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

Papers

• The Role of Place as Medium in the Transmedial Ecology of Play

  Susana Tosca, Akinori Nakamura

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• Paper Puzzle Games: The Original “Casual Games”

  Mark R Johnson, Simon Colton

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• Revision of Queer Bodies: Modifications of Sexual Affordances in World of Warcraft

  Noel Brett

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• Conversation, Discourse and Play: Interaction and Moderation in Twitch.tv Live Streaming

  Mark R Johnson, Jamie Woodcock

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• Meaning Through Performance: Transgressing Boundaries in Shadow of the Colossus

  Miguel Cesar

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• Avatar-Kinaesthetics as Characterisation Statements in Horizon: Zero Dawn

  Ea Christina Willumsen, Milan Jacevic

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• Restricted affordances: Avatar models and capacities for identity

  Noel Brett, Christopher Hugelmann

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• Make Tents, Not War: Queer Play as Play-That-Critiques

  Rainforest Scully-Blaker

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• Identities, Genre and Design in Game-Making

  Bruno de Paula

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• Paper-made digital games. The poetic of cardboard from Crayon Physics Deluxe to Nintendo Labo

  Mattia Thibault

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• Disappearing into the Mirror: Robert Maxwell and the Early UK Videogames Industry

  Alex Wade

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• Digital games, cultural memory, & hegemony

  Emil Lundedal Hammar

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• Body Horror as Body Shaming: Fatness and Monstrosity in Video Games

  Sarah Stang

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• Indie-viduals: Videogames’ Hegemonic (Re-)Production Culture

  Lars de Wildt , Stef Aupers

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• From Silent NPC to Active Consumer : Representing Female in Chinese Video Game Culture

  Jing Sun

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• Playing with a Brand: the Brazilian McDonald’s Paper Tray Case

  Vicente Martin Mastrocola

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• If you Guild it, They Will Come: Organizational Leadership in Games

  Lars de Wildt , Cindy Krassen, Stef Aupers

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• Playing for Real

  Lyuba Encheva

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• (Re)play the beginning of the end: 1988 as prequel to Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong

  Yang Jing

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• “Travel Bugs”: Toys Traveling Socially through Geocaching

  Pirita Ihamäki, Katriina Heljakka

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• Defining Genre in Video Game Historiography: Structural, Discursive, and Sociocultural Definitions

  Stanisław Krawczyk

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• From ‘Training Grounds’ to Sociotechnical Actors: Do MMORPG’s Presage/Prestage the Futures of Leadership and Work?

  Kurt Thumlert, Suzanne de Castell , Jennifer Jenson

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• Memory and Meaning in Analogue: A Hate Story and Nier: Automata

  Rob Gallagher

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• Sense of Belonging: The Ideology of Chinese Educational Games

  Chen Yingrong

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• Bonding with Horses and Other Animals in Breath of the Wild

  Frederic Seraphine

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• Larp Typology

  Aleksandra Mochocka, Piotr Milewski, Michał Mochocki, Bartosz Adamiak

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• Production pipelines as Actor- Networks: Rethinking the game studio as a technological platform

  Dean Bowman

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• Man Caves and the Fantasy of Homosocial Escape

  Nicholas Taylor, Katreena Alder

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• Game engines: Design, labour, and legality

  Benjamin Nicoll

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• Understanding Player Elimination in Boardgames as a Form of Permadeath

  Melissa J. Rogerson, Martin Gibbs, Marcus Carter, Fraser Allison

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• The Quest for Serious Sex Adventures: A Structural Analysis of Puzzle and Humor

  Veli-Matti Karhulahti, Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone

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• Cause, Effect, and Player-Centric Time

  Igarzábal Federico Alvarez

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• Consecutive Endings and the Aesthetic Potential of Cognitive Dissonance

  Hans-Joachim Backe

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• Watching People Play. The Role of Spectatorship in Player Careers

  Samuel Coavoux

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• Implementing Intelligence: The Platform Culture of Intellivision

  Tom Boellstorff, Braxton Soderman

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• Instantaneously Punctuated Picture-Music: Pilgrim in the Microworld and an Alternative Evaluation of Videogame Expression

