2009: Proceedings of DiGRA 2009 Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory

Papers

• Through the Looking Glass: Weavings between the Magic Circle and Immersive Processes in Video Games

  Emmanoel Ferreira, Thiago Falcão

  • PDF

• Kingdom Hearts, Territoriality and Flow

  William Huber, Stephen Mandiberg

  • PDF

• Ethically Notable Videogames: Moral Dilemmas and Gameplay

  José P. Zagal

  • PDF

• Boys’ Play in the Fourth Space: Freedom of Movements in a Tween Virtual World

  Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai

  • PDF

• The new gatekeepers: The occupational ideology of game journalism

  Tanja Sihvonen

  • PDF

• An affordance based model for gameplay

  Dan Pinchbeck

  • PDF

• Researching player experiences through the use of different qualitative methods

  Wannes Ribbens, Yorick Poels

  • PDF

• Using an RFID game to phenomenologically test a theoretical systemic model for describing ambient games

  Mark Eyles, Roger Eglin

  • PDF

• “I Like the Idea of Killing But Not the Idea of Cruelty”: How New Zealand youth negotiate the pleasures of simulated violence

  Gareth Schott

  • PDF

• Agency Reconsidered

  Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas, Steven Dow, Serdar Sali

  • PDF

• The Game Frame: Systemizing a Goffmanian Approach to Video Game Theory [Extended Abstract]

  Sebastian Deterding

  • PDF

• Play’s the Thing: A Framework to Study Videogames as Performance

  Clara Fernández-Vara

  • PDF

• A Study on New Gameplay Based on Brain-Computer Interface

  Minjin Ko, Kyoungwoo Bae, Gyuhwan Oh, Taiyoung Ryu

  • PDF

• “I’m overburdened!” An Empirical Study of the Player, the Avatar, and the Gameworld

  Kristine Jørgensen

  • PDF

• The Rise and Fall of CTS: Kenneth Burke Identifying with the World of Warcraft

  Christopher A. Paul, Jeffrey S. Philpott

  • PDF

• Effects of Sensory Immersion on Behavioural Indicators of Player Experience: Movement Synchrony and Controller Pressure

  Wouter M. van den Hoogen, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn, Yvonne A.W. de Kort

  • PDF

• Peer Puppeteers: Alternate Reality Gaming in Primary School Settings

  Angela Colvert

  • PDF

• Using microgenetic methods to investigate problem solving in video games

  Alice Anderson, Cornelia Brunner, Katie McMillan Culp, James Diamond, Ashley Lewis, Wendy Martin

  • PDF

• Understanding 21st Century’s Mobile Device-Based Games within Boundaries

  Pirita Ihamäki, Pauliina Tuomi

  • PDF

• Playability and Player Experience Research [Panel Abstracts]

  Lennart E. Nacke, Anders Drachen, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Joerg Niesenhaus, Hannu Korhonen, Wouter M. van den Hoogen, Karolien Poels, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn IJsselsteijn

  • PDF

• Fake Rules, Real Fiction: Professional Wrestling and Videogames

  Costantino Oliva, Gordon Calleja

  • PDF

• Some Notes on the Nature of Game Design

  Jussi Kuittinen, Jussi Holopainen

  • PDF

• Press Enter or Escape to Play – Deconstructing Escapism in Multiplayer Gaming

  Harald Warmelink, Casper Harteveld, Igor Mayer

  • PDF

• Understanding Empathy in Children through 3D Character Design

  Kah Chan, Douglas Easterly, Aukje Thomassen

  • PDF

• On the Edge of Reality: Reality Fiction in ‘Sanningen om Marika’

  Annika Waern, Marie Denward

  • PDF

• Effects of Peripheral Visual Information on Performance of Video Game with Hemi-Spherical Immersive Projection Screen

  Yasuhiro Seya, Kotaro Sato, Yusuke Kimura, Akira Ookubo, Hitoshi Yamagata, Kazumi Kasahara, Fujikake Hiroya, Yuki Yamamoto, Hanako Ikeda, Katsumi Watanabe

  • PDF

• Evolution and Digital Game Studies

  Douglas Easterly, Dale Carnegie, David Harper

  • PDF

• ‘What sort of Fish was it?’ How Players Understand their Narrative in Online Games

