Program for Wednesday, August 3rd: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3RD: TALK VIEW

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09:30-19:15 Posters & Demos

10:00-11:00 Keynote Session - Ju Row Farr

11:30-12:00

Playing with Meaning: Productive Frictions between Gaming and Dancing

Boris Willis, Kate Mattingly

12:00-12:30

Creative Communities: Shaping Process through Performance and Play

Lynn Parker, Dayna Galloway

11:30-12:00

``What is a Super Mario level anyway?'' An Argument For Non-Formalist Level Generation in Super Mario

Tommy Thompson

12:00-12:30

Super Mario as a String: Platformer Level Generation Via LSTMs

Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas

11:30-12:00

Three Shadowed Dimensions of Feminine Presence in Video Games

Cosima Rughinis, Razvan Rughinis, Elisabeta Toma

12:00-12:30

LGBTQ Characters and Ambience: LGBTG representation in Grand Theft Auto Series

Adrienne Shaw

11:30-12:00

A Feasibility Study of Using Interactive Social Story Games to Teach Social Skills to Children with

Jichen Zhu, Connor Kerns, James Connell, Natalie Lyon

12:00-12:30

Toward Ludic Gerontechnology: a Review of Games for Dementia Care

Claire Dormann

11:30-11:50

Comparing Gameplay Across Formal and Informal Contexts

J. Binzak, C. Anderson, V. Kumar, A. Jordan-Douglass, M. Berland

11:50-12:10

Mainstreaming Games Journalism

David B. Nieborg, Maxwell Foxman

12:10-12:30

Lineages: Historicising the videogame

Dan Golding

11:30-11:50

Enter the disagreement matrix or “let’s talk ontology, game studies”

Andreas Gregersen

11:50-12:10

Gatekeeping Games: A Topographic Consideration of Para-Ludic Borderlands

Daniel Gardner

12:10-12:30

Progress Wars: Idle Games and the Demarcation of “Real” Games

Sebastian Deterding

11:30-13:00

Ludic Impulses of the Cartographical

Alex Gekker, Chris Perkins, Sybille Lammes, Sam Hind, Pablo Abend

11:30-13:00

Playing Popular Science

Robin J. S. Sloan

11:30-11:50

Hidden Paratextuality: Concealing the Factual Aspects of Video Games

Jan Svelch

11:50-12:10

Playing Along to What? Enabling Similarity in Video Game Music

Michiel Kamp

12:10-12:30

Deep Play and Dark Play in Contemporary Cinema

Mark R Johnson

11:30-13:00

Panel: Comics and Games Crossovers

Iain Donald, Chris Murray, Phillip Vaughan

14:00-14:20

Singularity: Designing a Cooperative Mixed Reality Game for a Co-located Setting

Georgi Kostov, Jeremiah Diephuis

14:20-14:40

Localizing Location-Based Gaming: Situating Australian Urban Play

Kyle Moore

14:40-15:00

Games to Live With and Die For: Speculations on NikeFuel

Paolo Ruffino

14:00-14:20

Internally Enacted Narratives: Jonathan Blow’s The Witness

William Robinson, Rainforest Scully-Blaker

14:20-14:50

Source Code and Formal Analysis: A Hermeneutic Reading of Passage

Ea Christina Willumsen

14:50-15:20

No-one Plays Alone

Chris Bateman

14:00-14:20

Queering the Body through Parody in Simulation Games

Karina Popp

14:20-14:40

Gendering Magic – Men, Women and Eldrazi of Magic: the Gathering

Tereza Krobová, Jan Svelch

14:00-14:20

Playful Animals: An Invitation to Participate

Michelle Westerlaken

14:20-14:40

This Could Be Us: Networked Intimacy in Single-Player Games

Rob Gallagher

14:40-15:00

Designing Digital Enrichment for Human-Orangutan Play in the Zoo

Marcus Carter, Sarah Webber

14:00-14:20

Twenty-Five Years of Digital Games Research in Poland

Maria B. Garda, Stanisław Krawczyk

14:20-14:40

Gift players or playbourers? Who is playing citizen science games?

Sonia Fizek

14:40-15:00

Algorithmic Play in Georges Perec’s Ludic Narratives

Thomas Apperley

14:00-14:30

Critically Approaching the Playful and Participatory Genealogy of MOBAs

Josh Jarrett

14:30-15:00

Prank, Troll, Gross and Gore: Performance Issues in Esports Live-Streaming

Veli-Matti Karhulahti

14:00-15:30

From Game Culture to Playful Culture Studies: Emergence of Ludification

Frans Mäyrä, Jonne Arjoranta, Jaakko Stenros, Olli Sotamaa, Tanja Välisalo

14:00-15:30

Press Start and Press On – Navigating Postgraduate Research in Game Studies

Barr, Murray, Scott, de Wildt, Berry, Butt, Dunne, Ecenbarger, Evans

14:00-14:30

Four Lenses for Designing Morally Engaging Games

Malcolm Ryan, Dan Staines, Paul Formosa

14:30-15:00

Good Violence, Bad Violence: The Ethics of Competition in Multiplayer Games

C. Thi Nguyen, Jose Zagal

14:00-14:20

A Game Within a Bio-Object(s): Redefining a Moment of the Gameplay

Justyna Janik

14:20-14:40

Operational Logics, Paratexts and the Production of Knowledge: The Diablo III Case

Mateusz Felczak

14:40-15:00

Video Games as (Dis)Empowerment Devices: Understanding Agency within the Context of Advanced

