2005: Proceedings of DiGRA 2005 Conference: Changing Views: Worlds in Play

Papers

• Video Games: A Significant Cognitive Artifact of Contemporary Youth Culture

  Lyn Henderson

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• Mise-en-scène Applied to Level Design: Adapting a Holistic Approach to Level Design

  Heather Logas, Daniel Muller

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• Making Right(s) Decision: Artificial Life and Rights Reconsidered

  Juyun Kim

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• Canadian Content in Video Games

  Leonard J. Paul

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• Beyond P-1: Who Plays Online?

  Alix Avery

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• Playful Play with Games: Linking Level Editing to Learning in Art and Design

  Maia Engeli

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• The Ethics of Computer Game Design

  Miguel Sicart

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• On the Ontology of MMORPG Beings: A theoretical model for research

  Javier Salazar

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• A Cognitive Psychological Approach to Gameplay Emotions

  Bernard Perron

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• socio-ec(h)o: Ambient Intelligence and Gameplay

  Ron Wakkary, Marek Hatala, Robb Lovell, Milena Droumeva, Alissa Antle, Dale Evernden, Jim Bizzocchi

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• Feel It, Don’t Think: the Significance of Affect in the Study of Digital Games

  Eugénie Shinkle

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• End of story? Quest, narrative and enactment in computer games

  Anders Sundnes Løvlie

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• Baldur’s Gate and History: Race and Alignment in Digital Role Playing Games

  Christopher Warnes

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• Designing Goals for Online Role-Players

  Markus Montola

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• Game Fiction: Playing the Interface in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Asheron’s Call

  Jason Rhody

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• Fundamental Components of the Gameplay Experience: Analysing Immersion

  Laura Ermi, Frans Mäyrä

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• What Happens if you Catch Whypox? Children’s Learning Experiences of Infectious Disease in a Multi-user Virtual Environment

  Nina R. Neulight, Yasmin B. Kafai

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• Theory as Game: Designing the Gamegame

  Aki Järvinen

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• Challenge Balance and Diversity: Playing The Sims and The Sims 2

  Sara Mosberg Iversen

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• Socially Adaptable Games

  Daniel Eriksson, Johan Peitz, Staffan Björk

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• Liberal Sims?: Simulated Difference and the Commodity of Social Diversity

  A. Brady Curlew

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• Among pasta-loving Mafiosos, drug-selling Columbians and noodle-eating Triads – Race, humour and interactive ethics in Grand Theft Auto III

  Mikolaj Dymek, Thomas Lennerfors

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• A Sociotechnical Conjecture about the Context and Development of Multiplayer Online Game Experiences

  Licinio Roque

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• The Play’s the Thing: Practicing Play as Community Foundation and Design Technique

  Tracy Fullerton

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• History of Digital Games in Turkey

  Erdal Yilmaz, Kursat Cagiltay

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• Playing audio-only games a compendium of interacting with virtual, auditory worlds

  Niklas Röber, Maic Masuch

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• Sex in Games: Representing and Desiring the Virtual

  Gareth Schott

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• Machinima: digital performance and emergent authorship

  John Carroll, David Cameron

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• B.Sc. Computer Game Development … Why not?

  Libero Ficocelli, David Gregg

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• Virtual Worlds in Asia: Business Models and Legal Issues

  Ian MacInnes

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• /hide: The aesthetics of group and solo play

  David Myers

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• Place Space & Monkey Brains: Cognitive Mapping in Games & Other Media

  Erik Champion

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• Towards an Ontological Language for Game Analysis

  José P. Zagal, Michael Mateas, Clara Fernández-Vara, Brian Hochhalter, Nolan Lichti

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• Games, Montage, and the First Person Point of View

  Michael Nitsche

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• Playing And Learning Without Borders: A Real-time Online Play Environment

  Louise Sauvé, David Kaufman, Arias V.G. Sánches, M. Power, L. Villardier, W. Probst

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• The Design of Narrative as an Immersive Simulation

  Renata Gomes

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• A Realistic Reaction System for Modern Video Games

