DIGRA2025: DIGITAL GAMES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 2025

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'Hollow Knight'	The Narrative of 'Hollow Knight' Styled as a Soulslike Game.
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(GenAI)	Towards Ethical Guidelines for Videogame Character Creation with GenAI
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1980s	Divided by Politics, United by Play: Computing in East and West Germany during the 1980s
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3D games	Micro-Resistance in Romance: Gender Identity and Agency in a 3D Otome Game
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4X	Unexpected Feelings: Counterfactual History in The Seven Cities of Gold (1984)
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AAA game	From Myth to Market: Lessons from Black Myth: Wukong’s Success
AAA games	Indie vs. AAA: A Model for the Educational Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Video Games
abyss oddyssey
Acculturative Stress	Intergenerational Dynamics and Coping Strategies from Workshopping Games on Acculturative Stress with First-Generation Latine Communities
achievements	“Test Trophy Please Ignore”: Achievements as Paratexts in Palimpsestic Readings of Remasters and Remakes
activision	How the US Military’s Relationship with the Video Games Industry Threatens Global Speech Rights
Activism	The radical lessons from cozy games The Rise of Gamer-Consumers: Anger, Protests, and Divisions in South Korean Gamer Activism
Adaptation	The George Saunders Games Collection: Adapting the Unadaptable Short Story Dies Irae in a fantasy world: Gregorian sequence and Requiem motifs in Heroes of Might and Magic series Queer enclosure in the cinematic adaptation of The Last of Us
Adult Computer Game	Male, Japanese, and Imperial: Japanese male-oriented character intimacy games in perspective
Adult Play	Metaplay: Play Practices, Communication, and Interaction in Pokémon from 1998-2020
adults
advergames
advertising	Assessing the landscape of illegal loot box advertising in Belgium From Movable to Still Images. On the Pictorial Practices of Screenshotting Game Cultures Still failing to disclose loot box presence: Identifying illegal UK video game ads using Meta’s advertising repository
aesthetics	On the Aesthetic Relevance of Difficulty in Games Cosmoludics: Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, and the Crossroad of Cricket “Planting World Seeds”: Procedural Content Generation, Labour and Conceptual Art in Digital Games Otium and Walking Simulators
Aesthetics of Videogames	Reframing Art and Games as Historical Twins: art bit’s Curatorial Practices in Japan
affect	Theorizing Player Affects beyond Empathy in Digital Migration Games Making Friends with Death: Posthuman Post-Life Play A Plague Tale: Autoethnography and Authenticity in Historical Games Research Cozy History? Frameworks, Contrasts, and Affect in Cozy Historical Video Games
Affect Studies	Backyard Survival: Ecology of Killer Insects and Violent Nature in Grounded (2022)
affective economy	P(l)aying for Love: Capitalizing on patterns of contemporary romance fiction in PlayMe Studio’s MeChat
Affective engagement	Impact of Full-Body Haptic Feedback on the Sense of Presence, Affective Experience, and Game Engagement in a VR Game
Affective Labor	Following the Bunny: Gendered Labor and Digital Play in Livestreaming Cultures
Affordances	Are we monsters? Comparison of representation of monstrosity between Vampire the Masquerade fourth and fifth editions.
ageism	Folklore-driven representations of femininity in Slavic-coded video games: the figure of Baba Yaga
agency	Care as Becoming, Care as Response-ability: structures of care and agency in Journey and Domestic Tension Oedipus at the Crossroads: Tragic Agency in Contemporary Videogame At the Crossroads of Art and Games: NPCs in Contemporary Video Art From Extended Self to Posthuman Other: Empathy and Morality in Encounters with AI Characters Folklore-driven representations of femininity in Slavic-coded video games: the figure of Baba Yaga Affording Playfulness in Daniel Benmergui’s Storyteller Redefining Play: A Novel Framework for Differentiating Agency and Autonomy in Video Games Otium and Walking Simulators
Agent-Based Models (ABM)	Adaptive Scenario Selection in Serious Games Using Finite State Machines and Agent-Based Models
AI	On Simema: The Radical Passivity of Self-Playing Games Indie vs. AAA: A Model for the Educational Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Video Games
AI character	From Extended Self to Posthuman Other: Empathy and Morality in Encounters with AI Characters
AI ethics	At the crossroads of innovation and regulation: legal implications of using AI in game development.
