2011: Proceedings of DiGRA 2011 Conference: Think Design Play

Papers

• Game Spaces Speak Volumes: Indexical Storytelling

  Clara Fernández-Vara

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• Casual mobile gameplay – On integrated practices of research, design and play

  Nassrin Hajinejad, Iaroslav Sheptykin, Barbara Grüter, Annika Worpenberg, Andreas Lochwitz, David Oswald, Heide-Rose Vatterrott

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• Do Players Prefer Integrated User Interfaces? A Qualitative Study of Game UI Design Issues

  Llanos Stein Ciro, Kristine Jørgensen

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• Understanding Player Experience using Sequential Analysis

  Michael Soppitt, Graham Mcallister

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• “He could be a bunny rabbit for all I care!”: Identification with video game characters and arguments for diversity in representation

  Adrienne Shaw

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• What Keeps Designers and Players Apart? Thinking How an Online Game World is Shared.

  Vinciane Zabban

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• Subversive Game Design for Recursive Learning

  Konstantin Mitgutsch, Matthew Weise

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• The End of the Rainbow: In search of crossing points between organizations and play

  Jeroen van Bree

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• Understanding the Contribution of Biometrics to Games User Research

  Pejman Mirza-babaei, Sebastian Long, Emma Foley

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• Unexpected game calculations in educational wargaming: Design flaw or beneficial to learning?

  Anders Frank

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• Grow-A-Game: A Tool for Values Conscious Design and Analysis of Digital Games

  Jonathan Belman, Helen Nissenbaum, Mary Flanagan

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• The Aiming Game: Using a Game with Biofeedback for Training in Emotion Regulation

  Henrik Cederholm, Olle Hilborn, Craig Lindley, Charlotte Sennersten, Jeanette Eriksson

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• Designing the Designer

  Robin Potanin, Oliver Davies

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• The game boy’s network. A network analysis of the German digital games industry

  Sonja Kröger, Emese Domahidi, Thorsten Quandt

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• ‘Can’t Stop The Signal?’ The Design of the Dutch Firefly LARP

  Nicolle Lamerichs

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• “To Get Help, Please Press X” The Rise of the Assistance Paradigm in Video Game Design

  Carl Therrien

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• MUsE – A Framework for Reception-based Gaming Research

  Daniel Schultheiss

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• The professional identity of gameworkers revisited. A qualitative inquiry on the case study of German professionals

  Jeffrey Wimmer, Tatiana Sitnikova

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• Serious Beats: Transdisciplinary research methodologies for designing and evaluating a socially integrative serious music-based online game

  Fares Kayali, Vera Schwarz, Gerit Götzenbrucker, Jürgen Pfeffer, Barbara Franz, Peter Purgathofer

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• Adolescent thinking and online writing after the use of commercial games in the classroom

  Pilar Lacasa, Rut Martínez, Castillo Héctor del

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• The winner takes all: Standardization and console games

  David B Nieborg

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• Just a Cyberplace The rules in videogames: between Ontology and Epistemology

  Ivan Mosca

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• How to Say Things with Actions I: a Theory of Discourse for Video Games for Change

  Valentina Rao

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• Exploring anonymity in cooperative board games

  Jonas Linderoth

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• Schematically Disruptive Game Design

  Peter Howell

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• A Procedural Critique of Deontological Reasoning

  Julian Togelius

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• The map as playground: Locationbased games as cartographical practices

  Sybille Lammes

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• Video Games, Walking the Fine Line between Art and Entertainment

  Fix Folkerts, Fix Jef

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• The Player Engagement Process – An Exploration of Continuation Desire in Digital Games

  Henrik Schoenau-Fog

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• BurgerTime: A Proceduralist Investigation

  Mike Treanor, Michael Mateas

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• Problem Based Game Design – Engaging Students by Innovation

  Lars Reng, Henrik Schoenau-Fog

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• Beyond the digital divide: An ecological approach to gameplay

  Jonas Linderoth

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• Making sense of game-play: How can we examine learning and involvement?

  Ioanna Iacovides, James Aczel, Eileen Scanlon, Will Woods

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• Framework for Designing and Evaluating Game Achievements

  Juho Hamari, Veikko Eranti

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• Games and machinima in adolescents’ classrooms

  Pilar Lacasa, Rut Martínez, Laura Méndez

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• Preventing a POX Among the People? A Design Case Study of a Public Health Game

  Mary Flanagan, Max Seidman, Jonathan Belman, Sukdith Punjasthitkul, Zara Downs, Mike Ayoob, Alicia Driscoll

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• Participatory Game Design to Engage a Digitally Excluded Community

  Mark Lochrie, Paul Coulton, Andrew Wilson

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• Of discs, boxes and cartridges: the material life of digital games

  Saara Toivonen, Olli Sotamaa

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• Player Communities in Multiplayer Online Games: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research

  Harald Warmelink, Marko Siitonen

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• Towards a Playful Organization Ideal-type: Values of a Playful Organizational Culture

  Harald Warmelink

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• Cultures of independent game production: Examining the relationship between community and labour

  Orlando Guevara-Villalobos

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• Putting Brands into Play: How Player Experiences Influence the Effectiveness of In-Game Advertising

  Laura Herrewijn, Karolien Poels

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• Breaking Reality: Exploring Pervasive Cheating in Foursquare

  René Glas

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• Narrative Friction in Alternate Reality Games: Design Insights from Conspiracy For Good

