2020: Abstract Proceedings of DiGRA 2020 Conference: Play Everywhere

Papers

• Lagging Behind: An Examination of Digital Inequality in Gaming and Esports

  Christopher Ball, Joseph Fordham

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• Vegetal Horrors: Blair Witch, Darkwood and Non-human Turn Game Studies

  Merlin Seller

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• A Discipline is Always Born Twice1: Is there Room for Interdisciplinary Humanities Methods in Game Studies Scholarship Today?

  Caroline Bem

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• Procedural Content Generation, Player Agency, and Playfulness in Survival- Crafting Game Astroneer

  Bettina Bodi

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• Animal ethics in digital games

  Haryo Pambuko Jiwandono, Edeliya Relanika Purwandi

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• Conceptualising Teleological Dissonance

  Frederik Bakkerud

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• Cultural Heritage and Environmental Communication Through Digital Games

  Andrea Piano, Sara Cuccu

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• Exploring in-game military identities within CS:GO

  Matilda Ståhl, Iain Donald

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• Power Play Play: Regulatory Frameworks of Esports in Asia and Europe

  Tanja Sihvonen, Veli-Matti Karhulahti

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• Resistance, Play and Esports Chants: A Super Smash Bros. Melee Case Study

  Ying-Ying Law, Joshua Jarrett

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• Human, Machine, Play: Donna Haraway in/and Game Studies

  Dennis Jansen

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• What Makes Us Able to Play Critically?

  Karin Ryding

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• All Aboard! Towards Inclusiveness in Digital Game-Based Teaching

  Melinda Mathe, Harko Verhagen, Mats Wiklund

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• Pressure to Play: Socio-Technical Pressure in Online Multiplayer Games

  Cindy Krassen, Stef Aupers

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• The Playful Attitude and the Critical Attitude

  Braxton Soderman

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• Swiss Video Game History and the Smaky Era: Bootstrapping a Platform Archaeology Study

  Yannick Rochat, Stéphanie Mader

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• Play Everywhere: Can We Play (in) Auschwitz?

  Renata E. Ntelia

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• Disciplined Play: Finding Foucauldian Architecture in Virtual Worlds

  Lawrence May

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• Analyzing Indie Aesthetics

  Jan-Noël Thon

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• Play with Money The Role of Digital Games in Promoting Financial Literacy

  Tanja Sihvonen, Alesja Serada

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• Trans-spatial Narratives of the Society of Explorers and Adventurers Across the Disney Empire

  Megan Condis, Bobby Schweizer

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• Monetization and Gamification in Twitch Game Live Streaming

  Mark R Johnson, Jamie Woodcock

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• The Games Industry as 21st Century Imperialism & Its Cultivation of Fascism

  Emil Lundedal Hammar

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• On Seeing and Being Seen: Perception and Visibility in Video Games

  Rainforest Scully-Blaker

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• Producing Nostalgic Belonging: an Interview Study of Assassin’s Creed’s Development

  Lars de Wildt , Stef Aupers

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• Unfamiliar Feminine Spaces in Gone Home’s Environmental Storytelling

  Magdalena Bednorz

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• The Interim State: between the Actual and the Virtual

  Melinda Sue Mangion

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• First-Person Narratives: Examining Narrative Persuasion in Virtual Reality

  Christopher Ball

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• Qualifiers of exclusion: discussion of GirlGamer Festival in Brazil

  Caetano Mayara Araujo, Beatriz Blanco

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• Framing the Gamer: A Study of Invented Marginality

  Wildt Lars de, Maude Bonenfant, Carl Therrien, Rilla Khaled

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• Beyond Gamification: Games Design as a Playful and Dynamic Methodology and Curatorial Intervention

  Angeliki Zinovia Symeonidi

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• Digital games and leisure ecosystems

  Kelly Bergstrom, Jamie Sherman

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• Living on Twitch: An Ethnography of Fatigue

  Mia Consalvo, Andrei Zanescu, Marc Lajeunesse

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• “I Guess We’re All Gay Now”: A Content Analysis of Gamers’ Reactions to New LGBTQ Characters on Reddit

  Ines Guanchez

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• Gambling for Fashion: How Videogame Designers Capitalise on ‘Status Ambivalence’ within Videogame Play

  Tom Brock, Mark Johnson

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• More of the Same: ECHO’s Aesthetics of Stuplime Repetition

