Program for Tuesday, August 2nd: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 2ND: TALK VIEW

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09:30-19:15 Posters & Demos

10:00-11:00 Opening Ceremony and Keynote Session - Lev Manovich

11:00-17:45 Workshop: Teaching Games Studies - from beginner to advanced pedagogies

11:00-17:45 Workshop: Morality Play - the design of games for moral engagement

11:30-12:00

Game Essays as Critical Media and Research Praxis

Stephanie de Smale

12:00-12:30

Critical Alternative Journalism from the Perspective of Game Journalists

Patrick Prax, Alejandro Soler

11:30-12:00

Free Love: Fan Translations, Piracy and Japanese Women's Games in English.

Sarah Christina Ganzon

11:30-12:00

GameNet and GameSage: Videogame Discovery as Design Insight

J. Ryan, E. Kaltman, T. Hong, K. Isbister, M. Mateas, N. Wardrip-Fruin

12:00-12:30

Playing with Data: Procedural Generation of Adventures from Open Data

Gabriella Barros, Antonios Liapis, Julian Togelius

11:30-12:00

Interactive biotechnology: Design rules for integrating living matter into digital games

Lukas C. Gerber, Honesty Kim, Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse

12:00-12:30

BioGraphr: Science Games on a Biotic Computer

Lukas C. Gerber, Michael C. Doshi, Honesty Kim, Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse

11:30-13:00

Rewards and Motivations in Game Jams

Xavier Ho, Nia Wearn, Mahli-Ann Butt, Joe Baxter-Webb, Foaad Khosmood

11:30-11:50

Realism and the everyday in digital games

Paul Martin

11:50-12:10

Creeds, Souls & Worlds of Worship: Players’ Appropriations of Religious Worldviews through Forums

Lars de Wildt, Stef Aupers

12:10-12:30

Perceptions, Perspectives and Practices: A Study of the Players of Historical games.

Sian Beavers, Elizabeth Fitzgerald

14:00-14:20

“You don’t ever stop playing EVE Online, you just take a break”: Rethinking what it means to quit a Massively Multiplayer Online

Kelly Bergstrom

14:20-14:40

Observing from the fringes: Data logging in multiplayer videogames as methodology

Ben Egliston

14:40-15:00

Platforms in the Cloud: On the Messy Ephemerality of Platforms

Casey O'Donnell

14:00-15:30

Game Design Adaptation Strategies for Literary and Classical Texts

Sam Roberts, James Cox, Tracy Fullerton

14:00-14:20

From Breaking to Making

Gordon Calleja

14:20-14:40

Where You’re Looking, Who You’re With and How You Get There: Designing a Virtual Reality Art Game for Inclusion and

Richard Lemarchand, Martzi Campos

14:40-15:00

Playful Loops: Design Concepts for Playable Interactions

Miguel Sicart

14:00-14:20

Vivian James – The politics of GamerGate’s Avatar

Mahli-Ann Butt, Thomas Apperley

14:20-14:40

Gaming’s secret public: Nerdcore porn and the in/visible body of the female gamer

Thomas Apperley

14:40-15:00

Parasites to Gaming: Learning from GamerGate

Paolo Ruffino

14:00-14:20

Can Challenges in Serious Educational Games be Modelled as Components with Learning Theory

Kendra Cooper, Shaun Longstreet

14:20-14:40

Developing the Developers: Education, Creativity and the Gaming Habitus

Wallace McNeish, Stefano de Paoli

14:40-15:00

Smash Mods, Smash Creativity: Nintendo, Project M, and Enclosure

Rainforest Scully-Blaker

14:00-14:30

G-Player: Exploratory Visual Analytics for Accessible Knowledge Discovery

Alessandro Canossa, Truong-Huy Nguyen, Magy Seif El-Nasr

14:30-15:00

A Statistical Analysis of Player Improvement and Single-Player High Scores

Aaron Isaksen, Andy Nealen

16:00-16:30

Grouches, Extraverts, and Jellyfish: Assessment validity and game mechanics in a gamified assessment

Levy, Moore, Liu, Way, Wilson, Johnson, Lambeth, Solomon, Gandy

16:30-17:00

Analysis of Game Console Accessibility for Users who are Blind

Tony Morelli, Kevin Andrews, Taylor Ripke

16:00-16:30

Selling out the magic circle: free-to-play games and developer ethics

Philipp Jordan, Wayne Buente, Paula Alexandra Silva, Howard Rosenbaum

16:30-17:00

"We Don’t Sell Blocks:” Exploring Minecraft’s Commissioning Market

Panagiotis Koutsouras, Sarah Martindale, Andy Crabtree

16:00-16:20

A History of Voice Interaction in Games

Fraser Allison, Marcus Carter, Martin Gibbs

16:20-16:40

I Cried to Dream Again: Discovery and Meaning-Making in Walking Simulators

Mona Bozdog, Dayna Galloway

16:40-17:00

On a Design Approach for Collaborative Decision Making Games: A Preliminary Validation Study

Aida Azadegan, Kendra Cooper

16:00-16:20

If Only For a Knight: Romantic Subplots in cRPGs in the Light of Courtly Love Trope

Joanna Kucharska, Magdalena Bednorz

16:20-16:40

Immersive lore-friendliness. Game modifications as intertextual tropes

Tomasz Majkowski

16:40-17:00

Paratextuality 2.0: Updating Genette’s Framework for Complex Game Systems

Jan Svelch

16:00-16:20

Ludification of work or Labourisation of play? On work-play interferences.

Sonia Fizek, Anne Dippel

16:20-16:40

Frustration and Adaptation: Orientational Shifts in Motivation

David Melhárt

16:40-17:00

Charismatic Leadership and Digital Games

Bjarke Liboriussen

16:00-16:20

Surviving Fallout 4: A Design Fiction

Marcel Pufal, Joshua Tanenbaum

16:20-16:40

Production Logics in Digital Games

Aphra Kerr

17:45-18:15

Review of Social Features in Social Network Games

Janne Paavilainen, Kati Alha, Hannu Korhonen

18:15-18:45

Design Lessons From Binary Fission: A Crowd Sourced Game for Precondition Discovery

Compton et.al

17:45-18:15

The Tapper Videogame Patent as a Series of Close Readings

Mark J. Nelson

18:15-18:45

Designing Unconventional Use of Conventional Displays in Games: Some Assembly Required

William Goddard, Alexander Muscat

17:45-18:05

Spatial Presence, Psychophysiology, and Game(play) Emotions

Dooley Murphy

18:05-18:25

On Becoming “Like eSports”: Twitch as a Platform for the Speedrunning Community

Rainforest Scully-Blaker

18:25-18:45

Aesthetics of Speedrunning

Emilie Reed

17:45-18:15

The Journey to Nature: The Last of Us as Critical Dystopia

Gerald Farca, Charlotte Ladevèze

18:15-18:45

Environmental Storytelling, Ideologies And Quantum Physics: Narrative Space And The BioShock Games

Samuel Zakowski

17:45-19:15

From practice-based game research to game design as a cultural technique

Stefan Werning

17:45-18:05

The Activity of Play

Martin Pichlmair

18:05-18:25

Baby gamers? Theorizing the ‘Haptic Habitus’ of Very Young Children, Parents and Touchscreen

Darshana Jayemanne, Bjorn Nansen