DIGRA 2018: THE 11TH DIGITAL GAMES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

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(bio)objects	Video Games and Post-Humanism
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1980s
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A Little Anti-Fa Story	History, Mnemohistory and Trauma in the Italian Videogame Scene
ability	Body Count
abject
action RPG	Relation and regime. On aesthetics and cosmetic microtransactions in Path of Exile
Active Audience	Audiencing on Twitch
Actor-Network-Theory	Production pipelines as Actor-Networks: Rethinking the game studio as a technological platform
adaptation	Game Narrative Through the Detective Lens
Addiction	Are Loot Boxes Gambling? Random reward mechanisms in video games Contextualizing Pathological Gaming - A Proof-of-Concept Study
Adventure	The Quest for Serious Sex Adventures: A Structural Analysis of Puzzle and Humor
aesthetics	Stasis and Stillness: Moments of Inaction in Videogames The Human Machine Art Interface: Arcade Port Aesthetics and Production Practices Preliminary Poetics of Procedural Generation in Games Relation and regime. On aesthetics and cosmetic microtransactions in Path of Exile
Aesthetics of Interaction	An Exploration of Interactive Paradox
affect	“Why do all females play Mercy?” - The gendered imaginary in the Overwatch play assemblages
Affinity Diagram	Good Game Feel: An Empirically Grounded Framework for Juicy Design
affordances	The Women of Twitch: The Affordances of Live-Streaming Digital Games Restricted affordances: Avatar models and capacities for identity Revision of Queer Bodies: Modifications of Sexual Affordances in World of Warcraft
Agency	Is My Avatar MY Avatar? Character Autonomy and Automated Avatar Actions in Digital Games
aging	Video games as an extension of youth? Gaming among third age people
AI	Towards Design Principles for Humor in Interactive Emergent Narrative
alcohol	Beer & Pixels: Embodiment, drinking, and gaming in Australia
Alexa	Harvester of Desires: Gaming Amazon Echo through John Cayley’s The Listeners
Algorithms	Non-Human Gaming: Video Games for the Post-Anthropocene
alienation
All-female teams	“A pure meritocracy blind to identity”: Exploring the Online Responses to All-Female Teams in Reddit
Alternative History	(Re)play the beginning of the end: 1988 as prequel to Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong
Amazon Echo	Harvester of Desires: Gaming Amazon Echo through John Cayley’s The Listeners
Ambient Data	The Aesthetics of Ambient Data: Playful Data-Sharing in the Dark Souls series
analog games	Notes on a pre-history of Italian video games
Analog Play	A Comparative Study of Attachment: Fighting Games and Taekwondo in Life
Analog wargames	Playing the Nazis: Political Implications in Analog Wargames
analogue	Paper-made digital games - A poetic of cardboard from Crayon Physics Deluxe to Nintendo Labo
analytics	Videogames, analytics and the ‘becoming-gramme’ of play
animal crossing	Infra-Ordinary Game Analysis: Animal Crossing Pocket Camp as an Introductory Study
Animals
Anthropocene	Non-Human Gaming: Video Games for the Post-Anthropocene
Appleton	On Striated Wilderness and Prospect Pacing: Rural Open World Games as Liminal Spaces of the Man-Nature Dichotomy
applied game	Design Concepts for Empowerment through Urban Play
arcade	The Human Machine Art Interface: Arcade Port Aesthetics and Production Practices Video Games in the Convenience Store
architecture	The City in Singleplayer Fantasy Role-Playing Games
archive	Archival Adventuring
area-specific game studies	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations
Argentina	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations
art	The Human Machine Art Interface: Arcade Port Aesthetics and Production Practices 20 Years of Game Art: Reflections, Transformations, and New Directions
art history
Artificial Intelligence	Implementing Intelligence: The Platform Culture of Intellivision Bonding With Horses and Other Animals in Breath of the Wild Non-Human Gaming: Video Games for the Post-Anthropocene Star Ocean: Till the End of Time; a Nietzschian approach to games
assemblage	“Why do all females play Mercy?” - The gendered imaginary in the Overwatch play assemblages
attachment	Bonding With Horses and Other Animals in Breath of the Wild
audience	Relation and regime. On aesthetics and cosmetic microtransactions in Path of Exile Watching People Play. The Role of Spectatorship in Player Careers
Audiencing	Audiencing on Twitch
Audiovisual Feedback	Avatar-Kinaesthetics as Characterisation Statements in Horizon: Zero Dawn
Australia	Game engines: Design, labour, and legality Understanding the experience of Australian eSports spectatorship Indie as Usual: Localising Australian Videogame Development Understanding eSports spectatorship in Australia
Authenticity
Automated play	From Interactive to Interpassive Gaming
avatar	Avatar-Kinaesthetics as Characterisation Statements in Horizon: Zero Dawn The Other Otherness of the Avatar: Technological Alterity in Player-Avatar-Relations. Ethics at Play in Undertale: Rhetoric, Identity and Deconstruction
Avatar Control	Is My Avatar MY Avatar? Character Autonomy and Automated Avatar Actions in Digital Games
Avatars	Restricted affordances: Avatar models and capacities for identity The Aesthetics of Ambient Data: Playful Data-Sharing in the Dark Souls series Is My Avatar MY Avatar? Character Autonomy and Automated Avatar Actions in Digital Games Revision of Queer Bodies: Modifications of Sexual Affordances in World of Warcraft Avatars, Gender and Sexuality for Brazilian Players on Rust
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barriers	A qualitative study of transmasculinity in the games industry and games journalism
Baudrillard	Playing for Real
below-the-line workers	Beyond the Core Development Team: Exploring Emerging Roles and Responsibilities in the Global Game Industry
Betrayal	On Betrayal in Games
bilingual	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations
bleed	Bleed-in, Bleed-out - A Design Case in Board Game Therapy
board game	Playing with a Brand: the Brazilian McDonald's Paper Tray Case
boardgames	Understanding Player elimination in boardgames as a form of permadeath
Body Horror	Body Horror as Body Shaming: Fatness and Monstrosity in Video Games
Body Shaming	Body Horror as Body Shaming: Fatness and Monstrosity in Video Games
bonding	Bonding With Horses and Other Animals in Breath of the Wild
Bots	The Aesthetics of Ambient Data: Playful Data-Sharing in the Dark Souls series
Boundary	Meaning Through Performance: Transgressing Boundaries in Shadow of the Colossus
Bourdieu	Indie Game: The Movie: The Paper – Documentary Films and the Subfield of Independent Games
Brazil	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations Avatars, Gender and Sexuality for Brazilian Players on Rust
Broadcasting	Conversation, Discourse and Play: Interaction and Moderation in Twitch.tv Live Streaming Esports Careers
Brothers	Quilting the meaning: gameplay as catalyst of signification through cognitive & interpretative processes
business studies	If You Guild it, They Will Come: Organizational Leadership in Games
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cabinet	Video Games in the Convenience Store
Capitalocene	Non-Human Gaming: Video Games for the Post-Anthropocene
capture	The medium [of in-game photography] is the message
cardboard	Paper-made digital games - A poetic of cardboard from Crayon Physics Deluxe to Nintendo Labo
Careers	Esports Careers
case study	Bleed-in, Bleed-out - A Design Case in Board Game Therapy
Casual Games	Free-to-Play or Pay-to-Win?: Casual, Hardcore, and Hearthstone Paper Puzzle Games: The Original “Casual Games”
causation	Cause, Effect, and Player-Centric Time
challenge	Interpretive Challenges in Games
Character	Avatar-Kinaesthetics as Characterisation Statements in Horizon: Zero Dawn Ethics at Play in Undertale: Rhetoric, Identity and Deconstruction
Character Complexity	Is My Avatar MY Avatar? Character Autonomy and Automated Avatar Actions in Digital Games
Characterisation Statements	Avatar-Kinaesthetics as Characterisation Statements in Horizon: Zero Dawn
Characters	Is My Avatar MY Avatar? Character Autonomy and Automated Avatar Actions in Digital Games
cheating	An Inclusive Perspective on Gameplay: Towards a wide understanding of gameplay in theory and praxis
children	A digital gap in Polish families on the example of video games
children's culture	The Toy is the Message: materiality, imagination and play objects
China	Injecting Sense of Belonging: The Ideology of Chinese Educational Games Localization from an Indie Game Production Perspective – Why, When and How? The reception of Chinese history in Honor of Kings
China’s Game Policies	Obey or Against: The Review of Studies on Chinese Game Policies
Chthulucene	Non-Human Gaming: Video Games for the Post-Anthropocene
cities	Design Concepts for Empowerment through Urban Play
civic empowerment	Design Concepts for Empowerment through Urban Play
classification	Are Loot Boxes Gambling? Random reward mechanisms in video games
climate change	Landscape Trouble: Why we are surrounded by climate change games Panel: Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Game Worlds
closure	Consecutive Endings and the Aesthetic Potential of Cognitive Dissonance
co-creation	Disruption, Struggle, Re-construction and Re-negotiation: The messy reality of co-creative game design
Coaching	Esports Careers
Cognition	Quilting the meaning: gameplay as catalyst of signification through cognitive & interpretative processes
cognitive apprenticeship	Collegiate eSports as Learning Ecologies: Investigating Collaborative Learning and Cognition During Competitions
collaborative learning	Collegiate eSports as Learning Ecologies: Investigating Collaborative Learning and Cognition During Competitions
Collectible Trading Card Games	Free-to-Play or Pay-to-Win?: Casual, Hardcore, and Hearthstone
collegiate athletics	Collegiate eSports as Learning Ecologies: Investigating Collaborative Learning and Cognition During Competitions
Comics	Comics, Football, and Newsagents: Italian video games production and distribution (1987-1993)
community management	Disruption, Struggle, Re-construction and Re-negotiation: The messy reality of co-creative game design
companion	A gamified companion to aid students in their time-management.
