2003: Proceedings of DiGRA 2003 Conference: Level Up

Papers

• This is not a game: play in cultural environments

  Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman

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• Vertigo and verticality in Super Monkey Ball

  Troels Degn Johansson

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• “You can’t help shouting and yelling”: fun and social interaction in Super Monkey Ball

  Lisbeth Klastrup

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• The appeal of cute monkeys

  Susana Pajares Tosca

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• The other game researcher: participating in and watching the costruction of boundaries in game studies

  Marinka Copier

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• Computer games and the complexicity of experience

  Chiel Kattenbelt, Joost Raessens

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• Player Character Design Facilitating Emotional Depth in MMORPGs

  Mirjam Eladhari, Craig Lindley

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• Wargaming and Computer Games: Fun with the Future

  Patrick Crogan

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• Computer games and violence: Is there really a connection?

  Tor Endestad, Leila Torgersen

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• Keep the monkey rolling: eye-hand coordination in Super Monkey Ball

  Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen

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• Delightful identification & persuasion: towards an analytical and applied rhetoric of digital games

  Steffen P. Walz

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• Enhancing gameplay: challenges for articifical intelligence in digital games

  Darryl Charles

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• Supporting visual elements of non-verbal communication in computer game avatars

  Tomi Kujanpää, Tony Manninen

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• Power and control of games: children as the actors of game cultures

  Laura Ermi, Frans Mäyrä

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• The representation of gender and ethnicity in digital interactive games

  Jeroen Janz, Raynel G. Martis

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• Gamescapes: exploration and virtual presence in game-worlds

  Geoff King, Tanya Krzywinska

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• Women just want to have fun – a study of adult female players of digital games

  Aphra Kerr

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• On the border: pleasure of exploration and colonial mastery in Civilization III play the world

  Sybille Lammes

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• Exploring clan culture: social enclaves and cooperation in online games

  Holin Lin, Chuen-Tsai Sun, Hong-Hong Tinn

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• The playability of texts vs. the readability of games: towards a holistic theory of fictionality

  Julian Kücklich

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• Power games just want to have fun?: instrumental play in a MMOG

  T.L. Taylor

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• From text to talk: multiplayer games and voiceover IP

  John Halloran, Yvonne Rogers, Geraldine Fitzpatrick

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• It’s no videogame: news commentary and the second gulf war

  Mia Consalvo

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• Enchanting reality: a vision of big experiences on small platforms

  Martin Ericsson

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• Together we brand: America’s Army

  Shenja van der Graaf

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• Textuality in video games

  Diane Carr, Andrew Burn, Gareth Schott, David Buckingham

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• Videogame art: remixing, reworking and other interventions

  Grethe Mitchell, Andy Clarke

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• Uncle Roy all around you: mixing games and theatre on the city streets

  Martin Flintham, Rob Anastasi, Steven Benford, Adam Drozd, James Mathrick, Duncan Rowland, Amanda Oldroyd, Jon Sutton, Nick Tandavanitj, Matt Adams, Ju Row-Farr

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• Where have all the videogame console artists gone?

  Paul Catanese

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• Game Design Patterns

  Staffan Björk, Sus Lundgren, Jussi Holopainen

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• The gaming landscape: a taxonomy for classifying games and simulations

  Jan H.G. Klabbers

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• Making and breaking games: a typology of rules

  Aki Järvinen

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• In search iof a “fifth dimension”

  Maaike Lauwaert

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• Ludologists love stories, too: notes from a debate that never took place

  Gonzalo Frasca

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• The game, the player, the world: looking for a heart of gameness

  Jesper Juul

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• A multidimensional typology of games

  Espen Aarseth, Solveig Marie Smedstad, Lise Sunnanå

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• All Your Base Are Belong To Us: Videogame culture and textual production online

  Iain Simons, James Newman

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• Patches of Peace: Tiny Signs of Agency in Digital Games

