2016: Abstract Proceedings of DiGRA/FDG 2016 Conference

Papers

• Diversity Scale: an Evaluation Algorithm for Terrain Generators

  Fjodor van Veen , Stefan Leijnen

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• Observing from the fringes: Data logging platforms in multiplayer videogames as methodology

  Ben Egliston

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• Charismatic Leadership and Digital Games

  Bjarke Liboriussen

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• Format(ive) Wars: Formation of the British Videogames Industry in the 1980s

  Alex Wade

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• Parasites to Gaming: learning from GamerGate

  Paolo Ruffino

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• Perceptions, Perspectives and Practices: A Study of the Players of Historical Games

  Sian Beavers, Elizabeth Fitzgerald

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• A Framework for Understanding Player Experiences with Controversial Game Content

  Kristine Jørgensen

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• Games to Live With and Die For: Speculations on NikeFuel

  Paolo Ruffino

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• Platforms in the Cloud: On the Messy Ephemerality of Platforms

  Casey O'Donnell

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• Algorithmic Play in Georges Perec’s Ludic Narratives

  Thomas H. Apperley

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• Burying E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Undoing Game Archaeology

  Paolo Ruffino

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• Localizing Location-Based Gaming: Situating Australian Urban Play

  Kyle Moore

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• Where You’re Looking, Who You’re With and How You Get There: Designing a Virtual Reality Art Game for Inclusion and Emotion

  Richard Lemarchand, Martzi Campos

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• Gaming’s secret public: Nerdcore porn and the in/visible body of the female gamer

  Thomas H. Apperley

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• Baby gamers? Theorizing the ‘Haptic Habitus’ of Very Young Children, Parents and Touchscreen Technologies

  Darshana Jayemanne, Bjorn Nansen

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• “Game Over, Man. Game Over”: Understanding the Limitations of Ego-Centric Videogame Design and Analysis Through Adaptation of Alien

  Brendan Keogh, Darshana Jayemanne

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• Metagaming and Subversive Play in League of Legends

  Scott Donaldson

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• Changing Roles in Gaming: Twitch and new gaming audiences

  Mirjam Vosmeer, Gabriele Ferri, Ben Schouten, Stefan Rank

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• I Cried to Dream Again: Discovery and Meaning-Making in Walking Simulators

  Mona Bozdog, Dayna Galloway

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• Developing the Developers: Education, Creativity and the Gaming Habitus

  Wallace McNeish, Paoli Stefano De

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• Paratextuality 2.0: Updating Genette’s Framework for Complex Game Systems

  Jan Švelch

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• Immersive lore-friendliness. Game modifications as intertextual tropes

  Tomasz Z. Majkowski

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• This Could Be Us: Networked Intimacy in Single-Player Games

  Rob Gallagher

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• From Breaking To Making

  Gordon Calleja

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• Towards normative validity in the evaluation of game-based learning

  Jeroen Bourgonjon

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• Vivian James – The politics of #Gamergate’s Avatar

  Thomas H. Apperley

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• Much ado about nothing? Analysis of the Polish internet discourse about “Hatred”

  Bartłomiej Schweiger

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• Creeds, Souls & Worlds of Worship: Players’ Appropriations of Religious Worldviews through Game Forums

  Lars de Wildt , Stef Aupers

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• Ludification of work or Labourisation of play? On work-play interferences

  Anne Dippel, Sonia Fizek

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• Smash Mods, Smash Creativity: Nintendo, Project M, and Enclosure

  Rainforest Scully-Blaker

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• Little VR Pet Shop: A Reverse Turing Multiplayer Virtual Reality Game

  Maureira Marcello A. Gómez, Isabelle Kniestedt, Meggy Pepelanova

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• Realism and the everyday in digital games

  Paul Martin

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• On Becoming “Like eSports”: Twitch as a Platform for the Speedrunning Community

  Rainforest Scully-Blaker

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• Lineages: Historicising the Videogame

  Dan Golding

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• For a Proportion Principle-based Gameplay Design

  D. Enrique Perez

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• Playful Animals: An Invitation to Participate

  Michelle Westerlaken

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• Ethics of Online Cheating: From Chess to Esports and Back

  Jukka-Pekka Puro, Veli-Matti Karhulahti

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• Towards Diversity: Interventions in Curriculum and Pedagogy of an Introductory Game Design Course

  Hanli Geyser

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• Debris: Exploring the video game values that can help reduce mental illness stigma

  Manuela Ferrari, Nick Bush, Dan Clark, Suzanne Archie

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• Hidden Paratextuality: Concealing the Factual Aspects of Video Games

  Jan Švelch

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• Paidia to Ludus, Non-Commodity to Commodity: Uncovering the Residue of Player Developed Custom Game Modes in ‘Zombies’ and ‘ARAMs’

  Josh Jarrett

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• The Mainstreaming of US Games Journalism

  David B Nieborg, Maxwell Foxman

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• Squeezing and extending the platform: The case of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

  Jaroslav Švelch

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• Progress Wars: Idle Games and the Demarcation of “Real” Games

  Sebastian Deterding

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• “Azeroth the homeland”- World of Warcraft and the Sense of Belonging

  Maria Ruotsalainen

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• Gendering Magic – Men, Women and Eldrazi of Magic: the Gathering

  Teresa Krobová, Jan Švelch

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• Gift players or playbourers? Who is playing citizen science games?

