Talk Author Index

TALK AUTHOR INDEX

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Aarseth, Espen	Dungeonomics: A Brief History of Hypogaming
Aarseth, Espen	Exploring virtual reality genres
Abatangelo, Sofia Aka Romi	Environmental Storytelling and Active Spectatorship in Walking Simulators and Exploration Theatre
Aggelakos, Yannis	Virtual Memories of Displacement: A Narrative Game in VR Exploring Refugee Stories through Symbolic Interaction
Aksay, Kübra	Between Action and Inaction: A Distant-Play Reading of The Longing Writing the World: Personal Journals in Video Games
Allison, Fraser	Memorializing the Dead with Games
Alonge, Giaime	Playing Decolonization. On Ben Madison’s "The White Tribe"
Altice, Nathan	Analyzing Emergence in Pac-Man's Mazes with Systemic Reverberation
Alvarez-Nuno, Elena Fernanda	University Campus Metaverse with Serious Games to support multidisciplinary cooperation among students
Amadori, Gaia	Speak with blocks: Minecraft, environmental education and activism Production and reception of Yugoslav past through Roblox games
Andriano, Angelo Maria	Metroidvania Ecologies: Exploration and the Environmental Imagination in Rain World and Hollow Knight
Antonakis, Angelica	The Evolution of Women and Gender Representation in computerized RPGs: The Baldur’s Gate Paradigm
Antoniou, Angeliki	Games in Cultural Venues Using Public VR: Designing Motion-Tracked and Story-Driven Experiences
Apartoglou, Charalampos	Games for Fun and Games for Blood: A Framework for Understanding In-Game Violence
Apperley, Thomas	Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion Following the Bunny: Gendered Labor and Digital Play in Livestreaming Cultures
Arce Blanco, Jonathan Saul	Mexican crossroads: Wrestling video game based on a comic book
Arnedo-Moreno, Joan	A feminist analysis of modern board games
Ask, Kristine	Roleplay with chatbots on character.ai: A new direction for online gaming?
Aura, Isabella	Effects of a local multiplayer cooperative game club for the development of children’s social skills
Austin, Hailey	Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and the Depiction of Female “Britishness” in Victorian London
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B. Yu, Elliot	LAN is Dead, Long Live LAN
Bachmann, Daphne	Party Games as a Crossroad Between Strangers: A Mixed-Methods Study
Baguley, James	Japanese Game Live Streamers: Between Japan and the World
Baig, Marium	Design Decisions and Obstacles in Serious Game Design: Insights from Design Cases
Baranauskas, Maria Cecília Calani	A Conceptual Framework for Socienactive Scenarios of Play: a Pilot Study
Barr, Pippin	"What? So what? Now what?": Prompting Game Design Reflection
Basu, Piuli	LUDIFYING DIGITAL PROTESTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: THE BANGLADESH SCENARIO
Bednorz, Magdalena	P(l)aying for Love: Capitalizing on patterns of contemporary romance fiction in PlayMe Studio’s MeChat
Beeston, Jen	Redefining Play: A Novel Framework for Differentiating Agency and Autonomy in Video Games
Beltrán, Raúl	MODELS OF SIMULATION IN VIRTUAL REALITY AS DIGITAL TWIN FOR DISASTER SURVIVAL TRAINING
Bezzina, Stephen	My Teammate is an AI: Evaluating Generative AI in Game Asset Creation through a Post-GameJam Study
Blanch, Noemí	A feminist analysis of modern board games
Blom, Joleen	Love as a service in otome games Suicide Livestreams in NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
Bodi, Bettina	Virtual Roads, Real Ecologies: Driving Games, Coziness, and Petroculture Crafting Comfort: Postdigital Practices in Current Cozy Games
Boellstorff, Tom	Half Stress, Half Party: Play and Labor at Mattel in the Early Videogame Industry
Borg, Anna	Jamming Together: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Game Jams
Bosmans, Robin	“GOLD GOLD GOLD”: gambling-like elements on Twitch and Kick
Boucht, Nicolas	Effects of a local multiplayer cooperative game club for the development of children’s social skills
Boudreau, Kelly	Making cozy games: How game developers build (and talk about) cozy games
Brandstetter, Thomas	TREEgame Design Reflections and Dispatches from Treewhere
Brandão, André Luiz	A Conceptual Framework for Socienactive Scenarios of Play: a Pilot Study
Brown, Kieron	Playfulness in Comics Affording Playfulness in Daniel Benmergui’s Storyteller
Bruno, Luca Paolo	Male, Japanese, and Imperial: Japanese male-oriented character intimacy games in perspective
Buhagiar, Luke Joseph	Two Routes to Research and their Implications for Avatar-based Interviewing
Busch, Thorsten	At the Crossroads of Game Studies and Business Ethics: What are the Sustainability Obligations of Stakeholders in the Game Industry?
