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

Papers

• Serious Narrative Microgames as a Remedy for Gamification Limitations. The Case of the Platform for Making Games for Mobile CBT Therapies

  Jan Stasieńko, Ewa Wojtyna, Sławomir Nikiel, Wojciech Bieroński, Justyna Szklarska, Anna Anzulewicz

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• Meaningful Blehs and Rabbid Gwahs: Identity Representation Through Non-Human Noise and Words

  Juan Francisco Belmonte Avila

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• Gamer Identity and masculinity: Narrative and Typologies in the use of the video game

  Pablo Esteban Romero Medina

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• Invisible at the Edge: Playing with the Geoglyphs of Occupation in Anglo-America

  Mikael Jakobsson, Richard Eberhardt

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• The use of data in Magic: the Gathering Arena draft: complexity and critical immeasurability beyond ‘metric power’?

  Feng Zhu

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• Dirty Pretty Romans: Teaching Catullus as Interactive Fiction using Twine and StoryMaps

  David Fredrick, Rachel Murray

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• Towards Understanding Game Data Work

  Heikki Tyni, Olli Sotamaa, Taina Myöhänen

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• Commercial, Hobbyist and in-between: Understanding the DAI Personal Computer associative Game Library

  Pierre-Yves Hurel

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• Thoughts on kitsch and games

  Elina Roinioti

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• Gacha Games in East-Asian Transmedia Franchises

  Joleen Blom

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• Englishized? Polish Game Scholars’ Responses to the Anglophone Norm

  Stanisław Krawczyk

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• Breaking the Mold: Mother/Daughter Representations in Resident Evil

  Val Caroca

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• Making Antiquity Resonate in Assassin’s Creed: Origins, Odyssey & Articulated Resonance

  Andrei Zanescu

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• Enacted Sociality in Single-Player Play

  Mike Hyslop Graham

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• Disenchanted re-enchantment: comparative analysis of World of Darkness and Monsterhearts tabletop RPGs

  Leonid Moyzhes

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• The Call of Queue. PRL Heritage and Nostalgia in Contemporary Polish Game Culture

  Tomasz Majkowski, Magdalena Kozyra, Aleksandra Prokopek

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• Post-Racial Post-Apocalyptic Narratives?: Navigating Player Character Identity in Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us

  Adrienne Domasin

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• Enormous Fabricated Ability: Boosting in the Battlefront II Player Community

  Matthew Horrigan

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• From Replay to Revisit

  René Glas, Souvik Mukherjee

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• Enacting Photojournalism in Videogames

  Cindy Poremba

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• “You Have To Manage On Your Own”: The Challenges and Resources of Gaming In Old Age

  Gabrielle Lavenir

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• ‘A Definition of Enchantment’: A New Approach to Ludic Magic Systems Analysis

  Mikael Sebag

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• A Historical Perspective on Speedrunning: Evolution and Impact of the Informational Aspect upon Speedrunning Communities

  Sacha Bernard

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• The Limits of Influence: Negotiating the Hegemony of Game Companies in Collegiate Esports in The US

  Onder Can, Maxwell Foxman, Andrew Wilson, Amanda Cote, Md Waseq Ur Rahman, Shane Burrell, Brandon C. Harris, Jared Hansen, Tara Fickle

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• ‘I prefer to play alone to recharge my social battery’: Parent gamer identities in Australia

  Fae Heaselgrave, Ashlee Borgkvist

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• Players Making Creepypastas in Roblox – Kindred Appeal of Haunted Houses and Game Creation Systems

  Heidi Rautalahti, Elisa Mekler

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• Charting the Forgotten Realms of Digital Vernacularity: 25 Years of D&D Infinity Engine Games Modifications

  Mateusz Felczak

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• Posthumanist, postapocalyptic, postanthropocentrism: Morals and Multiplicities in My Friend is a Raven

  Poppy Wilde

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• Virtually Limited: Boundaries of Play in Virtual Reality Production

  Maxwell Foxman, Dalton Bouzek, Rabindra Ratan, Alex P. Leith

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• Lost Horizons: Constructing a Fiction of Knowledge

  Debbie Ding

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• The case of missing cases. On piratexts — paratexts created by pirates for pirates.

