Program for Thursday, July 3rd: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR THURSDAY, JULY 3RD: TALK VIEW

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09:30-10:30 KEYNOTE 3: Omar N'Shea - Slipping Like Wind: Queer Descents, Ritual Tech, and the Sonic Undead in Digital Games

11:00-11:30

Beyond the Rulebook: An Autoethnographic Journey into the Craft of Game Design

Jess Rahbek

11:30-12:00

A Plague Tale: Autoethnography and Authenticity in Historical Games Research

Nick Webber, Poppy Wilde

11:00-11:30

"We were the porters of overseas media." -- An investigation into the gaming information media under the influence of the

Lifeng Huang

11:30-12:00

Diode Games: Rediscovering the Bridge between Analog and Video Gaming through the Elektor Magazine

Pierre-Yves Hurel, Johan Cuda, Sophie Bémelmans, Yannick Rochat

12:00-12:30

Studying the Invisible: Femininity and Gaming in Girls’ Lifestyle Magazines

Stephanie Harkin

11:00-11:30

Roles of Video Games in Benefiting PhD Students’ Study

Yahui Cao

11:30-12:00

The expectation game: Exposing hidden assumptions in a game studies classroom.

René Glas, Jasper van Vught

12:00-12:30

University Campus Metaverse with Serious Games to support multidisciplinary cooperation among

Larios, Maciel, Fernandez-Ortego, Mares-Navarro, Alvarez-Nuno, Rodriguez-Anzo

11:00-11:30

Platform alternatives or platform power: Custom and commercial game engines in the work of foreigners in Czech game

Jan Houška

11:30-12:00

Game Studies, Game Engines, and Infrastructuring Technofascism

James Malazita

12:00-12:30

Feasible Antiquity: Ancient History in the Unity, Unreal, Godot and itch.io Asset Stores

Brent Van Mol, Alexander Vandewalle

11:00-11:30

Exploring Inaction Inertia and Proactive Procrastination among MMORPG Players

Bin Yin, Yuan Zhong

11:30-12:00

Between Action and Inaction: A Distant-Play Reading of The Longing

Kübra Aksay, Astrid Ensslin, Sebastian R. Richter

12:00-12:30

On Simema: The Radical Passivity of Self-Playing Games

Doug Stark

11:00-11:30

Alterity and seriality in a massively-multiplayer role-playing game.

William Huber, Maggie Greene

11:30-12:00

WoWing Then, WoWing Now: Players’ Coping with the World of Warcraft Service Disruption in China

Zixue Tai, Fengbin Hu

12:00-12:30

“I Used to Be an Adventurer Like You”: Fear of Missing Out in The Elder Scrolls Online

Martin Moritz, Jaakko Peltonen

11:00-11:30

Dungeonomics: A Brief History of Hypogaming

Espen Aarseth

11:30-12:00

Gothic Forests and Magic Flights: Examining the Gothic False Hero in Campbell’s Hero’s Journey

Jacqueline Moran

12:00-12:30

Analyzing Emergence in Pac-Man's Mazes with Systemic Reverberation

Jared Pettitt, Nathan Altice

11:00-11:30

An NLP Interface for Social AI Agents in The Resistance: Avalon

Harrison West, Matthew Fendt

11:30-12:00

Towards Ethical Guidelines for Videogame Character Creation with GenAI

Jana Hecktor, Theresa Krampe

12:00-12:30

Designing Anthrogames: Theory, Methods, and AI Integration in Cultural Gaming

Michael Hoffmann, Adrian Paschke

11:00-11:30

"One-and-a-Quarter Way Relationships”: Understanding Authenticity and Asymmetry In Gaming Podcast

Ryan Stanton

11:30-12:00

“I’m So Ban Happy”: Game Influencer Livestreaming, Self-Care, Trauma Dumping, and Managing Mental Health Topics Across Platformed Parasocial

Matt Hart, Emma Witkowski

12:00-12:30

Japanese Game Live Streamers: Between Japan and the World

Mark R Johnson, James Baguley

11:00-11:30

Benefits and Weaknesses of Historical Consultancy for Games: A CEE-centred Perspective

Michal Mochocki

11:30-12:00

Unexpected Feelings: Counterfactual History in The Seven Cities of Gold (1984)

Diego Calderara

12:00-12:30

We. The Revolution: Liberty, Fraternity, Equality, Authenticity.

