Program for Wednesday, July 2nd: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 2ND: TALK VIEW

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09:30-10:30 Keynote 2: Aphra Kerr - The importance of researching and making games in the contemporary political economic context

11:00-11:30

Revisiting the Magic Circle for Critical-ethical Reflection through Artistic Installation Game

Xiaoou Ji, Steven Malliet

11:30-12:00

Craft, Aura and the struggle with Authenticity in “Man Versus”

Eddo Stern

12:00-12:30

Running a Games Lab: Challenges and Opportunities to Public Research with Arts Organizations

Matthew Spokes, Jack Denham, Matt Coward-Gibbs

11:00-11:30

"We’ll always go with what’s more sustainable”: Understanding the Financialised Logics of Game

Taylor Hardwick, Ben Egliston, Marcus Carter

11:30-12:00

Playing to win or playing not to lose: Measuring engagement, enjoyment, and performance in the gamification of tasks with positive or negative

Joshua Juvrud, Angela Craddock, Jane Manson, Sophie Nickel

12:00-12:30

Exploring Compatible Interaction Preferences with a Puzzle Video Game

Gomes, Costa, Couto, Gama, Martinho, Dias, Xexéo, Moura Santos

11:00-11:30

The Evolution of Women and Gender Representation in computerized RPGs: The Baldur’s Gate Paradigm

Georgios Kougioumtzoglou, Angelica Antonakis, Anastasios Theodoropoulos

11:30-12:00

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and the Depiction of Female “Britishness” in Victorian London

Andrew Reid, Iain Donald, Hailey Austin, Fruzsina Pittner

12:00-12:30

Folklore-driven representations of femininity in Slavic-coded video games: the figure of Baba Yaga

Aleksandra Mochocka

11:00-11:30

Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion

Thomas Apperley

11:30-12:00

Redefining Play: A Novel Framework for Differentiating Agency and Autonomy in Video Games

Xuechen Xu, Jen Beeston, Alena Denisova

12:00-12:30

A Conceptual Framework for Socienactive Scenarios of Play: a Pilot Study

André Luiz Brandão, Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas

11:00-11:30

“Be who you are (as long as you’re not fat).” A study on fat bodies in contemporary videogames

Mauro Colarieti

11:30-12:00

Now Play Nicely: An Autoethnography of Nostalgia and the Shared Spaces of Gaming

Alison Croasdale

12:00-12:30

Digital Ethnography of Cross-Cultural Communication in Multiplayer Competitive Games: Game Design, Multimodality, and Cultural

Zilong Wang

11:00-11:30

Solar Powered Minecraft and Infrastructural Intimacy in Serious Games about Energy

Bart Simon, Darren Wershler

11:30-12:00

Immersive Gaming for Climate Action: Evaluating the Impact of Virtual Reality on Psychological Distance and Sustainable

Walewijns et.al

12:00-12:30

Speak with blocks: Minecraft, environmental education and activism

Gaia Amadori

11:00-11:30

Analyzing the Challenge of Navigation through the Metroid Series

Keaton Hoek, Jose Zagal

11:30-12:00

Understanding the paradox of MetroidBrainias: The case of Animal Well

Xin Pan, Wenting Cheng

12:00-12:30

Metroidvania Ecologies: Exploration and the Environmental Imagination in Rain World and Hollow

Angelo Maria Andriano, Marco Caracciolo

11:00-11:30

Scary Business: Mascot Horror as Product and Reflection of Platformisation

Ida Martine Gard Rysjedal, Tegan Pyke

11:30-12:00

Are we monsters? Comparison of representation of monstrosity between Vampire the Masquerade fourth and fifth

Leonid Moyzhes

12:00-12:30

(Dis)Embodiment: Trans Hauntings in Kitty Horrorshow's Corpus

Merlyn Seller

11:00-11:30

“The Protagonist Training Project”: How Simulator-Style Produsage on Social Media Shapes Our Gamified

Sunny Jie Yang

11:30-12:00

Running a Royal Harem: The Participatory Narrative of The Sims Players in China

Yuhui Wang

12:00-12:30

Crossover Kingdom: Narration, Gamification, and the Platform Unconscious of Kingdom Hearts and Disney

Luna Loganayagam, Samuel Pizelo

11:00-11:30

More than Let’s Plays? Towards a content analysis of game-related YouTube videos

Vincenzo Idone Cassone, Martin Roth

11:30-12:00

Playing With Videogames on YouTube in East Asia

Martin Roth

12:00-12:30

Avatar, community, and lore: An exploratory study of independent VTubers

Anthony Pellicone

11:00-11:30

Creating video games in Barcelona: field, capital(s), habitus and belonging

Juan Francisco Torres Díaz, Joel Feliu, Adriana Gil Juárez

11:30-12:00

History and operational mechanisms in the video game industry: the case of the Turin cluster