Competitive Games	Does Platform Matter? A Game Design Analysis of Female Engagement in MOBA Games
computing competitions	Collegiate eSports as Learning Ecologies: Investigating Collaborative Learning and Cognition During Competitions
consumer	From Silent NPC to Active Consumer : Representing Female in Chinese Video Game Culture
consumption	Video Games in the Convenience Store
contexts	Man Caves and the Fantasy of Homosocial Escape
Controversy	To Hell and Back: Hellblade’s Depiction of Mental Illness and Its Impact
conventions	Identities, Genre and Design in Game-Making
convergence of virtual and real	Playing for Real
conversion	The Human Machine Art Interface: Arcade Port Aesthetics and Production Practices
coping	Depleted Hearts: Coping and ‘Self-Care’ in Gaming Culture
counter-gaming	Wrecking the Game. The Artist as Griefer
Counterfactual	Past stories and Future Worlds: History and popular imagination in Fallout 4
creative industries	Production pipelines as Actor-Networks: Rethinking the game studio as a technological platform Indie as Usual: Localising Australian Videogame Development The Moral Calculus of Vocational Passion in Digital Gaming
creative writing	No Coding Required: Teaching Humanities Students How to Design Video Games
Creativity	Homemade French Videogames? How platform logic affects game producers and game production.
Critical Play	Make Tents, Not War: Queer Play as Play-That-CritiquesCritical play, queer play, play studies, play fiction, play-that-critiques Past stories and Future Worlds: History and popular imagination in Fallout 4
critical race theory	Digital games, cultural memory, & hegemony
critique	Stasis and Stillness: Moments of Inaction in Videogames
cross-cultural-representation	Vietnam Romance : A Gesamtkunstwerk to Game (a pre-postmortem)
Cross-media	Comics, Football, and Newsagents: Italian video games production and distribution (1987-1993)
Crowdfunding	Spectating Development: Backer Perspective on Games Crowdfunding
cultural history	Memory and Meaning in Analogue: A Hate Story and Nier: Automata
cultural industries	Beyond Paratexts, Towards Paratextuality: A Case for Granular Analysis of Video Game Paratextuality
cultural industry	Indie-viduals: Videogames’ Hegemonic (Re-)Production Culture
Cultural memory	Digital games, cultural memory, & hegemony
cultural policy	How Local Policies Shape Game Production: A Nordic Perspective
Cultural practice	The Play is the Message. The Everyday Context of Videogame Play
cultural sociology	Defining Genre in Video Game Historiography: Structural, Discursive, and Sociocultural Definitions
cultural studies	Playing Whiteness in Crisis in The Last of Us and Tomb Raider
culture	Understanding the experience of Australian eSports spectatorship Playing Whiteness in Crisis in The Last of Us and Tomb Raider Identities, Genre and Design in Game-Making (Trans)mediality and Playership in and around Japanese Videogames Understanding eSports spectatorship in Australia
curation	Against Playability: Indirect Interaction in Videogame Exhibitions
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data	A Comparative Study of Attachment: Fighting Games and Taekwondo in Life Videogames, analytics and the ‘becoming-gramme’ of play Memory and Meaning in Analogue: A Hate Story and Nier: Automata
data sharing	Videogames, analytics and the ‘becoming-gramme’ of play The Aesthetics of Ambient Data: Playful Data-Sharing in the Dark Souls series
David Sudnow	Instantaneously Punctuated Picture-Music: Pilgrim in the Microworld and an Alternative Evaluation of Videogame Expression
DayZ	On Betrayal in Games
Death	Meaning Through Performance: Transgressing Boundaries in Shadow of the Colossus
decolonial	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations
deconstruction	Ethics at Play in Undertale: Rhetoric, Identity and Deconstruction
defamiliarization	Antimimetic Rereading and Defamiliarization in Save the Date
Deleuze/Guattari	On Striated Wilderness and Prospect Pacing: Rural Open World Games as Liminal Spaces of the Man-Nature Dichotomy
design	Stasis and Stillness: Moments of Inaction in Videogames
design conventions	"Clementine will remember that." - Methods to Establish Design Conventions for Video Game Narrative.
design methods	(Game) Design methods in Game Studies
design research	(Game) Design methods in Game Studies
design theory for games	Towards the formalization of Indie Game Design
detective fiction	Game Narrative Through the Detective Lens
Development	Obey or Against: The Review of Studies on Chinese Game Policies Indie as Usual: Localising Australian Videogame Development
Development Pipelines	Production pipelines as Actor-Networks: Rethinking the game studio as a technological platform
Digital Activism	(Re)play the beginning of the end: 1988 as prequel to Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong
Digital Aesthetics	The Aesthetics of Ambient Data: Playful Data-Sharing in the Dark Souls series
digital distribution	Fragmentation: between expansion packs and episodic video games.
digital game	Constructing digital game heritage
digital games	The Moral Calculus of Vocational Passion in Digital Gaming
digital interactive learning	‘Debris’: Exploring video game messages and values through gameplay
digital labor	The Moral Calculus of Vocational Passion in Digital Gaming
Digital Memory	The Aesthetics of Ambient Data: Playful Data-Sharing in the Dark Souls series
digital play	Instantaneously Punctuated Picture-Music: Pilgrim in the Microworld and an Alternative Evaluation of Videogame Expression
digital technology	Mechanisms of Disclosure: A Socio-technical Perspective of Sociality in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Video Games
disability	Body Count
discourse	Discourses of "realism" in game journalism
discrimination	Digital games, cultural memory, & hegemony
Distribution	Comics, Football, and Newsagents: Italian video games production and distribution (1987-1993)
DLC	Fragmentation: between expansion packs and episodic video games.
Documentary films	Indie Game: The Movie: The Paper – Documentary Films and the Subfield of Independent Games
Dragon Age	BioWare, Eroticism and Modernity
drinking	Beer & Pixels: Embodiment, drinking, and gaming in Australia
Drivatar	Non-Human Gaming: Video Games for the Post-Anthropocene
dyer	Playing Whiteness in Crisis in The Last of Us and Tomb Raider
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E-Learning	Current Situations in the Japanese Game Research and Game Development Pedagogical Practices
e-sports	Play to Win, Profit & Entertain: a Study of Double Performance as eAthlete and Streamer
E/sport	A Comparative Study of Attachment: Fighting Games and Taekwondo in Life
ecofeminism	Games Biting Back: ANATOMY and Ecofeminism
Education	Game engines: Design, labour, and legality
Educational Game	Injecting Sense of Belonging: The Ideology of Chinese Educational Games Incentivizing Correct Waste Sorting by Game Design
Emancipation	BioWare, Eroticism and Modernity
embodiment	An Embodied Turn: Game Studies Across Worlds and Bodies Beer & Pixels: Embodiment, drinking, and gaming in Australia Instantaneously Punctuated Picture-Music: Pilgrim in the Microworld and an Alternative Evaluation of Videogame Expression Revision of Queer Bodies: Modifications of Sexual Affordances in World of Warcraft
Emergence	Towards Design Principles for Humor in Interactive Emergent Narrative
emergent story	Bonding With Horses and Other Animals in Breath of the Wild
Empathy	Empathizing with Historical Embodied Identities Through Play? Reflections on the 'Perspective-Taking' Potential of Ludic Historical Representations
empirical methods	"Clementine will remember that." - Methods to Establish Design Conventions for Video Game Narrative.
