Program for Tuesday, July 1st: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR TUESDAY, JULY 1ST: TALK VIEW

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09:00-09:30 Opening remarks

09:30-10:30 Keynote: Rasheed Abueideh - The Palestinian Narrative in Games

11:00-11:30

The Evolution of Liberalism in the XCOM Franchise Reboot

J. M. L. Whittington

11:30-12:00

The Production of Machinic Subjectivity in Online PC Games

Jinho Seo

12:00-12:30

Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-design with Two Communities

Chris Coward, Nisha Devasia, Jin Ha Lee

11:00-11:30

Private Servers Are More than Video Game Piracy

Geoffrey Hill, Martin Gibbs, Melissa Rogerson

11:30-12:00

WildStar's rogue archives: exploring an anarchaeological approach to defunct games

Lawrence May, James Manning

12:00-12:30

Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community

Noemi Chow

11:00-11:30

From Extended Self to Posthuman Other: Empathy and Morality in Encounters with AI Characters

Theresa Krampe, Melanie Kreitler

11:30-12:00

Assessing Empathy Across Game Fidelity Levels: A Case Study of 3D and Text-Based Versions of Brukel

Szeyi Chan, James Cox III, Ala Ebrahimi, Bob De Schutter

12:00-12:30

Encounters with the Self as Other: Empathy in the Games of Nomada Studio

Melanie Kreitler

11:00-11:30

What can video games tell us about neurodiversity and autism?

Kevin Rebecchi

11:30-12:00

Representations in Video Game: The Tension Between Accuracy and Creativity

Kevin Rebecchi, Elisa Vial

12:00-12:30

Party, but for whom? Accessibility, inclusivity and equity in Finnish game industry events

Taina Myöhänen

11:00-11:30

Card pack and loot box spending are both positively correlated with problem gambling but not linked to negative mental

L.Y. Xiao, D. Zendle, E. Petrovskaya, R.K.L. Nielsen, P.W.S. Newall

11:30-12:00

Assessing the landscape of illegal loot box advertising in Belgium

Elena Petrovskaya, Leon Y Xiao, Nicole Khoo, Amanda Roberts

12:00-12:30

Still failing to disclose loot box presence: Identifying illegal UK video game ads using Meta’s advertising

Leon Y Xiao, Elena Petrovskaya, Callum Deery, Solip Park, Philip W. S. Newall

11:00-11:30

The Benefits of Banding: Overcoming Barriers to Community Participation Among Magic: The Gathering

Chelsea Russell, Michael Tisi, Michael Nixon

11:30-12:00

Racketeering, Cartels, Collusion and Extortion: Exploring the Language of Player-Organized ‘Criminality’ in

Nick Webber

12:00-12:30

User-generated content and community dynamics of Final Fantasy XIV players in China

Aris Emmanouloudis, Luying Wan, Vivian Chen

11:00-11:30

Immersion in Tabletop Role-Playing Games: A Quantitative Analysis

Antonina Świdurska

11:30-12:00

Cinematic Combat in Turn-Based Games: A through design Approach to Emergent Narrative and Mechanics

Gordon Calleja

12:00-12:30

Ludus Triumphorum. A Ludological Introducion to Tarot

Fabrizio Matarese

11:00-11:30

"You have to prove yourself all the time": Misogyny and countermeasures in game journalism

Antonia Maria Wurm

11:30-12:00

“You MUST Be Both Sexy and Powerful”: Community Expectations of Female Representation in Video

Mengqi Li

12:00-12:30

The Terrible Victims: "Female Ghosts" as a Cultural Symbol in Chinese Indie Video Games

Cheng Zhang

11:00-11:30

Virtual Burden: Representations of Animal Disabilities in Video Games and Their Posthuman Contexts

Jan Stasienko, Agnieszka Dytman-Stasienko

11:30-12:00

Backyard Survival: Ecology of Killer Insects and Violent Nature in Grounded (2022)

Vickie Monthong

12:00-12:30

Rhetorics of Puppy Love and Death in The Pale Beyond (2023)

Eleonora Imbierowicz

11:00-11:30

A Longitudinal Look Into University Student Video Game Designs

Alan Tapscott, Carlos León, Óliver Pérez, Joaquim Colás

11:30-12:00

Fair Play Perspectives: Bridging Research, Design, and Industry

Ida Kathrine Hammeleff Jorgensen, Jessica Enevold Duncan

11:00-11:30

The Detections of Totality: Cognitive Mapping and Urban Space in Disco Elysium

Steven Gotzler

11:30-12:00

“Spatial Rape”: Interleaving House of Leaves with MyHouse.pk3

Péter Kristóf Makai

12:00-12:30

Out of Bounds: Exploring Beyond the Map

Hollie Wistow

14:30-15:00

Gaming the Political Arena: An Analysis of Political Messaging on Twitch in Germany