Byers, Thomas	Selling Time: Time-Centric Language in Video Game Marketing on Steam
Bémelmans, Sophie	Diode Games: Rediscovering the Bridge between Analog and Video Gaming through the Elektor Magazine
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Cahill, Tiernan	Mindful and Mindless Gaming: Two Approaches to Emotional Regulation Through Play
Calderara, Diego	Unexpected Feelings: Counterfactual History in The Seven Cities of Gold (1984)
Calleja, Gordon	Cinematic Combat in Turn-Based Games: A through design Approach to Emergent Narrative and Mechanics
Campbell, Arne Graham Christiaan	An "easy life" or "no freedom of expression"? Men’s experiences of game culture
Cao, Yahui	Roles of Video Games in Benefiting PhD Students’ Study Leveraging Emotional Design in Labor Practice of Paid Co-Playing
Caracciolo, Marco	Metroidvania Ecologies: Exploration and the Environmental Imagination in Rain World and Hollow Knight Soulslike Posthumanism: Open Subjectivity and East Asian Philosophy
Caroca Escauriaza, Val	The Fractured Imbunche: a Study of Chilean Horror Games
Carter, Marcus	"We’ll always go with what’s more sustainable”: Understanding the Financialised Logics of Game Development Memorializing the Dead with Games “It's a real con”: Parent Attitudes Toward Children’s Game Spending
Catania, Maris	Just Can't Get Enough: Exploring the concept of tolerance in gaming and gambling
Catania, Marvic	Moral Ambiguity in Playdead games
Cerda, Christoffer Mitch	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)
Chan, Szeyi	Assessing Empathy Across Game Fidelity Levels: A Case Study of 3D and Text-Based Versions of Brukel
Chee, Florence	At the Crossroads of Game Studies and Business Ethics: What are the Sustainability Obligations of Stakeholders in the Game Industry?
Chen, Dody M.H.	Game Localisation in Live Game Streaming: A Practice-Led Case Study
Chen, Mingzhe	Reconceptualizing LLM-Induced Hallucinations as Game Features
Chen, Vivian	User-generated content and community dynamics of Final Fantasy XIV players in China
Chen, Xi	Micro-Resistance in Romance: Gender Identity and Agency in a 3D Otome Game
Cheng, Wenting	Understanding the paradox of MetroidBrainias: The case of Animal Well
Chhabra, Dinesh	Cross-Border Conflicts in Gaming: Indo-Pak Tensions in Competitive Multiplayer Spaces
Chiapello, Laureline	Exploring Collaborative Practices in Video Game Development: An Ethnographic Study
Chiappa, Giorgio	Cruising in Apulia. Mediterranea Inferno at the Crossroads of Queer Desire and Political Crisis
Chow, Noemi	Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community
Chu, Zhaoyin	Reshaping soft masculinity in Chinese gaming: the Qing Lang Campaign and the cultural impact of male characters design in “Genshin Impact”
Cluckers, Jeroen	Immersive Gaming for Climate Action: Evaluating the Impact of Virtual Reality on Psychological Distance and Sustainable Behavior.
