2018: Proceedings of DiGRA 2018 Conference: The Game is the Message

Papers

• Video Games, Learning, and the Shifting Educational Landscape

  Hong-An Wu

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• Good Game Feel: An Empirically Grounded Framework for Juicy Design

  Kieran Hicks, Patrick Dickinson, Jussi Holopainen, Kathrin Gerling

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• Stasis and Stillness: Moments of Inaction in Videogames

  Rainforest Scully-Blaker

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• On Striated Wilderness and Prospect Pacing: Rural Open World Games as Liminal Spaces of the Man-Nature Dichotomy

  Marc Bonner

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• Is My Avatar MY Avatar? Character Autonomy and Automated Avatar Actions in Digital Games

  Ea Christina Willumsen

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• Fragmentation: between expansion packs and episodic video games

  Matteo Genovesi

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• Localization from an Indie Game Production Perspective – Why, When and How?

  Marcus Toftedahl, Per Backlund, Henrik Engström

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• Presence at History: Toward an Expression of Authentic Historical Content as Game Rules and Play

  Gareth Schott, Ben Redder

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• Avatars, Gender and Sexuality for Brazilian Players on Rust

  Mayara Caetano

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• Markers of Subjective Perception in Larp

  Michał Mochocki

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• Overwatch as a Shared Universe: Game Worlds in a Transmedial Franchise

  Joleen Blom

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• Infra-Ordinary Rewritings: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp as an Introductory Study

  Johnathan Harrington

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• “A pure meritocracy blind to identity”: Exploring the Online Responses to All-Female Teams in Reddit

  Miia Siutila, Ellinoora Havaste

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• The City in Singleplayer Fantasy Role Playing Games

  Daniel Vella, Rutter Giappone Krista Bonello

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• Preliminary Poetics of Procedural Generation in Games

  Isaac Karth

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• Play to Win, Profit & Entertain: a Study of Double Performance as Athlete and Streamer

  Roger Seula, Mariana Amaro, Suely Fragoso

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• Exploring Cultural Differences in Game Reception: JRPGs in Germany and Japan

  Stefan Brückner, Yukiko Sato, Shuichi Kurabayashi, Ikumi Waragai

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• Contextualizing Pathological Gaming – A Proof-of-Concept Study

  Casper S. Boonen, Mikkel V. Christiansen, Agnete W. Ilsøe, Marie M. Staunstrup, Nielsen Rune Kristian Lundedal

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• A Character in Your Hand: Puppetry to Inform Game Controls

  Michael Nitsche, Pierce McBride

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• Antimimetic Rereading and Defamiliarization in Save the Date

  Alex Mitchell

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• Design Concepts for Empowerment through Urban Play

  Gabriele Ferri, Nicolai B. Hansen, Heerden Adam van, Ben Schouten

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• Indie Game: The Movie: The Paper – Documentary Films and the Subfield of Independent Games

  Milan Jacevic

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• Bleed-in, Bleed-out A Design Case in Board Game Therapy

  Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari

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• Free-to-Play or Pay-to-Win?: Casual, Hardcore, and Hearthstone

  Kenton Taylor Howard

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• Wrecking the Game: The Artist as Griefer

  Gemma Fantacci

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• Ethics at Play in Undertale: Rhetoric, Identity and Deconstruction

  Frederic Seraphine

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• Aesthetics and Cosmetic Microtransactions in Path of Exile

  Mateusz Felczak

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• Towards Design Principles for Humor in Interactive Emergent Narrative

  Kenneth Chen, Stefan Rank

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• A Three Person Poncho and a Set of Maracas: Designing Ola De La Vida, A Co-Located Social Play Computer Game

  Lynn H.C. Love, Mona Bozdog

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• Understanding the experience of Australian eSports spectatorship

  David Cumming

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• Harvester of Desires: Gaming Amazon Echo through John Cayley’s The Listeners

  Laura Okkema

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• An Inclusive Perspective on Gameplay: Towards a wide understanding of gameplay in theory and praxis

  Björn Jahn, Sebastian Möring

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• “Clementine will remember that” – Methods to Establish Design Conventions for Video Game Narrative

  Hartmut Koenitz, Christian Roth, Noam Knoller, Teun Dubbelman

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• Does Platform Matter? A Game Design Analysis of Female Engagement in MOBA Games

  Gege Gao, Patrick C. Shih

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• Playing Whiteness in Crisis in The Last of Us and Tomb Raider

  Soraya Murray

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• Are Loot Boxes Gambling? Random reward mechanisms in video games

  Nielsen Rune Kristian Lundedal, Paweł Grabarczyk

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• The Human Machine Art Interface: Arcade Port Aesthetics and Production Practices

  Kieran Nolan

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• Collegiate eSports as Learning Ecologies: Investigating Collaborative Learning and Cognition During Competitions

  Gabriela T. Richard, Zachary A. McKinley, Robert William Ashley

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• An Ontological Meta-Model for Game Research

  Espen Aarseth, Paweł Grabarczyk

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• Quilting the meaning: gameplay as catalyst of signification and why to co-op in game studies

  Gianmarco Thierry Giuliana

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