  Paweł Grabarczyk

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• Playing the Industry: Exploring the Margins of the Videogame Industry through Game Dev Tycoon

  David ten Cate

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• Fan Localisation in the Chinese Overwatch Game Community: Conflicts about the Information Transmission

  Dody Chen

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• Latina sex workers on Twitch: Between pleasure, work, vulnerability and marginalization

  Thomas Apperley, Ana Valeria Rodriguez

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• Scoping Review of South Korean Esports Research and Comparison to the Stakeholder Perception

  Yaewon Jin, Matúš Adamkovič

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• ‘Died on First Try, 10/10 Would Recommend LMAO’: Studying the Appreciation of Historical Digital Games about WWII via Text Mining Methods

  Pieter Van den Heede

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• “Constellations” of Vocal Expression: A Time Traveler’s Examination of Vocal Performance in Assassin’s Creed: Origins

  Janine Bower

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• From Play to Playces: the representation of contexts of play in Japanese games and popular media. Introduction

  Vincenzo Idone Cassone

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• Gender and resilience in esports

  Nick Taylor, Matilda Ståhl

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• Functions and powers of barks in video games: reclaiming the margins of video games narrativity

  Hélène Sellier, Aurélie Huz

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• Super Memory Makers: Livestreaming and/as videogame play archives

  James Manning

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• Alt-right and Video Games: A Literature Review

  Pablo Romero-Medina, Júlia Vilasís-Pamos

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• Facilitating Collegiate Esports: Limiting and Legitimizing Competitive Gaming

  Maxwell Foxman, Onder Can, Andrew Wilson, Amanda Cote, Brandon C. Harris, Md Waseq Ur Rahman, Jared Hansen, Tara Fickle

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• If You Don't Like the Game, Change the Rules: Unions and Co-operatives in the Canadian Game Industry

  Michael Iantorno, Marie LeBlanc Flanagan

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• Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining: Through the Cracks of Cloud Gaming Infrastructure

  Eduardo Luersen

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• Examining the Cultures of Discipline in Overwatch and League of Legends Esports

  Miia Siutila, Maria Ruotsalainen

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• Leisure electronics as a cultural context for the emergence of the Swiss video game

  Sophie Bémelmans, Pierre-Yves Hurel, Yannick Rochat

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• A New Home for Porn: Adult Video Games and the Necessity of Independent Platforms

  Harrison Charles

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• League of Learning: A Study of Classroom Intervention Effectiveness

  Ashley Ml Guajardo, Nina Feng

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• The Wild West of Mobile Game Advertising

  Kati Alha

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• A SURVEY OF THE IRISH GAMES INDUSTRY & THE ETHICS OF POLICY RESEARCH

  Maria O'Brien

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• Ecology and the Post Apocalypse: Regenerative Play in the Metro Series

  Gerald Farca

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• Perceived Finnishess amongst four player groups through UnReal World

  Haron Walliander, Tapani Joelsson

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• Huizinga’s Lila: Game Studies and Indian Concepts of Play

  Souvik Mukherjee

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• Articulating the Field of Videogame Production

  Brendan Keogh

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• Finding the GaaP - Data, Dashboards, and Independent Games

  Stuart Anderson, Darshana Jayemanne

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• Trans Tissue: If Found…’s (2020) Dehiscence, Liminality and Decreation

  Merlin Seller

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• Silver gaming in Poland. The margin or the future of the gaming industry?

