2024: Abstract Proceedings of DiGRA 2024 Conference: Playgrounds

Papers

• Observant Play and Modding: The Postcolonial, Environmentalist Playthrough of Minecraft

  J. M. L. Whittington

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• Shapeless

  Chelsea Brtis

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• Differential Impact of the Positive and Negative Image of Digital Games on University Students' Computational Thinking

  Masanori Fukui, Yudai Sano, Kazuki Okuno, Masakatsu Kuroda, Eng Ong, Khar Ng, Peter Chew

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• Gamifying Race: Play as Apparatus and Ludic "Asianness" as Diffracted Realities

  Tung Tse

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• From Modding To AI Generators: The Shifting Landscape of Remix Culture and Intellectual Property

  Peter Nelson

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• Visceral Rhetoric for a Post-Factual Society

  Alessandro Canossa, Tamara Metze, Jichen Zhu, Casper Harteveld

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• Playing by the Rules of The Dominant Player

  Julie Tremblay

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• Drifting in the Trees: Creating Playgrounds with Recreational Urban Tree Climbing

  Julie Tremblay

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• Good Gamer, Good Citizen: Representing Video Games in Chinese Television

  Charlotte Stevens

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• 1001 Nights: AI-native narrative game driven by large language models

  Yuqian Sun

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• Ludic Interventions in Studying Urban Play: Learning from Lack of participation

  Lilli Sihvonen, Jaakko Suominen, Johanna Ylipulli

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• Merging Ludus and Mimesis: Playful Engagements with NPCs on TikTok

  Tanja Sihvonen, Kristine Ask

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• A Renewable Artgames Residency: exploring sustainable practices for art game design

  Cindy Poremba, Kara Stone

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• 'Jogos de Mesa contra Fake News': Reflections on Serious Analogue Games for Media Literacy

  E. Charlotte Stevens, Nick Webber, Marcelo Fontoura, Marcelo de Vasconcellos

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• Speaking of Time: Time-centric Language in Video Game Marketing and User Reviews on Steam

  Thomas Byers

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• What Fantasy Soccer Offers Game Studies

  Christopher Paul, Olli Sotamaa

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• A [W]hole in One. Balkanization, Empire, and the Apocalypse as Playground in 'Golf Club Nostalgia'

  Diego Mejía-Alandia

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• Psychogeographical Games in "Ludotopia": The exploration of virtual worlds in games as a medium for artistic practice

  Debbie Ding

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• Wanting Playfulness to Counter Fatigue from Virtual Meetings: Associations with Social Interaction Anxiety and Workaholism

  Chaeyun Lim, Maxwell Foxman, Alex Leith, Dar Ratan

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• Coworking in a Playground: Wellbeing Effects of Playful Design

  Leland Masek, Barbora Šmirinová, Arttu Lakkala, Yanal Marji, Emily Zhang, Valpuri Erkkilä

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• "You can be sexy AND powerful!": Gender presentation in video games using Genshin Impact as an example

  Mengqi Li, Jingyan Lin

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• Breaking the fourth wall: spectating as metagaming in Inscryption

  Xin Pan

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• The Other Playground: Negotiating Precarity in Dark Souls III Player vs Player Encounters

  Heather Maycock

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• The BookTok to Player Pipeline: TikTok and the Baldur's Gate 3 Fandom

  Ashley Guajardo

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• Grounds for Coping: When and Why Women Gamers Employ Different Harassment Management Strategies

  Vasil Arangelov, Shane Burell, Amanda Cote, Maxwell Foxman, Waseq Rahman

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• Child Appropriate Game Design: Year 1 Findings

  Sara Grimes, Bronwyn Swerdfager, Riley McNair

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• Metanarrative Horror: The Existential Dread of Choice

  Claire Stricklin, Samuel Muscente

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• Playable Archive: The management of data in the FIFA/EA Sports franchise.

