2026: Abstract Proceedings of GachaCon 2026: Genshin Impact

Papers

• Rules Are Meant to Be Broken: Glitch as Procedural Resistance in Genshin Impact's Housing System

  Yiru Zhao

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• Ghosts of False Pasts, Ghosts of Lost Futures: A Hauntological Analysis of Genshin Impact's Sumeru Storyarc

  Paul Thomas

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• Mapping the Atlantis in Inazuma: an Hellenistic Diffusion in Pop Gacha RPGs

  Yifan Wang

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• Dataminers, Beta Testers, and Fan Translators: Leaks as Cultural Capital in Gacha Game Communities

  Hyerin Shin

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• Gacha Game Collaborations and the Circulation of Affective Resources

  Fanxi Feng

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• Negotiating Visibility: Erciyuan Culture in Contemporary China

  Jiayi Yuan

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• From Dragon-Slaying to Dragon-Taming: How Genshin Impact Reinvents Western Conceptions of Dragons

  Emilienne Parchliniak

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• Constructing Parasocial Intimacy in Otome Games: A Data-Driven and Autoethnographic Study Based on Love and Deepspace

  Yutin Zheng

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• The Neuroscience of Desire: Dopamine, Intermittent Reinforcement, and Player Retention in Genshin Impact

  Thiago Santos, Daniel Leite Costa, Livia Scienza

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• Disability tax in gacha games: the social cost of hidden expenses.

  Callum Deery, Francesca Foffano

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• Ritualizing the Parasocial: Dream-Girl Practices and Transmedia Intimacy in Genshin Impact

  Siyu Song

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• From 'Gacha Commodities' to 'Desiring Subjects': A Transnational Feminist Analysis of Female Fanfiction Practices in Genshin Impact

  Luyao Liu

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• Evaluating the Classical Greek Reception in Genshin Impact through the transcultural study lens: A Case Study of Enkanomiya Region

  Hanjun Shi

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• Spectacularizing China: Cultural Heritage and Representation in Genshin Impact

  Hong Zeng, Xiaoxuan Huang

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• Game Monetisation in China: A Gameworker's Perspective

  Tianyi Zhangshao, Ben Egliston, Marcus Carter

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• Leaving Teyvat: Gendered Expectations and Exit Discourses

  Courtney Lazore

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• Character Design in the Natlan and Sumeru Regions of Genshin Impact: A Visual Semiotic Analysis from a Critical Transculturalism Perspective

  Sumeng Zhao

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• Monetising Pedigree: Genealogical Gacha and Racing Heritage in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby

  Chelsea Russell

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• Gacha Beyond the Game: The Precarious Playbour Sustaining Ensemble Stars!!

  Alyce Wu, Trisha Nguyen, Katherine Parent, Emily Ramos

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• Gameplay Beyond the Game: The Temporal Structures in Gacha Game Participation

  Yumeng Dou

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• The Paradox of Profit: Structural Constraints on Game Design and the Need for Systemic Replayability in the Gacha Genre

  Yau Hing Lam, Kin Tung Thung, Sum Yee Lau, Zixuan Wang

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• Rituals of the Wish: Performing Luck and Identity in Genshin Impact's Gacha Culture

  Alina Qureshi

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• Investing Play: How Genshin Impact Players Legitimize Gacha Monetization

  Bitong Lin

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• A Framework for 'Gacha Psychoeducation' - Encouraging More Positive Interactions Between Young People and Games

  Anjuman Ali, Marcus Tan

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• No Wishes for kids in Brazil: The repercussions of Law 15:111 in Genshin Impact

  Gabriela Birnfeld Kurtz, Camila Freitas, Leandro Lima

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• Compliance of Gacha Probability Disclosure Regulations: a Comparative Study across East Asia

  Xiaoyu Xiong, Yuchen Huang, Sunny Jie Yang

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• Owning the Unownable: Legal and Social Perceptions of Virtual Property in Genshin Impact

  Kaijing Xu

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