Andrew Reid, Iain Donald

11:00-11:30

Towards a Southern Epistemology in Game Studies: Gaming Practices, Ideological Struggle, and Common Sense in Latin

Marco Jaramillo

11:30-12:00

(Semi-)Peripheral Gameplay in Video Games

Stanisław Krawczyk

14:30-15:00

Tentacle to the Metal: Ecosophy, Metamodernism, and Splatoon 3

Nikolas Matovinovic

15:00-15:30

Making Friends with Death: Posthuman Post-Life Play

Poppy Wilde

15:30-16:00

Posthuman Gaming in a Time of Planetary Crisis: Human Agency at the Crossroads of Technology and Ecology in

Wing Tung Jamie Tse, Eric Peterson

14:30-15:00

Intergenerational Dynamics and Coping Strategies from Workshopping Games on Acculturative Stress with First-Generation Latine

Samantha Conde, Aviv Elor, Sri Kurniawan

15:00-15:30

Playing with Identity: Racebending in the God of War Series

Kimberly Dennin

14:30-15:00

Cosmoludics: Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, and the Crossroad of Cricket

Doug Stark

15:00-15:30

Playing Decolonization. On Ben Madison’s "The White Tribe"

Giaime Alonge

15:30-16:00

Withholding the APOLLO Subfunction: An exploration of how Indigenous Communities are represented in the Horizon

Will McKeown

14:30-15:00

At the crossroads of innovation and regulation: legal implications of using AI in game development.

Maciej Niezgoda

15:00-15:30

The impact of tax credits on the Irish games production landscape: too little, too late, too

Maria O'Brien

15:30-16:00

Indie Innovation: Norms, Cultural Platforms and Shaming v. Intellectual Property in Independent Videogame Creation,

Thomas Rousse

14:30-15:00

Avatar and Real Me: Identity Anxiety of Chinese Mobile Otome Game Players—A Case Study of

Yutong Wang

15:00-15:30

Micro-Resistance in Romance: Gender Identity and Agency in a 3D Otome Game

Yufan Wen, Xi Chen, Hao Sun

15:30-16:00

Love as a service in otome games

Joleen Blom

14:30-15:00

Half Stress, Half Party: Play and Labor at Mattel in the Early Videogame Industry

Tom Boellstorff, Braxton Soderman

15:00-15:30

Leveraging Emotional Design in Labor Practice of Paid Co-Playing

Yahui Cao

15:30-16:00

Shifting The Meta: Bridging The Gap Between Scholar and Developer Perspectives of the Post-Pandemic Game

John Redinbo, Gwendolyn Patwardhan, Maxwell Foxman, David Jeong

14:30-15:00

Theatre of (Virtual) Dreams: Exploring the Cultural Heritage Value of Stadiums in the EA FC/FIFA

Iain Donald, Andrew Reid

15:00-15:30

Endurance Tests: Media Horror, FMV Documentary, and Speculative Sport in Soccerthon ’88

Daniel Snelson, Wiley Wiggins

15:30-16:00

Golden Goal: Altruism versus Toxicity and the Soul of Football (Soccer) Simulators

Iain Donald, Andrew Reid

14:30-15:00

Writing the World: Personal Journals in Video Games

Kübra Aksay

15:00-15:30

Speculative Games: Games Envisioning Possible Futures

Tonguc Sezen, Digdem Sezen

14:30-15:00

Communicative Artificial Intelligence for Nonplayer Characters in Digital Games: Mapping the Field

Dom Ford

15:00-15:30

AI Nightmares: Videogames and The Uncanny Valley in Images Generated by Artificial Intelligence

Ana Laura Torquato, Caio Tulio Olimpio Pereira da Costa

15:30-16:00

Indie vs. AAA: A Model for the Educational Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Video Games

Piotr Siuda

14:30-15:00

Game Localisation in Live Game Streaming: A Practice-Led Case Study

Dody M.H. Chen

15:00-15:30

The Impact of Game Live Streaming on In-Game Purchases of Chinese Young Game Users

Li Jiaxin, Yuhsuke Koyama

15:30-16:00

Gaming streamers as influencers and intermediaries: Differentializing the micro, meso and macro contexts of

Jeffrey Wimmer, Antonia Wurm

14:30-15:00

The characterization of Julius Caesar in video games

Noah Pintelon

15:00-15:30

After All, Caesar Never Was a Quitter: Struggling with the past in early game design

Corine Gerritsen, Angus Mol

15:30-16:00

Oedipus at the Crossroads: Tragic Agency in Contemporary Videogame

Xinyue Zhang

16:30-17:00

Inducing and non-inducing interpretations of the sinograph in Word Game

Yue-Jin Ho

17:00-17:30

The Narrative of 'Hollow Knight' Styled as a Soulslike Game.