Nicola Costalunga, Riccardo Fassone

12:00-12:30

Finnish lapsed players and (game) cultural expectations

Elisa Wiik

14:30-15:00

Design Decisions and Obstacles in Serious Game Design: Insights from Design Cases

Rafael Leonardo da Silva, Esther Daniells, Marium Baig

15:00-15:30

"What? So what? Now what?": Prompting Game Design Reflection

Rilla Khaled, Pippin Barr

15:30-16:00

Adaptive Scenario Selection in Serious Games Using Finite State Machines and Agent-Based Models

Melissa Rêgo Rodrigues, Ivaldir Honório de Farias Júnior

14:30-15:00

Exploring Collaborative Practices in Video Game Development: An Ethnographic Study

Laureline Chiapello

15:00-15:30

“Planting World Seeds”: Procedural Content Generation, Labour and Conceptual Art in Digital

Finn Dawson

15:30-16:00

Selling Time: Time-Centric Language in Video Game Marketing on Steam

Thomas Byers, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen

14:30-15:00

Production and reception of Yugoslav past through Roblox games

Elisabetta Zurovac, Gaia Amadori

15:00-15:30

Trajectories of Professionalization as Game Developer in 2000s Brazil: stories from Tectoy Digital/Zeebo Interactive Studios/Tectoy

Bruno de Paula

15:30-16:00

Preserving Japanese Indie Games at BitSummit Drift 2024

Michael Pennington, James Newman

14:30-15:00

P(l)aying for Love: Capitalizing on patterns of contemporary romance fiction in PlayMe Studio’s

Magdalena Bednorz

15:00-15:30

Cruising in Apulia. Mediterranea Inferno at the Crossroads of Queer Desire and Political Crisis

Giorgio Chiappa

14:30-15:00

From pixel to plate: Exploring discussions of food in online gaming communities

David Micallef

15:00-15:30

One for the Road: A Cultural Comparison of the Food and Drink in The Witcher 3 and Genshin Impact

Benjamin Horn

15:30-16:00

Mutual Incorporation: On Eating and Being Eaten in Bugsnax (2020)

Merlyn Seller

14:30-15:00

LUDIFYING DIGITAL PROTESTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: THE BANGLADESH SCENARIO

Souvik Mukherjee, Piuli Basu

15:00-15:30

The Rise of Gamer-Consumers: Anger, Protests, and Divisions in South Korean Gamer Activism

Yeonwoo Lee, Solip Park

15:30-16:00

Losing Intentionally: Comedic Resistance to Meritocratic Genshin Impact

Honghan Song

14:30-15:00

Environmental Storytelling and Active Spectatorship in Walking Simulators and Exploration Theatre

Sofia Aka Romi Abatangelo

15:00-15:30

Otium and Walking Simulators

Jan-Noël Thon

15:30-16:00

Rewriting the Script: Navigating Cybernetic Dynamics and Ethical Expression in Modular Narrative Games—The Case of

Jingyan Lin

14:30-15:00

Returning to The Last of Us: The Aesthetics and Contexts of Remaking & Remastering The Last of Us

Scott Knight, Jakub Majewski

15:00-15:30

“Test Trophy Please Ignore”: Achievements as Paratexts in Palimpsestic Readings of Remasters and

Loris Rimaz, Michael Wagnières, Yannick Rochat

15:30-16:00

Between preservation and nostalgic fantasy. Approaches to fanmade remasters

Krzysztof Olszamowski

14:30-15:00

Many Faces of Open-World Games: Characteristics and Applications Across Video Game Genres

Michał Mróz

15:00-15:30

Exploring virtual reality genres

Pawel Grabarczyk, Espen Aarseth

14:30-15:00

Reconceptualizing LLM-Induced Hallucinations as Game Features

Kate Vi, Mingzhe Chen, Yuqian Sun, Yuhao Ming, Feng Wang

15:00-15:30

Full paper_“Covertly Using” Generative AI in China’s Game Industry

Ningxi Guo, Wen Wen

15:30-16:00

Roleplay with chatbots on character.ai: A new direction for online gaming?