Colarieti, Mauro	“Be who you are (as long as you’re not fat).” A study on fat bodies in contemporary videogames
Colás, Joaquim	A Longitudinal Look Into University Student Video Game Designs
Conde, Samantha	Intergenerational Dynamics and Coping Strategies from Workshopping Games on Acculturative Stress with First-Generation Latine Communities
Consalvo, Mia	Making cozy games: How game developers build (and talk about) cozy games
Corneliussen, Hilde G.	An "easy life" or "no freedom of expression"? Men’s experiences of game culture
Costa, Luis	Exploring Compatible Interaction Preferences with a Puzzle Video Game
Costalunga, Nicola	History and operational mechanisms in the video game industry: the case of the Turin cluster
Coulton, Paul	Gameful IoT Repair
Couto, Marta	Exploring Compatible Interaction Preferences with a Puzzle Video Game
Coward, Chris	Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-design with Two Communities
Coward-Gibbs, Matt	Running a Games Lab: Challenges and Opportunities to Public Research with Arts Organizations On Tabletop Gaming Tables: Capital, Emblem, Symbol
Cox III, James	Assessing Empathy Across Game Fidelity Levels: A Case Study of 3D and Text-Based Versions of Brukel
Craddock, Angela	Playing to win or playing not to lose: Measuring engagement, enjoyment, and performance in the gamification of tasks with positive or negative framing
Croasdale, Alison	Now Play Nicely: An Autoethnography of Nostalgia and the Shared Spaces of Gaming
Cuda, Johan	Diode Games: Rediscovering the Bridge between Analog and Video Gaming through the Elektor Magazine
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da Silva, Rafael Leonardo	Design Decisions and Obstacles in Serious Game Design: Insights from Design Cases
Daniells, Esther	Design Decisions and Obstacles in Serious Game Design: Insights from Design Cases
Dawson, Finn	“Planting World Seeds”: Procedural Content Generation, Labour and Conceptual Art in Digital Games
De Cock, Rozane	“GOLD GOLD GOLD”: gambling-like elements on Twitch and Kick
De La Hera, Teresa	From Tradition to Touchscreen: Understanding How Chinese Mobile Game Designers Represent Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage
de Paula, Bruno	Trajectories of Professionalization as Game Developer in 2000s Brazil: stories from Tectoy Digital/Zeebo Interactive Studios/Tectoy Studios
De Schutter, Bob	Assessing Empathy Across Game Fidelity Levels: A Case Study of 3D and Text-Based Versions of Brukel
Deery, Callum	Still failing to disclose loot box presence: Identifying illegal UK video game ads using Meta’s advertising repository
Demmer, Theresa	An EEG hyperscanning setup to investigate collaboration in games
Denham, Jack	Running a Games Lab: Challenges and Opportunities to Public Research with Arts Organizations
Denisova, Alena	Redefining Play: A Novel Framework for Differentiating Agency and Autonomy in Video Games
Dennin, Kimberly	Playing with Identity: Racebending in the God of War Series
Denoo, Maarten	“GOLD GOLD GOLD”: gambling-like elements on Twitch and Kick
Devasia, Nisha	Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-design with Two Communities Preliminary Results from a Systematic Review of Narrative Game-based Interventions for Mental Health
Dias, Joao	Exploring Compatible Interaction Preferences with a Puzzle Video Game
Dingli, Alexiei	My Teammate is an AI: Evaluating Generative AI in Game Asset Creation through a Post-GameJam Study Jamming Together: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Game Jams
Donald, Iain	Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and the Depiction of Female “Britishness” in Victorian London We. The Revolution: Liberty, Fraternity, Equality, Authenticity. Theatre of (Virtual) Dreams: Exploring the Cultural Heritage Value of Stadiums in the EA FC/FIFA Franchise Golden Goal: Altruism versus Toxicity and the Soul of Football (Soccer) Simulators
Dor, Simon	Climate Crisis on the Table: The Rhetoric of Environmental Actions in Board Games