  Esther MacCallum-Stewart

  • PDF

• “How many headshots you’ve done”: Achievement as discursive practice in videogame play

  Mike Molesworth

  • PDF

• Exploring Aesthetic Ideals of Gameplay

  Sus Lundgren, Karl J. Bergström, Staffan Björk

  • PDF

• Gameplay Design Patterns for Game Dialogues

  Jenny Brusk, Staffan Björk

  • PDF

• Age Differences in Associations with Digital Gaming

  Henk Herman Nap, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn, Yvonne A.W. de Kort

  • PDF

• Digital Art in the Age of Social Media: A Case Study of the politics of personalization via cute culture.

  Larissa Hjorth

  • PDF

• Play as Transgression: An Ethnographic Approach to Queer Game Cultures

  Jenny Sundén

  • PDF

• In search of a minimalist game

  David Myers

  • PDF

• The Player Character as Performing Object

  Emma Westecott

  • PDF

• Patterns of Play: Play-Personas in User-Centred Game Development

  Alessandro Canossa, Anders Drachen

  • PDF

• Making Sense in Ludic Worlds. The Idealization of Immersive Postures in Movies and Video Games

  Carl Therrien

  • PDF

• Mapping the game landscape: Locating genres using functional classification

  Steve Dahlskog, Andreas Kamstrup, Espen Aarseth

  • PDF

• What Makes Online Collectible Card Games Fun to Play?

  Stefan J. Johansson

  • PDF

• Collaboration, Creativity and Learning in a Play Community: A Study of The University of There

  Fix Pearce, Fix Celia

  • PDF

• A Platform-Independent Model for Videogame Gameplay Specification

  Emanuel Montero-Reyno, José Á. Carsí-Cubel

  • PDF

• What Videogame Making Can Teach Us About Access and Ethics in Participatory Culture

  Yasmin B. Kafai, William Q. Burke, Deborah A. Fields

  • PDF

• Teleporters, Tunnels & Time: Understanding Warp Devices In Videogames

  Alison Gazzard

  • PDF

• What We Talk About When We Talk About Game Aesthetics

  Simon Niedenthal

  • PDF

• From Simulation to Imitation: New Controllers, New Forms of Play

  Jennifer Jenson, Suzanne de Castell

  • PDF

• The Gigue Is Up: High Culture Gets Game

  Jennifer Jenson, Suzanne de Castell, Nicholas Taylor, Milena Droumeva, Stephanie Fisher

  • PDF

• Commoditization of Helping Players Play: Rise of the Service Paradigm

  Jaakko Stenros, Olli Sotamaa

  • PDF

• The Cheating Assemblage in MMORPGs: Toward a sociotechnical description of cheating

  Stefano De Paoli, Aphra Kerr

  • PDF

• Keeping It Reel: Is Machinima A Form Of Art?

  Erik Champion

  • PDF

• Towards a Socio-Cultural Cartography of In-Game Protests

  Dean Chan

  • PDF

• The Troubled Transition to Game Study Projects

  Ken Newman

  • PDF

• Take One – or Three – for the Team: Consumerism as Play

  Melinda Jacobs

  • PDF

• Anxiety, Openness, and Activist Games:A Case Study for Critical Play

  Mary Flanagan, Anna Lotko

  • PDF

• Demystifying guilds: MMORPG-playing and norms

  Harko Verhagen, Magnus Johansson

  • PDF

• Utilizing Displayless Space in Collocated Games

  Jarmo Kauko, Juha Arrasvuori

  • PDF

• Negotiating Play: The Process of Rule Construction inProfessional Computer Gaming

  T.L. Taylor

  • PDF

• Where have all the games gone? Explorations on the cultural significance of digital games and preservation

  Joanna Barwick, Adrienne Muir, James Dearnley

  • PDF

• Where Do Game Design Ideas Come From? Invention and Recycling in Games Developed in Sweden

  Ulf Hagen

  • PDF

• You Played That? Game Studies Meets Game Criticism

  David Thomas, José P. Zagal, Margaret Robertson, Ian Bogost, William Huber

  • PDF

• Newsgames – Procedural Rhetoric Meets Political Cartoons

  Mike Treanor

  • PDF

• Evaluating Interactive Entertainment using Breakdown: Understanding Embodied Learning in Video Games