Daniel Muriel

16:00-16:30

‘Ruinensehnsucht’ - Longing for Decay in Computer Games

Mathias Fuchs

16:30-17:00

Paratextual play: Unlocking the nature of making-of material of games

René Glas

16:00-16:30

Integrating Curiosity and Uncertainty in Game Design

Alexandra To, Safinah Ali, Geoff Kaufman, Jessica Hammer

16:30-17:00

Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Techniques for Creating Poetic Gameplay

Alex Mitchell

16:00-16:20

I Wasn´t Looking at His Nice Ass: Female Gaze and Video Games

Tereza Krobova

16:20-16:40

A Framework for Understanding Player Experiences with Controversial Game Content

Kristine Jørgensen

16:40-17:00

Crowdfunding NSFW Video Game Fan Art

Jan Svelch

16:00-16:20

Using Collaborative Digital Games to Foster Intercultural Interaction

Teresa de La Hera Conde-Pumpido, Amanda Paz Aléncar

16:20-16:40

Playing With Culture - Serious Games for Global Competence

Marko Siitonen, Sonja Egger, Maria Sharapan

16:40-17:00

The Persuasive Roles of Digital Games: The Case of Cancer Games

Teresa de La Hera

16:00-16:20

Who Made That Last Game? The Alternative Chronology of the 8-bit Era in Poland

Maria B. Garda

16:20-16:40

Nokia N-gage Reconsidered: Mobile Games before They Became Mainstream

Olli Sotamaa

16:00-16:30

Designing a Serious Game for General Practice Management

Jan Strien, Ronald Batenburg, Fabiano Dalpiaz

16:30-17:00

Bridging the Physical Learning Divides: A Design Framework for Embodied Learning Games and

Edward Melcer, Katherine Isbister

16:00-17:30

Why Game Production Studies? Why Now?

O'Donnell, Banks, Czarnota, Deterding, Kultima, Nieborg, Sandovar

16:00-17:30

Playing Beowulf: Gaming the Library

Andrew Burn, Alison Gazzard, Bruno de Paula

16:00-16:30

Digital Detritus: What Can We Learn From Abandoned Massively Multiplayer Online Game Avatars?

Kelly Bergstrom, Suzanne De Castell, Jennifer Jenson

16:30-17:00

Selling the Imperium: Changing Organisational Culture and History in EVE Online

Nick Webber, Oskar Milik

16:00-17:30 Session S95

17:45-18:15

First-Person Walkers: Understanding the Walker Experience through Four Design Themes

Alexander Muscat, William Goddard, Jussi Holopainen, Jonathan Duckworth

18:15-18:45

Walking Simulators: The Digitisation of an Aesthetic Practice

Rosa Carbo-Mascarell

17:45-18:05

Breaking New Ground: Indie Community, Flash, and Newgrounds.com

Pierson Browne

18:05-18:25

Paidia to Ludus, Non-Commodity to Commodity: Uncovering the Residue of Player Developed Custom Game Modes in ‘Zombies’ and

Josh Jarrett

18:25-18:45

The Relationships of Co-Creation: Software Modification on Steam

Jamie Woodcock, Jianhua Shao

17:45-18:15

Playing the System: Comparing the Efficacy and Impact of Digital and Non-digital Versions of a Collaborative Strategy

Geoff Kaufman, Mary Flanagan

18:15-18:45

Spectrum: Exploring the Effects of Player Experience on Game Design

Jean-Luc Portelli, Rilla Khaled

17:45-18:15

Combining Speech Intervention and Cooperative Game Design for Children with ASD

Natalie Lyon, David Leitman, Jichen Zhu

18:15-18:45

Cradle-to-Cradle Game Design: Mixing Games and Reality to Transform Education

Casper Harteveld, Steven Sutherland, Yetunde Folajimi

17:45-18:05

Sarmatian Gamified: Sarmatism in Contemporary Polish Gaming Culture

Maciej Nawrocki

18:05-18:25

Everyday Racism and the challenges for anti-racist gaming

Robbie Fordyce, Timothy Neale, Thomas Apperley

18:25-18:45

Much ado about nothing? Analysis of the Polish internet discourse about "Hatred".

Bartłomiej Schweiger

17:45-18:05

Sailing the Endless River of Games: The case for Historical Design Patterns

Jesper Juul

18:05-18:25

The Mechanic Is Not the (Whole) Message: Procedural Rhetoric Meets Framing in Train & Playing History

Sebastian Deterding

18:25-18:45

Representing Processes. Procedurality in terms of Peirce

Hans-Joachim Backe

17:45-19:15

The Other Caillois – Games and Culture (SAGE) Summer issue

Paolo Ruffino, Marco Benoit Carbone

17:45-18:05

Improving Interaction with Non-Player Characters Through Physiological Data

Joseph Jalbert, Stefan Rank

18:05-18:25

Little VR Pet Shop: A Reverse Turing Multiplayer Virtual Reality Game

Marcello A. Gómez Maureira, Isabelle Kniestedt, Meggy Pepelanova

18:25-18:45

Changing Roles in Gaming: Twitch and new gaming audiences

Mirjam Vosmeer, Gabriele Ferri, Stefan Rank, Ben Schouten

17:45-18:15

A Lightweight Videogame Dialogue Manager

James Ryan, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

18:15-18:45

Designing Natural-Language Game Conversations

Jonathan Lessard

17:45-19:15

Building a Game Studies Conference: A Case Study of GAMES & LITERARY THEORY.

David Myers, Tim Welsh