AI in Games	Reconceptualizing LLM-Induced Hallucinations as Game Features
alcohol
alea	Ludus Triumphorum. A Ludological Introducion to Tarot
algorithmic ecology	“A train is passing through Stardew Valley”: Post, Complex, and Cyberpastoral Video Games
Alien Bar	Exploring Compatible Interaction Preferences with a Puzzle Video Game
alt-right	Game Studies, Game Engines, and Infrastructuring Technofascism
Alterity	Alterity and seriality in a massively-multiplayer role-playing game.
Altruism	Golden Goal: Altruism versus Toxicity and the Soul of Football (Soccer) Simulators
ambiguity	Affording Playfulness in Daniel Benmergui’s Storyteller
Analog games	A feminist analysis of modern board games
analog horror	Dreamcore in Chinese Videogames: Liminal Space, Analog Horror, and The Millennium Year Nostalgia
analog media	Crafting Comfort: Postdigital Practices in Current Cozy Games
Analogue game	Playing Decolonization. On Ben Madison’s "The White Tribe"
Analogue games	Balancing the Table: Investigating Gender Representation in Italian Analogue Games Industry (2010–2024)
Analogue-Digital Convergence	From Paper to Pixels: Horrific Remediation in Inscryption
Analytical Model	Speak with blocks: Minecraft, environmental education and activism
anarchaeology	WildStar's rogue archives: exploring an anarchaeological approach to defunct games
Ancient history	The characterization of Julius Caesar in video games
Anecdotal evidence	‘Anecdotal Evidence’: A Holistic Approach to the Ecological Analysis of Videogames
Animal NPCs	Backyard Survival: Ecology of Killer Insects and Violent Nature in Grounded (2022)
animal representations in digital games	Virtual Burden: Representations of Animal Disabilities in Video Games and Their Posthuman Contexts
animal studies	Virtual Burden: Representations of Animal Disabilities in Video Games and Their Posthuman Contexts
animality	Rhetorics of Puppy Love and Death in The Pale Beyond (2023)
animals	Rhetorics of Puppy Love and Death in The Pale Beyond (2023)
animals with disabilities	Virtual Burden: Representations of Animal Disabilities in Video Games and Their Posthuman Contexts
anonymity	Japanese Game Live Streamers: Between Japan and the World
Ant Forest
Anthrogames	Designing Anthrogames: Theory, Methods, and AI Integration in Cultural Gaming
Anthropocene	Undead ecologies: Reconceptualising zombiism in videogames
anthropocentrism	Soulslike Posthumanism: Open Subjectivity and East Asian Philosophy
Antiquity games	The characterization of Julius Caesar in video games
Appalachia	A Call for an Appalachian Game Studies
arcade	Now Play Nicely: An Autoethnography of Nostalgia and the Shared Spaces of Gaming
arcades	Swiss Pinball Culture: Between Nostalgia and Revival
Archive	Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community
archives	Studying the Invisible: Femininity and Gaming in Girls’ Lifestyle Magazines
Arithmomorphism	The Art of Counting Labor: Worker Placement Games as Capitalist Realism
Ark Nova	Zoos as utopian enclaves in Ark Nova
arousal	Playing to win or playing not to lose: Measuring engagement, enjoyment, and performance in the gamification of tasks with positive or negative framing
art game
Art Games	History of Artist-Gamemaking: The Art of Tomorrow - Selectparks.net “artists exploring computer games as an emerging, artistic medium”
Art Mods	History of Artist-Gamemaking: The Art of Tomorrow - Selectparks.net “artists exploring computer games as an emerging, artistic medium”
Artificial Intelligence	An NLP Interface for Social AI Agents in The Resistance: Avalon AI Nightmares: Videogames and The Uncanny Valley in Images Generated by Artificial Intelligence At the crossroads of innovation and regulation: legal implications of using AI in game development. Indie vs. AAA: A Model for the Educational Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Video Games
artificial intelligence (AI)
Artistic Gamemaking	History of Artist-Gamemaking: The Art of Tomorrow - Selectparks.net “artists exploring computer games as an emerging, artistic medium”
Artistic research	Revisiting the Magic Circle for Critical-ethical Reflection through Artistic Installation Game Design
Arts organizations	Running a Games Lab: Challenges and Opportunities to Public Research with Arts Organizations
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate	Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and the Depiction of Female “Britishness” in Victorian London
Assemblage theory	Assemblages of Awareness: Exploring the Role of La Valise de Lise in Addressing Older Adult Mistreatment through Collaborative Play and Cultural Adaptation
assemblages	Becoming, Not Being: Rethinking Mental Illness at the Crossroads of Videogame Representation
Assessment	Measuring the impact of an educational project mediated by indie games on students’ personal, social and learning to learn competence: work in progress
asset creation	My Teammate is an AI: Evaluating Generative AI in Game Asset Creation through a Post-GameJam Study
asset stores	Feasible Antiquity: Ancient History in the Unity, Unreal, Godot and itch.io Asset Stores
Atari	Anatomy of a failed console. The case of Atari 5200
Atari 2600	"Attention Users, Please Refrain from Modifying Your Ataris" - Corporate Region-Locking Practices and Creative Computing Responses in Türkiye
Atari 5200	Anatomy of a failed console. The case of Atari 5200
atmosphere	Environmental Storytelling and Active Spectatorship in Walking Simulators and Exploration Theatre
audience engagement	“Love’s a Game, Wanna Play?“ Games in and around Taylor Swift’s Music
Audience Perception	We. The Revolution: Liberty, Fraternity, Equality, Authenticity.