  Sonia Fizek

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• Emptiness Beckons: The Allure of Space in Speculative Game Fictions

  Paweł Frelik

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• Resisting Patches and Errata: Motivations and Tactics

  Jan Švelch

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• Increasing coherence in ‘impact’: crossing disciplines and framing

  Benjamin Stokes, Aubrey Hill, Gerad O'Shea

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• Spatial Presence, Psychophysiology, and Game(play) Emotions

  Dooley J. Murphy

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• Crowdfunding NSFW Video Game Fan Art

  Jan Švelch

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• I Wasn´t Looking at His Nice Ass: Female Gaze and Video Games

  Teresa Krobová

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• Surviving Fallout 4: A Design Fiction

  Marcel Pufal, Theresa J. Tanenbaum

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• The Mechanic Is Not the (Whole) Message: Procedural Rhetoric Meets Framing in Train & Playing History 2

  Sebastian Deterding

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• Gatekeeping Games: A Topographic Consideration of Para-­Ludic Borderlands

  Daniel Gardner

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• Enter the disagreement matrix or “let’s talk ontology, game studies”

  Andreas Gregersen

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• Twenty-Five Years of Digital Games Research in Poland

  Maria B. Garda, Stanisław Krawczyk

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• Only If For a Knight: Romantic Subplots in cRPGs in the Light of Courtly Love Trope

  Magdalena Bednorz, Joanna Kucharska

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• Playful Fabrication: Speculative Game Designs for 3D Printers

  Karen Tanenbaum, Theresa J. Tanenbaum

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• Operational Logics, Paratexts and the Production of Knowledge:The Diablo III Case

  Mateusz Felczak

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• Delicate Subjects: Vulnerability and validation in action adventure games

  Diane Carr

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• Singularity: Designing a Cooperative Mixed Reality Game for a Co-located Setting

  Georgi Kostov, Jeremiah Diephuis

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• Sarmatian Gamified: Sarmatism in Contemporary Polish Gaming Culture

  Maciej Nawrocki

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• Improving Interaction with Non-Player Characters Through Physiological Data

  Joseph Jalbert, Stefan Rank

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• Players, Diverse Bodies and Embodied Interpretation: Issues in Research Design

  Diane Carr

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• Mama Ludens Ex Domo: Using Feminist Methods to Diversify Game Culture

  Jessica Enevold

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• Internally Enacted Narratives: Jonathan Blow’s The Witness

  William Robinson

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• On a Design Approach for Collaborative Decision Making Games: A Preliminary Validation Study

  Aida Azadegan, Kendra Cooper

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• Engaging Elements in a Commercial Game

  Craig G. Anderson

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• Who Made That Last Game? The Alternative Chronology of the 8-bit Era in Poland

  Maria B. Garda

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• Design Paradigms and Principles for Free-to-Play Games: A Developer Interview Study

  Janne Paavilainen

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• Comparing Gameplay Across Formal and Informal Contexts

  John V. Binzak, Craig G. Anderson, Vishesh Kumar, Anna Jordan-Douglass, Matthew Berland

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• “Its’a Me, Mario!”: Costumed Gaming’s Effects on Character Identification

  Theresa J. Tanenbaum, Nicole Crenshaw, Karen Tanenbaum

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• Designing for Constructive Failure: Reflections on the design and execution of an introduction to simulation gaming

  Maaike M. de Jong

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• A Game Within a Bio-Object(s): Redefining a Moment of the Gameplay

  Justyna Janik

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• Internally Enacted Narratives: Jonathan Blow’s The Witness

  William Robinson, Rainforest Scully-Blaker

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• “You don’t ever stop playing EVE Online, you just take a break”: Rethinking what it means to quit a Massively Multiplayer Online Game

  Kelly Bergstrom

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• Breaking New Ground: Indie Community, Flash, and Newgrounds.com

  Pierson Browne

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• A History of Voice Interaction in Games

  Fraser Allison, Marcus Carter, Martin Gibbs

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• Conceptualizing Social and Political Conflict in Games: Hegemony, Agonism and the Post-Political in Crusader Kings II, Democracy 3 and SimCity

  Piotr Sterczewski

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• Dark game design patterns in online games: exploitation, loyalty and engagement

  Faltin Karlsen

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• Shhh! We’re Making Games in the Library and You Can Too

  Tallie Casucci, Jean P. Shipman, Roger Altizer, José P. Zagal

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• Game of My Life: Supporting life management skills of young people

  Tanja Korhonen, Teija Ravelin

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• Digital play, iPad Apps and Young Children’s Development

  Irina Verenikina, Lisa Kervin, Maria Clara Selina Rivera

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• Why Do Players Experience Social Anxiety in a Virtual World?

  Marjukka Käsmä

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• ArkaNet: Investigating Emergent Gameplay and Emergence

  Stefan Leijnen, Veen Fjodor van

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• ADAMASTOR: A Case Study on Generative Game Design

  André Casaleiro, Rui Craveirinha, Licinio Roque

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• Privacy and Security in Crowd- Sourcing Projects: Some Issues and Strategies

  John Murray, Wenchao Li, Huascar Sanchez

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• Solving Belief-Driven Pathfinding using Monte-Carlo Tree Search

  Davide Aversa, Stavros Vassos

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• A Typology of Verbs Culled From 23,000 Videogame Walkthroughs

  James Ryan, Sergiy Ravnyago

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• TaleBox – a mobile game for mixed-initiative story creation

  Olatz Castaño, Ben Kybartas, Rafael Bidarra

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• Exploration of Open Data through Procedural Content Generation

  Gabriella A.B. Barros

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• A Machine-Learned Framework for Automatic Content Generation, Evaluation, and Critique

  Adam J. Summerville

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• A Playful Tinder-Like Interface for Search and Rescue

  Mark Lochrie, Paul Egglestone, Andrew Heaton, Onno Baudouin, Adrian Gradinar

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