Maria Grub, Antonia Wurm, Julian Kauk

15:00-15:30

Playing with Perspectives: German Planspiele as Tools for Political Education

Regina Seiwald

15:30-16:00

Stabilising Ideology in Gameplay An ideological critique of modal consonance in video games

Andrei Nae

14:30-15:00

Abby Rekas, Matt Voigts

15:00-15:30

The Lost 87%: Towards Improved Access to Games for Game Design Education

Lane D. Koughan, Jin Ha Lee

15:30-16:00

Choose Your path Quickly: The Many Crossroads of the Interactive Movie

Jakub Majewski, Scott Knight

14:30-15:00

On the Aesthetic Relevance of Difficulty in Games

Johan Kalmanlehto

15:00-15:30

Playfully Conservative: Reinventing Nintendo’s Platform Games through Materiality in Yoshi’s Crafted

Josef Tichý

14:30-15:00

Care as Becoming, Care as Response-ability: structures of care and agency in Journey and Domestic

Silvia Ruzanka

15:00-15:30

Reshaping Esports Fandom: Insights into Platformization from B.stage and LCK Communities

Yeochan Park, Jinhee Yang, Yaewon Jin

15:30-16:00

The Politics of Care: The Possibilities and Limits of Video Games for Political Campaign and Propaganda in Lugawan ni Leni (2022) and Let Leni Lead

Christoffer Mitch Cerda

14:30-15:00

Male, Japanese, and Imperial: Japanese male-oriented character intimacy games in perspective

Luca Paolo Bruno

15:00-15:30

Reshaping soft masculinity in Chinese gaming: the Qing Lang Campaign and the cultural impact of male characters design in “Genshin

Lok Fai Pun, Ka Yee Janice Wong, Chun Kai Leung, Zhaoyin Chu, Andy Ke Zhu

15:30-16:00

Love is not Around: Wandan-likes and Precarious Masculinity

Johnathan Harrington

14:30-15:00

Exploring Online Gaming Communities through Documentary Filmmaking

Elina Roinioti, Renard Gluzman

15:00-15:30

From Movable to Still Images. On the Pictorial Practices of Screenshotting Game Cultures

Kevin Pauliks, Jens Ruchatz

15:30-16:00

On Tabletop Gaming Tables: Capital, Emblem, Symbol

Matt Coward-Gibbs

14:30-15:00

From Myth to Market: Lessons from Black Myth: Wukong’s Success

Flint Xiaofeng Fan

15:00-15:30

“How absurd and pathetic.”: A Multimodal Analysis of the Nosense! As a Cutscene in Black Myth:

Jinghan Zhou, Jiashuo Niu, Xianhe Peng, Xiaoxiao Wei, Yingmin Lai, Bairan Wang

15:30-16:00

Playing the Othered Self as Wukong: a Resilience in Speculative-Mythological Games

Yifan Wang

14:30-15:00

Dark Souls, Implied Player and Stoic Ethics

Fabrizio Matarese

15:00-15:30

Moral Ambiguity in Playdead games

Fabrizio Fulio Bragoni, Marvic Catania, Dean Muscat

15:30-16:00

Soulslike Posthumanism: Open Subjectivity and East Asian Philosophy

Marco Caracciolo

14:30-15:00

My Teammate is an AI: Evaluating Generative AI in Game Asset Creation through a Post-GameJam Study

Stephen Bezzina, Alexiei Dingli

15:00-15:30

Game Jams as Pedagogic Playgrounds for Problem Deconstruction and Reflective Learning

Lindsay Grace

15:30-16:00

Jamming Together: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Game Jams

Alexiei Dingli, Anna Borg

14:30-15:00

Mexican crossroads: Wrestling video game based on a comic book

Garcidueñas Vargas et.al

15:00-15:30

Playfulness in Comics

Kieron Brown, Jan-Noël Thon

15:30-16:00

Affording Playfulness in Daniel Benmergui’s Storyteller

Kieron Brown

14:30-15:00

Unraveling Grief: Design Space Analysis of Death-themed Games

Bingxiao Luo, Perttu Hämäläinen, Heidi Rautalahti

15:00-15:30

Memorializing the Dead with Games

Martin Gibbs, Marcus Carter, Fraser Allison

15:30-16:00

Death at the Crossroads of Subjecthood in Happy Wheels (Fancy Force, 2010)

