The Evolution of Liberalism in the XCOM Franchise Reboot (abstract)

The Production of Machinic Subjectivity in Online PC Games (abstract)

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

Private Servers Are More than Video Game Piracy (abstract)

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

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

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

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

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

What can video games tell us about neurodiversity and autism? (abstract)

Representations in Video Game: The Tension Between Accuracy and Creativity (abstract)

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

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

Assessing the landscape of illegal loot box advertising in Belgium (abstract)

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

The Benefits of Banding: Overcoming Barriers to Community Participation Among Magic: The Gathering Players (abstract)

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

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

Immersion in Tabletop Role-Playing Games: A Quantitative Analysis (abstract)

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

Ludus Triumphorum. A Ludological Introducion to Tarot (abstract)

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Longitudinal Look Into University Student Video Game Designs (abstract)

Fair Play Perspectives: Bridging Research, Design, and Industry (abstract)

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

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

Out of Bounds: Exploring Beyond the Map (abstract)

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

Playing with Perspectives: German Planspiele as Tools for Political Education (abstract)

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

Copyright and games preservation: lessons and opportunities in de-colonization (abstract)

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

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

On the Aesthetic Relevance of Difficulty in Games (abstract)

Playfully Conservative: Reinventing Nintendo’s Platform Games through Materiality in Yoshi’s Crafted World (abstract)

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

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

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 (2022) (abstract)

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

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

Love is not Around: Wandan-likes and Precarious Masculinity (abstract)

Exploring Online Gaming Communities through Documentary Filmmaking (abstract)

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

On Tabletop Gaming Tables: Capital, Emblem, Symbol (abstract)

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

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

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

Dark Souls, Implied Player and Stoic Ethics (abstract)

Moral Ambiguity in Playdead games (abstract)

Soulslike Posthumanism: Open Subjectivity and East Asian Philosophy (abstract)

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

Game Jams as Pedagogic Playgrounds for Problem Deconstruction and Reflective Learning (abstract)

Jamming Together: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Game Jams (abstract)

Mexican crossroads: Wrestling video game based on a comic book (abstract)

Playfulness in Comics (abstract)

Affording Playfulness in Daniel Benmergui’s Storyteller (abstract)

Unraveling Grief: Design Space Analysis of Death-themed Games (abstract)

Memorializing the Dead with Games (abstract)

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

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

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

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

A Call for an Appalachian Game Studies (abstract)

Swiss Pinball Culture: Between Nostalgia and Revival (abstract)

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

Save-Scumming: A Novel Exploration of Video Game Play (abstract)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Suicide Livestreams in NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD (abstract)

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

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

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

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

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

How Video Game Journalists Cover Sexual Misconduct in the Industry (abstract)

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

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

Identifying Differential Perceptions of Video Game Players Based on Gaming Platform (abstract)

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

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

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

Gameful IoT Repair (abstract)

At the Crossroads of Game Studies and Business Ethics: What are the Sustainability Obligations of Stakeholders in the Game Industry? (abstract)

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

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

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

Temporal Agency and Timeplay in Video Games (abstract)

Revisiting the Magic Circle for Critical-ethical Reflection through Artistic Installation Game Design (abstract)

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

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

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

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

Exploring Compatible Interaction Preferences with a Puzzle Video Game (abstract)

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

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

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

Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion (abstract)

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

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

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

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

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

Solar Powered Minecraft and Infrastructural Intimacy in Serious Games about Energy (abstract)

Immersive Gaming for Climate Action: Evaluating the Impact of Virtual Reality on Psychological Distance and Sustainable Behavior. (abstract)

Speak with blocks: Minecraft, environmental education and activism (abstract)

Analyzing the Challenge of Navigation through the Metroid Series (abstract)

Understanding the paradox of MetroidBrainias: The case of Animal Well (abstract)

Metroidvania Ecologies: Exploration and the Environmental Imagination in Rain World and Hollow Knight (abstract)

Scary Business: Mascot Horror as Product and Reflection of Platformisation (abstract)

Are we monsters? Comparison of representation of monstrosity between Vampire the Masquerade fourth and fifth editions. (abstract)

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

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

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

Crossover Kingdom: Narration, Gamification, and the Platform Unconscious of Kingdom Hearts and Disney Parks (abstract)

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

Playing With Videogames on YouTube in East Asia (abstract)

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

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

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

Finnish lapsed players and (game) cultural expectations (abstract)

Design Decisions and Obstacles in Serious Game Design: Insights from Design Cases (abstract)