  Leif Gruenwodlt, Michael Katchabaw, Stephen Danton

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• The GameCreator: Self-Created Mobile Games on the Internet

  Johann Füller, Markus Rieger, Christoph Ihl

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• A Game Architecture for Emergent Story-Puzzles in a Persistent World

  Federico Peinado, Pedro Pablo Gómez-Martín, Marco Antonio Gómez-Martín

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• Authentic Learning Experiences Through Play: Games, Simulations and the Construction of Knowledge

  Lisa Galarneau

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• “A Totally Different World”: Playing and Learning in Multi-User Virtual Environments

  Linda Kao, Cathleen Galas, Yasmin Kafai

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• OceanQuest: A University-Based Serious Game Project

  J. R. Parker, Sonny Chan

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• Cognitive Callisthenics: Do FPS computer games enhance the player’s cognitive abilities?

  Paul R. Kearney

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• Shadowplay: Simulated Illumination in Game Worlds

  Simon Niedenthal

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• Configuring the player: subversive behavior in Project Entropia

  Peter Jakobsson, Daniel Pargman

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• Who owns my avatar? – Rights in virtual property

  Anders Eriksson, Kalle Grill

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• Consumer Driven Computer Game Design

  Charles Trappey, Teng-Tai Hsiao, Tien-Chun Chang, Ming-Hung Che, Wei-Jie Chiu

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• Digital Games: A Motivational Perspective

  Eliana Medina

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• Interactive Story Writing in the Classroom: Using Computer Games

  Mike Carbonaro, Maria Cutumisu, Matthew McNaughton, Curtis Onuczko, Thomas Roy, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron, Stephanie Gillis, Sabrina Kratchmer

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• Frame and Metaphor in Political Games

  Ian Bogost

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• Bringing New HOPE to Networked Games: Using Optimistic Execution to Improve Quality of Service

  Ryan Hanna, Michael Katchabaw

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• Neomancer: An Exercise in Interdisciplinary

  Michael Katchabaw, Derek Elliott, Stephen Danton

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• Albert Goes Narrative Contracting

  Ken Newman, Robert Grigg

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• Game Graphics Beyond Realism: Then, Now, and Tomorrow

  Maic Masuch, Niklas Röber

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• Research as Design-Design as Research

  Andrew J. Stapleton

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• Troubling ‘Games for Girls’: Notes from the Edge of Game Design

  Mary Flanagan

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• Learning Games as a Platform for Simulated Science Practice

  Rikke Magnussen

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• Gaming Mind, Gaming Body: The Mind/Body Split For a New Era

  Bryan-Mitchell Young

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• Tangible Interfaces for Pervasive Gaming

  Bernhard Jung, Andreas Schrader, Darren V. Carlson

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• Designing Sound for a Pervasive Mobile Game

  Inger Ekman, Jussi Lahti, Jani Nummela, Petri Lankoski, Frans Mäyrä

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• Game Engineering for a Multiprocessor Architecture

  Rhalibi Abdennour El, David England, Steven Costa

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• Towards the Unification of Intuitive and Formal Game Concepts with Applications to Computer Chess

  Ariel Arbiser

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• Virtually Visual: The Effects of Visual Technologies on Online Identification

  Jennifer Martin

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• Towards Emotionally Adapted Games based on User Controlled Emotion Knobs

  Timo Saari, Niklas Ravaja, Jari Laarni, Marko Turpeinen

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• The Expressions of Colours

  Veronica L. Zammitto

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• Connecting Worlds. Fantasy Role-Playing Games, Ritual Acts and the Magic Circle

  Marinka Copier

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• Player as Author: conjecturing online game creation modalities and infrastructure

  José Pedro Tavares, Rui Gil, Licinio Roque

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• Augmented Board Games – Enhancing board games with electronics

  Johan Peitz, Daniel Eriksson, Staffan Björk

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• Build It to Understand It: Ludology Meets Narratology in Game Design Space

  Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern

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• Game Mediated Communication: Multiplayer Games as the Medium for Computer Based Communication

  Mats Wiklund

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• Framing Virtual Law

  Peter Edelmann

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• From real-world data to game world experience: Social analysis methods for developing plausible & engaging learning games

  Mike Dobson, Daniel Ha, Desmond Mulligan, Chad Ciavarro

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• Games for Learning: Are Schools Ready for What’s To Come?