Szymon Zajdel

17:30-18:00

This Gift of a Fragile Vessel: Encountering Perspectives on the Real in Slay the Princess

Péter Kristóf Makai

16:30-17:00

Ludotariat: problematizing the gaming class

Michał Kłosiński

17:00-17:30

The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers

Rune Klevjer, Jan Fredrik Hovden

17:30-18:00

Outlining the spectrum of values of self-identified gamers

Jukka Vahlo, Maria Ruotsalainen, Kai Tuuri, Aki Koponen

16:30-17:00

History Reloaded: How Players Co-Create the Song Dynasty in Justice Mobile

Shuangfei Wu

17:00-17:30

When Chineseness Meets Global: The Contra Flow and Cultural influence of China’s Domestic Mobile

Lok Fai Pun, Wei He, Anthony Ying Him Fung, Meng Jie Xia, Ka Yee Janice Wong

17:30-18:00

From Tradition to Touchscreen: Understanding How Chinese Mobile Game Designers Represent Chinese Intangible Cultural

Yixiang Que, Teresa De La Hera, Jeroen Jansz

16:30-17:00

Effects of a local multiplayer cooperative game club for the development of children’s social

Isabella Aura, Nicolas Boucht

17:00-17:30

Bird Games - an exploration into game experience design for children within the Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery

Tanya Marriott

16:30-17:00

Following the Bunny: Gendered Labor and Digital Play in Livestreaming Cultures

Thomas Apperley

17:00-17:30

A Labour of Love: Critical Games and Burnout in Creative Industries

Sarah Thorne

17:30-18:00

The Art of Counting Labor: Worker Placement Games as Capitalist Realism

Steven Gotzler

16:30-17:00

Crafting Comfort: Postdigital Practices in Current Cozy Games

Bettina Bódi, Jan-Noël Thon

17:00-17:30

The radical lessons from cozy games

Marta Tyminska

17:30-18:00

Making cozy games: How game developers build (and talk about) cozy games

Mia Consalvo, Kelly Boudreau, Andrew Phelps

16:30-17:00

By the Law of the Wolf. Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Heart of the Forest between global, national, and

Tomasz Majkowski, Aleksandra Prokopek, Magdalena Kozyra

17:00-17:30

Identity at the Crossroads: Cultural Negotiation in Player-Character Relationships

Naijia Liu

17:30-18:00

Embody Kin with Games: Redefining Player-Game Relationships through Kinship Embodiment

Xuanyu Hao

16:30-17:00

Capturing the Tabletop Experience. Narration in the Baldur’s Gate Series.

Maciej Nawrocki

17:00-17:30

Dicey Rules. System Design and Automation in the Baldur’s Gate Series

Mateusz Felczak

17:30-18:00

Of Tadpoles & Illithids: On the Algorithmic Poetics of the Oneiric, the Monadic, & the Kairotic

Daniel Snelson

16:30-17:00

Is Eports Spectating Associated with Gambling Behaviour?

Joseph Macey, Topias Mattinen

17:00-17:30

Play, Pay, Profit: Exploring When Gaming Becomes Gambling

Topias Mattinen, Joseph Macey, Juho Hamari

17:30-18:00

Just Can't Get Enough: Exploring the concept of tolerance in gaming and gambling

Joseph Macey, Maris Catania

16:30-17:00

Pokimane, Myna Snacks and the Cookie Controversy: Combating Platform Dependency by Performing as the

Pauline Munnich

17:00-17:30

“GOLD GOLD GOLD”: gambling-like elements on Twitch and Kick

Eva Grosemans, Robin Bosmans, Rozane De Cock, Maarten Denoo, Bieke Zaman

17:30-18:00

Typological analysis of pay-what-you-want donation behavior in virtual world

Hisayuki Kunigita, Amna Javed, Youji Kohda

16:30-17:00

Two Routes to Research and their Implications for Avatar-based Interviewing

Matthew Pulis, Luke Joseph Buhagiar

17:00-17:30

Pluralist Game Studies: Practical Tools for the Crisis of (Inter)disciplinarity

Leland Masek Masek

17:30-18:00

Measuring the impact of an educational project mediated by indie games on students’ personal, social and learning to learn competence: work in

Raquel Palomera, Jorge Oceja