"What? So what? Now what?": Prompting Game Design Reflection (abstract)

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

Exploring Collaborative Practices in Video Game Development: An Ethnographic Study (abstract)

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

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

Production and reception of Yugoslav past through Roblox games (abstract)

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

Preserving Japanese Indie Games at BitSummit Drift 2024 (abstract)

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

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

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

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

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

LUDIFYING DIGITAL PROTESTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: THE BANGLADESH SCENARIO (abstract)

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

Losing Intentionally: Comedic Resistance to Meritocratic Genshin Impact (abstract)

Environmental Storytelling and Active Spectatorship in Walking Simulators and Exploration Theatre (abstract)

Otium and Walking Simulators (abstract)

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

Returning to The Last of Us: The Aesthetics and Contexts of Remaking & Remastering The Last of Us Franchise (abstract)

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

Between preservation and nostalgic fantasy. Approaches to fanmade remasters (abstract)

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

Exploring virtual reality genres (abstract)

Reconceptualizing LLM-Induced Hallucinations as Game Features (abstract)

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

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

Music beyond gameplay: embodied experience of acoustic music in the covers of original game soundtracks (abstract)

Sonic Lead: A Survey of Sound-First Games (abstract)

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

From Paper to Pixels: Horrific Remediation in Inscryption (abstract)

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

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

E-Space Odyssey 2001: China’s Gaming Industry at the Crossroads of Globalization and Reform and Opening-up (abstract)

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

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

A feminist analysis of modern board games (abstract)

Balancing the Table: Investigating Gender Representation in Italian Analogue Games Industry (2010–2024) (abstract)

A Space for Everyone: Gender Demographics in Board Gaming (abstract)

An EEG hyperscanning setup to investigate collaboration in games (abstract)

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

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

Theorizing Player Affects beyond Empathy in Digital Migration Games (abstract)

Virtual Memories of Displacement: A Narrative Game in VR Exploring Refugee Stories through Symbolic Interaction (abstract)

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

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

Eco-Play: Designing nature games with Kiwi Conservation club (abstract)

Zoos as utopian enclaves in Ark Nova (abstract)

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

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

The George Saunders Games Collection: Adapting the Unadaptable Short Story (abstract)

Parties, partying, and party games in single-player videogames (abstract)

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

LAN is Dead, Long Live LAN (abstract)

The Crossroads of Esports Diplomacy, Sports Worlds, and Authoritarian Capitalism (abstract)

Making Bodies Possible: Exploring Transformative Justice in Esports (abstract)

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

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

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

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

Anatomy of a failed console. The case of Atari 5200 (abstract)

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

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

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

A Plague Tale: Autoethnography and Authenticity in Historical Games Research (abstract)

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

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

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

Roles of Video Games in Benefiting PhD Students’ Study (abstract)

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

University Campus Metaverse with Serious Games to support multidisciplinary cooperation among students (abstract)

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

Game Studies, Game Engines, and Infrastructuring Technofascism (abstract)

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

Exploring Inaction Inertia and Proactive Procrastination among MMORPG Players (abstract)

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

On Simema: The Radical Passivity of Self-Playing Games (abstract)

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

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

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

Dungeonomics: A Brief History of Hypogaming (abstract)

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

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

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

Towards Ethical Guidelines for Videogame Character Creation with GenAI (abstract)

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

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

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

Japanese Game Live Streamers: Between Japan and the World (abstract)

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

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

We. The Revolution: Liberty, Fraternity, Equality, Authenticity. (abstract)

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

(Semi-)Peripheral Gameplay in Video Games (abstract)

Tentacle to the Metal: Ecosophy, Metamodernism, and Splatoon 3 (abstract)

Making Friends with Death: Posthuman Post-Life Play (abstract)

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

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

Playing with Identity: Racebending in the God of War Series (abstract)

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

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

Withholding the APOLLO Subfunction: An exploration of how Indigenous Communities are represented in the Horizon Series (abstract)

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

The impact of tax credits on the Irish games production landscape: too little, too late, too limited? (abstract)

Indie Innovation: Norms, Cultural Platforms and Shaming v. Intellectual Property in Independent Videogame Creation, 2005-2019 (abstract)

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

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

Love as a service in otome games (abstract)

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

Leveraging Emotional Design in Labor Practice of Paid Co-Playing (abstract)

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

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

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

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

Writing the World: Personal Journals in Video Games (abstract)

Speculative Games: Games Envisioning Possible Futures (abstract)

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

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

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

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

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

Gaming streamers as influencers and intermediaries: Differentializing the micro, meso and macro contexts of streaming (abstract)