Kristine Ask, Tanja Sihvonen

14:30-15:00

Music beyond gameplay: embodied experience of acoustic music in the covers of original game

Aleksandra Mochocka, Radosław Piotr Walczak

15:00-15:30

Sonic Lead: A Survey of Sound-First Games

Vadim Nickel, Gabriel Vigliensoni

15:30-16:00

Dies Irae in a fantasy world: Gregorian sequence and Requiem motifs in Heroes of Might and Magic

Radosław Walczak

16:30-17:00

From Paper to Pixels: Horrific Remediation in Inscryption

Alex Reid, Marc Elliott

17:00-17:30

From Wuxia to Cultivation Games: Reimagining Chinese Cosmology in Digital Space

Morgan Yu Hao

17:30-18:00

Dreamcore in Chinese Videogames: Liminal Space, Analog Horror, and The Millennium Year Nostalgia

Yuhui Wang

16:30-17:00

E-Space Odyssey 2001: China’s Gaming Industry at the Crossroads of Globalization and Reform and

Yahuai Lu

17:00-17:30

Expanded Abstract_Gaming in the Gray: The Making of “Mindie” Games in China's In/Formal Network

Ningxi Guo

17:30-18:00

Shades of Grey in the Gaming Industry: A Case Study of Commercial Boosting in China

Samson Tang, Ningxi Guo

16:30-17:00

A feminist analysis of modern board games

Noemí Blanch, Caterina Riba, Joan Arnedo-Moreno

17:00-17:30

Balancing the Table: Investigating Gender Representation in Italian Analogue Games Industry

Valerio Moccia

17:30-18:00

A Space for Everyone: Gender Demographics in Board Gaming

Johnathan Harrington

16:30-17:00

An EEG hyperscanning setup to investigate collaboration in games

S. Glasauer, M. Jahrmann, G. Luif, T. Demmer, M. Pelowski

17:00-17:30

Assemblages of Awareness: Exploring the Role of La Valise de Lise in Addressing Older Adult Mistreatment through Collaborative Play and Cultural

Constance Lafontaine, Kim Sawchuk, Sarita Israel

17:30-18:00

The Human Encounter as a Designable Surface: Leveraging Insights from Larp Design to Enable Democratic

Johanna Koljonen, Jaakko Stenros

16:30-17:00

Theorizing Player Affects beyond Empathy in Digital Migration Games

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez

17:00-17:30

Virtual Memories of Displacement: A Narrative Game in VR Exploring Refugee Stories through Symbolic

Anastasios Theodoropoulos, Marios Ilias Ntetzonai, Yannis Aggelakos

17:30-18:00

Post-optimism: Chants of Sennaar, Norco and the Problem of Optimism in Environmental and Ecogames

Conor McKeown

16:30-17:00

Climate Crisis on the Table: The Rhetoric of Environmental Actions in Board Games

Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin, Laura Iseut Lafrance St-Martin, Simon Dor

17:00-17:30

Eco-Play: Designing nature games with Kiwi Conservation club

Tanya Marriott

17:30-18:00

Zoos as utopian enclaves in Ark Nova

Michal Jutkiewicz

16:30-17:00

“Reading” an Un-Romanced Quest Romance: Jane Eyre, Shadow Academy and Intertextuality in Jeffrey Yohalem’s Child of

Agnieszka Kliś-Brodowska

17:00-17:30

A Dating Sim Without the Dating: New Adventures at the Crossroads of Literature and Games

Jon Stone

17:30-18:00

The George Saunders Games Collection: Adapting the Unadaptable Short Story

Eddo Stern

16:30-17:00

Parties, partying, and party games in single-player videogames

Petri Lankoski, Tanja Välisalo

17:00-17:30

Party Games as a Crossroad Between Strangers: A Mixed-Methods Study

Leland Masek, Daphne Bachmann, Yutong Wang, Mohammad Asif Ibtehaz

17:30-18:00

LAN is Dead, Long Live LAN

Aidan Strong, Elliot B. Yu

16:30-17:00

The Crossroads of Esports Diplomacy, Sports Worlds, and Authoritarian Capitalism

Emma Witkowski

17:00-17:30

Making Bodies Possible: Exploring Transformative Justice in Esports

Tom Legierse, Maria Ruotsalainen

17:30-18:00

The digital imaginary of esports: A League of Legends Worlds case study

Josh Jarrett, David Murphy

16:30-17:00

Silent In-game Concerts: Text-Based Musical Performances in MUDs

Karina Moritzen Barbosa

17:00-17:30

Transforming Shibuya through the power of graffiti, fashion, music, and friendship.

William Helmke

17:30-18:00

“Love’s a Game, Wanna Play?“ Games in and around Taylor Swift’s Music

Elina Koskinen, Lobna Hassan

16:30-17:00

Anatomy of a failed console. The case of Atari 5200

Pawel Grabarczyk

17:00-17:30

“Purpose-Built for Happiness”: Panic’s Playdate as a Cozy Platform

Jaroslav Svelch

17:30-18:00

"Attention Users, Please Refrain from Modifying Your Ataris" - Corporate Region-Locking Practices and Creative Computing Responses in

Ivo Furman, Arda Erdikmen