Dytman-Stasienko, Agnieszka	Virtual Burden: Representations of Animal Disabilities in Video Games and Their Posthuman Contexts
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Ebrahimi, Ala	Assessing Empathy Across Game Fidelity Levels: A Case Study of 3D and Text-Based Versions of Brukel
Egliston, Ben	"We’ll always go with what’s more sustainable”: Understanding the Financialised Logics of Game Development
Elliott, Marc	From Paper to Pixels: Horrific Remediation in Inscryption
Elor, Aviv	Intergenerational Dynamics and Coping Strategies from Workshopping Games on Acculturative Stress with First-Generation Latine Communities
Emmanouloudis, Aris	User-generated content and community dynamics of Final Fantasy XIV players in China
Enevold Duncan, Jessica	Fair Play Perspectives: Bridging Research, Design, and Industry
Ensslin, Astrid	Between Action and Inaction: A Distant-Play Reading of The Longing
Erdikmen, Arda	"Attention Users, Please Refrain from Modifying Your Ataris" - Corporate Region-Locking Practices and Creative Computing Responses in Türkiye
Escalante Vega, Juana	Augmented Reality and Gamification in Disseminating Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Systematic Literature Review
Espinosa-Briones, Jamie	Preliminary Results from a Systematic Review of Narrative Game-based Interventions for Mental Health
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Fan, Flint Xiaofeng	From Myth to Market: Lessons from Black Myth: Wukong’s Success
Farmer, George	Save-Scumming: A Novel Exploration of Video Game Play
Fassone, Riccardo	History and operational mechanisms in the video game industry: the case of the Turin cluster
Felczak, Mateusz	Dicey Rules. System Design and Automation in the Baldur’s Gate Series
Feliu, Joel	Creating video games in Barcelona: field, capital(s), habitus and belonging
Fendt, Matthew	An NLP Interface for Social AI Agents in The Resistance: Avalon
Fennimore, John	How Video Game Journalists Cover Sexual Misconduct in the Industry
Fernandez-Ortego, Omar Santiago	University Campus Metaverse with Serious Games to support multidisciplinary cooperation among students
Ford, Dom	Communicative Artificial Intelligence for Nonplayer Characters in Digital Games: Mapping the Field
Foust, Joshua	How the US Military’s Relationship with the Video Games Industry Threatens Global Speech Rights
Foxman, Maxwell	Shifting The Meta: Bridging The Gap Between Scholar and Developer Perspectives of the Post-Pandemic Game Industry
Freitas, Camila	Discourse Analysis of Game Mechanics: A Methodological Proposition
Fulio Bragoni, Fabrizio	Moral Ambiguity in Playdead games
Fung, Anthony Ying Him	When Chineseness Meets Global: The Contra Flow and Cultural influence of China’s Domestic Mobile Game
Furman, Ivo	"Attention Users, Please Refrain from Modifying Your Ataris" - Corporate Region-Locking Practices and Creative Computing Responses in Türkiye
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Gallagher, Rob	At the Crossroads of Art and Games: NPCs in Contemporary Video Art
Gama, Sandra	Exploring Compatible Interaction Preferences with a Puzzle Video Game
Gao, Timothy	Perverse Virtual Actions
Garcidueñas Vargas, María de Lourdes	Mexican crossroads: Wrestling video game based on a comic book
Gard Rysjedal, Ida Martine	Scary Business: Mascot Horror as Product and Reflection of Platformisation
Gałuszka, Damian	A Game Developer's Perspective on Social Impact Video Games: Conclusions from a Qualitative Study
Genovesi, Matteo	Fighting Against Return: a taxonomy of time loops in digital games
Gerritsen, Corine	After All, Caesar Never Was a Quitter: Struggling with the past in early game design
Gibbs, Martin	Private Servers Are More than Video Game Piracy Memorializing the Dead with Games Selling Time: Time-Centric Language in Video Game Marketing on Steam
Gil Juárez, Adriana	Creating video games in Barcelona: field, capital(s), habitus and belonging
Glas, René	The expectation game: Exposing hidden assumptions in a game studies classroom.