  Rob Gallagher

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• Playing Disney: Experience and Expression in the Land of Curation

  T.L. Taylor

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• Banal, boring, or bad: Studying the understudied in game studies

  Mia Consalvo, Andrew M. Phelps

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• Challenges in Experimental Serious Game Design

  Michael Nitsche, Jack Shen-Kuen Chang, Gabriel Resch, Alison Doucette, Georgina Yeboah, Timothy Welsh, Ali Mazalek

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• Cards Against Humanity as a deviant leisure activity

  Kelly Bergstrom

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• Game Lexicon and Gamification in the Hong Kong Protest

  Yue-Jin Ho

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• How is the Gacha System Reported on in Japan?

  Masahito Fujihara, Akiko Shibuya

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• ROOK – Urban Play and Data Visualization

  Mattia Thibault, Cordeiro Artur Vasconcelos, Waal Martijn de

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• The Winner Takes It All: Dramatic Arcs in High-Performance Video Game Livestreaming

  Nathan J. Jackson

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• Cowboys, Outlaws, Ghouls and Spacefarers: The American Frontier within and without the United States

  Juan F. Belmonte Avila

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• Re-Thinking History Teaching: Historical Making and Learning in Digital Culture

  Samuel McCready

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• The Implied Participants: Reflections on Prototype Design for Experimental Player Studies

  Milan Jacevic

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• A Theoretical Framework for Game Jams in Applied Contexts

  Andrew J. Reid, Phillip Smy, Iain Donald

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• Lichenia and Climate Crisis: Feeling Dark Rhythms in the Longue Durée

  Merlin Seller

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• MMAJams – Multi-Method Analysis of Games in Research and Education

  Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Hartmut Koenitz

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• How User Modified Controllers Overcome Design Limitations to Create Competitive Advantage in Super Smash Bros. Melee

  David Cumming

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• The ambivalence of the flexible ‘gamer habitus’: learning to habituate oneself to constant re- habituation

  Feng Zhu

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• The Technical, Social, and Cultural Affordances of Intellivision

  Tom Boellstorff, Braxton Soderman

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• Paidic Money and Ludic Gambling Currencies in Novel Slot Machine Games

  Jani Kinnunen

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• The Game Narrative Renaissance: A Call for a Dedicated Game Writing Pedagogy

  Louise Persson, Rebecca Rouse

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• Uncovering Machine Vision in Videogames

  Ragnhild Solberg

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• The Disrupted Ludic Self: Aesthetics of character switching in NeiR: Automata

  Ryan C. Wright

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• The Authenticity Engine: Livestreaming on Twitch

  Mia Consalvo, Marc Lajeunesse, Andrei Zanescu

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• Platforms at the Peripheries: A Case Study Analysis of Historic Bootleg Consoles

  Ian Larson

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• Lyric Games: Geneaology of an Online “Physical Games” Scene

  Evan Torner

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• Bride, Demon or Alien? Undressing Stigma in Catherine: Full Body

  Nina P. Houe, Joleen Blom

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• The Aesthetics of Human Body in eSports-related Paratexts

  Mateusz Felczak

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• Play as Research in the Work of George Brecht

  Doug Stark

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• Ergodic Characterization: A Methodological Framework For Analyzing Games Set In Classical Antiquity

  Alexander Vandewalle, Steven Malliet

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• The Shōwa era’s living dead: the ludic reemergence of Japanese zombies

  Lawrence May

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• The Tragedy of the Art Game

  Olli Tapio Leino

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• Fresh Start: An Innovative Video Game to Educate First Year College Students about Mindful Drinking

  Yifeng Hu, Joshua Fishburn, Capria Kathryn La, Deanna Amarosa, Miles Cumiskey, Olivia Knutson

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• Gamification of Terror: Power Games as Liminal Spaces

  Sonia Fizek, Anne Dippel

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• Imaginary Platforms: The Neo Geo AES and the Object a of Videogame History

  Benjamin Nicoll

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• “Block the Spawn Point”: Play and Games in the Hong Kong 2019 Pro-democracy Protests

  Hanna Wirman, Rhys Jones

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• From Arbitration to Celebration – The Rise of the UK Videogame Magazine

  Robin Bootes

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• Anthropocene Temporalities in Climate Change Video Games

  Laura op de Beke

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• The Ongoing Product Lifecycle of a Games as Service Model: a League of Legends Case Study