  Damian Gałuszka

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• Faraway, So Close! Co-citation analysis of sources cited by Gaming & Simulation journal

  Marcelo Vasconcellos, Fabio Gouveia, Flavia Carvalho, Cynthia Dias, Fernando Kleiman

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• The Fandom Frontier: Understanding the Limitless(?) Potential of Collegiate Esports Fans

  Amanda Cote, Md Waseq Ur Rahman, Maxwell Foxman, Andrew Wilson, Shane L. Burrell Jr., Brandon C. Harris, Onder Can, Jared C. Hansen, Tara Fickle

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• Remediation and Refunctionalization of Natural Spaces in Videogames: Perspectives, Patterns, and Impact on Society

  Andrea Piano

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• Modding Leisure: Content Creation in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

  Alex Custodio

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• National Identity in the Brazilian Gaming Community on Twitter: Esports Tournaments During the 2022 Elections

  Leonor Jungstedt, Tarcízio Macedo, Alessandra Maia, Luis Gomes, Lucas Roberto da Silva, Polyana Barboza, Dalby Hubert, Maria Sirleidy Cordeiro

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• Lad mags and Anti-feminist Irony in the Formation of Gaming Culture

  Thomas Apperley

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• Let’s Play with Academia: Overcoming The Limits of The Zoom Classroom via Video Game Streaming

  Gabriel Elvery

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• A Garden of One’s Own: Reclaiming Agency at a Free-to-Play Playground

  Alesha Serada

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• Digital literacy games: A systematic literature review

  Teresa de la Hera, Laura Cañete Sanz, Nuria Navarro Sierra, Jeroen Jansz, Julia Kneer, René Glas, Jasper van Vught

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• Demonic Games: Demonic Figures and Functions in Contemporary Digital Games

  Frans Mäyrä

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• Genre Awareness and Nostalgia: Textual Aspects of Role-Playing in Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness

  Norbert Krek

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• Kosmonaut’s log: Field notes on the politics of nostalgia in ludic representations of Soviet space exploration

  Diego Andrés Mejía-Alandia

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• Designing Games in the Margin: Queer and Intersectional Feminist Meanings of Gender Perspective in Videogames Design

  Alexandra Samper Martínez, Beatriz Legeren-Lago, Diana Moisés Toro

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• Playful learning and design futures to enhance urban civic competences through a card game and Minecraft

  Marta Fernández Ruiz, Carles Sora-Domenjó, José Miguel Tomasena, Antoni Roig Telo

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• STATE AIDS FOR DIGITAL GAMES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: A SYMBIOTIC OR PARASITIC RELATIONSHIP?

  Maria O'Brien

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• Frostpunk: Lessons from Contemporary Polish History

  Eleonora Imbierowicz

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• Exploring Transformative Aesthetic Experiences in Videogames

  Jaakko Väkevä

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• Subtle presence and (dis)identification: transmasculinity in narrative video games

  Robin Longobardi Zingarelli

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• Bending Games: Why and how do gaymers produce porn?

  Stephen Schuetz

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• The Womb as a Sphere of Biopolitical Liminality in Video Games

  Agata Zarzycka

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• “Air Time!”: Balconing Simulator 2020 and criticism of junk tourism in Spain

  Víctor Navarro-Remesal, Beatriz Pérez Zapata, Ignacio Bergillos, Mateo Terrasa-Torres

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• Ontology and interdisciplinary research in esports

  Tom Brock

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• Prestige or Promotion: Industrial Reflexivity and Political Economy of The Game Awards

  Jan Švelch

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• From the Walking Sim to the Watch_Dog and Beyond: Walter Benjamin’s Flânerie in the Age of the metaverse

  Curtis Maughan

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• Play Value, Gameplay, and Immersion in the Early Videogame Industry

  Braxton Soderman

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• A Co-operative Study of Transnational European Histories of Videogames

  Alex Wade, Maria Garda, Ivo Furman, Mirek Filiczak, Maryja Supa

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• Gamer Identity, Masculinities, and Feminities. An Analysis of Teenagers' Perception of Gamer Identity

  Júlia Vilasís-Pamos, Pablo Romero-Medina

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• Preserving and Emulating Australian Made Videogames of the 1990s