Glasauer, Stefan	TREEgame Design Reflections and Dispatches from Treewhere An EEG hyperscanning setup to investigate collaboration in games
Gluzman, Renard	Exploring Online Gaming Communities through Documentary Filmmaking
Gomes, Samuel	Exploring Compatible Interaction Preferences with a Puzzle Video Game
Gotzler, Steven	The Detections of Totality: Cognitive Mapping and Urban Space in Disco Elysium The Art of Counting Labor: Worker Placement Games as Capitalist Realism
Grabarczyk, Pawel	Exploring virtual reality genres Anatomy of a failed console. The case of Atari 5200
Grace, Lindsay	Game Jams as Pedagogic Playgrounds for Problem Deconstruction and Reflective Learning Game Engine for Change, A framework for Balancing the Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Player States at the Heart of Game Design
Graham, Mike Hyslop	Gameplay-Elicited interviews: Exploring Worldness and the Processes of Play
Greene, Maggie	Alterity and seriality in a massively-multiplayer role-playing game.
Grosemans, Eva	“GOLD GOLD GOLD”: gambling-like elements on Twitch and Kick
Grub, Maria	Gaming the Political Arena: An Analysis of Political Messaging on Twitch in Germany
Guajardo, Ashley	Hardcore Gamers in Ballgowns: At the Crossroads of Gender and Play
Guo, Ningxi	Full paper_“Covertly Using” Generative AI in China’s Game Industry Expanded Abstract_Gaming in the Gray: The Making of “Mindie” Games in China's In/Formal Network
Guo, Ningxi	Shades of Grey in the Gaming Industry: A Case Study of Commercial Boosting in China
Gutiérrez, Camila	A study of difficulty in the Daigo Parry; considerations of ludoliteracy, assemblage, and spectacle
Gutiérrez Carrera, Julián	Suicide Livestreams in NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
Guzmán Castañeda, Maria de La Luz	MODELS OF SIMULATION IN VIRTUAL REALITY AS DIGITAL TWIN FOR DISASTER SURVIVAL TRAINING
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Hallam, Lara	Immersive Gaming for Climate Action: Evaluating the Impact of Virtual Reality on Psychological Distance and Sustainable Behavior.
Hamari, Juho	Play, Pay, Profit: Exploring When Gaming Becomes Gambling
Hao, Morgan Yu	From Wuxia to Cultivation Games: Reimagining Chinese Cosmology in Digital Space
Hao, Xuanyu	Embody Kin with Games: Redefining Player-Game Relationships through Kinship Embodiment
Hardwick, Taylor	"We’ll always go with what’s more sustainable”: Understanding the Financialised Logics of Game Development “It's a real con”: Parent Attitudes Toward Children’s Game Spending
Harkin, Stephanie	Studying the Invisible: Femininity and Gaming in Girls’ Lifestyle Magazines “It's a real con”: Parent Attitudes Toward Children’s Game Spending
Harrington, Johnathan	Love is not Around: Wandan-likes and Precarious Masculinity A Space for Everyone: Gender Demographics in Board Gaming
Hart, Matt	“I’m So Ban Happy”: Game Influencer Livestreaming, Self-Care, Trauma Dumping, and Managing Mental Health Topics Across Platformed Parasocial Relationships
Hassan, Lobna	“Love’s a Game, Wanna Play?“ Games in and around Taylor Swift’s Music
He, Wei	When Chineseness Meets Global: The Contra Flow and Cultural influence of China’s Domestic Mobile Game
Hecktor, Jana	Towards Ethical Guidelines for Videogame Character Creation with GenAI
Helmke, William	Transforming Shibuya through the power of graffiti, fashion, music, and friendship.
Herrewijn, Laura	Immersive Gaming for Climate Action: Evaluating the Impact of Virtual Reality on Psychological Distance and Sustainable Behavior.