  Josh Jarrett

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• “It’s About Fate, Among Other Things” – Digital Games, Dialogical Teaching, And Ethics

  Tobias Staaby

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• Navigating Existential, Transformative Game Design

  Andrew M. Phelps, Doris C. Rusch

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• How Players Learn Team-versus-Team Esports: First Results from A Grounded Theory Study

  Joseph Hesketh, Sebastian Deterding, Jeremy Gow

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• Brain-training Games: Play as a Tool for Cognitive Enhancement

  Waseq Rahman, Maxwell Foxman

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• Approximately history: Developer perspectives on counterfactual history in digital strategy games

  Ylva Grufstedt

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• East Meets South: the creative appropriation of Nintendo and Sega videogames in Brazil

  Mariana Amaro, Suely Fragoso

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• The Influence of Gender on Stress Among Video Game Players

  Christine Tomlinson

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• Using Transformative Learning Theory to Frame and Observe Learning Processes in Digital Games

  Mike H. Graham

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• Ludonarrativity and Player Agency in Sci-Fi Crime Games

  Rachel L. Wood

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• DS-Hacker: Teaching Data Structures and Algorithms Through Analogical Representations in the Game Environment and Game Challenges

  Albert Rojas-Salazar, Mads Haahr

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• Evocative games

  Nilson V. Soares, Luís C. Petry

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• Kinaesthetic Pleasure Permeating the Sense of Play: Vicarious Kinaesthesia and the Body-as-Interface

  Charalampos Apartoglou

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• ROM Hacks and Modding in the Age of User- Generated Content

  Christopher Hugelmann

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• “Well, That Was Fun, Who’s for Chinese?”: Blending in the Chineseness into China Related Video Games through Localized Translation

  Rong Ren, Mengqi Li

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• Towards a Hybrid Media Ecosystem of Tabletop Gaming

  Ville Kankainen

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• A Study on the Relationship between Motivation for Gaming and Creativity in Students who Major in Video Games Development or Design

  Masanori Fukui, Jun Moriyama, Yuji Sasaki, Jo Hagikura, Tsukasa Hirashima

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• Male Gamers, Identity and Masculinity

  Kristine Jørgensen, Skarsbø Synnøve Lindtner

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• The Rhythms of Gameplay Between Stable Forms and Changing Flow

  Johan Kalmanlehto

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• Build Through Play: How Engaging Mechanics Benefit Productivity

  Jack Gullen, Iain Donald

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• Fuel, Fatigue, Fashion: Towards a Media Ecology of Game Industry Conventions

  Nicholas Taylor, A. Joseph Dial

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• Making Sense of the Gameplay Design Pattern Collection

  Christopher Lee, Jussi Holopainen, Wayne Christian

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• Videogaming as Craft Consumption

  Tom Brock, Mark Johnson

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• Gender Asymmetries in the Digital Games Sector in Portugal

  Luciana Lima, Patrícia Gouveia

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• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild through the Lens of Italo Calvino’s Memo on “Lightness”

  Patrick Fiorilli

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• Lessons Learned from Serious Game Jams Organized by DiGRA JAPAN

  Megumi Aibara, Satoru Kawakami, Masakazu Furuichi

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• How not to Play the Game? Disinvolvement and the Philosophical Analysis of Inaction in Computer Games

  Alina Latypova, Alexander Lenkevich

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• From stimulus to situation – tracking situational information manipulation in quantitative intervention-based game research

  Miruna Vozaru

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• Reflection on A Design Process for an Educational Game on Mindful Drinking

  Joshua Fishburn, Yifeng Hu, Miles Cumiskey, Olivia Knutson, Capria Kathryn La, Deanna Amarosa

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• Farting on the Front Lines – Playing with Flatulence during World War II

  Jaakko Suominen, Elina Vaahensalo

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• Strategies of anonymity in Game Workers Unite UK

  Paolo Ruffino

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• Rethinking failure: Applying Gordon Calleja’s Model of Player Involvement to NieR: Automata

  Magdalena Kozyra

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• Computer Games as Social Sculptures: Toward a Reevaluation of the Social Potential of Games and Play

  Yu Hao

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• Between Immersion and Aesthetics: Video Game Players Discussing Enchantment

  Heidi Rautalahti

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• The Evolutionary Logic of Childhood in Retro Game Design

  Agata Zarzycka

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