audio	Sonic Lead: A Survey of Sound-First Games
audiovisual translation	Game Localisation in Live Game Streaming: A Practice-Led Case Study
Augmented Reality	Augmented Reality and Gamification in Disseminating Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Systematic Literature Review
aura	Craft, Aura and the struggle with Authenticity in “Man Versus”
Australia	History of Artist-Gamemaking: The Art of Tomorrow - Selectparks.net “artists exploring computer games as an emerging, artistic medium”
authenticity	Craft, Aura and the struggle with Authenticity in “Man Versus” Theatre of (Virtual) Dreams: Exploring the Cultural Heritage Value of Stadiums in the EA FC/FIFA Franchise A Plague Tale: Autoethnography and Authenticity in Historical Games Research
authoritarian capitalism	The Crossroads of Esports Diplomacy, Sports Worlds, and Authoritarian Capitalism
authorship	Writing the World: Personal Journals in Video Games
Autism	What can video games tell us about neurodiversity and autism?
autoethnography	Now Play Nicely: An Autoethnography of Nostalgia and the Shared Spaces of Gaming Beyond the Rulebook: An Autoethnographic Journey into the Craft of Game Design A Plague Tale: Autoethnography and Authenticity in Historical Games Research
automation	“Planting World Seeds”: Procedural Content Generation, Labour and Conceptual Art in Digital Games Dicey Rules. System Design and Automation in the Baldur’s Gate Series
Autonomy	Redefining Play: A Novel Framework for Differentiating Agency and Autonomy in Video Games
avatar	Avatar and Real Me: Identity Anxiety of Chinese Mobile Otome Game Players—A Case Study of Papergames
Avatars	Two Routes to Research and their Implications for Avatar-based Interviewing
Awareness	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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B.stage	Reshaping Esports Fandom: Insights into Platformization from B.stage and LCK Communities
Baba Yaga	Folklore-driven representations of femininity in Slavic-coded video games: the figure of Baba Yaga
Backgammon	Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion
baldur's gate	Capturing the Tabletop Experience. Narration in the Baldur’s Gate Series.
Baldur's Gate 3	The Evolution of Women and Gender Representation in computerized RPGs: The Baldur’s Gate Paradigm Of Tadpoles & Illithids: On the Algorithmic Poetics of the Oneiric, the Monadic, & the Kairotic
Baldur’s Gate	The Evolution of Women and Gender Representation in computerized RPGs: The Baldur’s Gate Paradigm Dicey Rules. System Design and Automation in the Baldur’s Gate Series
Baldur’s Gate 2	The Evolution of Women and Gender Representation in computerized RPGs: The Baldur’s Gate Paradigm
Bangladesh	LUDIFYING DIGITAL PROTESTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: THE BANGLADESH SCENARIO
bara
Barriers	The Benefits of Banding: Overcoming Barriers to Community Participation Among Magic: The Gathering Players
Bastion
batik	Preserving Hmong Batik Through Video Games
Becherovka
becoming	Becoming, Not Being: Rethinking Mental Illness at the Crossroads of Videogame Representation
Becoming-at-home
Belgium	Assessing the landscape of illegal loot box advertising in Belgium
Belief	Conspiracy Thinking and Videogame Interpretation The Detective in the Furnace: Belief and Fictional Illegibility
belongingness
Benefits	Roles of Video Games in Benefiting PhD Students’ Study
betting	Is Eports Spectating Associated with Gambling Behaviour?