Hill, Geoffrey	Private Servers Are More than Video Game Piracy
Ho, Yue-Jin	Inducing and non-inducing interpretations of the sinograph in Word Game
Hoek, Keaton	Analyzing the Challenge of Navigation through the Metroid Series
Hoffmann, Michael	Designing Anthrogames: Theory, Methods, and AI Integration in Cultural Gaming
Holopainen, Jussi	Temporal Agency and Timeplay in Video Games
Honório de Farias Júnior, Ivaldir	Adaptive Scenario Selection in Serious Games Using Finite State Machines and Agent-Based Models
Horn, Benjamin	One for the Road: A Cultural Comparison of the Food and Drink in The Witcher 3 and Genshin Impact
Houška, Jan	Platform alternatives or platform power: Custom and commercial game engines in the work of foreigners in Czech game production
Hovden, Jan Fredrik	The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers
Hu, Fengbin	WoWing Then, WoWing Now: Players’ Coping with the World of Warcraft Service Disruption in China
Huang, Jiali	Research on the interaction design of VR plant installation under the perspective of embodiment
Huang, Lifeng	"We were the porters of overseas media." -- An investigation into the gaming information media under the influence of the state
Huang, Sha	Preserving Hmong Batik Through Video Games
Huber, William	Alterity and seriality in a massively-multiplayer role-playing game.
Hurel, Pierre-Yves	Diode Games: Rediscovering the Bridge between Analog and Video Gaming through the Elektor Magazine
Hämäläinen, Perttu	Unraveling Grief: Design Space Analysis of Death-themed Games
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Ibtehaz, Mohammad Asif	Party Games as a Crossroad Between Strangers: A Mixed-Methods Study
Idone Cassone, Vincenzo	More than Let’s Plays? Towards a content analysis of game-related YouTube videos
Imbierowicz, Eleonora	Rhetorics of Puppy Love and Death in The Pale Beyond (2023)
Ince, Ecem	Impact of Full-Body Haptic Feedback on the Sense of Presence, Affective Experience, and Game Engagement in a VR Game
Israel, Sarita	Assemblages of Awareness: Exploring the Role of La Valise de Lise in Addressing Older Adult Mistreatment through Collaborative Play and Cultural Adaptation
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Jahrmann, Margarete	TREEgame Design Reflections and Dispatches from Treewhere An EEG hyperscanning setup to investigate collaboration in games
Janik, Justyna	Uncanny Homecoming: The Temporality of Dwelling and Return in Digital Games
Jankowski, Filip	Reaganoludography: The 1980s Japanese Digital Games in the Service of the United States
Jansen, Dennis	From Military Simulation to Ludic War: A Generational Typology of the Mobilization of Play
Jansz, Jeroen	From Tradition to Touchscreen: Understanding How Chinese Mobile Game Designers Represent Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage
Jaramillo, Marco	Towards a Southern Epistemology in Game Studies: Gaming Practices, Ideological Struggle, and Common Sense in Latin America
Jarrett, Josh	The digital imaginary of esports: A League of Legends Worlds case study
Javed, Amna	Typological analysis of pay-what-you-want donation behavior in virtual world
Jeong, David	Shifting The Meta: Bridging The Gap Between Scholar and Developer Perspectives of the Post-Pandemic Game Industry
Ji, Xiaoou	Revisiting the Magic Circle for Critical-ethical Reflection through Artistic Installation Game Design
Jiaxin, Li	The Impact of Game Live Streaming on In-Game Purchases of Chinese Young Game Users The Role of Games in Cultural Dissemination: A Comparative Analysis of Multilingual Reviews
Jin, Yaewon	Reshaping Esports Fandom: Insights into Platformization from B.stage and LCK Communities
Johnson, Mark R	Japanese Game Live Streamers: Between Japan and the World
Jones-Rincon, Amanda	Save-Scumming: A Novel Exploration of Video Game Play
Jorgensen, Ida Kathrine Hammeleff	Fair Play Perspectives: Bridging Research, Design, and Industry
Jung, Jung In	Impact of Full-Body Haptic Feedback on the Sense of Presence, Affective Experience, and Game Engagement in a VR Game