encoding	Digital games, cultural memory, & hegemony
engagement	A gamified companion to aid students in their time-management.
entertainment
environment	Games Biting Back: ANATOMY and Ecofeminism
environmental storytelling	Games Biting Back: ANATOMY and Ecofeminism ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It.’ The Countercultural AAA Aesthetics of Wolfenstein: The New Colossus
epiphenomenon	Beyond Paratexts, Towards Paratextuality: A Case for Granular Analysis of Video Game Paratextuality
Eroticism	BioWare, Eroticism and Modernity
eSports	From Korea to Europe: cross-cultural gender study of professional gaming Beyond the Core Development Team: Exploring Emerging Roles and Responsibilities in the Global Game Industry Understanding the experience of Australian eSports spectatorship “A pure meritocracy blind to identity”: Exploring the Online Responses to All-Female Teams in Reddit Metagaming in Competitive Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Audiencing on Twitch Conversation, Discourse and Play: Interaction and Moderation in Twitch.tv Live Streaming Understanding eSports spectatorship in Australia Collegiate eSports as Learning Ecologies: Investigating Collaborative Learning and Cognition During Competitions Development of online identity in live streaming Esports Careers
Estrangement	Deepening Gameplay Experiences through Estrangement
ethics	Harvester of Desires: Gaming Amazon Echo through John Cayley’s The Listeners Digital games, cultural memory, & hegemony Ethics at Play in Undertale: Rhetoric, Identity and Deconstruction
Eurogamer	Discourses of "realism" in game journalism
Europe	Comics, Football, and Newsagents: Italian video games production and distribution (1987-1993)
EVE Online	On Betrayal in Games
exhibitions	Against Playability: Indirect Interaction in Videogame Exhibitions
existentialism	Projectuality in Digital Gameworlds Panel: Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Game Worlds
experience	Understanding the experience of Australian eSports spectatorship Design Concepts for Empowerment through Urban Play Meaning Through Performance: Transgressing Boundaries in Shadow of the Colossus Understanding eSports spectatorship in Australia Panel: Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Game Worlds
exploration
expression	Instantaneously Punctuated Picture-Music: Pilgrim in the Microworld and an Alternative Evaluation of Videogame Expression
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Facebook	Mechanisms of Disclosure: A Socio-technical Perspective of Sociality in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Video Games
Facebook bot	Playing with a Brand: the Brazilian McDonald's Paper Tray Case
family	A digital gap in Polish families on the example of video games
Fatness	Body Horror as Body Shaming: Fatness and Monstrosity in Video Games
Female gamers	“A pure meritocracy blind to identity”: Exploring the Online Responses to All-Female Teams in Reddit
female stereotype	From Silent NPC to Active Consumer : Representing Female in Chinese Video Game Culture
feminism	Refuse, Remediate, REFIGure: Making Games Sustainable for Women ‘Missing is the Message’: Addressing India’s Girl-Trafficking Problem through a Videogame
Field	Indie Game: The Movie: The Paper – Documentary Films and the Subfield of Independent Games
Finland	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations
force dynamics	Cause, Effect, and Player-Centric Time
foreign language	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations
Framework	Good Game Feel: An Empirically Grounded Framework for Juicy Design
Free-to-play Games	Free-to-Play or Pay-to-Win?: Casual, Hardcore, and Hearthstone
freemium	Loot boxes in Star Wars Battlefront II: Conflicts in the borderland between gambling and gaming
Future	20 Years of Game Art: Reflections, Transformations, and New Directions
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gallery
Gamasutra	Discourses of "realism" in game journalism
gambling	Loot boxes in Star Wars Battlefront II: Conflicts in the borderland between gambling and gaming Problem Gaming vs. Gambling: Can they be treated together? Are Loot Boxes Gambling? Random reward mechanisms in video games
gambling addiction	Problem Gaming vs. Gambling: Can they be treated together?
game addiction	Games of Social Control: A Sociological Study of Addiction to Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games Loot boxes in Star Wars Battlefront II: Conflicts in the borderland between gambling and gaming Problem Gaming vs. Gambling: Can they be treated together?
Game Aesthetics	Implementing Intelligence: The Platform Culture of Intellivision
Game Communities	Games of Social Control: A Sociological Study of Addiction to Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
Game Control	Does Platform Matter? A Game Design Analysis of Female Engagement in MOBA Games
game culture	Refuse, Remediate, REFIGure: Making Games Sustainable for Women
game design	Good Game Feel: An Empirically Grounded Framework for Juicy Design Game engines: Design, labour, and legality Bleed-in, Bleed-out - A Design Case in Board Game Therapy (Game) Design methods in Game Studies Game Narrative Through the Detective Lens Does Platform Matter? A Game Design Analysis of Female Engagement in MOBA Games A Three Person Poncho and a Set of Maracas: Designing Ola De La Vida, A Co-Located Social Play Computer Game Out of Tokens: Queer Game Studies Beyond Representation Towards the formalization of Indie Game Design Panel: Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Game Worlds
game design education	Game engines: Design, labour, and legality Refuse, Remediate, REFIGure: Making Games Sustainable for Women
game design methods	(Game) Design methods in Game Studies
game design research	(Game) Design methods in Game Studies
game development	Current Situations in the Japanese Game Research and Game Development Pedagogical Practices Indie-viduals: Videogames’ Hegemonic (Re-)Production Culture Localization from an Indie Game Production Perspective – Why, When and How?
Game engine	Game engines: Design, labour, and legality
Game Exhibits
game feel	Good Game Feel: An Empirically Grounded Framework for Juicy Design An Embodied Turn: Game Studies Across Worlds and Bodies Instantaneously Punctuated Picture-Music: Pilgrim in the Microworld and an Alternative Evaluation of Videogame Expression
game funding	How Local Policies Shape Game Production: A Nordic Perspective
Game Histories
Game history	Next gen? A critical examination of historical periodization in video games Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations Notes on a pre-history of Italian video games Paper Puzzle Games: The Original “Casual Games”
game industry	Refuse, Remediate, REFIGure: Making Games Sustainable for Women
game interface	A Character in Your Hand: Puppetry to Inform Game Controls
Game localization	Localization from an Indie Game Production Perspective – Why, When and How?
Game ontologies	An Ontological Meta-Model for Games Research
Game Platform	Does Platform Matter? A Game Design Analysis of Female Engagement in MOBA Games
Game production	How Local Policies Shape Game Production: A Nordic Perspective Spectating Development: Backer Perspective on Games Crowdfunding Localization from an Indie Game Production Perspective – Why, When and How? Disruption, Struggle, Re-construction and Re-negotiation: The messy reality of co-creative game design
Game production context	Homemade French Videogames? How platform logic affects game producers and game production.
Game Showcases
game space	On Striated Wilderness and Prospect Pacing: Rural Open World Games as Liminal Spaces of the Man-Nature Dichotomy
game studies	Press Start: It’s all Pun and Games Studies (Until Someone Gets Published) Larp Typology Next Level: Creating Larger Research Units in Game Studies Publishing in Game Studies: Thoughts and Discussion with the Editors: With: Jose Zagal, Jen Jenson, Aaron Trammell, William White, Suzanne de Castell and Espen Aarseth
Game theory	Metagaming in Competitive Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
game worlds	Panel: Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Game Worlds
game-art-and-art-games	Vietnam Romance : A Gesamtkunstwerk to Game (a pre-postmortem)
game-based pedagogies	Video Games, Learning, and the Shifting Educational Landscape
game-elements	A gamified companion to aid students in their time-management.
game-making	Identities, Genre and Design in Game-Making
gameplay	Deepening Gameplay Experiences through Estrangement Quilting the meaning: gameplay as catalyst of signification through cognitive & interpretative processes
gameplay-loop	An Inclusive Perspective on Gameplay: Towards a wide understanding of gameplay in theory and praxis
gamers	Through Games. Uses, Practices and Habits.