biographies	Trajectories of Professionalization as Game Developer in 2000s Brazil: stories from Tectoy Digital/Zeebo Interactive Studios/Tectoy Studios
biography	Now Play Nicely: An Autoethnography of Nostalgia and the Shared Spaces of Gaming
biopolitics	Exploring Waste and Garbage through a Digital Game: The Case of Stardew Valley Ludotariat: problematizing the gaming class
bishojo	Love is not Around: Wandan-likes and Precarious Masculinity
Black Myth: Wukong	“How absurd and pathetic.”: A Multimodal Analysis of the Nosense! As a Cutscene in Black Myth: Wukong
Board game	TREEgame Design Reflections and Dispatches from Treewhere
Board Game Industry	Balancing the Table: Investigating Gender Representation in Italian Analogue Games Industry (2010–2024)
Board Game Studies	The Art of Counting Labor: Worker Placement Games as Capitalist Realism
board games	Climate Crisis on the Table: The Rhetoric of Environmental Actions in Board Games A feminist analysis of modern board games Beyond the Rulebook: An Autoethnographic Journey into the Craft of Game Design A Space for Everyone: Gender Demographics in Board Gaming Zoos as utopian enclaves in Ark Nova
bodies	Making Bodies Possible: Exploring Transformative Justice in Esports
Body Horror	AI Nightmares: Videogames and The Uncanny Valley in Images Generated by Artificial Intelligence
boosting	Shades of Grey in the Gaming Industry: A Case Study of Commercial Boosting in China
Bourdieu	The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers
brain waves	An EEG hyperscanning setup to investigate collaboration in games
Brazil	Trajectories of Professionalization as Game Developer in 2000s Brazil: stories from Tectoy Digital/Zeebo Interactive Studios/Tectoy Studios
Brazilian Gaming Community
Breaking games	Out of Bounds: Exploring Beyond the Map
Britishness	Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and the Depiction of Female “Britishness” in Victorian London
Buddhist Three Poisons	“How absurd and pathetic.”: A Multimodal Analysis of the Nosense! As a Cutscene in Black Myth: Wukong
Bugsnax	Mutual Incorporation: On Eating and Being Eaten in Bugsnax (2020)
Bunny	Following the Bunny: Gendered Labor and Digital Play in Livestreaming Cultures
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café	A Space for Everyone: Gender Demographics in Board Gaming
Call of Cthulhu	Immersion in Tabletop Role-Playing Games: A Quantitative Analysis
call of duty	Neocolonialism in Video Games: the Social Discourse of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) How the US Military’s Relationship with the Video Games Industry Threatens Global Speech Rights
Capcom	A study of difficulty in the Daigo Parry; considerations of ludoliteracy, assemblage, and spectacle
capital	Metaplay: Play Practices, Communication, and Interaction in Pokémon from 1998-2020 On Tabletop Gaming Tables: Capital, Emblem, Symbol
capitalism	Climate Crisis on the Table: The Rhetoric of Environmental Actions in Board Games Ludotariat: problematizing the gaming class
Capitalist Realism	The Art of Counting Labor: Worker Placement Games as Capitalist Realism
Capitalocene
card game	An EEG hyperscanning setup to investigate collaboration in games Ludus Triumphorum. A Ludological Introducion to Tarot
Card packs	Card pack and loot box spending are both positively correlated with problem gambling but not linked to negative mental health
Care	Care as Becoming, Care as Response-ability: structures of care and agency in Journey and Domestic Tension
cartography
case study
CCIs	History and operational mechanisms in the video game industry: the case of the Turin cluster
CD-ROM	Choose Your path Quickly: The Many Crossroads of the Interactive Movie
Centerfold	Following the Bunny: Gendered Labor and Digital Play in Livestreaming Cultures
centers and peripheries	(Semi-)Peripheral Gameplay in Video Games
challenge	Analyzing the Challenge of Navigation through the Metroid Series
Character Creation	Excitatio Corcyrae: Embracing history through mindful game design
Character customization
Character Intimacy Game	Male, Japanese, and Imperial: Japanese male-oriented character intimacy games in perspective
Characterization	The characterization of Julius Caesar in video games
characters
Characters design	Reshaping soft masculinity in Chinese gaming: the Qing Lang Campaign and the cultural impact of male characters design in “Genshin Impact”
chatbot	Roleplay with chatbots on character.ai: A new direction for online gaming?