Jutkiewicz, Michal	Zoos as utopian enclaves in Ark Nova
Juvrud, Joshua	Playing to win or playing not to lose: Measuring engagement, enjoyment, and performance in the gamification of tasks with positive or negative framing The Ludum Platform: Exploring the impact of game design on prosocial behavior in children’s digital play
Jørgensen, Kristine	An "easy life" or "no freedom of expression"? Men’s experiences of game culture
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Kalmanlehto, Johan	On the Aesthetic Relevance of Difficulty in Games
Karagoz, Selahattin	Northern Lights in Erzurum: Rethinking Inspiration, Cloning and Originality in Video Game
Kauk, Julian	Gaming the Political Arena: An Analysis of Political Messaging on Twitch in Germany
Kaygusuz, Erdinç	Neocolonialism in Video Games: the Social Discourse of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
Kelly, Danielle	Save-Scumming: A Novel Exploration of Video Game Play
Kempton, Allen	Metaplay: Play Practices, Communication, and Interaction in Pokémon from 1998-2020
Khaled, Rilla	"What? So what? Now what?": Prompting Game Design Reflection
Khoo, Nicole	Assessing the landscape of illegal loot box advertising in Belgium
Kientz, Julie	Preliminary Results from a Systematic Review of Narrative Game-based Interventions for Mental Health
Klevjer, Rune	The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers
Kliś-Brodowska, Agnieszka	“Reading” an Un-Romanced Quest Romance: Jane Eyre, Shadow Academy and Intertextuality in Jeffrey Yohalem’s Child of Light
Knight, Scott	Returning to The Last of Us: The Aesthetics and Contexts of Remaking & Remastering The Last of Us Franchise Choose Your path Quickly: The Many Crossroads of the Interactive Movie
Kocher, Mela	Swiss Pinball Culture: Between Nostalgia and Revival
Kohda, Youji	Typological analysis of pay-what-you-want donation behavior in virtual world
Koljonen, Johanna	The Human Encounter as a Designable Surface: Leveraging Insights from Larp Design to Enable Democratic Participation
Koponen, Aki	Outlining the spectrum of values of self-identified gamers
Koskinen, Elina	“Love’s a Game, Wanna Play?“ Games in and around Taylor Swift’s Music
Koughan, Lane D.	The Lost 87%: Towards Improved Access to Games for Game Design Education
Kougioumtzoglou, Georgios	The Evolution of Women and Gender Representation in computerized RPGs: The Baldur’s Gate Paradigm
Kourti, Evangelia	The Moving Pictures Factory”: Designing a Game-based Platform for Cinema Literacy
Koyama, Yuhsuke	The Impact of Game Live Streaming on In-Game Purchases of Chinese Young Game Users The Role of Games in Cultural Dissemination: A Comparative Analysis of Multilingual Reviews
Kozyra, Magdalena	By the Law of the Wolf. Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Heart of the Forest between global, national, and fictional
Krampe, Theresa	From Extended Self to Posthuman Other: Empathy and Morality in Encounters with AI Characters Towards Ethical Guidelines for Videogame Character Creation with GenAI Beyond Metagames: Analyzing Metareference in Videogames
Krawczyk, Stanisław	(Semi-)Peripheral Gameplay in Video Games
Kreitler, Melanie	From Extended Self to Posthuman Other: Empathy and Morality in Encounters with AI Characters Encounters with the Self as Other: Empathy in the Games of Nomada Studio
Kuduva Gopinath, Karthik	Temporal Agency and Timeplay in Video Games
Kukulak, Szymon	Fifty Shades of Red. Depictions of the Eastern Bloc in American and European Cold War-themed real time strategies
Kunigita, Hisayuki	Typological analysis of pay-what-you-want donation behavior in virtual world
Kurniawan, Sri	Intergenerational Dynamics and Coping Strategies from Workshopping Games on Acculturative Stress with First-Generation Latine Communities
Kyrgiafini, Sofia Despoina	Excitatio Corcyrae: Embracing history through mindful game design
Kłosiński, Michał	Ludotariat: problematizing the gaming class
