2023: Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2023 Conference: Limits and Margins of Games Settings

Papers

• Other than Text: Media Used in Game Studies Publications. A Computational Analysis into 20 Years of Publications of the Game Studies Journal, and an Appeal for Research Through Design

  Constantinos Miltiadis

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• Considering Large Student Teams in Game Development Education: A Post-Mortem

  Jose Zagal

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• Pushing in from the Margins: Player Efforts to Insert Polish-Lithuanian Cultural Heritage into Games

  Jakub Majewski, Michał Mochocki, Paweł Schreiber

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• Gender Differences in Ethical Stances for Playing AR Games: The Case of Pokémon GO

  Yeonhee Cho, Michele Newman, Lidia Morris, Lane D. Koughan, Jason Yip, Jin Ha Lee

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• Gamified city for 6th graders: The effect of gameful experience on students’ 21st century readiness in Finland

  Isabella Aura, Simo Järvelä, Lobna Hassan, Juho Hamari

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• “Yes, I Cheat, but Not Blatantly”: The Use of Macros in Racing Games as Transgressive Play

  Samson Tang

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• Discovering a Threshold: a Novel Approach to the Ontology of VR

  Mathias Kofoed-Ottesen

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• Knowledge Representation Schema of the Gameplay

  Madhuri Sasupilli, Prasad Bokil

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• Xeno-ludens: deformativism and playful estrangement

  Mario Barranco

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• Finnish young adolescents’ digital gaming and physical activity behaviour

  Kwok Ng, Raine Koskimaa, Veli-Matti Karhulahti, Miikka Sokka, Pauliina Husu, Sami Kokko, Pasi Koski

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• Motivation and flow experience as crucial factors in the completion of narrative games

  Dalila Martins, Nelson Zagalo, Ana Patrícia Oliveira

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• Finding the Post-Postwar Japan in Death Stranding's Sublime Ruins

  Yasheng She

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• What’s a Mini-Game? The Anatomy of Fishing Mini-Games

  Leon Y Xiao

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• Valletta: Streets of History: Documenting the Process of Developing a Location-Based Game in the area of Maltese History and Culture

  Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Daniel Vella, Aphrodite Andreou, Emmanouela Marla, Naomi Cutajar, Ioannis Brellas, Lara Caruana Montaldo, Renata Ntelia

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• Relationship between Motives for Gaming and Playing Gacha among University Students

  Masanori Fukui, Masakatsu Kuroda, Hiroaki Ohdachi

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• Learnings from the case Maple Refugee: A story of free-to-play, probability, and gamer consumer activism

  Solip Park, Nick Ballou, Maarten Denoo, Eva Grosemans, Elena Petrovskaya, Yaewon Jin, Leon Y. Xiao

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• Criticizing Caillois: Examining How Players Perceive Rules in Play and Games.

  Leland Masek

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• Could an AI design a larp? Processes and applications

  Alba Torrebejano Osorio

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• The Player-Learner Experience: A Comparison of Game Masters and Pedagogical Practices

  Josh Aaron Miller

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• Gamers at War: The Relationship Between Military and Esports

  Pablo Nolla Michel

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• Coming Out While Going Fast: Queer Conviviality in Speedrunning Live Streams

  Johanna Brewer

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• Farming a Cosy Utopia: A Regenerative Escape to Simpler Times

  Gerald Farca

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• Grief in Mobile Games

  Emma Reay

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• Improving Digital Accessibility Through Audio-Game Co-Design

  Zach Mason, David Green, Joseph Lindley, Paul Coulton

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• To Become a Cultural Fit, or To Leave? Game Industry Expatriates and the Issue of Migration and Inclusivity

  Solip Park

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• First Impressions: Effects of Representation on Video Game Covers

  Daniel Gardner, Shanley Corvite

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• Beyond Mad Scientists and Distracted Geniuses: images of the Science and Scientists in Prey

  Marcelo Vasconcellos, Flávia Garcia de Carvalho, Cláudio Rodrigues, Alexandre Werner, Matheus Prestes