Games	Towards Design Principles for Humor in Interactive Emergent Narrative 20 Years of Game Art: Reflections, Transformations, and New Directions
games and learning	Video Games, Learning, and the Shifting Educational Landscape Collegiate eSports as Learning Ecologies: Investigating Collaborative Learning and Cognition During Competitions
games classification	An Ontological Meta-Model for Games Research
Games for Change	‘Missing is the Message’: Addressing India’s Girl-Trafficking Problem through a Videogame
games on games	From the Inside of Medium: Analytics of Retro Games
Gamespot	Discourses of "realism" in game journalism
Gamification	"Travel Bugs": Toys Traveling Socially through Geocaching A gamified companion to aid students in their time-management. Playing for Real
Gaming	Are Loot Boxes Gambling? Random reward mechanisms in video games Contextualizing Pathological Gaming - A Proof-of-Concept Study
gaming culture	Depleted Hearts: Coping and ‘Self-Care’ in Gaming Culture
Gaming Cultures	Out of Tokens: Queer Game Studies Beyond Representation
gaming industry	Beer & Pixels: Embodiment, drinking, and gaming in Australia
gender	The Women of Twitch: The Affordances of Live-Streaming Digital Games From Korea to Europe: cross-cultural gender study of professional gaming Refuse, Remediate, REFIGure: Making Games Sustainable for Women A qualitative study of transmasculinity in the games industry and games journalism “Why do all females play Mercy?” - The gendered imaginary in the Overwatch play assemblages Avatars, Gender and Sexuality for Brazilian Players on Rust
Gender Differences	Does Platform Matter? A Game Design Analysis of Female Engagement in MOBA Games
genere	Memory and Meaning in Analogue: A Hate Story and Nier: Automata
genre	Identities, Genre and Design in Game-Making Discourses of "realism" in game journalism
genre theory	Defining Genre in Video Game Historiography: Structural, Discursive, and Sociocultural Definitions
Geocaching	"Travel Bugs": Toys Traveling Socially through Geocaching
Germany	Exploring Cultural Differences in Game Reception: JRPGs in Germany and Japan
Ghost Cars	Non-Human Gaming: Video Games for the Post-Anthropocene
GLAM
glitch	The medium [of in-game photography] is the message
Global/local	Homemade French Videogames? How platform logic affects game producers and game production.
goals	Projectuality in Digital Gameworlds
God	Star Ocean: Till the End of Time; a Nietzschian approach to games
Goffman	Restricted affordances: Avatar models and capacities for identity
Government	Injecting Sense of Belonging: The Ideology of Chinese Educational Games
grounded theory	Exploring Cultural Differences in Game Reception: JRPGs in Germany and Japan
guilds	Mechanisms of Disclosure: A Socio-technical Perspective of Sociality in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Video Games
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habit	Videogames, analytics and the ‘becoming-gramme’ of play
happiness	Body Count
Haptic Feedback	Avatar-Kinaesthetics as Characterisation Statements in Horizon: Zero Dawn
harassment	Depleted Hearts: Coping and ‘Self-Care’ in Gaming Culture
Hardcore Games	Free-to-Play or Pay-to-Win?: Casual, Hardcore, and Hearthstone
HCI	A Character in Your Hand: Puppetry to Inform Game Controls
Hearthstone	Free-to-Play or Pay-to-Win?: Casual, Hardcore, and Hearthstone
hegemony	Digital games, cultural memory, & hegemony
Hellblade	To Hell and Back: Hellblade’s Depiction of Mental Illness and Its Impact
heritage	Constructing digital game heritage
heritage institution	Constructing digital game heritage
hermeneutics	Interpretive Challenges in Games Panel: Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Game Worlds
historical authenticity	Presence at History: Toward an Expression of Authentic Historical Content as Game Rules and Play
Historical digital games	Empathizing with Historical Embodied Identities Through Play? Reflections on the 'Perspective-Taking' Potential of Ludic Historical Representations
Historical learning	Empathizing with Historical Embodied Identities Through Play? Reflections on the 'Perspective-Taking' Potential of Ludic Historical Representations
historical video games	Save the park, punish the traitors: Games as Historical Documents
historiography	Notes on a pre-history of Italian video games
History	Playing the Nazis: Political Implications in Analog Wargames History, Mnemohistory and Trauma in the Italian Videogame Scene Digital games, cultural memory, & hegemony 20 Years of Game Art: Reflections, Transformations, and New Directions The reception of Chinese history in Honor of Kings Past stories and Future Worlds: History and popular imagination in Fallout 4
hobbies	The Moral Calculus of Vocational Passion in Digital Gaming
home computer	The Human Machine Art Interface: Arcade Port Aesthetics and Production Practices
Honor of Kings	The reception of Chinese history in Honor of Kings
horizon	On Striated Wilderness and Prospect Pacing: Rural Open World Games as Liminal Spaces of the Man-Nature Dichotomy
Horizon Zero Dawn	On Striated Wilderness and Prospect Pacing: Rural Open World Games as Liminal Spaces of the Man-Nature Dichotomy
horses	Horsing Around: subjectivity of mounts in video games
human and machine	Video Games and Post-Humanism
Human Survival	Non-Human Gaming: Video Games for the Post-Anthropocene
Humor	Towards Design Principles for Humor in Interactive Emergent Narrative The Quest for Serious Sex Adventures: A Structural Analysis of Puzzle and Humor
hybrid play	The Toy is the Message: materiality, imagination and play objects
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Identification
identity	Restricted affordances: Avatar models and capacities for identity Identities, Genre and Design in Game-Making Revision of Queer Bodies: Modifications of Sexual Affordances in World of Warcraft
Ideology	Injecting Sense of Belonging: The Ideology of Chinese Educational Games Playing the Nazis: Political Implications in Analog Wargames
Idle Games	Non-Human Gaming: Video Games for the Post-Anthropocene
Idling	From Interactive to Interpassive Gaming
Imagined Communities	Overwatch as a Shared Universe: Game Worlds in a Transmedial Franchise
Implied Player	Playing with Style: Implied Playstyles as an Analysis Tool for Player Behavior and Metagame Emergence
Implied Playstyles	Playing with Style: Implied Playstyles as an Analysis Tool for Player Behavior and Metagame Emergence
In-depth Interviews	Games of Social Control: A Sociological Study of Addiction to Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
in-game photography	Wrecking the Game. The Artist as Griefer The medium [of in-game photography] is the message
inaction	Stasis and Stillness: Moments of Inaction in Videogames Consecutive Endings and the Aesthetic Potential of Cognitive Dissonance
Independent games	Spectating Development: Backer Perspective on Games Crowdfunding Indie Game: The Movie: The Paper – Documentary Films and the Subfield of Independent Games
India	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations ‘Missing is the Message’: Addressing India’s Girl-Trafficking Problem through a Videogame Localization from an Indie Game Production Perspective – Why, When and How?
Indie	Game engines: Design, labour, and legality Indie as Usual: Localising Australian Videogame Development
indie developers
indie game design	Towards the formalization of Indie Game Design
Indie games	Indie-viduals: Videogames’ Hegemonic (Re-)Production Culture Localization from an Indie Game Production Perspective – Why, When and How?
industry	Indie as Usual: Localising Australian Videogame Development
informal learning	Video Games, Learning, and the Shifting Educational Landscape
information complexity	Preliminary Poetics of Procedural Generation in Games
infra-ordinary	Infra-Ordinary Game Analysis: Animal Crossing Pocket Camp as an Introductory Study
institutionalization	Next Level: Creating Larger Research Units in Game Studies
institutions	Next Level: Creating Larger Research Units in Game Studies
integral reality	Playing for Real
intellectual baroque
Intellectual property	Game engines: Design, labour, and legality
Intelligence	Implementing Intelligence: The Platform Culture of Intellivision
Intellivision	Implementing Intelligence: The Platform Culture of Intellivision
Interactive Paradox	An Exploration of Interactive Paradox
Interactivity	From Interactive to Interpassive Gaming Towards Design Principles for Humor in Interactive Emergent Narrative Against Playability: Indirect Interaction in Videogame Exhibitions Audiencing on Twitch Past stories and Future Worlds: History and popular imagination in Fallout 4
interdisciplinarity	Press Start: It’s all Pun and Games Studies (Until Someone Gets Published)
interfaces	Restricted affordances: Avatar models and capacities for identity
Internet gaming disorder	Are Loot Boxes Gambling? Random reward mechanisms in video games Contextualizing Pathological Gaming - A Proof-of-Concept Study
Interpassivity	From Interactive to Interpassive Gaming
interpretation	Interpretive Challenges in Games
interpretative challenge	Interpretive Challenges in Games
intersectional	Playing Whiteness in Crisis in The Last of Us and Tomb Raider
Interviews	Localization from an Indie Game Production Perspective – Why, When and How?