  Iain Donald

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• Playbour or Leisure: Unveiling Subjectivity in Chinese Digital Game Labor Landscape

  Haiyan Chen

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• CosTechPlay: Towards a Teaching Concept that brings Cosplay to Schools

  Natalie Denk, Simon Wimmer, Hannelore Hollinetz

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• Play and playfulness on the Chinese social media platform Weibo

  Mengdi Zhu

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• Translating Cultural Memory in Video Games: Realism and Localization of Chinese Parents

  Dody Chen, Haoxi Luo

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• A Body Without End: The Trans Twine Games of Porpentine Charity Heartscape

  Merlyn Seller

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• Dinosaurs in Your Playgrounds: Remediating the Anthropocene and Othering in Jurassic World: Evolution

  Souvik Mukherjee

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• Unsweet Tea: Games as Bodies

  Jack Perse

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• Reflecting on Pride at Play

  Xavier Ho, Fae Daunt, Mads Mackenzie, Chloe Appleby

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• Let's Play Illiberal Democracy: Authoritarian Political Simulators as Playgrounds of History

  Péter Makai

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• Patterns for Designing Poetic Gameplay

  Alex Mitchell, Tiffany Neo, Yuin Sim

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• At the Push of a Button: Player/Avatar Fusion and the 'Gestural Potential' of Video Game Music

  James Ellis

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• Nancy Drew Video Games and the Spaces of Girlhood Play

  Reem Hilu

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• Who Owns the Gamespace? Negotiating Spatial Agency in Video Games

  Hamza Bashandy

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• The Inadvertent Construction of Leaders in Digital Games

  Oskar Milik

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• TIM THE TATMAN, FALL GUYS, & DUDE BRO STREAMERS: UNPACKING HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY ON TWITCH

  Brandon Harris

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• Choosing Who to Sacrifice: Embodying Death in Indie Video Games

  Juliana Ruseva

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• Compliance with loot box regulation in the UK, the Netherlands, China, South Korea, and Taiwan

  Leon Xiao

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• Gambling as a Playground for Adults? Or the Interconnection between Games & Gambling.

  Markus Wiemker

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• Eques Polonus sum. Intentional and accidental tropes of Polish heritage in Sienkiewicz-themed digital games

  Tomasz Majkowski, Magdalena Kozyra, Aleksandra Prokopek

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• A Stray autoethnography: Becoming-animal, or anthropomorphic humanism?

  Poppy Wilde

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• Playing Bastion as a solastagic game: a case study of Supergiant Games' avant-garde era

  Heather Blakey

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• Newsgames as a Case Study for The Value and Challenges of Archiving Digital Games

  Lindsay Grace, Mehdi Shah

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• Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design in Meeting Platforms

  Maxwell Foxman, Dalton Bouzek, Chaeyun Lim, Rabindra Ratan, Brian Klebig, Alex Leith, David Beyea

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• Masculinity in Gaming Communities: An Analysis of Costume Play Meme

  Yeonwoo Lee, Yunhee Cho

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• The Sim Who Sold the World. Distorted Environmentalism in Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle

  Eleonora Imbierowicz

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• Translating Playing Fields: Digital and the Physical Playgrounds

  Souvik Mukherjee

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• Personality, Fantasy, and Spirituality: Comparing Analog Role-players to Other Populations

  Joshua Juvrud, Sarah Bowman, Kjell Hugaas

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• Framework-based Roguelike Game for AI/ML Education

  Ayana Uematsu, Daisuke Saito, Hironori Fukazawa

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• Restorative vs. Reflective Nostalgia in Arcade Paradise

  Péter Makai

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• Shifting Patterns of Female Representation Across Assassin's Creed

  Andrei Zanescu, Lina Eklund

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• Poverty (Is All Fun) and Games

  Eleonora Imbierowicz

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• Grieving World of Warcraft's Chinese Server Shutdown

  Honglan Xu, Lars de Wildt

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• Order in Chaos: Toward a Theory of Videoludic Noise

  Hugo Montembeault, Frédérick Maheux

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• Journeying Through Time: Navigating Experiences of Past-Play

  Keerthi Sridharan

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• Firewatch: (Studying) the Anatomy of a Game Design Process

  John Healy, Annakaisa Kultima

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• What Is It Like to Play like a Dog?

  Mathias Fuchs

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• Playing the Hidden Curriculum: Designing games to materialize and question the unwritten rules in higher education classrooms

  Jasper Van Vught

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• Video Games as Participatory Playgrounds for Civic Imaginations on War: The Case of Laika: Aged Through Blood

  Michel Maksimova, Own Kim

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• Greek Game Developers' Opinions on the Representation and Reception of (Ancient) Greece in Games: An Exploratory Interview Pilot Study

  Alexander Vandewalle

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• "We want to give others the same chance we had": When indie developers become money capitalists.