  Katrin Becker, D. Michelle Jacobsen

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• A Short and Simple Definition of What a Videogame Is

  Nicolas Esposito

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• Playing in the Sandbox: Developing games for children with disabilities

  Paul R. Kearney

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• Building and Reconstructing Character. A Case Study of Silent Hill 3

  Petri Lankoski

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• The Psychophysiology of Video Gaming: Phasic Emotional Responses to Game Events

  Niklas Rajava, Timo Saari, Jani Laarni, Kari Kallinen, Mikko Salminen

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• The Effects of a Consumer-Oriented Multimedia Game on the Reading Disorders of Children with ADHD

  Tammy McGraw, Krista Burdette, Kristine Chadwick

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• Contexts, Pleasures and Preferences: Girls Playing Computer Games

  Diane Carr

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• Possibilities of Non-Commercial Games: The Case of Amateur Role Playing Games Designers in Japan

  Kenji Ito

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• How Multiplayer Games Create New Media Politics

  Lars Konzack, Thessa Lindof

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• The use of Video Game Technology for Investigating Perceptual and Cognitive Awareness in Sports

  Desmond Mulligan, Mike Dobson, Janet McCracken

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• The Localization of Digital Games: A Case Study in China

  Quan Zhou, Beth Kolko

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• The Narrative and Ludic Nexus in Computer Games: Diverse Worlds II

  Jeffrey E. Brand, Scott J. Knight

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• The Pervasive Interface: Tracing the Magic Circle

  Eva Nieuwdorp

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• Cinematic Camera as Videogame Cliché

  David Thomas, Gary Haussmann

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• A Brief Social History of Game Play

  Dmitri Williams

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• Abstract of Dynamic Range: When Game Design and Narratives Unite

  Dominic Arsenault

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• Designing Puzzles for Collaborative Gaming Experience – CASE: eScape

  Tony Manninen, Tuomo Korva

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• Legal and Organizational Issues in Collaborative User-Created Content

  Risto Sarvas, Marko Turpeinen, Perttu Virtanen, Herkko Hietanen, Fernando Herrera

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• How Are Games Educational? Learning Theories Embodied in Games

  Katrin Becker

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• Presence experience in mobile gaming

  Jari Laarni, Niklas Ravaja, Timo Saari

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• An Irrational Black Market? Boundary Work Perspective on the Stigma of in-game Asset Transactions

  Yu-Hao Lee, Holin Lin

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• Realistic Agent Movement in Dynamic Game Environments

  Ross Graham, Hugh McCabe, Stephen Sheridan

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• New Design Methods for Activist Gaming

  Mary Flanagan, Daniel C. Howe, Helen Nissenbaum

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• Spontaneous Communities of Learning: Learning Ecosystems in Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming Environments

  Lisa Galarneau

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• Evolution of Spatial Configurations In Videogames

  Clara Fernández-Vara, José P. Zagal, Michael Mateas

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• Motivational Factors in Game Play in Two User Groups

  Melanie Kellar, Carolyn Watters, Jack Duffy

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• “Have Fun Working with Our Product!”: Critical Perspectives On Computer Game Mod Competitions

  Olli Sotamaa

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• The comparison of online game experiences by players in games of Lineage & EverQuest: Role play vs. Consumption

  Leo Sang-Min Whang, Jee Yeon Kim

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• Immersion in Game Atmospheres for the Video Game Heritage Preservation

  Nicolas Esposito

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• Wherever Hardware, There’ll be Games: The Evolution of Hardware and Shifting Industrial Leadership in the Gaming Industry

  Jan Jörnmark, Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Mirko Ernkvist

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• The Ability of Branded Online Games to Build Brand Equity: An Exploratory Study

  David Deal

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• Growing Complex Games

  Nicholas Glean

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• Addressing Social Dilemmas and Fostering Cooperation through Computer Games

  Mark Chen

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• Information Behavior and the Formation and Maintenance of Peer Cultures in Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games: A Case Study of City of Heroes