Italy	Comics, Football, and Newsagents: Italian video games production and distribution (1987-1993) History, Mnemohistory and Trauma in the Italian Videogame Scene
J
Japan	(Trans)mediality and Playership in and around Japanese Videogames Meaning Through Performance: Transgressing Boundaries in Shadow of the Colossus
Japanese games	Exploring Cultural Differences in Game Reception: JRPGs in Germany and Japan
Japanese Games Research	Current Situations in the Japanese Game Research and Game Development Pedagogical Practices
journal	Publishing in Game Studies: Thoughts and Discussion with the Editors: With: Jose Zagal, Jen Jenson, Aaron Trammell, William White, Suzanne de Castell and Espen Aarseth
journalism	Discourses of "realism" in game journalism
Juiciness	Good Game Feel: An Empirically Grounded Framework for Juicy Design
Juicy Design	Good Game Feel: An Empirically Grounded Framework for Juicy Design
K
Kinaesthetics	Avatar-Kinaesthetics as Characterisation Statements in Horizon: Zero Dawn
L
Lacan
landscape	Landscape Trouble: Why we are surrounded by climate change games The medium [of in-game photography] is the message On Striated Wilderness and Prospect Pacing: Rural Open World Games as Liminal Spaces of the Man-Nature Dichotomy
landscape studies	Landscape Trouble: Why we are surrounded by climate change games
larp	Larp Typology Markers of Subjective Perception in Larp
last of us	Playing Whiteness in Crisis in The Last of Us and Tomb Raider
leadership	From ‘Training Grounds’ to Sociotechnical Actors: Do MMORPG’s Presage/Prestage the Futures of Leadership and Work? If You Guild it, They Will Come: Organizational Leadership in Games
learning ecologies	Collegiate eSports as Learning Ecologies: Investigating Collaborative Learning and Cognition During Competitions
Lefebvre	On Striated Wilderness and Prospect Pacing: Rural Open World Games as Liminal Spaces of the Man-Nature Dichotomy
legitimacy
library
life cycle	Watching People Play. The Role of Spectatorship in Player Careers
literacy learning	Video Games, Learning, and the Shifting Educational Landscape
literary games	Characteristically Tensive: The Unreal in Poetic Gaming
Live streaming	Conversation, Discourse and Play: Interaction and Moderation in Twitch.tv Live Streaming Collegiate eSports as Learning Ecologies: Investigating Collaborative Learning and Cognition During Competitions
Live-streaming	The Women of Twitch: The Affordances of Live-Streaming Digital Games Audiencing on Twitch Esports Careers
local	Indie as Usual: Localising Australian Videogame Development
loot boxes	Loot boxes in Star Wars Battlefront II: Conflicts in the borderland between gambling and gaming Are Loot Boxes Gambling? Random reward mechanisms in video games Monetization is the Message: A Historical Examination of Video Game Microtransactions
loot crates	Are Loot Boxes Gambling? Random reward mechanisms in video games
ludic mutation	Wrecking the Game. The Artist as Griefer
ludo-narrative dissonance	‘We’re Not Gonna Take It.’ The Countercultural AAA Aesthetics of Wolfenstein: The New Colossus
ludology	Panel: Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Game Worlds
ludonarrative	"Clementine will remember that." - Methods to Establish Design Conventions for Video Game Narrative.
M
machinima	Wrecking the Game. The Artist as Griefer
Male player
man caves	Man Caves and the Fantasy of Homosocial Escape
management studies	If You Guild it, They Will Come: Organizational Leadership in Games
Manovich	On Striated Wilderness and Prospect Pacing: Rural Open World Games as Liminal Spaces of the Man-Nature Dichotomy
marginalization	Digital games, cultural memory, & hegemony
marketing	Playing with a Brand: the Brazilian McDonald's Paper Tray Case
masculinity	Man Caves and the Fantasy of Homosocial Escape
Mass Effect	BioWare, Eroticism and Modernity
material	Paper-made digital games - A poetic of cardboard from Crayon Physics Deluxe to Nintendo Labo
materiality	The Toy is the Message: materiality, imagination and play objects Instantaneously Punctuated Picture-Music: Pilgrim in the Microworld and an Alternative Evaluation of Videogame Expression
materialization	Body Count
McDonald’s	Playing with a Brand: the Brazilian McDonald's Paper Tray Case
MDA framework	Horsing Around: subjectivity of mounts in video games
meaning	Panel: Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Game Worlds
Meaning-making	Presence at History: Toward an Expression of Authentic Historical Content as Game Rules and Play
Mechanics	Playing with Style: Implied Playstyles as an Analysis Tool for Player Behavior and Metagame Emergence Stasis and Stillness: Moments of Inaction in Videogames
media archaeology	Notes on a pre-history of Italian video games
medium genealogy
memory	Memory and Meaning in Analogue: A Hate Story and Nier: Automata
mental health	Bleed-in, Bleed-out - A Design Case in Board Game Therapy ‘Debris’: Exploring video game messages and values through gameplay To Hell and Back: Hellblade’s Depiction of Mental Illness and Its Impact
mental illness	From floating brains to insane painters: A review of mental illness messages in commercial video games
meta-play	Ethics at Play in Undertale: Rhetoric, Identity and Deconstruction
Metagame	Playing with Style: Implied Playstyles as an Analysis Tool for Player Behavior and Metagame Emergence
Metagaming	An Embodied Turn: Game Studies Across Worlds and Bodies Metagaming in Competitive Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Metaphor	Body Count
Metaphorical Game Design	Incentivizing Correct Waste Sorting by Game Design
methodology	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations An Ontological Meta-Model for Games Research
microethology	“Why do all females play Mercy?” - The gendered imaginary in the Overwatch play assemblages
microtransactions	Relation and regime. On aesthetics and cosmetic microtransactions in Path of Exile Monetization is the Message: A Historical Examination of Video Game Microtransactions
miniature	The Meaning and Significance of True Line of Sight in Warhammer 40,000
Mirrorsoft
MMO worlds	The Ruins of Meridian 59: Abandoned MMOs as Poor Objects
MMORPGs	From ‘Training Grounds’ to Sociotechnical Actors: Do MMORPG’s Presage/Prestage the Futures of Leadership and Work? Mechanisms of Disclosure: A Socio-technical Perspective of Sociality in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Video Games
Mnemohistory	History, Mnemohistory and Trauma in the Italian Videogame Scene
MOBA	The reception of Chinese history in Honor of Kings
MOBA Games	Does Platform Matter? A Game Design Analysis of Female Engagement in MOBA Games
modding	An Inclusive Perspective on Gameplay: Towards a wide understanding of gameplay in theory and praxis
Modernity	BioWare, Eroticism and Modernity
Monetization	Beyond the Core Development Team: Exploring Emerging Roles and Responsibilities in the Global Game Industry Monetization is the Message: A Historical Examination of Video Game Microtransactions
monetization models	Loot boxes in Star Wars Battlefront II: Conflicts in the borderland between gambling and gaming
monsters
Monstrosity	Body Horror as Body Shaming: Fatness and Monstrosity in Video Games
Monstrous-Feminine	Body Horror as Body Shaming: Fatness and Monstrosity in Video Games
mounts	Horsing Around: subjectivity of mounts in video games
Multi-player Games	The Aesthetics of Ambient Data: Playful Data-Sharing in the Dark Souls series
multilingual	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations
Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games	Does Platform Matter? A Game Design Analysis of Female Engagement in MOBA Games
multispecies philosophy
museum	Constructing digital game heritage
museum object	Constructing digital game heritage
Myth of the Cave	Star Ocean: Till the End of Time; a Nietzschian approach to games
N
Narrative	Towards Design Principles for Humor in Interactive Emergent Narrative Game Narrative Through the Detective Lens Games Biting Back: ANATOMY and Ecofeminism Out of Tokens: Queer Game Studies Beyond Representation Past stories and Future Worlds: History and popular imagination in Fallout 4
narrative design	"Clementine will remember that." - Methods to Establish Design Conventions for Video Game Narrative.