The characterization of Julius Caesar in video games (abstract)

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

Oedipus at the Crossroads: Tragic Agency in Contemporary Videogame (abstract)

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

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

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

Ludotariat: problematizing the gaming class (abstract)

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

Outlining the spectrum of values of self-identified gamers (abstract)

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

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

From Tradition to Touchscreen: Understanding How Chinese Mobile Game Designers Represent Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage (abstract)

Effects of a local multiplayer cooperative game club for the development of children’s social skills (abstract)

Bird Games - an exploration into game experience design for children within the Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery Centre. (abstract)

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

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

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

Crafting Comfort: Postdigital Practices in Current Cozy Games (abstract)

The radical lessons from cozy games (abstract)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is Eports Spectating Associated with Gambling Behaviour? (abstract)

Play, Pay, Profit: Exploring When Gaming Becomes Gambling (abstract)

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

Pokimane, Myna Snacks and the Cookie Controversy: Combating Platform Dependency by Performing as the Streamer-Entrepreneur (abstract)

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

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

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

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

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

Excitatio Corcyrae: Embracing history through mindful game design (abstract)

Augmented Reality and Gamification in Disseminating Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Systematic Literature Review (abstract)

Preserving Hmong Batik Through Video Games (abstract)

Perverse Virtual Actions (abstract)

Games that Play You: Outmersion, Game Bleed, and Transformative Vulnerability in Hellblade (abstract)

Beyond Metagames: Analyzing Metareference in Videogames (abstract)

The Fractured Imbunche: a Study of Chilean Horror Games (abstract)

Divided by Politics, United by Play: Computing in East and West Germany during the 1980s (abstract)

(Re-)Playing Yugoslavia: Heritage and Memory Mediation in Indie Video Games (abstract)

From Military Simulation to Ludic War: A Generational Typology of the Mobilization of Play (abstract)

The Military-Entertainment Hero Complex: Playing the War Hero (abstract)

How the US Military’s Relationship with the Video Games Industry Threatens Global Speech Rights (abstract)

“A train is passing through Stardew Valley”: Post, Complex, and Cyberpastoral Video Games (abstract)

Exploring Waste and Garbage through a Digital Game: The Case of Stardew Valley (abstract)

Virtual Roads, Real Ecologies: Driving Games, Coziness, and Petroculture (abstract)

TREEgame Design Reflections and Dispatches from Treewhere (abstract)

Fake VS Fictional Games: On Dark and Deceptive Representations of Non-Actual Games (abstract)

Conspiracy Thinking and Videogame Interpretation (abstract)

The Detective in the Furnace: Belief and Fictional Illegibility (abstract)

Haircuts, Matricides, Pain: Transgender Masculinity in Scripted Characters in Video Games (abstract)

Hardcore Gamers in Ballgowns: At the Crossroads of Gender and Play (abstract)

An "easy life" or "no freedom of expression"? Men’s experiences of game culture (abstract)

“I felt like I was them. I just didn’t know it.”: Exploring Queer Identity through TTRPG Play (abstract)

Uncanny Homecoming: The Temporality of Dwelling and Return in Digital Games (abstract)

Cozy History? Frameworks, Contrasts, and Affect in Cozy Historical Video Games (abstract)

Mindful and Mindless Gaming: Two Approaches to Emotional Regulation Through Play (abstract)

‘Anecdotal Evidence’: A Holistic Approach to the Ecological Analysis of Videogames (abstract)

Fantasy Beyond History: Games as Method for Ecocritical Understandings of Time and Change (abstract)

Undead ecologies: Reconceptualising zombiism in videogames (abstract)

Queer enclosure in the cinematic adaptation of The Last of Us (abstract)

Research on the interaction design of VR plant installation under the perspective of embodiment (abstract)

MODELS OF SIMULATION IN VIRTUAL REALITY AS DIGITAL TWIN FOR DISASTER SURVIVAL TRAINING (abstract)

Games in Cultural Venues Using Public VR: Designing Motion-Tracked and Story-Driven Experiences (abstract)

Impact of Full-Body Haptic Feedback on the Sense of Presence, Affective Experience, and Game Engagement in a VR Game (abstract)

Games for Fun and Games for Blood: A Framework for Understanding In-Game Violence (abstract)

Discourse Analysis of Game Mechanics: A Methodological Proposition (abstract)

Iterating the Past: Using Game Analytic Methods in Historical Game Studies (abstract)

Ludo-Computationalism: How Computation Shapes Game Scholarship (abstract)