ChatGPT	Communicative Artificial Intelligence for Nonplayer Characters in Digital Games: Mapping the Field
cheat	Watching different play styles: The pleasure of transgressive play in Tears of the Kingdom
cheating	Understanding the paradox of MetroidBrainias: The case of Animal Well
Child of Light	“Reading” an Un-Romanced Quest Romance: Jane Eyre, Shadow Academy and Intertextuality in Jeffrey Yohalem’s Child of Light
children	The Ludum Platform: Exploring the impact of game design on prosocial behavior in children’s digital play “It's a real con”: Parent Attitudes Toward Children’s Game Spending Effects of a local multiplayer cooperative game club for the development of children’s social skills
Chilean games	The Fractured Imbunche: a Study of Chilean Horror Games
China	Love is not Around: Wandan-likes and Precarious Masculinity When Chineseness Meets Global: The Contra Flow and Cultural influence of China’s Domestic Mobile Game Shades of Grey in the Gaming Industry: A Case Study of Commercial Boosting in China Losing Intentionally: Comedic Resistance to Meritocratic Genshin Impact
China’s game history	E-Space Odyssey 2001: China’s Gaming Industry at the Crossroads of Globalization and Reform and Opening-up
Chinese	Inducing and non-inducing interpretations of the sinograph in Word Game
Chinese alchemy	From Wuxia to Cultivation Games: Reimagining Chinese Cosmology in Digital Space
Chinese cultural heritage	From Tradition to Touchscreen: Understanding How Chinese Mobile Game Designers Represent Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage
Chinese gamers	User-generated content and community dynamics of Final Fantasy XIV players in China
chinese games	Love is not Around: Wandan-likes and Precarious Masculinity From Wuxia to Cultivation Games: Reimagining Chinese Cosmology in Digital Space
Chinese indie games	The Terrible Victims: "Female Ghosts" as a Cultural Symbol in Chinese Indie Video Games
Chinese mobile otome games	Avatar and Real Me: Identity Anxiety of Chinese Mobile Otome Game Players—A Case Study of Papergames
Chinese mythology	From Myth to Market: Lessons from Black Myth: Wukong’s Success
Chinese player	Running a Royal Harem: The Participatory Narrative of The Sims Players in China
Chinese videogame	Dreamcore in Chinese Videogames: Liminal Space, Analog Horror, and The Millennium Year Nostalgia
cinema	On Simema: The Radical Passivity of Self-Playing Games Queer enclosure in the cinematic adaptation of The Last of Us
cinema literacy	The Moving Pictures Factory”: Designing a Game-based Platform for Cinema Literacy
clarity	Conspiracy Thinking and Videogame Interpretation
class	The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers
climate	Post-optimism: Chants of Sennaar, Norco and the Problem of Optimism in Environmental and Ecogames Gamestudies
climate change	Climate Crisis on the Table: The Rhetoric of Environmental Actions in Board Games Immersive Gaming for Climate Action: Evaluating the Impact of Virtual Reality on Psychological Distance and Sustainable Behavior.
Climate crisis
climate fiction
Close reading	Queer enclosure in the cinematic adaptation of The Last of Us Playfully Conservative: Reinventing Nintendo’s Platform Games through Materiality in Yoshi’s Crafted World
close-reading	Inducing and non-inducing interpretations of the sinograph in Word Game Playing Decolonization. On Ben Madison’s "The White Tribe"
co creation
co-creation	A Conceptual Framework for Socienactive Scenarios of Play: a Pilot Study
Co-design	Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-design with Two Communities
co-players	Leveraging Emotional Design in Labor Practice of Paid Co-Playing
co-playing	Now Play Nicely: An Autoethnography of Nostalgia and the Shared Spaces of Gaming
cognitive capitalism	Between preservation and nostalgic fantasy. Approaches to fanmade remasters
Cognitive Diversity	What can video games tell us about neurodiversity and autism?