  Cynde Moya, Melanie Swalwell, Helen Stuckey, Denise de Vries

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• Insult swordfighting: Gendered, Competetive, and Transgressive Communication in Gaming Culture

  Kristian Bjørkelo

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• A Typology of Videogame Rewards

  Veli-Matti Karhulahti, Espen Aarseth

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• Learning Cultural Heritage through Emergent In-game Dialogues

  Zihan Feng

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• A Method for Design Materialization: Accountable Game Design Research

  Rilla Khaled, Pippin Barr

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• Developer dialogues: A study of videogame creators to understand the potential for industry self-regulation of monetization

  Maarten Denoo, Elena Petrovskaya, Steven Malliet

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• Enjoyment in the Anthropocene: The Extimacy of Ecological Catastrophe in Donut County

  Benjamin Nicoll

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• Game Studies in Latin America: Reflexions about a growing field and gamer/player counter hegemonic identities

  Antonia Hargreaves, Mary Anne Argo

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• Czech appeal: Use of local themes and settings by a national game industry

  Jaroslav Švelch, Jan Houška

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• As Independent as possible or as necessary? The different context layers of being an indie developer

  Jeffrey Wimmer, Antonia Wurm, Tomas Novy

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• Subtle Playability: Orienting Players’ Actions Beyond the Threat of Failure

  Sofia Abatangelo

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• Beyond the analysis from neoliberal subjectification? The accelerationist short-circuiting of gaming pleasure in Total War: Warhammer II & III

  Feng Zhu

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• A Criticism of Computer Game “Ontological Models”

  Nikita Stulikov

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• Postapocalyptic Margins, Motherhood and Feminist Identity in Naughty Dogs The Last of Us Part II

  Rebecca Käpernick

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• The Cozy and the Strange in Strange Horticulture

  Melissa Kagen, Jennifer Minnen

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• My Game History: Teaching Against Hegemonic Game History

  Annakaisa Kultima, Jaakko Stenros

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• Breaking Character: Contesting Marginalisation through Critical Bricolage

  Rob Gallagher

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• Merely Marginal? Gaming Culture and Reactionary Ideology

  Rob Gallagher

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• Genealogy of a Hate Raid

  Josh Jarrett, David Murphy

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• Gamification and undesign: exploring the affordances of digital detox apps with game features

  Yukun You, Faltin Karlsen

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• Fursan Al-Aqsa: An Analysis of Moral Disengagement in the discursive strategies of a Pro-Palestine Video Game

  Antonio Cesar Moreno-Cantano, Salvador Gómez

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• For an Understanding of Video Games Genres through the Discourse of Players

  François-Xavier Surinx

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• Spatiality and the Power of Simulation in Covideo games

  Zsófia Orosz-Réti

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• The innate multiplicity of Game Worlds: Emersive effects in Dark Souls 2 and Nier: Automata

  Karim Sipala

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• Digital Cycling Club: Gamification of Cycling in post Covid-19 Pandemic

  Haryo Pambuko Jiwandono

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• Museums of Myth and Mechanics of Mythography in Mythological Video Games

  Alexander Vandewalle

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• Fact and Fiction in Video Games: How much fiction is needed for good design?

  Ágnes Karolina Bakk, Bendegúz Szatmári

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• Let’s Play Evangelization. Digital Televangelism and the "A Plague Tale" Series

  Mateusz Felczak

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• Extended abstract: Exploring constructions of situated esports aesthetics within and outside gameplay in a Nordic context

  Matilda Ståhl, Maria Ruotsalainen, Usva Friman, Fredrik Rusk

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• The Impact of Social Digital Games in Online Communities on Older adults’ Digital Competences

  Francisco Regalado, Ana Isabel Veloso, Carlos Santos

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• Tourism in Video Games: Experiences in Digital Worlds

  Anh-Thu Nguyen

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• We can do it, can we? Experiences of women in the Czech Video Game Industry