  William Ryan, Martin A. Siegel

  • PDF

• The Integration of the Computer-mediated Ludic Experience in Multisensory Environments

  Licinio Roque, Nuno Castelhano

  • PDF

• Encoding liveness: Performance and real-time rendering in machinima

  David Cameron, John Carroll

  • PDF

• Before It’s Too Late: Preserving Games across the Industry / Academia divide

  Henry Lowood, Andrew Armstrong, Devin Monnens, Zach Vowell, Judd Ruggill, Ken McAllister, Rachel Donahue, Dan Pinchbeck

  • PDF

• Let Me Entertain You: Designing for Surveillance and Online Gaming

  Deirdre Devers, Stephanie Wilson

  • PDF

• Experiential Narrative in Game Environments

  Gordon Calleja

  • PDF

• Exploring Game Aesthetics

  Hanna Sommerseth

  • PDF

• Textual Analysis, Digital Games, Zombies

  Diane Carr

  • PDF

• Beyond Adversarial: The Case for Game AI as Storytelling

  David L. Roberts, Mark O. Riedl, Charles L. Isbell

  • PDF

• Towards Data-Driven Drama Management: Issues in Data Collection and Annotation

  Anders Drachen, Michael Hitchens, Arnav Jhala, Georgios Yannakakis

  • PDF

• Player Perception of Context Information Utilization in Pervasive Mobile Games

  Janne Paavilainen, Hannu Korhonen, Hannamari Saarenpää, Jussi Holopainen

  • PDF

• Emulation as a strategy for the preservation of games: the KEEP project

  Dan Pinchbeck, David Anderson, Janet Delve, Antonio Ciuffreda, Getaneh Otemu, Andreas Lange

  • PDF

• Emotional Attachments for Story Construction in Virtual Game Worlds

  Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari

  • PDF

• Glitch Game Testers: African American Men Breaking Open the Console

  Betsy James DiSalvo, Mark Guzdail, Tom Mcklin, Charles Meadows, Kenneth Perry, Corey Steward, Amy S. Bruckman

  • PDF

• A Literary Excursion Into the Hidden (Fan) Fictional Worlds of Tetris, Starcraft, and Dreamfall

  Jana Rambusch, Tarja Susi, Stefan Ekman, Ulf Wilhelmsson

  • PDF

• Contextually-Ambiguous Pervasive Games: An Exploratory Study

  Neil Dansey, Brett Stevens, Roger Eglin

  • PDF

• The Order of Play: Seeing, Teaching, and Learning Meaning in Video Games

  Aaron Chia-Yuan Hung

  • PDF

• Design Guidelines for Learning Games: the Living Forest Game Design Case

  Luís Lucas Pereira, Licínio Gomes Roque

  • PDF

• Persuasive design of a mobile energy conservation game with direct feedback and social cues

  Magnus Bang, Mattias Svahn, Anton Gustafsson

  • PDF

• DATAPLAY: Mapping Game Mechanics to Traditional Data Visualization

  Colleen Macklin, Julia Wargaski, Michael Edwards, Kan Yang Li

  • PDF

• Genre in Genre: The Role of Music in Music Games

  Ben Aslinger

  • PDF

• Transgressive Gender Play: Profiles and Portraits of Girl Players in a Tween Virtual World

  Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Michael T. Giang

  • PDF

• Mechanisms of the Soul – Tackling the Human Condition in Videogames

  Doris C. Rusch

  • PDF

• Make Videogames History: Game preservation and The National Videogame Archive

  James Newman, Iain Simons

  • PDF

• Defining Operational Logics

  Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas

  • PDF

• Better Game Studies Education the Carcassonne Way

  Kenneth Hullett, Sri Kurniawan, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

  • PDF

• Playful User Interfaces: Literature Review and Model for Analysis

  Ekaterina Kuts

  • PDF

• Modeling Games with Petri Nets

  Manuel Araújo

  • PDF

• Conflict management and leadership communication in multiplayer communities

  Marko Siitonen

  • PDF

• Processing Play; Perceptions of Persuasion

  Mattias Svahn

  • PDF

• The Words of Warcraft: relational text analysis of quests in an MMORPG

  Peter Landwehr, Jana Diesner, Kathleen M. Carley

  • PDF