  Jaakko Stenros, Jussi Holopainen, Annika Waern, Markus Montola, Elina Ollila

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• Social Architecture and the Emergence of Power Laws in Online Social Games

  Ben. Kirman, Francesco Collova, Fabrizio Davide, Eva Ferrari, Jonathan Freeman, Shaun Lawson, Conor Linehan, Niklas Ravaja

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• Epistemic games & applied drama: Converging conventions for serious play

  David Cameron, John Carroll, Rebecca Wotzko

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• Meaning Making Through Constraint: Modernist Poetics and Game Design Analysis

  Miriam Asad

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• Forbidden or Promising Fruit? An experimental study into the effects of warning labels on the purchase intention of digital gamers

  Jan Decock, Looy Jan Van

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• In the army now – Narrative elements and realism in military first-person shooters

  Johannes Breuer, Ruth Festl, Thorsten Quandt

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• Player Typology in Theory and Practice

  Chris Bateman, Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Lennart Nacke

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• Danger Close: Contesting Ideologies and Contemporary Military Conflict in First Person Shooters

  Zwieten Martijn Van

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• Kairotopos: A reflection on Greek space/time concepts as design implications in Minecraft

  Isaac Lenhart

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• Return to Darkness: Representations of Africa in Resident Evil 5

  Hanli Geyser, Pippa Tshabalala

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• Doing It Themselves! A Mixed-Method Study into the Motivations of Players to ‘Create’ in the Context of Gaming

  Frederik Van den Bosch, Wannes Ribbens, Jan Van Looy

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• Players and the Love Game: Conceptualizing Cheating with Erotic Role Players in World of Warcraft

  Ashley Brown

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• You Are What You Play? A Quantitative Study into Game Design Preferences across Gender and Their Interaction with Gaming Habits

  Lotte Vermeulen, Looy Jan Van, Grove Frederik De, Cédric Courtois

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• Computer history and the movement of business simulations

  Serjoscha Wiemer

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• In Perpetual Beta? On the Participatory Design of Facebook Games

  Melinda Jacobs, Tanja Sihvonen

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• The Power-up Experience: A study of Power-ups in Games and their Effect on Player Experience

  Filip Lange-Nielsen

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• Replacing preconceived accounts of digital games with experience of play: When parents went native in GTA IV

  Gareth Schott, Vught Jasper van

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• Jane Fonda’s Wii Fit: Continuity, Contingency, and Concordance in Fitness Gaming

  Steven Boyer

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• Listen! – Improving the Cooperation between Game Designers and Audio Designers

  Sander Huiberts

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• Retro Evolved: Level Design Practice exemplified by the Contemporary Retro Game

  Fares Kayali, Joseph Schuh

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• Playful ambience

  Mark Eyles, Dan Pinchbeck

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• The Poetics of Game Design, Rhetoric and the Independent Game

  Lindsay D Grace

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• Designing Social Behaviour through Play

  Tanya Marriott

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• And Then You Wait: The Issue of Dead Time in Social Network Games

  Richard van Meurs

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• Using the VNA Ideation Game at Global Game Jam

  Annakaisa Kultima, Kati Alha

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• A Chinese Cyber Diaspora: Contact and Identity Negotiation on Taiwanese WoW Servers

  Holin Lin, Chuen-Tsai Sun

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• Game Mechanics and Dynamics of Social Actions in a Prototype Multiplayer Game World

  Mirjam Eladhari

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• Theorycrafting: from collective intelligence to intrinsic satisfaction

  Faltin Karlsen

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• Meta-Rules and Complicity in Brenda Brathwaite’s Train

  Heather Lee Logas

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• PlayFit: Designing playful activity interventions for teenagers

  Janienke Sturm, Rob Tieben, Menno Deen, Tilde Bekker, Ben Schouten

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• From Individual Characters to Large Crowds: Augmenting the Believability of Open-World Games through Exploring Social Emotion in Pedestrian Groups

  Olivier Szymanezyk, Patrick Dickinson, Tom Duckett

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• A Survey of Final Project Courses in Game Programs: Considerations for Teaching Capstone

  José P. Zagal, John Sharp

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• Chores Are Fun: Understanding Social Play in Board Games for Digital Tabletop Game Design

  Yan Xu, Evan Barba, Iulian Radu, Maribeth Gandy, Blair Macintyre

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• The Making of Nordic Larp: Documenting a Tradition of Ephemeral Co-Creative Play

  Jaakko Stenros, Markus Montola

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• Integrating Emergence and Progression

  Joris Dormans

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• Game reward systems: Gaming experiences and social meanings

  Hao Wang, Chuen-Tsai Sun

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• Do We Need Real-Time Hermeneutics? Structures of Meaning in Games

  Fix Arjoranta, Fix Jonne

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• Guidelines to Design Interactive Open-ended Play Installations for Children Placed in a Free Play Environment

  Gordon Tiemstra, den Berg Renée van, Tilde Bekker, Graaf Mark de

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• Game reviews as tools in the construction of game historical awareness in Finland, 1984-2010: Case MikroBitti Magazine

  Jaakko Suominen

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• Game Prototyping – The Negotiation of an Idea

  Jon Manker

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• Collaboration and Team Composition in Applied Game Creation Processes

  Lies van Roessel , Jeroen van Mastrigt-Ide

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• Experiential Metaphors in Abstract Games

  Jason Begy

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• Pattern Recognition: Gameplay as negotiating procedural form

  Tom Betts

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