  Brendan Keogh

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• From Nothingness to Game: Understanding the Emergence of Videogames through Posthumanism and Nishida Kitaro

  Andrea Andiloro

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• Kidnapping Women, Conquering Countries: Female (Under-)Representation in Asterix Video Games

  Paolo D'Indinosante

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• 1-Bit Skin: Materializing Abjection in World of Horror (2023)

  Chiara Haynes

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• "El Niño's Finger": A Lightweight H5 Game Using Conceptual Metaphors to Reflect Ecological Thought

  Yi Zhang, Xiaoqing Sun

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• Past Orientations: Edutainment, Computer Games and Historical Consciousness

  Diego Calderara

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• City Residuals

  Runqi Zhou, Runqi Zhou, Runqi Zhou

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• What Is a National Video Game?

  Stanisław Krawczyk

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• A Mythology of Raids: How raiding persists as a cultural phenomenon of torturous play

  Ben Scholl

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• Reset and Replay: Planning Game Industry Events Post-Pandemic

  Mahli-Ann Butt, Taylor Hardwick

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• The Fearful Realism: Chinese Horror Indie Games and the Realist Horror

  Haoxi Luo

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• Pass and Play in Mixed Reality: Unconventional use of a MR headset as a shareable display

  Chris Leisi, Hiloko Kato, Oliver Sahli

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• Acousmatics, Video Games, and Situating Play

  Logan Davis

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• Lost in Paradise! Open-World Landscapes as Baroque Pleasure Gardens

  Thomas Spies, Leonhard Müllner

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• 'Hey! You're not supposed to be here!': Simulated Trespass and Intrusion in Virtual Playgrounds

  Jon Stone

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• 'I like to feel strong but not to kill': an exploration of age 4 to 10 girls' console game experiences in China

  Yunfei Li, Phillip Wilkinson, Ashley Woodfall

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• Is Games Journalism In Crisis? Examining The Shifting Gaming Media Ecosystem

  Ryan Stanton

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• Frameplaying: the photographic configurative act in the Gran Turismo series photo modes

  Mariana da Fontoura

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• Playscape

  Peter Nelson, Amber Ng

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• History, Time and the Past in Radiant Historia

  Nick Webber

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• Ludo-spectatorship as gaming and metagaming: exploring the pleasures of assemblage

  Xin Pan

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• Production Dynamics in Indigenous Latin American Games: From, With or About

  Nicolas Hennig

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• Cursed: A Ludic Genealogy of the Myth of El Dorado

  Mikael Jakobsson, Santiago Ojeda-Ramirez

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• Gaming the Future: How Games Help Us Play What's to Come

  Sina Torabi

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• Lefebvre at the arcade: Understanding gaming houses as esports' playgrounds

  Alessandro Franzó

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• Dou Dizhu For All: An Accessible Card Game for Visually Impaired Persons in China Powered by ChatGPT's Language Model

  Yunke Deng

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• Dynamical-meaning Focused Design: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance

  Jasmine Liang

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• Crunch on the playground: long hours of work in game development

  Daeana Bourscheid, Andrea Steil

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• Furry Ex Machina: How does VRChat allow for modern instances of digital identity generation and immersion in the furry fandom?

  Reuben Mount

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• Playful Podcasting: Analyzing the Creators and Audiences of Gaming Podcasts

  Ryan Stanton

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• Protest Video Games in the Popular Uprising in Chile: Analysis of their Discourses and Contributions to the Discussion on Political Video Games in Contemporary Social Movements.

  Marco Jaramillo

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• Videogames and Public Play in the Late 1970s: the Case of TV POWWW!

  Braxton Soderman, Tom Boellstorff

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• Puja, Pandals and Paratextual Playgrounds: A Case Study of Durga Puja 2023 in Kolkata, India

  Souvik Kar, Souvik Mukherjee, Zahra Rizvi

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• Propping Up Play: Game Objects, Affordances, and Perceptual Multiplicity

  Keerthi Sridharan

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• Game Design Education for AAA, Creativity, or Critical Thinking

  Mika Edström

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• The Changing Art of "Housery" in The Age of VAR

  Olli Sotamaa, Christopher Paul

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• Big Brother Meets Joystick: Ethical Perspectives on Surveillance Imagery in Digital Games