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Lafontaine, Constance	Assemblages of Awareness: Exploring the Role of La Valise de Lise in Addressing Older Adult Mistreatment through Collaborative Play and Cultural Adaptation
Lafrance St-Martin, Laura Iseut	Climate Crisis on the Table: The Rhetoric of Environmental Actions in Board Games
Lai, Yingmin	“How absurd and pathetic.”: A Multimodal Analysis of the Nosense! As a Cutscene in Black Myth: Wukong
Lankoski, Petri	Parties, partying, and party games in single-player videogames
Larios, Victor M	MODELS OF SIMULATION IN VIRTUAL REALITY AS DIGITAL TWIN FOR DISASTER SURVIVAL TRAINING Mexican crossroads: Wrestling video game based on a comic book
Larios, Victor M.	University Campus Metaverse with Serious Games to support multidisciplinary cooperation among students
Lee, Jin Ha	Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-design with Two Communities The Lost 87%: Towards Improved Access to Games for Game Design Education
Lee, Yeonwoo	The Rise of Gamer-Consumers: Anger, Protests, and Divisions in South Korean Gamer Activism
Legierse, Tom	Making Bodies Possible: Exploring Transformative Justice in Esports
Lepouras, George	Games in Cultural Venues Using Public VR: Designing Motion-Tracked and Story-Driven Experiences
Leung, Chun Kai	Reshaping soft masculinity in Chinese gaming: the Qing Lang Campaign and the cultural impact of male characters design in “Genshin Impact”
León, Carlos	A Longitudinal Look Into University Student Video Game Designs
Li, Mengqi	“You MUST Be Both Sexy and Powerful”: Community Expectations of Female Representation in Video Games
Liboriussen, Bjarke	Queer enclosure in the cinematic adaptation of The Last of Us
Lin, Jingyan	Rewriting the Script: Navigating Cybernetic Dynamics and Ethical Expression in Modular Narrative Games—The Case of Storyteller
Liu, Naijia	Identity at the Crossroads: Cultural Negotiation in Player-Character Relationships
Llamas-Rodriguez, Juan	Theorizing Player Affects beyond Empathy in Digital Migration Games
Loganayagam, Luna	Crossover Kingdom: Narration, Gamification, and the Platform Unconscious of Kingdom Hearts and Disney Parks
Longobardi Zingarelli, Robin	Haircuts, Matricides, Pain: Transgender Masculinity in Scripted Characters in Video Games
Losito, Mitch	“A train is passing through Stardew Valley”: Post, Complex, and Cyberpastoral Video Games
Lu, Yahuai	E-Space Odyssey 2001: China’s Gaming Industry at the Crossroads of Globalization and Reform and Opening-up
Luif, Georg	An EEG hyperscanning setup to investigate collaboration in games
Luo, Bingxiao	Unraveling Grief: Design Space Analysis of Death-themed Games
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Macey, Joseph	Is Eports Spectating Associated with Gambling Behaviour? Just Can't Get Enough: Exploring the concept of tolerance in gaming and gambling
Macey, Joseph	Play, Pay, Profit: Exploring When Gaming Becomes Gambling
Maciel, Rocio	University Campus Metaverse with Serious Games to support multidisciplinary cooperation among students MODELS OF SIMULATION IN VIRTUAL REALITY AS DIGITAL TWIN FOR DISASTER SURVIVAL TRAINING Mexican crossroads: Wrestling video game based on a comic book
Majewski, Jakub	Returning to The Last of Us: The Aesthetics and Contexts of Remaking & Remastering The Last of Us Franchise Choose Your path Quickly: The Many Crossroads of the Interactive Movie
Majkowski, Tomasz	By the Law of the Wolf. Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Heart of the Forest between global, national, and fictional
Majsova, Natalija	(Re-)Playing Yugoslavia: Heritage and Memory Mediation in Indie Video Games
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Palomera, Raquel	Measuring the impact of an educational project mediated by indie games on students’ personal, social and learning to learn competence: work in progress
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Sachan, Tushya	Cross-Border Conflicts in Gaming: Indo-Pak Tensions in Competitive Multiplayer Spaces
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