  Suellen Adams

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• Studying Games in School: a Framework for Media Education

  Caroline Pelletier

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• Understanding Korean experiences of online game hype, identity, and the menace of the “Wang-tta”

  Florence Chee

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• Law, order and conflicts of interest in massively multiplayer online games

  Daniel Pargman, Andreas Eriksson

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• Game Styles, Innovation, and New Audiences: An Historical View

  Greg Costikyan

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• Role Theory: The Line Between Roles as Design and Socialization in EverQuest

  Kelly Boudreau

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• Push. Play: An Examination of the Gameplay Button

  Stephen N. Griffin

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• Interactive Digital Storytelling: Towards a Hybrid Conceptual Approach

  Ulrike Spierling

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• Gendered Gaming Experience in Social Space: From Home to Internet Café

  Holin Lin

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• Her own Boss: Gender and the Pursuit of Incompetent Play

  Jennifer Jenson, Castell Suzanne de

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• Playing With Non-Humans: Digital Games as Techno-Cultural Form

  Seth Giddings

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• Architecting Scalability for Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming Experiences

  Rui Gil, José Pedro Tavares, Licinio Roque

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• Narrative Structure in Trans-Reality Role-Playing Games: Integrating Story Construction from Live Action, Table Top and Computer-Based Role-Playing Games

  Craig Lindley, Mirjam Eladhari

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• Fictive affinities in Final Fantasy XI: complicit and critical play in fantastic nations

  William Huber

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• The ‘White-eyed’ Player Culture: Grief Play and Construction of Deviance in MMORPGs

  Holin Lin, Chuen-Tsai Sun

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• Girls Creating Games: Challenging Existing Assumptions about Game Content

  Jill Denner, Steve Bean, Linda Werner

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• Early Games Production in New Zealand

  Melanie Swalwell

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• Lesser-known Worlds: Bridging the Telematic Flows with Located Human Experience Through Game Design

  Debra Polson, Marcos Caceres

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• Dialog as a Game

  Peter M. Border

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• Playing Through: the Future of Alternative and Critical Game Projects

  Patrick Crogan

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• Affective Videogames and Modes of Affective Gaming: Assist Me, Challenge Me, Emote Me

  Kiel Mark Gilleade, Alan Dix, Jen Allanson

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• How Serious Are Serious Games? Some Lessons From Infra-games

  Geertje Bekebrede, Igor Mayer, Houten Stijn Pieter van, Roy Chin, Alexander Verbraeck

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• The Sponsored Avatar: Examining the Present Reality and Future Possibilities of Advertising in Digital Games

  Jason Chambers

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• Theory Wars: An Argument Against Arguments in the so-called Ludology/Narratology Debate

  Celia Pearce

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• Enhancing Player Experience in MMORPGs with Mobile Features

  Christian Wenninger

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• The Pleasures and Practices of Virtualised Consumption in Digital Spaces

  Mike Molesworth, Janice Denegri-Knott

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• Online Gaming as a Virtual Forum

  Matthew Payne

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• Pretty good for a girl: gender, identity and computer games

  Catherine Beavis

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• Simulating the Storytelling Qualities of Life: Telling Stories with the Sims

  Satu Heliö

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• CameraBots: Cinematography for Games with Non-Player Characters as Camera Operators

  James Kneafsey, Hugh McCabe

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• Motivations of Play in MMORPGs

  Nick Yee

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• Extending Soft Models To Game Design : Flow, Challenges And Conflicts

  Rhalibi Abdennour El, David England, Martin Hanneghan, Stephen Tang

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• The things we learned on Liberty Island: designing games to help people become competent game players

  Martin Oliver, Caroline Pelletier

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• The Nip and the Bite

  Darshana Jayemanne

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• Game, Motivation, and Effective Learning: An Integrated Model for Educational Game Design

  Brad Paras, Jim Bizzocchi

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• Opening the Production Pipeline: Unruly Creators

  John A. L. Banks

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• The Problem of Other Players: In-game Cooperation as Collective Action

  Jonas Heide Smith

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