narratology	Markers of Subjective Perception in Larp
National Contexts	Comics, Football, and Newsagents: Italian video games production and distribution (1987-1993)
nature	Games Biting Back: ANATOMY and Ecofeminism
networking	Beer & Pixels: Embodiment, drinking, and gaming in Australia
new media	From the Inside of Medium: Analytics of Retro Games
Nietzsche	Star Ocean: Till the End of Time; a Nietzschian approach to games
nintendo labo	Paper-made digital games - A poetic of cardboard from Crayon Physics Deluxe to Nintendo Labo
non-English languages	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations
Non-human	Bonding With Horses and Other Animals in Breath of the Wild Non-Human Gaming: Video Games for the Post-Anthropocene
non-human agency	From Interactive to Interpassive Gaming Video Games and Post-Humanism
non-standard gameplay	An Inclusive Perspective on Gameplay: Towards a wide understanding of gameplay in theory and praxis
Nordic countries	How Local Policies Shape Game Production: A Nordic Perspective
nostalgia	Paper-made digital games - A poetic of cardboard from Crayon Physics Deluxe to Nintendo Labo From the Inside of Medium: Analytics of Retro Games
NPC	From Silent NPC to Active Consumer : Representing Female in Chinese Video Game Culture
O
Online and Offline Networks	Games of Social Control: A Sociological Study of Addiction to Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
online content	Development of online identity in live streaming
online gaming	If You Guild it, They Will Come: Organizational Leadership in Games
online identity	Development of online identity in live streaming
ontology	Consecutive Endings and the Aesthetic Potential of Cognitive Dissonance An Ontological Meta-Model for Games Research
Open world	On Striated Wilderness and Prospect Pacing: Rural Open World Games as Liminal Spaces of the Man-Nature Dichotomy
organization of research	Next Level: Creating Larger Research Units in Game Studies
organizational structures	If You Guild it, They Will Come: Organizational Leadership in Games
Orientalism	Imaginary Russia. The Orientalisation of USSR in 'Command & Conquer: Red Alert' series ‘Missing is the Message’: Addressing India’s Girl-Trafficking Problem through a Videogame
othering	An Inclusive Perspective on Gameplay: Towards a wide understanding of gameplay in theory and praxis
otome game	From Silent NPC to Active Consumer : Representing Female in Chinese Video Game Culture
Overwatch	“Why do all females play Mercy?” - The gendered imaginary in the Overwatch play assemblages
P
pacifism	Ethics at Play in Undertale: Rhetoric, Identity and Deconstruction
panel	Press Start: It’s all Pun and Games Studies (Until Someone Gets Published)
paper	Paper-made digital games - A poetic of cardboard from Crayon Physics Deluxe to Nintendo Labo
Paper puzzle games	Paper Puzzle Games: The Original “Casual Games”
paper tray	Playing with a Brand: the Brazilian McDonald's Paper Tray Case
Papers please	Quilting the meaning: gameplay as catalyst of signification through cognitive & interpretative processes
Paradox	An Exploration of Interactive Paradox
paratext	Beyond Paratexts, Towards Paratextuality: A Case for Granular Analysis of Video Game Paratextuality
paratextuality	Beyond Paratexts, Towards Paratextuality: A Case for Granular Analysis of Video Game Paratextuality
parents	A digital gap in Polish families on the example of video games
Participation motivation	Spectating Development: Backer Perspective on Games Crowdfunding
passionate work	The Moral Calculus of Vocational Passion in Digital Gaming
PCG	Preliminary Poetics of Procedural Generation in Games
pedagogy	Press Start: It’s all Pun and Games Studies (Until Someone Gets Published) No Coding Required: Teaching Humanities Students How to Design Video Games
perception	Panel: Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Game Worlds
perceptual learning	Collegiate eSports as Learning Ecologies: Investigating Collaborative Learning and Cognition During Competitions
Perec	Infra-Ordinary Game Analysis: Animal Crossing Pocket Camp as an Introductory Study
Performance	Archival Adventuring A Three Person Poncho and a Set of Maracas: Designing Ola De La Vida, A Co-Located Social Play Computer Game Play to Win, Profit & Entertain: a Study of Double Performance as eAthlete and Streamer
performativity	An Embodied Turn: Game Studies Across Worlds and Bodies Panel: Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Game Worlds
periodization	Next gen? A critical examination of historical periodization in video games
Permadeath	Understanding Player elimination in boardgames as a form of permadeath
phenomenology	An Embodied Turn: Game Studies Across Worlds and Bodies The City in Singleplayer Fantasy Role-Playing Games Panel: Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Game Worlds
Philosophy of computer games	Panel: Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Game Worlds
philosophy of technology	The Other Otherness of the Avatar: Technological Alterity in Player-Avatar-Relations.
photography	The medium [of in-game photography] is the message
physical	Understanding the experience of Australian eSports spectatorship Understanding eSports spectatorship in Australia
Platform	The Human Machine Art Interface: Arcade Port Aesthetics and Production Practices Implementing Intelligence: The Platform Culture of Intellivision
platform generations	Next gen? A critical examination of historical periodization in video games
Platform logic	Homemade French Videogames? How platform logic affects game producers and game production.
Platform Studies	Harvester of Desires: Gaming Amazon Echo through John Cayley’s The Listeners Implementing Intelligence: The Platform Culture of Intellivision Conversation, Discourse and Play: Interaction and Moderation in Twitch.tv Live Streaming
play	Video Games in the Convenience Store An Embodied Turn: Game Studies Across Worlds and Bodies Metagaming in Competitive Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Play and Life	A Comparative Study of Attachment: Fighting Games and Taekwondo in Life
play as content	Presence at History: Toward an Expression of Authentic Historical Content as Game Rules and Play
play fiction	Make Tents, Not War: Queer Play as Play-That-CritiquesCritical play, queer play, play studies, play fiction, play-that-critiques
play studies	Stasis and Stillness: Moments of Inaction in Videogames Make Tents, Not War: Queer Play as Play-That-CritiquesCritical play, queer play, play studies, play fiction, play-that-critiques
play-that-critiques	Make Tents, Not War: Queer Play as Play-That-CritiquesCritical play, queer play, play studies, play fiction, play-that-critiques
Playbour	Conversation, Discourse and Play: Interaction and Moderation in Twitch.tv Live Streaming
player elimination	Understanding Player elimination in boardgames as a form of permadeath
player-character	The Other Otherness of the Avatar: Technological Alterity in Player-Avatar-Relations.
Players	Metagaming in Competitive Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
players profiles	Through Games. Uses, Practices and Habits.
playership	(Trans)mediality and Playership in and around Japanese Videogames
playful
playing habits	Through Games. Uses, Practices and Habits.
playtesting
poetic gameplay	Antimimetic Rereading and Defamiliarization in Save the Date
poetics	Harvester of Desires: Gaming Amazon Echo through John Cayley’s The Listeners Paper-made digital games - A poetic of cardboard from Crayon Physics Deluxe to Nintendo Labo Preliminary Poetics of Procedural Generation in Games Characteristically Tensive: The Unreal in Poetic Gaming
poetry	Characteristically Tensive: The Unreal in Poetic Gaming
Poland	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations
political economy	Indie as Usual: Localising Australian Videogame Development
Political video games	Save the park, punish the traitors: Games as Historical Documents
Politics	Obey or Against: The Review of Studies on Chinese Game Policies ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It.’ The Countercultural AAA Aesthetics of Wolfenstein: The New Colossus
poor object	The Ruins of Meridian 59: Abandoned MMOs as Poor Objects
port	The Human Machine Art Interface: Arcade Port Aesthetics and Production Practices
post-anthropocene	Non-Human Gaming: Video Games for the Post-Anthropocene Video Games and Post-Humanism
post-digital	Paper-made digital games - A poetic of cardboard from Crayon Physics Deluxe to Nintendo Labo
post-humanism	Video Games and Post-Humanism
post-phenomenology	The Other Otherness of the Avatar: Technological Alterity in Player-Avatar-Relations.
post-photography	The medium [of in-game photography] is the message
postcolonial	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations
Postcolonialism	Imaginary Russia. The Orientalisation of USSR in 'Command & Conquer: Red Alert' series
POV	The Meaning and Significance of True Line of Sight in Warhammer 40,000
power	Disruption, Struggle, Re-construction and Re-negotiation: The messy reality of co-creative game design
precarity	Depleted Hearts: Coping and ‘Self-Care’ in Gaming Culture
premium	Loot boxes in Star Wars Battlefront II: Conflicts in the borderland between gambling and gaming
Preservation	Constructing digital game heritage
pro-player	Play to Win, Profit & Entertain: a Study of Double Performance as eAthlete and Streamer
Problem gaming	Problem Gaming vs. Gambling: Can they be treated together?
problematic gaming	Problem Gaming vs. Gambling: Can they be treated together?
procedural content generation	Preliminary Poetics of Procedural Generation in Games
Procedural hermeneutics	Principles of Procedural Hermeneutics: How Do We Understand Videogames?
procedural rhetoric	Horsing Around: subjectivity of mounts in video games Principles of Procedural Hermeneutics: How Do We Understand Videogames? Infra-Ordinary Game Analysis: Animal Crossing Pocket Camp as an Introductory Study ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It.’ The Countercultural AAA Aesthetics of Wolfenstein: The New Colossus
process-and-reflection	Vietnam Romance : A Gesamtkunstwerk to Game (a pre-postmortem)
Production of meaning in videogames	Principles of Procedural Hermeneutics: How Do We Understand Videogames?
