connor M. Kerns, James Connell, Natalie Lyon

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• Review of Social Features in Social Network Games

  Janne Paavilainen, Kati Alha, Hannu Korhonen

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• Player Rating Systems for Balancing Human Computation Games: Testing the Effect of Bipartiteness

  Seth Cooper, Sebastian Deterding, Theo Tsapakos

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• Critically Approaching the Playful and Participatory Genealogy of MOBAs

  Josh Jarrett

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• Two Worlds, One Gameplay: A Classification of Visual AR Games

  Marina Knauer, Joschka Mütterlein

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• Spectrum: Exploring the Effects of Player Experience on Game Design

  Jean-Luc Portelli, Rilla Khaled

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• Developing Ideation Cards for Mixed Reality Game Design

  RIchard Wetzel, Tom Rodden, Steve Benford

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• Playful Fandom: Gaming, Media and the Ludic Dimensions of Textual Poaching

  Orion Mavridou

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• Digital Detritus: What Can We Learn From Abandoned Massively Multiplayer Online Game Avatars?

  Kelly Bergstrom, Castell Suzanne de, Jennifer Jenson

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• G-Player: Exploratory Visual Analytics for Accessible Knowledge Discovery

  Alessandro Canossa, Truong-Huy D. Nguyen, El-Nasr Magy Seif

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• Integrating Curiosity and Uncertainty in Game Design

  Alexandra To, Safinah Ali, Geoff Kaufman, Jessica Hammer

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• Finding Meaning in Abstract Games: A Deep Reading of Sage Solitaire

  Mike Treanor

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• Playing the System: Comparing the Efficacy and Impact of Digital and Non-Digital Versions of a Collaborative Strategy Game

  Geoff Kaufman, Mary Flanagan

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• Collegiate E-sports as Work or Play

  Sky Kauweloa, Jennifer Sunrise Winter

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• The Tapper Videogame Patent as a Series of Close Readings

  Mark J. Nelson

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• A Lightweight Videogame Dialogue Manager

  James Ryan, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

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• Environmental Storytelling, Ideologies and Quantum Physics: Narrative Space And The BioShock Games

  Samuel Zakowski

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• Playing with Data: Procedural Generation of Adventures from Open Data

  Gabriella A.B. Barros, Antonios Liapis, Julian Togelius

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• Selling the Imperium: Changing Organisational Culture and History in EVE Online

  Nick Webber, Oskar Milik

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• What Does it Mean to be Orlanthi? Hermeneutic Challenge in King of Dragon Pass

  Jonne Arjoranta

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• Sustainable Life Cycle Game Design: Mixing Games and Reality to Transform Education

  Casper Harteveld, Yetunde Folajimi, Steven C Sutherland

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• Bridging the Physical Learning Divides: A Design Framework for Embodied Learning Games and Simulations

  Edward Melcer, Katherine Isbister

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• “Ruinensehnsucht” – Longing for Decay in Computer Games

  Mathias Fuchs

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• Walking Simulators: The Digitisation of an Aesthetic Practice

  Rosa Carbo-Mascarell

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• Grounded Theory in Games Research: Making the Case and Exploring the Options

  John Salisbury, Tom Cole

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