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

Papers

• Women and Productivity [Panel]

  Hanna Wirman, Shira Chess, Anne-Mette Albrechtslund, Jessica Enevold

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• Making Sense of Game Aesthetics [Panel]

  Alessandro Canossa, Graeme Kirkpatrick, Simon Niedenthal, Cindy Poremba

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• Meaningful Movement: The Labyrinth and ‘Castlevania: Symphony of the Night’

  Paul Martin

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• Gold farming in the MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game), World of Warcraft. An ethical perspective on a controversial growth market

  Stefan Heinemann

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• Discovering Super Mario Galaxy: A Textual Analysis

  Keith Linares

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• Levels of Complexity: Cultural Diversity, Politics and Digital Games

  Aphra Kerr

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• Sex and Videogames: A Case of Misappearance?

  Tanya Krzywinska

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• Morphology of the tetromino-stacking game: The design evolution of Tetris

  Will Jordan

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• More Than Just a Combo of Slaps? Representations and Experiences of LGBT Gamers On and Beyond the Screen

  Ben Light

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• The Achievement Machine: Understanding the Xbox Live Metagame

  Mikael Jakobsson

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• Workshop: Ethics in Videogames [Workshop]

  José P. Zagal, Karen Schrier, Miguel Sicart

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• Balance Boards and Dance Pads: The Impact of Innovation on Gendered Access to Gaming

  Alison Harvey

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• Placing the blame: Negotiation of gaming performance

  Bjorn Sjoblom

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• Role-Playing Games: The State of Knowledge [Panel]

  Anders Drachen, Marinka Copier, Markus Montola, Mirjam Eladhari, Michael Hitchens, Jaakko Stenros

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• MMOGs and the Ecology of Fiction: Understanding LOTRO as Transmedial World

  Lisbeth Klastrup, Susana Tosca

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• ‘No Light Sabres Allowed’: Role-playing in Star Wars Galaxies

  Thordis Sveinsdottir

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• Agency and the Free Will debate

  Justin Parsler

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• World of Warcraft, the Aftermath How game elements transfer into real life perceptions and experiences

  Karolien Poels

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• Complexities of Gaming Cultures:Adolescent gamers adapting and transforming learning

  Liz Merkel, Kathy Sandford, Tim Hopper

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• Where the Women Are(n’t): Gender and a North American ‘Pro-gaming’ Scene

  Nicholas Taylor

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• “I’m not afraid to die, Mom”:Parental perceptions & stories of their adolescents gaming

  Leanna Madill

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• Wii Gaming for Older Players: From Motivation to Appropriation, and Usability to User Experience

  Gareth White, Dave Harley, Lesley Axelrod, Geraldine Fitzpatrick

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• Playing your network: gaming in social network sites

  Luca Rossi

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• World and Place – Map and Territory

  Britta Neitzel

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• Collusion. Mapping the Interplay between Paid and Unpaid Labourers in the Digital Games Industry

  Julian Kücklich

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• Locative Life: Geocaching, Mobile Gaming, and the Reassertion of Proximity

  Jason Farman

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• Creativity in the Game Design Classroom

  Jessica Hammer

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• A Process-oriented pedagogy for collaborative game-based learning

  Philip Bonanno

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• ‘Remembering How You Died’: Memory, Death and Temporality in Videogames

  Souvik Mukherjee

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• Intellectual Disability and Game Accessibility

  Siobhan Thomas

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• “Some Assembly Required”: Starting and Growing a Game Lab

  Mary Flanagan, Celia Pearce

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• Tabletop Augmented Reality Games: Play Outside the Display

  Yan Xu, Evan Barba

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• Bridging Gaming and Designing: Two Sites of Informal Design Learning

  Sean Duncan

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• Thrifty Players in a Twisted Game World? — A Study on Private Online Game Servers

  Holin Lin, Chuen-Tsai Sun

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• Understanding Play Practices: Contributions to the State of the Art [Panel]

  Patrick J. Coppock, Dario Compagno, Agata Meneghelli, Alessandro Catania, Gabriele Ferri

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• Simulating a Quasi-Simulation: A framework for using Multi Agent Simulation Techniques for studying MMORPGs

  Javier Salazar

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• Killing Time in Diner Dash: Representation, Gender, and Casual Games

  Braxton Soderman

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• In the Horrifying Magic Cycle of Resident Evil 5: A Case Study

  Bernard Perron

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• Bad Games Panel [Panel]

  Jesper Juul, Matthew Weise, Jason Begy

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• Girls’ Play: Context, performance & social videogame play

  Shanly Dixon, Kelly Boudreau

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• Abstractions of a meaningless act: (spending) time in the gaming world

  Vanessa Long

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• Streets = Play = Fun [Workshop]

  Subalekha Udayasankar, LeAnne Wagner

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• The hybrid identity of player characters: between Facebook and the Sacred book

  Massimo Maietti

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• Abusing the Player, and Making Them Like it Too!

  Douglas Wilson, Miguel Sicart

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• Game Development: a Teaching Challenge

  Roman Divotkey, Martina Karrer, Jeremiah Diephuis

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• Horror Videogames and the Uncanny

  Ewan Kirkland

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• “It’s in the game” and above the game: An analysis of the players of sports videogames

  Steven Conway

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