Heather Maycock

16:30-17:00

Reaganoludography: The 1980s Japanese Digital Games in the Service of the United States

Filip Jankowski

17:00-17:30

Fifty Shades of Red. Depictions of the Eastern Bloc in American and European Cold War-themed real time

Szymon Kukulak

17:30-18:00

Neocolonialism in Video Games: the Social Discourse of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)

Cansu Parlak, Erdinç Kaygusuz

16:30-17:00

A Call for an Appalachian Game Studies

J. M. L. Whittington

17:00-17:30

Swiss Pinball Culture: Between Nostalgia and Revival

Mela Kocher

17:30-18:00

Cross-Border Conflicts in Gaming: Indo-Pak Tensions in Competitive Multiplayer Spaces

Tushya Sachan, Dinesh Chhabra

16:30-17:00

Save-Scumming: A Novel Exploration of Video Game Play

George Farmer, Danielle Kelly, Amanda Jones-Rincon

17:00-17:30

Metaplay: Play Practices, Communication, and Interaction in Pokémon from 1998-2020

Allen Kempton

17:30-18:00

Watching different play styles: The pleasure of transgressive play in Tears of the Kingdom

Xin Pan

16:30-17:00

History of Artist-Gamemaking: The Art of Tomorrow - Selectparks.net “artists exploring computer games as an emerging, artistic

Helen Stuckey

17:00-17:30

At the Crossroads of Art and Games: NPCs in Contemporary Video Art

Rob Gallagher

17:30-18:00

Reframing Art and Games as Historical Twins: art bit’s Curatorial Practices in Japan

Daichi Nakagawa

16:30-17:00

Becoming, Not Being: Rethinking Mental Illness at the Crossroads of Videogame Representation

Sina Torabi, Jasvinder Mann

17:00-17:30

Suicide Livestreams in NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD

Julián Gutiérrez Carrera, Joleen Blom

17:30-18:00

Preliminary Results from a Systematic Review of Narrative Game-based Interventions for Mental Health

Nisha Devasia, Jamie Espinosa-Briones, Julie Kientz

16:30-17:00

The Ludum Platform: Exploring the impact of game design on prosocial behavior in children’s digital

Katherine Salembier, Joshua Juvrud

17:00-17:30

“It's a real con”: Parent Attitudes Toward Children’s Game Spending

Marcus Carter, Taylor Hardwick, Stephanie Harkin

17:30-18:00

The Moving Pictures Factory”: Designing a Game-based Platform for Cinema Literacy

Iro Voulgari, Theodora Malliarou, Pantelis Panteloglou, Evangelia Kourti

16:30-17:00

The Spike Video Game Awards Are Dead, Long Live the Game Awards: Reconsidering Awards Shows as the Struggle for a Field of Cultural

Andrei Zanescu

17:00-17:30

How Video Game Journalists Cover Sexual Misconduct in the Industry

John Fennimore

17:30-18:00

The Role of Games in Cultural Dissemination: A Comparative Analysis of Multilingual Reviews

Yuhsuke Koyama, Li Jiaxin

16:30-17:00

Gameplay-Elicited interviews: Exploring Worldness and the Processes of Play

Mike Hyslop Graham

17:00-17:30

Identifying Differential Perceptions of Video Game Players Based on Gaming Platform

Jeffrey Stone

17:30-18:00

A study of difficulty in the Daigo Parry; considerations of ludoliteracy, assemblage, and spectacle

Camila Gutiérrez

16:30-17:00

Game Engine for Change, A framework for Balancing the Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Player States at the Heart of Game

Lindsay Grace

17:00-17:30

A Game Developer's Perspective on Social Impact Video Games: Conclusions from a Qualitative Study

Damian Gałuszka

17:30-18:00

Gameful IoT Repair

Violet Owen, Michael Stead, Paul Coulton

16:30-17:00

At the Crossroads of Game Studies and Business Ethics: What are the Sustainability Obligations of Stakeholders in the Game

Thorsten Busch, Tanja Sihvonen, Florence Chee

17:00-17:30

Northern Lights in Erzurum: Rethinking Inspiration, Cloning and Originality in Video Game

Selahattin Karagoz

16:30-17:00

Decisions in the Loop: An Empirical Study of Narrative Time and Player Agency in Hades and Twelve

Brent Van Mol

17:00-17:30

Fighting Against Return: a taxonomy of time loops in digital games

Matteo Genovesi

17:30-18:00

Temporal Agency and Timeplay in Video Games

Karthik Kuduva Gopinath, Jussi Holopainen