Cognitive Mapping	The Detections of Totality: Cognitive Mapping and Urban Space in Disco Elysium
Cold War	Fifty Shades of Red. Depictions of the Eastern Bloc in American and European Cold War-themed real time strategies
collaboration	An EEG hyperscanning setup to investigate collaboration in games Exploring Collaborative Practices in Video Game Development: An Ethnographic Study
Collaborative storytelling	Assemblages of Awareness: Exploring the Role of La Valise de Lise in Addressing Older Adult Mistreatment through Collaborative Play and Cultural Adaptation
Collectibles	“I Used to Be an Adventurer Like You”: Fear of Missing Out in The Elder Scrolls Online
Collective memory	(Re-)Playing Yugoslavia: Heritage and Memory Mediation in Indie Video Games
Colonialism	Withholding the APOLLO Subfunction: An exploration of how Indigenous Communities are represented in the Horizon Series
combat systems	Cinematic Combat in Turn-Based Games: A through design Approach to Emergent Narrative and Mechanics
Comedy	Losing Intentionally: Comedic Resistance to Meritocratic Genshin Impact
comic books	Mexican crossroads: Wrestling video game based on a comic book
comic-games	Playfulness in Comics
comics	Playfulness in Comics
comics games	Affording Playfulness in Daniel Benmergui’s Storyteller
Common Sense	Towards a Southern Epistemology in Game Studies: Gaming Practices, Ideological Struggle, and Common Sense in Latin America
Communication Strategies	Intergenerational Dynamics and Coping Strategies from Workshopping Games on Acculturative Stress with First-Generation Latine Communities
communicative AI	Communicative Artificial Intelligence for Nonplayer Characters in Digital Games: Mapping the Field
Community	The Benefits of Banding: Overcoming Barriers to Community Participation Among Magic: The Gathering Players On Tabletop Gaming Tables: Capital, Emblem, Symbol
comparative media analysis	“Spatial Rape”: Interleaving House of Leaves with MyHouse.pk3
competence	On the Aesthetic Relevance of Difficulty in Games Redefining Play: A Novel Framework for Differentiating Agency and Autonomy in Video Games
competitive games	Cross-Border Conflicts in Gaming: Indo-Pak Tensions in Competitive Multiplayer Spaces
competitive gaming	Making Bodies Possible: Exploring Transformative Justice in Esports
computation	Ludo-Computationalism: How Computation Shapes Game Scholarship
computer clubs	Divided by Politics, United by Play: Computing in East and West Germany during the 1980s
Conceptual Art	“Planting World Seeds”: Procedural Content Generation, Labour and Conceptual Art in Digital Games
conflict	Cross-Border Conflicts in Gaming: Indo-Pak Tensions in Competitive Multiplayer Spaces
conservative	Playfully Conservative: Reinventing Nintendo’s Platform Games through Materiality in Yoshi’s Crafted World
Console games	"We were the porters of overseas media." -- An investigation into the gaming information media under the influence of the state
conspiracies	Conspiracy Thinking and Videogame Interpretation
conspiracy theories	Conspiracy Thinking and Videogame Interpretation
conspiracy thinking	Conspiracy Thinking and Videogame Interpretation
constrained agency	Moral Ambiguity in Playdead games
consultancy	Benefits and Weaknesses of Historical Consultancy for Games: A CEE-centred Perspective
consulting	Benefits and Weaknesses of Historical Consultancy for Games: A CEE-centred Perspective
consumer culture	Playfully Conservative: Reinventing Nintendo’s Platform Games through Materiality in Yoshi’s Crafted World
consumer law	At the crossroads of innovation and regulation: legal implications of using AI in game development.
consumer protection	Assessing the landscape of illegal loot box advertising in Belgium Card pack and loot box spending are both positively correlated with problem gambling but not linked to negative mental health Still failing to disclose loot box presence: Identifying illegal UK video game ads using Meta’s advertising repository
Consumerism	The Rise of Gamer-Consumers: Anger, Protests, and Divisions in South Korean Gamer Activism
contact	Cross-Border Conflicts in Gaming: Indo-Pak Tensions in Competitive Multiplayer Spaces
contact zone	By the Law of the Wolf. Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Heart of the Forest between global, national, and fictional
Contemporary Art	Reframing Art and Games as Historical Twins: art bit’s Curatorial Practices in Japan
content analysis	“GOLD GOLD GOLD”: gambling-like elements on Twitch and Kick
Content creation	"One-and-a-Quarter Way Relationships”: Understanding Authenticity and Asymmetry In Gaming Podcast Audiences
content creators	From pixel to plate: Exploring discussions of food in online gaming communities
Content Integration	Excitatio Corcyrae: Embracing history through mindful game design
content moderation
Context	Gaming streamers as influencers and intermediaries: Differentializing the micro, meso and macro contexts of streaming
Convergence Culture	The George Saunders Games Collection: Adapting the Unadaptable Short Story
conversation AI	Towards Ethical Guidelines for Videogame Character Creation with GenAI
coping	Mindful and Mindless Gaming: Two Approaches to Emotional Regulation Through Play
copyright	Copyright and games preservation: lessons and opportunities in de-colonization
corporate social responsibility	At the Crossroads of Game Studies and Business Ethics: What are the Sustainability Obligations of Stakeholders in the Game Industry?