Production studies	Beyond the Core Development Team: Exploring Emerging Roles and Responsibilities in the Global Game Industry Spectating Development: Backer Perspective on Games Crowdfunding Indie-viduals: Videogames’ Hegemonic (Re-)Production Culture Production pipelines as Actor-Networks: Rethinking the game studio as a technological platform
Professional	From Korea to Europe: cross-cultural gender study of professional gaming
Professional players	“A pure meritocracy blind to identity”: Exploring the Online Responses to All-Female Teams in Reddit
Progetto Ustica	History, Mnemohistory and Trauma in the Italian Videogame Scene
project	Projectuality in Digital Gameworlds
propaganda	The reception of Chinese history in Honor of Kings
prospect pacing	On Striated Wilderness and Prospect Pacing: Rural Open World Games as Liminal Spaces of the Man-Nature Dichotomy
prosthetic memory	Digital games, cultural memory, & hegemony
Prostitution	‘Missing is the Message’: Addressing India’s Girl-Trafficking Problem through a Videogame
prosumer	From Silent NPC to Active Consumer : Representing Female in Chinese Video Game Culture
Psychology	Out of Tokens: Queer Game Studies Beyond Representation
psychosis	‘Debris’: Exploring video game messages and values through gameplay
public	Video Games in the Convenience Store
publication	Press Start: It’s all Pun and Games Studies (Until Someone Gets Published)
publishing	Publishing in Game Studies: Thoughts and Discussion with the Editors: With: Jose Zagal, Jen Jenson, Aaron Trammell, William White, Suzanne de Castell and Espen Aarseth
punctum	The medium [of in-game photography] is the message
puppetry	A Character in Your Hand: Puppetry to Inform Game Controls
Puzzle	The Quest for Serious Sex Adventures: A Structural Analysis of Puzzle and Humor
Puzzle games	Paper Puzzle Games: The Original “Casual Games”
Q
QDA	Exploring Cultural Differences in Game Reception: JRPGs in Germany and Japan
qualitative methods	Digital games, cultural memory, & hegemony Contextualizing Pathological Gaming - A Proof-of-Concept Study
Queer	Archival Adventuring
Queer Game Studies	Out of Tokens: Queer Game Studies Beyond Representation
queer play	Make Tents, Not War: Queer Play as Play-That-CritiquesCritical play, queer play, play studies, play fiction, play-that-critiques
queering	Deepening Gameplay Experiences through Estrangement
queerness	Revision of Queer Bodies: Modifications of Sexual Affordances in World of Warcraft
R
race
real time strategy	Imaginary Russia. The Orientalisation of USSR in 'Command & Conquer: Red Alert' series
Real-time hermeneutics	Principles of Procedural Hermeneutics: How Do We Understand Videogames?
realism	Discourses of "realism" in game journalism
reception	Exploring Cultural Differences in Game Reception: JRPGs in Germany and Japan
reflection	Deepening Gameplay Experiences through Estrangement
reflective	Bleed-in, Bleed-out - A Design Case in Board Game Therapy
regional game studies	Non-English-Language Game Histories: Methodological Considerations
Regional Studies	Comics, Football, and Newsagents: Italian video games production and distribution (1987-1993)
religion	Indie-viduals: Videogames’ Hegemonic (Re-)Production Culture
remediation	From the Inside of Medium: Analytics of Retro Games
remembering	Digital games, cultural memory, & hegemony
replay stories	Antimimetic Rereading and Defamiliarization in Save the Date
representation	Restricted affordances: Avatar models and capacities for identity From Silent NPC to Active Consumer : Representing Female in Chinese Video Game Culture Body Horror as Body Shaming: Fatness and Monstrosity in Video Games Out of Tokens: Queer Game Studies Beyond Representation
Rereading	Antimimetic Rereading and Defamiliarization in Save the Date
research centres	Next Level: Creating Larger Research Units in Game Studies
Research Map	Current Situations in the Japanese Game Research and Game Development Pedagogical Practices
retro games	From the Inside of Medium: Analytics of Retro Games
retroscapes	Presence at History: Toward an Expression of Authentic Historical Content as Game Rules and Play
Review	Obey or Against: The Review of Studies on Chinese Game Policies
rhetoric	Ethics at Play in Undertale: Rhetoric, Identity and Deconstruction
Robert Maxwell
role-playing	Larp Typology Markers of Subjective Perception in Larp
Routine	The Play is the Message. The Everyday Context of Videogame Play
RPGs	The City in Singleplayer Fantasy Role-Playing Games
ruins	The Ruins of Meridian 59: Abandoned MMOs as Poor Objects
Rust	Avatars, Gender and Sexuality for Brazilian Players on Rust
S
sacred	Video Games in the Convenience Store
screenshot	The medium [of in-game photography] is the message
seamful design	Deepening Gameplay Experiences through Estrangement
self-care	Depleted Hearts: Coping and ‘Self-Care’ in Gaming Culture
Self-playing games	From Interactive to Interpassive Gaming
Semiotics	Quilting the meaning: gameplay as catalyst of signification through cognitive & interpretative processes
seniors	Video games as an extension of youth? Gaming among third age people
Sense of Belonging	Injecting Sense of Belonging: The Ideology of Chinese Educational Games
separation
Seriality	Comics, Football, and Newsagents: Italian video games production and distribution (1987-1993) Fragmentation: between expansion packs and episodic video games.
Serious Game	Incentivizing Correct Waste Sorting by Game Design
Serious Games	History, Mnemohistory and Trauma in the Italian Videogame Scene ‘Missing is the Message’: Addressing India’s Girl-Trafficking Problem through a Videogame
Sexuality	The Quest for Serious Sex Adventures: A Structural Analysis of Puzzle and Humor Avatars, Gender and Sexuality for Brazilian Players on Rust
Shared Universe	Overwatch as a Shared Universe: Game Worlds in a Transmedial Franchise
Signification	Quilting the meaning: gameplay as catalyst of signification through cognitive & interpretative processes
Simulacra	Star Ocean: Till the End of Time; a Nietzschian approach to games
simulations and learning	From ‘Training Grounds’ to Sociotechnical Actors: Do MMORPG’s Presage/Prestage the Futures of Leadership and Work?
skills	Indie as Usual: Localising Australian Videogame Development
slowness	Stasis and Stillness: Moments of Inaction in Videogames
So Far	Non-Human Gaming: Video Games for the Post-Anthropocene
Social Control	Games of Social Control: A Sociological Study of Addiction to Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
Social Media	Mechanisms of Disclosure: A Socio-technical Perspective of Sociality in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Video Games The Aesthetics of Ambient Data: Playful Data-Sharing in the Dark Souls series
Social play	"Travel Bugs": Toys Traveling Socially through Geocaching A Three Person Poncho and a Set of Maracas: Designing Ola De La Vida, A Co-Located Social Play Computer Game (Re)play the beginning of the end: 1988 as prequel to Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong
socialisation	A digital gap in Polish families on the example of video games
sociality	Mechanisms of Disclosure: A Socio-technical Perspective of Sociality in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Video Games
space	Archival Adventuring Video Games in the Convenience Store The City in Singleplayer Fantasy Role-Playing Games
Spain
speciesism
spectatorship	Understanding the experience of Australian eSports spectatorship A Three Person Poncho and a Set of Maracas: Designing Ola De La Vida, A Co-Located Social Play Computer Game Watching People Play. The Role of Spectatorship in Player Careers Understanding eSports spectatorship in Australia
speed	Stasis and Stillness: Moments of Inaction in Videogames
Ssocialization	The Play is the Message. The Everyday Context of Videogame Play
Star Wars Battlefront II	Loot boxes in Star Wars Battlefront II: Conflicts in the borderland between gambling and gaming
stigma	From floating brains to insane painters: A review of mental illness messages in commercial video games
storytelling	Cause, Effect, and Player-Centric Time
streamer	Play to Win, Profit & Entertain: a Study of Double Performance as eAthlete and Streamer
streaming	Play to Win, Profit & Entertain: a Study of Double Performance as eAthlete and Streamer Watching People Play. The Role of Spectatorship in Player Careers Development of online identity in live streaming
structure	Consecutive Endings and the Aesthetic Potential of Cognitive Dissonance
struggle	Disruption, Struggle, Re-construction and Re-negotiation: The messy reality of co-creative game design
students	Press Start: It’s all Pun and Games Studies (Until Someone Gets Published)
Study of audience	The Play is the Message. The Everyday Context of Videogame Play
Subfield	Indie Game: The Movie: The Paper – Documentary Films and the Subfield of Independent Games
subjectification	Bonding With Horses and Other Animals in Breath of the Wild
Subjective Avatars	Is My Avatar MY Avatar? Character Autonomy and Automated Avatar Actions in Digital Games
subjectivity	Projectuality in Digital Gameworlds Panel: Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Game Worlds
subversion	Wrecking the Game. The Artist as Griefer
support	Understanding the experience of Australian eSports spectatorship Understanding eSports spectatorship in Australia
surveillance	Harvester of Desires: Gaming Amazon Echo through John Cayley’s The Listeners
Survivor	On Betrayal in Games
Sweden	Localization from an Indie Game Production Perspective – Why, When and How?