  Tereza Fousek Krobova

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• Corteo and political play in late 1970s Italy

  Riccardo Fassone, Giaime Alonge

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• Theorizing Digital Games: Play Theories & New Materialism

  Soomin Hong

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• Time and Temporality in Game Streaming on Twitch

  Mark ¨R Johnson

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• Soothing Affect or Neoliberal Indoctrination? Cozy Games and Agency

  Bettina Bódi

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• Perceiving Across Gameworld Boundaries: Actual, Fictional, and Imaginative Perceptions

  Nele Van de Mosselaer

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• Travel and Exploration in Elden Ring and Genshin Impact as an Essential Game Experience

  Anh-Thu Nguyen

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• Social Acceptability of Location-Based Games in Cemeteries

  Fraser Allison, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs

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• Materially Random Stories: Randomness and Narrative as Material Structures in Digital Games

  Justyna Janik

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• Role Playing as Your Happier Self: Self-help Games as Female-Coded “Leisure”

  Melissa Kagen

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• Gami-Math: Educational Escape Rooms as learning environments, an optimal tool for horizontal mathematization and curricular integration

  José Carlos Piñero Charlo, María Del Carmen Canto López, Malena Manchado Porras, Rocío Noriega Bustelo

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• Playable, Portable, Pretty?: Gender in Nintendo DS Lifestyle Software

  Keita Moore, Joleen Blom

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• Pink-Collar Playbour: The Digital Housework of Video Game Livestreaming

  Christine H. Tran

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• Love Letters to India?: Adapting Colonial Fiction in The Secret Games Company’s Kim

  Paolo D'Indinosante

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• Sinking Strangers No More: Playing “Climate Refugees” in Video Games

  Carolin Becklas

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• On the Preservation of the Experience of Play in an MMORPG Environment: Livestreams and the Game Preservation Conundrum

  Lidia Morris

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• Individuals, representatives, and racers – The images of F1 and F1 Esports Series drivers on Instagram

  Ville Malinen

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• The Dualistic Model of passion in the scope of problematic gaming

  Alexandre Infanti, Carlos Valls-Serrano, José César Perales, Claus Vögele, Joël Billieux

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• The user-centered design of game-based digital mental health interventions

  Lauri Lukka

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• Live streamer Paracommunity on Twitch and Discord

  Kevin Garvey

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• Pervasive Larps at Scale: Design Challenges of a Novel Work

  Benjamin Viney

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• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere: Balancing Accuracy, Fun, and Tone in Educational Games

  James Coltrain

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• Bodies in Play

  Emma Westecott, Cindy Poremba, Kate Hartman

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• Exploring an Arcade in an Arcade Cabinet: Social History Research, Exhibition, and Interactive Environments

  Alan Meades

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• Building and rebuilding the Anthropocene in Cities: Skylines

  Lawrence May

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• A systematic literature review of teachers’ role in using game-based learning

  Merav Hayak

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• Problems anchoring and verifying identities in an emerging esports ecosystem

  J. Patrick Williams, Vinh Trinh Luu

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• Players’ perceptions of Andalusian cultural heritage representations in the digital game Blasphemous

  Teresa de la Hera, Deborah Castro, Salvador Gómez

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• Graceful Gaming: Aesthetics, Automation, Habit

  Doug Stark

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• Virtual Game Spaces and Diegetic Fictionality

  Rune Klevjer

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• “Smurfing is a pretty common problem”: Toward a performative conception of toxicity 

  Ben Scholl, Maria Sommers, Philippa Adams, Alberto Lusoli, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

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• Suffocated by Surplus Enjoyment: A Psychoanalysis of "Gamer Rage"

  Benjamin Nicoll

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• Meet Up for a Board Game? How Socialisation, Access, and Language Influence Community Formation

  Johnathan Harrington

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• What lurks in the margins: the ill-known short horror video games

  Bernard Perron, Jean-Charles Ray

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• Humanist Delusion in Games