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• Designerly Ways of Analysing Gameplay and Player Experiences

  Malay Dhamelia, Girish Dalvi

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• A Proposed Taxonomy for the Design Qualities of Video Game Loading Interfaces and Processes

  David Antognoli, Joshua Fisher

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• Allegorithmic Politics of Game Exchange – Subversion, Ideology, and Capitalism in Strategy Game

  Filip Hauer

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• The Petsamo Board Game (1931) and Everyday Game Culture in Finland in the Interwar Period

  Karoliina Koskinen, Jaakko Suominen

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• Human-Environment Relationships in Alba: A Typological Analysis of Player Engagement in Steam Reviews

  Chien Lu, Giacomo Lauritano, Timo Nummenmaa, Jaakko Peltonen

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• Intersectional Masculinities in Mass Effect

  Leandro Lima

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• Why do people use VR (games)? A study of continued use and spending

  Lobna Hassan, Henrietta Jyhlä, Max Sjöblom, Juho Hamari

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• Pornographic Games on Steam: Genres, Modes, and Milieus

  Petri Lankoski, Tanja Välisalo

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• Beyond the old game design: a new design paradigm in Game Studies through C-K Theory

  Enrique Perez

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• Connections: An intergenerational feminist game art timeline

  Emma Westecott, Fusun Uzun, Katherine Micak

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• Uncovering the (Hidden) Co-Creativity: Ethnographic Streaming for a Game Design Praxiology Research Project

  Annakaisa Kultima, Riina Ojanen, Niklas Nylund

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• Home Computing and Digital Game Piracy in the 1980s in Portugal

  Luciana Lima, Camila Pinto, Terhi Martilla, Patrícia Gouveia

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• Insights into Competence Development Through Playfulness in a Cooperative Game Scenario: A Preliminary Study

  Valéria Pinto, Mariana Seiça, Licinio Roque

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• Playing Animal Farm: Designing a Dungeons & Dragons [D&D] One-Shot for Pivotal Play and Learning

  Premeet Sidhu

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• Microgames as Intervention for Health Misinformation

  Lindsay Grace, Victoria Orrego Dunleavy, Regina Ahn, Danny Mayo

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• A Classification of Video Game Cartographic Maps

  Claire Dormann, Corina Pötscher, Guenter Wallner

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• An empirical investigation into the impact of the first-person role-playing games to improve knowledge retention in middle-school children in India: A pre-post study of the game ‘Tattva Bhoomi’

  Chaitanya Solanki, Deepak John Mathew

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• Would you like Games with that Computer? Revisiting early Game History & Culture with the Commodore 64

  Jesper Juul, Laurel Carney

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• Saving the Planet One Game at A Time

  Gabrielle Trepanier-Jobin, Elisa Vial, Maeva Charre-Tchang, Simon Dor

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• Polarized Pills vs. Gaming Thrills: Empirical Exploration of r/TheRedPill and r/TheBluePill Users in r/gaming

  Giacomo Lauritano, Valeria Marina Borodi, Chien Lu, Jaakko Peltonen

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• On Being Stuck in Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Promise of Freedom in Historical Games

  Angus Mol, Aris Politopoulos, Sybille Lammes

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• The Ghosts of Empire: Asian Horror and Postcolonial Pastiche in the Filipino Visual Novel The Letter (2017)

  Christoffer Mitch Cerda

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• Toward An Agential Realist Account of Digital Games: Revisiting Gamic Agency and Materiality

  Yu Hao

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• ‘Detective — what were you hoping to accomplish?’: Benign Violation as Means of Moral Detection in Disco Elysium

  Jon Stone

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• Game Studies through ‘Conceptual Games’: The case of Doors

  Stefano Gualeni, Nele Van de Mosselaer

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• Recovery and Support: Motivations for Playing a Social Video Game in the Midst of a Pandemic

  Hyerim Cho, Jin Ha Lee, Alex Urban

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• Individualized Communal Experience: Players of Detroit: Become Human

  Victoria Lagrange

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