T
table-top games	Bleed-in, Bleed-out - A Design Case in Board Game Therapy
tabletop	The Meaning and Significance of True Line of Sight in Warhammer 40,000
Tadeusz Kantor	The Ruins of Meridian 59: Abandoned MMOs as Poor Objects
tangible	A Character in Your Hand: Puppetry to Inform Game Controls
taxonomy	Are Loot Boxes Gambling? Random reward mechanisms in video games
TeamSpeak	Mechanisms of Disclosure: A Socio-technical Perspective of Sociality in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Video Games
Technology	Star Ocean: Till the End of Time; a Nietzschian approach to games
Temporary play communities	A Three Person Poncho and a Set of Maracas: Designing Ola De La Vida, A Co-Located Social Play Computer Game
tensive language	Characteristically Tensive: The Unreal in Poetic Gaming
the art history of games
the new economy	The Moral Calculus of Vocational Passion in Digital Gaming
The Sims
theory of the design of games	Towards the formalization of Indie Game Design
theorycrafting	Disruption, Struggle, Re-construction and Re-negotiation: The messy reality of co-creative game design
therapy	Bleed-in, Bleed-out - A Design Case in Board Game Therapy
therapy board-games	Bleed-in, Bleed-out - A Design Case in Board Game Therapy
time	Cause, Effect, and Player-Centric Time
time-management	A gamified companion to aid students in their time-management.
Titanic: Honor and Glory	Presence at History: Toward an Expression of Authentic Historical Content as Game Rules and Play
tomb raider	Playing Whiteness in Crisis in The Last of Us and Tomb Raider
tourist gaze	On Striated Wilderness and Prospect Pacing: Rural Open World Games as Liminal Spaces of the Man-Nature Dichotomy
Toy Mobility	"Travel Bugs": Toys Traveling Socially through Geocaching
Toy Tourism	"Travel Bugs": Toys Traveling Socially through Geocaching
toys	The Toy is the Message: materiality, imagination and play objects
Trafficking	‘Missing is the Message’: Addressing India’s Girl-Trafficking Problem through a Videogame
trailers	Beyond Paratexts, Towards Paratextuality: A Case for Granular Analysis of Video Game Paratextuality
transactive synthetic voice	Harvester of Desires: Gaming Amazon Echo through John Cayley’s The Listeners
Transgression	Meaning Through Performance: Transgressing Boundaries in Shadow of the Colossus
transmasculinity	A qualitative study of transmasculinity in the games industry and games journalism
transmedia	(Trans)mediality and Playership in and around Japanese Videogames No Coding Required: Teaching Humanities Students How to Design Video Games Markers of Subjective Perception in Larp
Transmedia Storytelling	Overwatch as a Shared Universe: Game Worlds in a Transmedial Franchise
Transmedial Universe	Overwatch as a Shared Universe: Game Worlds in a Transmedial Franchise
Trauma Studies	History, Mnemohistory and Trauma in the Italian Videogame Scene
Travel Bug	"Travel Bugs": Toys Traveling Socially through Geocaching
Treacherous Play	On Betrayal in Games
treatment	Problem Gaming vs. Gambling: Can they be treated together?
triggers	Cause, Effect, and Player-Centric Time
Twine	No Coding Required: Teaching Humanities Students How to Design Video Games
Twitch	Audiencing on Twitch
twitch.tv	Conversation, Discourse and Play: Interaction and Moderation in Twitch.tv Live Streaming Development of online identity in live streaming
typology	Larp Typology
U
UK Videogames
Unity	Game engines: Design, labour, and legality
unnatural literary games	Antimimetic Rereading and Defamiliarization in Save the Date
unnatural narrative	Antimimetic Rereading and Defamiliarization in Save the Date
Unreal	Game engines: Design, labour, and legality Characteristically Tensive: The Unreal in Poetic Gaming
urban exploration	The Ruins of Meridian 59: Abandoned MMOs as Poor Objects
urban game	Design Concepts for Empowerment through Urban Play
urban space	The City in Singleplayer Fantasy Role-Playing Games
user centered analysis	Through Games. Uses, Practices and Habits.
User experience evaluation
user reviews	Exploring Cultural Differences in Game Reception: JRPGs in Germany and Japan
User studies	"Clementine will remember that." - Methods to Establish Design Conventions for Video Game Narrative.
Utility games	Playing for Real
V
Valve Source engine	Landscape Trouble: Why we are surrounded by climate change games
video game	The Human Machine Art Interface: Arcade Port Aesthetics and Production Practices
video game design	"Clementine will remember that." - Methods to Establish Design Conventions for Video Game Narrative.
video game elements	From floating brains to insane painters: A review of mental illness messages in commercial video games
Video Game Exhibits
video game genres	Defining Genre in Video Game Historiography: Structural, Discursive, and Sociocultural Definitions
video game history	Defining Genre in Video Game Historiography: Structural, Discursive, and Sociocultural Definitions
video game messages	‘Debris’: Exploring video game messages and values through gameplay From floating brains to insane painters: A review of mental illness messages in commercial video games
video game publishing	Beyond the Core Development Team: Exploring Emerging Roles and Responsibilities in the Global Game Industry
Video game questionnaires	Contextualizing Pathological Gaming - A Proof-of-Concept Study
video games	Horsing Around: subjectivity of mounts in video games Wrecking the Game. The Artist as Griefer Body Horror as Body Shaming: Fatness and Monstrosity in Video Games From floating brains to insane painters: A review of mental illness messages in commercial video games Video Games and Post-Humanism A digital gap in Polish families on the example of video games Contextualizing Pathological Gaming - A Proof-of-Concept Study Video games as an extension of youth? Gaming among third age people
video games as history	Save the park, punish the traitors: Games as Historical Documents
Videogames	The Play is the Message. The Everyday Context of Videogame Play
vintage	Paper-made digital games - A poetic of cardboard from Crayon Physics Deluxe to Nintendo Labo
violence	Ethics at Play in Undertale: Rhetoric, Identity and Deconstruction
vision	The Meaning and Significance of True Line of Sight in Warhammer 40,000
visual data	Man Caves and the Fantasy of Homosocial Escape
voice acting	Beyond the Core Development Team: Exploring Emerging Roles and Responsibilities in the Global Game Industry
voice-interactive games	Harvester of Desires: Gaming Amazon Echo through John Cayley’s The Listeners
W
W40K	The Meaning and Significance of True Line of Sight in Warhammer 40,000
Walking Simulator	Archival Adventuring
walking simulators
wangzhe rongyao	The reception of Chinese history in Honor of Kings
wargame	The Meaning and Significance of True Line of Sight in Warhammer 40,000
Warhammer 40000	The Meaning and Significance of True Line of Sight in Warhammer 40,000
Waste Sorting	Incentivizing Correct Waste Sorting by Game Design
well-being	Bleed-in, Bleed-out - A Design Case in Board Game Therapy
WH40K	The Meaning and Significance of True Line of Sight in Warhammer 40,000
white	Playing Whiteness in Crisis in The Last of Us and Tomb Raider
whiteness	Playing Whiteness in Crisis in The Last of Us and Tomb Raider
wilderness	On Striated Wilderness and Prospect Pacing: Rural Open World Games as Liminal Spaces of the Man-Nature Dichotomy
workplace culture	A qualitative study of transmasculinity in the games industry and games journalism
World of Warcraft	Revision of Queer Bodies: Modifications of Sexual Affordances in World of Warcraft
王
王者荣耀	The reception of Chinese history in Honor of Kings

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