cosmotechnics	From Wuxia to Cultivation Games: Reimagining Chinese Cosmology in Digital Space
counterfactuals	Unexpected Feelings: Counterfactual History in The Seven Cities of Gold (1984)
covers	Music beyond gameplay: embodied experience of acoustic music in the covers of original game soundtracks
Cozy	Virtual Roads, Real Ecologies: Driving Games, Coziness, and Petroculture Cozy History? Frameworks, Contrasts, and Affect in Cozy Historical Video Games
cozy game	Cozy History? Frameworks, Contrasts, and Affect in Cozy Historical Video Games
cozy games	The radical lessons from cozy games “Purpose-Built for Happiness”: Panic’s Playdate as a Cozy Platform Making cozy games: How game developers build (and talk about) cozy games Crafting Comfort: Postdigital Practices in Current Cozy Games
cozy gaming	The radical lessons from cozy games
craft	Craft, Aura and the struggle with Authenticity in “Man Versus”
creative automation	My Teammate is an AI: Evaluating Generative AI in Game Asset Creation through a Post-GameJam Study
creative computing	Divided by Politics, United by Play: Computing in East and West Germany during the 1980s
Creative freedom	Representations in Video Game: The Tension Between Accuracy and Creativity
Creative Industries	A Labour of Love: Critical Games and Burnout in Creative Industries
creative labor	Full paper_“Covertly Using” Generative AI in China’s Game Industry
creative thinking
creativity	Indie Innovation: Norms, Cultural Platforms and Shaming v. Intellectual Property in Independent Videogame Creation, 2005-2019
Crisis	Pluralist Game Studies: Practical Tools for the Crisis of (Inter)disciplinarity
Crisis Culture	The Military-Entertainment Hero Complex: Playing the War Hero
Critical Ecological Studies	Backyard Survival: Ecology of Killer Insects and Violent Nature in Grounded (2022)
Critical Game Studies	A Labour of Love: Critical Games and Burnout in Creative Industries
Critical Games	A Labour of Love: Critical Games and Burnout in Creative Industries
critical play	Virtual Burden: Representations of Animal Disabilities in Video Games and Their Posthuman Contexts TREEgame Design Reflections and Dispatches from Treewhere
critical posthumanism	Virtual Burden: Representations of Animal Disabilities in Video Games and Their Posthuman Contexts
Critical research	Two Routes to Research and their Implications for Avatar-based Interviewing
Critical-ethical reflection	Revisiting the Magic Circle for Critical-ethical Reflection through Artistic Installation Game Design
critique	From Movable to Still Images. On the Pictorial Practices of Screenshotting Game Cultures
critique and nostalgia of globalization	E-Space Odyssey 2001: China’s Gaming Industry at the Crossroads of Globalization and Reform and Opening-up
cross-border	Cross-Border Conflicts in Gaming: Indo-Pak Tensions in Competitive Multiplayer Spaces
Cross-cultural communication	The Role of Games in Cultural Dissemination: A Comparative Analysis of Multilingual Reviews Digital Ethnography of Cross-Cultural Communication in Multiplayer Competitive Games: Game Design, Multimodality, and Cultural Dimensions
crpg	Capturing the Tabletop Experience. Narration in the Baldur’s Gate Series.