  Cindy Poremba

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• WADs, Bots and Mods: Multiplayer FPS Games as Co-creative Media

  Sue Morris

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• “This isn’t a computer game you know!”: revisiting the computer games/televised war analogy

  Melanie Swalwell

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• Encounters with consumption during computer-mediated play: the development of digital games as marketing communication media

  Mike Molesworth

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• Family Values: Ideology, Computer Games & Sims

  Miguel Sicart

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• This is not a game: play in cultural environments

  Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman

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• Game Tips as Gifts: Social Interactions and Rational Calculations in Computer Gaming

  Chuen-Tsai Sun, Holin Lin, Cheng-Hong Ho

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• Project Massive 1.0: Organizational Commitment, Sociability and Extraversion in Massively Multiplayer Online Games

  A. Fleming Seay, William J. Jerome, Kevin Sang Lee, Robert Kraut

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• Use of Computer and Video Games in the Classroom

  John Kirriemuir, Angela McFarlane

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• Developing a hybrid of MMORPG and LARP using usability methods: the case of Takkar

  Laust Juul Christensen, Thomas Tae-Yang Jørgensen, Anker Helms Jørgensen

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• The attack of the backstories (and why they won’t win)

  David Myers

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• How Videogames Express Ideas

  Matthew Weise

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• Conditions of Engagement in Game Simulation: Contexts of Gender, Culture and Age

  Ralph Noble, Kathleen Ruiz, Marc Destefano, Jonathan Mintz

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• “You Shoot Like A Girl!”: The Female Protagonist in Action-Adventure Video Games

  Sara M. Grimes

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• Is Electronic Community an Addictive Substance?

  Florence Chee, Richard Smith

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• Breaking the flow: Intervention in computer game play through physical and Intervention in computer game play through physical and on-screen interaction

  Berry Eggen, Loe Feijs, Graaf Mark de, Peter Peters

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• Parental mediation of children’s video game playing: A similar construct as television mediation

  Peter Nikken

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• Supporting Communities in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games by Game Design

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• Participatory design and opposing interests in development of educational computer games

  Rikke Magnussen, Morten Misfeldt, Tasha Buch

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• Describing Games: An Interaction-Centric Structural Framework

  Staffan Björk, Jussi Holopainen

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• The Diverse Worlds of Computer Games: A Content Analysis of Spaces, Populations, Styles and Narratives

  Jeffrey E. Brand, Scott Knight, Jakub Majewski

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• Apocalypse the Spielberg Way: Representations of Death and Ethics in Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers and the Videogame Medal of Honor: Frontline

  Eva Kingsepp

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• Ka as shomin-geki: Problematizing videogame studies

  William Huber

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• As if by Magic: On Harry Potter as a Novel and Computer Game

  Anna Gunder

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• Games as Technological Entry Point: A Case Study of Uzbekistan

  Beth E. Kolko, Alex Thayer

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• Space, Agency, Meaning and Drama in Navigable Real-Time Virtual Environments

  Stanislav Roudavski, François Penz

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• The Construction of Ludic Space

  Ernest Adams

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• Problem Solving: The Essence of Player Action in Computer Games

  Kristine Jørgensen

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• Technology tells a tale: digital games and narrative

  Kevin Schut

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• The Ideology of Interactivity (or Video Games and Taylorization of Leisure)

  Matt Garite

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• Stepping Back: Players as Active Participators

  Michael Nitsche, Maureen Thomas

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• Expressive AI: Games and Artificial Intelligence

  Michael Mateas

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• Exploration in computer games — a new starting point

  Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen

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• Characters in Computer Games: Toward Understanding Interpretation and Design

  Petri Lankoski, Satu Heliö, Inger Ekman

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• Issues and Approaches in Artificial Intelligence Middleware Development for Digital Games and Entertainment Products

  Börje Felipe Fernandes Karlsson

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• A Real Little Game: The Pinocchio Effect in Pervasive Play

  Jane McGonigal

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