2022: Abstract Proceedings of DiGRA 2022 Conference: Bringing Worlds Together 2022

Papers

• Landscape game spaces: Understanding experiences of video game spaces through the concept of Topological Space

  Rosane Lebreton

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• Multimodal Framework for Enhancing RPG Playfulness through Avatar Acting Affordances

  Christopher Maraffi

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• Adaptation and Artistic Translation: Localization of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in the Context of National Cultures

  Aleksandra Prokopek

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• Prosthetic Metaphors, Rejection, and Representation in Games

  Daniel Gardner, Kelly Hacker

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• Playful Politics and Political Play: Conceptualizing Videogames as a Political Arena

  Kristine Jørgensen

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• Examining Misinformation and Disinformation Games: Dichotomies and Context

  Songyi Liang, Lindsay Grace

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• Digital games as persuasion spaces for political marketing. The case of Fortnite and Joe Biden’s campaign

  de la Cruz Jenniffer Soto, la Hera Conde-Pumpido Teresa de, Gómez Sara Cortés, Pilar Lacasa

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• “Why Do You Play Dungeons & Dragons [D&D]?”: Investigating Motivations for Play in Non-Digital Games

  Premeet Sidhu

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• Tokyo Disneyland Games in Translation

  Bobby Schweizer

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• Using Characterization Theory to Study the History of Video Game Characters

  Alexander Vandewalle, Steven Malliet

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• On, Off and In the Map: Materialising Game Experiences Through Player Cartography

  Nick Webber

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• Intra-Active Play. Or What do Video Games have to do with Quantum Physics?

  Sonia Fizek

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• Exploring Video Game Brand Authenticity

  Jacqueline Burgess, Christian M. Jones

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• The Digital Game Analysis Protocol (DiGAP): Facilitating Transparency in Games Research

  Rowan Daneels, Maarten Denoo, Alexander Vandewalle, Steven Malliet

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• Emotional Labor in the Paid Co-playing Practice

  Yahui Cao

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• Magical Mirrors and I: Interweaving learning with mirror play

  Ishika Joshi, Neha Khanna, Aman Parnami

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• Dating in Video Games: The Role of Game Features

  Munifa Shaza, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen

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• Roleplaying the Future of Surveillance

  Kristian A. Bjørkelo, Rettberg Jill Walker, Marianne Gunderson, Seta Gabriele de

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• Examining the Flow Experience in Final Fantasy XIV Online through the Lens of Player Personality and Motivation to Play

  Daniel Kaufmann, Stephanie L. Diez-Morel

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• What is a Game Autrice? The Auteur Theory and Female Game Developers (Muriel Tramis’s Example)

  Filip Jankowski

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• Seeing With Sound: Creating Audio Only Games

  Zach Mason

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• Bakhtin’s Artificial Intelligence: Toward a Poetics of Object-Oriented Storytelling

  Frank Ming

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• Mechanics on the Blockchain: A Taxonomy of NFTs in Games

  Jack Murray, Anastasia Salter

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• On Pilgrimage: Post-Apocalyptic Wandering in Death Stranding and The Last of Us Part II

  Melissa Kagen

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• The Rogue and the City: Thieves World and the expanding role of Literature in Tabletop Roleplaying

  David Matencio Durán, Thomas H. Apperley

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• “Not my proudest fap” – Among Us porn videos and audience reception

  Tanja Välisalo, Maria Ruotsalainen

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• It all starts with a name Mapping the terms used by researchers to describe gambling-like elements in digital games

  Bruno Dupont, Eva Grosemans, Maarten Denoo, Nadia Feci, Pieterjan Declerck, Lowie Bradt, Heel Martijn Van, Bieke Zaman, Cock Rozane De

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• “Emergent countries play, too!”: A decolonial take on the history of videogames through the Zeebo platform

  Bruno Henrique de Paula

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• Making Sense of Lived Experiences with Opioid Addiction through Autobiographical Game Design and Game Jamming Practices

  Sandra Danilovic, Michelle Skop, Vanessa Oliver

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• The Impact of Kickstarter on Board Game Design

  Gordon Calleja

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• In defence of the n00b: Game analysis, ludic literacy and the novice player

  René Glas, Vught Jasper van

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• Debriefing tactics: A study of interaction in game-based military education

  Bjorn Sjoblom

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• Final Fantasies: Final Fantasy III/VI Authenticity Hacks

  Michael Iantorno

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• (In)Visible Walls: Borders in Video Games as Myths of the Present

  Beatriz Pérez-Zapata, Víctor Navarro-Remesal

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• Questioning alternative and standard game controllers through hegemonic models

  Enric Granzotto Llagostera

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• Reconceiving the Fictionality of Game Worlds: Money in Osadchuk’s Mirror World as an Affective Point of Entry

  Amy Hasun Ahn

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• Indie Game Developers in Germany: Between Creativity and Making Money

  Tom Novy, Jeffrey Wimmer

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• Control (2019) and Concrete: The Haunting Thingness of Digital Assets

  Merlin Seller

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• Ludomythologies: myths in the present and of the present in contemporary games

  Víctor Navarro-Remesal, la Maza Antonio José Planells de

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• Does Co-discovering Educational Games Design Process between Game designers and Teachers Converge?

  Mifrah Ahmad

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• Pixels, performances, and failures – Defining non-human agency in video game performances

  Marleena Huuhka

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• How Visual Novel Games colonize sexuality to situating sexualities

  Luke Hernandez

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• Exploring Women´s Participation, Gender Discrimination, and Sexual Harassment in the Mexican Video Game Industry

  Ruth S. Contreras-Espinosa, Contreras Jimena Yisel Caballero, Jose Luis Eguia-Gomez

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• From Cyborgs to Digital Companion Species: Reimagining Player-Game Relations

  Yu Hao

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• Playful Experiences with Games: Empirical Findings from the Playful Life Project

  Leland Masek, Sharon Shen

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• Opening Pandora’s loot box: Weak links with gambling and player opinions on probability disclosures in China

  Leon Y. Xiao, Tullia C. Fraser, Philip W.S. Newall

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• Exergaming at home and in formal education: How can it become (more) effective?

  Marco Rüth, Kai Kaspar

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• Japanese Ludiquity: spatial reframing of Play in Japan

  Cassone Vincenzo Idone

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• Liminality, Embodiment and Metamorphosis: Applying The Transformative Power of Ceremonial Magic to Mixed Reality Games Design

  Mariza Dima, Maria Saridaki

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• Speedruns as assemblage: Witnessing reterritorialization through developer reaction videos

  Lawrence May, Fraser McKissack

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• A Walk in a Box: Understanding Board Game Immersion

  Gordon Calleja

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• Technicity in/of Esports : A case study of LCK

  Yaewon Jin

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• Game production in Greece: What we have learnt so far

  Elina Roinioti

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• The role of practices and synchronicity in the production of commented gameplay videos. A qualitative interrogation of German gaming content creators

  Antonia Wurm, Jeffrey Wimmer

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• Blizzlike, Game Plus, and Funservers: An Analysis of World of Warcraft Private Servers

  Geoffrey Hill, Martin Gibbs, Melissa J. Rogerson

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• It’s a Monster’s World

  Tanja Sihvonen

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• Lessons Learned in the Rise and Fall of Newsgames as a Genre

  Lindsay Grace, Caleb Solomon

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• Key Aspects of Game Design Research – A Scoping Review

  Lukas Berger, Fares Kayali, Matthias Steinböck

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• Multilingual Persuasion Detection: Video Games as an Invaluable Data Source for NLP

  Teemu Pöyhönen, Mika Hämäläinen, Khalid Alnajjar

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