  Eleonora Imbierowicz

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• Digital Games and the Category of Auteur: A Re-Evaluation and Perspectives

  Filip Jankowski

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• An Examination of Gender Differences in Happiness Perceived by Japanese University Students in Games

  Kazuki Okuno, Masanori Fukui, Hiroaki Ohdachi, Masakatsu Kuroda, Yuji Sasaki

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• Mixed Feelings and Realities: Joyful to Nauseating Sentiments about VR on Twitter

  Alex Leith, Maxwell Foxman, Mary Onuche, Rabindra Ratan, Chaeyun Lim

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• “Accidental Archivists:” YouTube Gameplay Content and Game Preservation

  Michele Newman, Jin Ha Lee

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• On Field Colonization, Intersections and Marginalized Game (extended abstract)

  Lindsay Grace

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• Mapping Game Biopolitics: Introducing Biopolitics Analysis Network

  Michał Kłosiński

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• From Gamer Identity to Game Cultural Agency

  Usva Friman

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• Protocolar Power and the Texts of Game Cultures

  Matthew Horrigan

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• Immersive VR Storytelling

  Elizabeth Goins

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• Beneath the label: Assessing video games’ compliance with ESRB and PEGI loot box warning label industry self-regulation

  Leon Y Xiao

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• The Past as (Para)text – Relating Histories of Game Experience to Games as Texts

  Nick Webber

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• The Harmony of Escaping Hell: Ludonarrative Interplay in Hades

  Yotam Shibolet

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• “I really think of these things more as toys”: Will Wright’s Toy-Based Design Philosophy

  Amanda Cote

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• Playing with Animal Crossing. A data-based analysis of regional and transregional practices in the Japanese, Korean and Chinese YouTube space

  Martin Roth

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• Playing video games for a living. Coping with emotional tensions and economic precariousness surrounding live streamers’ careers on Twitch

  Roberto Carradore, Tiziana Pirola

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• Playing Darkly: Rescuing Cheating in Online Games

  Daniel Nielsen

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• Establishing Interpretation Design as a Game Design Method

  Emmi Kärnä

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• “Your Subaltern is not my Subaltern”: Intersectionality and the Dangers of a Single Game-story

  Zahra Rizvi, Souvik Mukherjee

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• Toys, Video Games, Platforms, and Mattel Electronics's Intellivision

  Braxton Soderman, Tom Boellstorff

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• The Magic Prison: Game Rules as a Tool for Dread in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Inscryption

  Dom Ford, Sophie Thorkildsen

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• Repurposing Concept Art: Video Game Art Books as Industrial Reflexivity

  Jan Švelch, Jaroslav Svelch

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• “Let’s unbox!”. Gambling-like elements on Twitch and simulated gambling among Flemish teenagers

  Eva Grosemans, Tim Smits, Bieke Zaman, Rozane De Cock

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• Sky’s the Limit: Skyboxes and Backgrounds as narrative and imaginative elements

  Giorgio Chiappa

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• The Local, the Global, and the Intercultural: Strategies for Teaching Games Design in the Neoliberal University

  Bruno de Paula

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• Imagining the All-Seeing Eye: Surveillance Imaginaries in Games

  Kristian Bjørkelo, Ragnhild Solberg

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• Skillful play is dependent on rules. Notes on a Phenomenology of Skills in Games and Digital Games

  Christopher Lukman

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• “Our player friend here... they already hold the key...”: Redefining Genre Limits in Inscryption.

  Sabrina Sgandurra

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• Of Mice and Lemmings: Ludic Subjectivity and Interface in a Historical Context

  Jaroslav Švelch, Daniel Vella

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• What did players think about Belgium’s ‘ban’ on loot boxes?