  Martin Hennig, Theresa Krampe, Wulf Loh, Markus Spöhrer

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• Pierced Windscreens and Virtual Agency: Reckless Driving Gaming As a "safe" Playground for Vehicular Carnage

  Ville Malinen

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• Remakes, Remasters, and Paratextual Revisits

  René Glas

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• Male Gamers: how gaming behavior and choice of words works as ways of expressing masculinity

  Ida Rysjedal

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• The Gender Expression Influencing Factors: Understanding the Gender Expression in Avatar Customization

  Yisong Han

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• Playing with Capitalism: Metareference, Comedy, and Coziness in Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (Snoozy Kazoo 2021)

  Bettina Bódi

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• Becoming, Circumstances and Practice: A Collective Biography of 3 Games Lecturers

  Bruno de Paula, Diane Carr, Danielle Kleinerman

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• Love and Other Terrors: Intimacy and Vulnerability in English-Language Dating Simulators and Romance Games

  Heather Blakey, Sian Tomkinson

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• Embodiment of User-Generated Content in Electronic Game: A Case Study of  the Party Game Eggy Party

  Jingyan Lin

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• What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game Production

  Emil Hammar, Jesper Juul, Alessandro Canossa

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• Exploring the perspectives of digital natives and digital immigrants on virtual reality as a playground in museums

  Antonia Wurm, Jeffrey Wimmer

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• Playgrounds of authority: space, power, and agency in Dying Light

  Poppy Wilde, Will McKeown

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• Playing With Time: Memory and Nostalgia in Magic: the Gathering Communities

  Kyle Medlock

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• Games Built the Computer: Inverting our Histories of Games

  Samuel Pizelo

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• Gran Turismo 7 and Me: An Autoethnographic Approach to Ludic Subjectivity

  Daniel Vella

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• Empowerment Playgrounds: The Rise of Feminist Ideology in Female-Leading Indie Game Community

  Jie Yang

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• The Battle Game at the Bannockburn Experience

  William Huber

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• "Just like amma used to make": Venba and Packaging the Aesthetics of Diaspora

  Zahra Rizvi, Keerthi Sridharan

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• Exploring Empathy Assessment in a Role-Play Format within Indian context

  Ekaterina Muravevskaia

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• Terribly Bored Lizards: Speculating with the Captive Animal in Jurassic World: Evolution (2019)

  Merlyn Seller

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• Are you Lázaro? Picaresque Childhood in Baldur's Gate 3

  David Durán

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• Machine Learning Analysis of Player Reviews and Video Game Development: What Information is useful for Games Developers?

  Xinge Tong, Ian Willcock, Yi Sun

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• Illegal loot box advertising on social media: An analysis of Meta and TikTok ad libraries

  Leon Xiao

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• Temporality of Play: Time in Digital Playgrounds

  Thomas Byers, Martin Gibbs, Bjørn Nansen

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• Navigating the Virtual Playground: How Do Players Choose What, When, and How to Play?

  Tiernan Cahill

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• Interviewed Workers and Industry Worldviews at Ubisoft Montréal's Assassin's Creed

  Lars de Wildt

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• Demystify the Concept of Beginner Village in Chinese Role-playing Games: A Discourse Analysis

  Zihan Feng

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• God's Playground: On Polish History, Games, and Discourses

  Aleksandra Prokopek, Tomasz Majkowski, Magdalena Kozyra

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• How Latinidad and Border Politics Construct Cyberpunk 2077

  Luke Hernandez, Luke Hernandez, Luke Hernandez

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• Competitiveness and Meritocracy in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: An Ethnography of Gaming Practices in Santiago, Chile.

  Marco Jaramillo

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• Frame 352: Making Folklore

  Maxwell Lander

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• Radical Digital Fishing: From Minigames to Bad Environmentalism

  Marco Caracciolo

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• Transmedia in the early 1980s: Breaking out of the computer monitor with the games by Mel Croucher and Automata UK

  Jaroslav Svelch

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• Fringe Game Craft: An Exploration of Fantasy Consoles and Exotic Game Tools

  Cuauhtemoc Moreno

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• MA Pitch (Draft)

  Elliot Yu

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• Game Studies Scrimmage

  Bart Simon

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• Road to Acceptance: A Gamified VR Narrative Journey Through the Stages of Grief

  Thais Alvarenga, Amina Kobenova

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