  Brendan Keogh

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• Projectuality in Digital Gameworlds

  Daniel Vella, Stefano Gualeni

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• Past Stories and Future Worlds: History and Popular Imagination in Fallout 4

  Samuel McCready

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• Beyond Paratexts, Towards Paratextuality: A Case for Granular Analysis of Video Game Paratextuality

  Jan Švelch

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• Indie as Usual: Localising Australian Videogame Development

  Brendan Keogh, John A. L. Banks

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• Archival Adventuring

  Melissa Kagen

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• ‘Debris’: Exploring video game messages and values through gameplay

  Manuela Ferrari, Nick Bush, Dan Clark, Suzanne Archie

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• Audiencing on Twitch

  Marcus Carter, Ben Egliston

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• Interpretive Challenges in Games

  Jonne Arjoranta

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• How Local Policies Shape Game Production: A Nordic Perspective

  Olli Sotamaa, Kristine Jørgensen, Ulf Sandqvist

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• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time; a Nietzschian approach to games

  Andrea Bergamini

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• The Other Otherness of the Avatar: Technological Alterity in Player-Avatar- Relations

  Frank Fetzer

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• A digital gap in Polish families on the example of video games

  Damian Gałuszka

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• Videogames, analytics and the ‘becoming-gramme’ of play

  Ben Egliston

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• Monetization is the Message: A Historical Examination of Video Game Microtransactions

  Christopher Ball, Joseph Fordham

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• The play is the message. The everyday context of videogame play

  Hovig Ter Minassian, Samuel Coavoux

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• Non-Human Gaming: Video Games for the Post-Anthropocene

  Paolo Ruffino

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• Beer & Pixels: Embodiment, drinking, and gaming in Australia

  Mahli-Ann Butt , Wildt Lars de

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• A Comparative Study of Attachment: Fighting Games and Taekwondo in Life

  Miia Siutila, Veli-Matti Karhulahti

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• Deepening Gameplay Experiences through Estrangement

  Jaakko Stenros, Tanja Sihvonen

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• To Hell and Back: Hellblade’s Depiction of Mental Illness and Its Impact

  Joseph Fordham, Christopher Ball

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• Blank Arcade: Exhibition of Games and Toys as Art

  Lindsay D Grace

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• The Toy is the Message: materiality, imagination and play objects

  Seth Giddings

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• The Moral Calculus of Vocational Passion in Digital Gaming

  Aleena Chia

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• Game Narrative Through the Detective Lens

  Clara Fernández-Vara

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• Body Count

  Diane Carr

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• From the Inside of Medium: Analytics of Retro Games

  Alina Latypova, Alexandre Lenkevich

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• History, Mnemohistory and Trauma in the Italian Videogame Scene

  Mattia Filigoi

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• Implied play styles: An analysis tool to understand player behavior and meta-game emergence

  Michael S. Debus

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• Spectating Development: Backer Perspective on Games Crowdfunding

  Heikki Tyni

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• Games Biting Back: ANATOMY and Ecofeminism

  Alexander Duncan

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• ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It.’ The Countercultural AAA Aesthetics of Wolfenstein: The New Colossus

  Hans-Joachim Backe

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• Incentivizing Correct Waste Sorting by Game Design

  Greta Hoffmann, Brice Clocher

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• Next gen? A critical examination of historical periodization in video games

  Maria B. Garda, Paweł Grabarczyk, Anna Sivula, Jaakko Suominen

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• Characteristically Tensive: The Unreal in Poetic Gaming

  Jon Stone

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• The Sacred and the Mundane: Video Games in the Convenience Store

  Samuel Tobin

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• Imaginary Russia. The Orientalisation of USSR in Command & Conquer: Red Alert series

  Szymon Piotr Kukulak

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• Save the park, punish the traitors: Games as Historical Documents

  Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen, Digdem Sezen

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• Metagaming in Competitive Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

  Ying-Ying Law

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• The Significance of True Line of Sight in Warhammer 40,000

  Samuel Tobin

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• Games of Social Control: A Sociological Study of Addiction to Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games

  Cindy Krassen, Stef Aupers

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