  Leon Y Xiao, Maarten Denoo

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• “Select Your Instrument”: Musical Character Customization in Divinity: Original Sin 2

  Ragnhild Solberg

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• GBStudio and Platforms by Consent

  Kaelan Doyle-Myerscough

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• Podcasts and Players – Examining the Careers of Gaming Podcast Creators

  Ryan Stanton

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• Making the Mechanics Monetizable: On the Development Process of Free-to-Play Games

  Lies van Roessel

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• Reframing Posthuman Agency through the Concept of Speed

  Hongwei Zhou

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• Fake news and disinformation in ludonarrative contexts. The case of Headliner: Novinews

  Mireya Vicent-Ibáñez, Salvador Gómez-García, Joseba Bonaut-Iriarte

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• Teaching Chinese with Games: Knowledge, Attitudes and Experience of Teachers

  Paul Martin, Yanhui Zhang

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• A post structuralist understanding of integrating games in education

  Stamatia Savvani

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• Monkey Island as a Theme Park Going Beyond Hyperrealism: Ron Gilbert’s Auteurial Style and Thematic Concerns

  Péter Makai

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• Locating Videogame Development in Australian Higher Education

  Brendan Keogh, Taylor Hardwick

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• The narrativization of quantified play in videogame fanfiction

  Yuhua Wu, Paul Martin

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• Unearthing the ludic media archaeology of fashion

  David Cumming

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• From Superhuman to Posthuman: Collective action in single-player video games

  Zsófia Orosz-Réti

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• The Limits of Immersion: Case Study of "Desolatium" a VR Graphic Adventure Development

  María Inmaculada Parra Martínez

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• Evaluating Teamwork in a Game Development Team: Observations from Attending a “Sprint Retrospective”

  Mark Staun Poulsen

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• (Un)known Polish Spaces. Strategies of Foreignization and Domestication in Polish Video Games

  Magdalena Kozyra, Tomasz Majkowski, Aleksandra Prokopek

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• Translating Witcher: Investigating Conflict and Cooperation Between Localization Industry and Gaming Communities

  Selahattin Karagöz

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• Safety and Identity Exploration: How Queer TTRPGs Provide Structure for Players

  Jailyn Zabala, Josie Zvelebilova, Alexandra To

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• Esports at the Margins of the Commonwealth Games: Organisational Philosophy, Equity Pipelines, and National Representation

  Emma Witkowski, Stephanie Harkin

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• Australian Video Game Developers’ Marketing Knowledge: Filling an Important Research Gap

  Jacqueline Burgess, Alexander Muscat, Anthony Grace, Christian Jones

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• Chinese Cultivation Games and the Cosmotechnics

  Jiadong Qiang, Yu Hao

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• Horny for Ghost: The Sexualized Remediation of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on TikTok

  Kristine Ask, Tanja Sihvonen

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• Moving the margins: Setting up pathway research studying adolescent video gaming, simulated gambling and monetary engagement

  Eva Grosemans, Bruno Dupont, Tim Smits, Lowie Bradt, Bieke Zaman, Rozane De Cock

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• Peer-pressure? A motivation-focused taxonomy of social mechanics in microtransaction-based mobile games.

  Elena Petrovskaya

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• Playing Brexit: Borders and nationalism in the times of inhospitality

  Beatriz Pérez Zapata, Víctor Navarro-Remesal

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• Procedural and Emergent Narrative: From Analog RPG to Digital RPG

  Joan Josep Pons López

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• The rogue needs a city: Role-Playing Game cities and their literary background

  David Matencio Durán

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• Regret in Play and in Paint: Authorship, Narrative, and Intertextuality in Pentiment (2022)

  Danielle Kleinerman, Chiara Haynes

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• The Game(s) of Netflix: Exploring the Entertainment Functions of Digital Games as part of the Company's Content Strategy

  Salvador Gómez-García, Teresa de la Hera, Nuria Navarro-Sierra, Mireya Vicent-Ibáñez

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• Extreme Bodies: The Uncommon Player-Avatar Relationship

  Hongshen Xu, Jussi Holopainen, Olli Leino

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• Flow, Boredom, Idleness. The Relation between the Subjective Passage of Time and the Experience of Video Games

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