crunch
cultivation games	From Wuxia to Cultivation Games: Reimagining Chinese Cosmology in Digital Space
Cultura studies	Towards a Southern Epistemology in Game Studies: Gaming Practices, Ideological Struggle, and Common Sense in Latin America
cultural adaptation	From Wuxia to Cultivation Games: Reimagining Chinese Cosmology in Digital Space Assemblages of Awareness: Exploring the Role of La Valise de Lise in Addressing Older Adult Mistreatment through Collaborative Play and Cultural Adaptation
Cultural comparison	One for the Road: A Cultural Comparison of the Food and Drink in The Witcher 3 and Genshin Impact
Cultural Dissemination	The Role of Games in Cultural Dissemination: A Comparative Analysis of Multilingual Reviews
cultural diversity	Digital Ethnography of Cross-Cultural Communication in Multiplayer Competitive Games: Game Design, Multimodality, and Cultural Dimensions
Cultural Field	The Spike Video Game Awards Are Dead, Long Live the Game Awards: Reconsidering Awards Shows as the Struggle for a Field of Cultural Production
cultural gerontology	Folklore-driven representations of femininity in Slavic-coded video games: the figure of Baba Yaga
Cultural Heritage	Theatre of (Virtual) Dreams: Exploring the Cultural Heritage Value of Stadiums in the EA FC/FIFA Franchise Preserving Hmong Batik Through Video Games Games in Cultural Venues Using Public VR: Designing Motion-Tracked and Story-Driven Experiences Copyright and games preservation: lessons and opportunities in de-colonization
Cultural hybridity	From Myth to Market: Lessons from Black Myth: Wukong’s Success
cultural memory	Fifty Shades of Red. Depictions of the Eastern Bloc in American and European Cold War-themed real time strategies By the Law of the Wolf. Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Heart of the Forest between global, national, and fictional Dies Irae in a fantasy world: Gregorian sequence and Requiem motifs in Heroes of Might and Magic series
Cultural Negotiation	Identity at the Crossroads: Cultural Negotiation in Player-Character Relationships
cultural perception	When Chineseness Meets Global: The Contra Flow and Cultural influence of China’s Domestic Mobile Game
cultural platform	Indie Innovation: Norms, Cultural Platforms and Shaming v. Intellectual Property in Independent Videogame Creation, 2005-2019
Cultural policy in China	Reshaping soft masculinity in Chinese gaming: the Qing Lang Campaign and the cultural impact of male characters design in “Genshin Impact”
Cultural Representation	Designing Anthrogames: Theory, Methods, and AI Integration in Cultural Gaming
Cultural Representation in Video Games	“How absurd and pathetic.”: A Multimodal Analysis of the Nosense! As a Cutscene in Black Myth: Wukong
Cultural Studies	A feminist analysis of modern board games
cultural symbol	The Terrible Victims: "Female Ghosts" as a Cultural Symbol in Chinese Indie Video Games
cultural text	When Chineseness Meets Global: The Contra Flow and Cultural influence of China’s Domestic Mobile Game
culture	Mexican crossroads: Wrestling video game based on a comic book
culture studies	The Fractured Imbunche: a Study of Chilean Horror Games
Curation	History of Artist-Gamemaking: The Art of Tomorrow - Selectparks.net “artists exploring computer games as an emerging, artistic medium”
cuteness
Cutscene	“How absurd and pathetic.”: A Multimodal Analysis of the Nosense! As a Cutscene in Black Myth: Wukong
Cybernetic Feedback	Rewriting the Script: Navigating Cybernetic Dynamics and Ethical Expression in Modular Narrative Games—The Case of Storyteller
cyborg bodies	Posthuman Gaming in a Time of Planetary Crisis: Human Agency at the Crossroads of Technology and Ecology in Signalis
Czech game production	Platform alternatives or platform power: Custom and commercial game engines in the work of foreigners in Czech game production
D
Danielle Bunten Berry	Unexpected Feelings: Counterfactual History in The Seven Cities of Gold (1984)
Daoism	From Wuxia to Cultivation Games: Reimagining Chinese Cosmology in Digital Space
dark design	Fake VS Fictional Games: On Dark and Deceptive Representations of Non-Actual Games
Dark Souls	Dark Souls, Implied Player and Stoic Ethics
Data	Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community
data protection	At the crossroads of innovation and regulation: legal implications of using AI in game development.
Data-Centered Research	Playing With Videogames on YouTube in East Asia
Data-Driven Analysis	Balancing the Table: Investigating Gender Representation in Italian Analogue Games Industry (2010–2024)
dating	Love is not Around: Wandan-likes and Precarious Masculinity
dating-sims
death	Memorializing the Dead with Games Making Friends with Death: Posthuman Post-Life Play Unraveling Grief: Design Space Analysis of Death-themed Games Fighting Against Return: a taxonomy of time loops in digital games Death at the Crossroads of Subjecthood in Happy Wheels (Fancy Force, 2010)
Death Stranding
Death-themed Games	Unraveling Grief: Design Space Analysis of Death-themed Games
deceptive design	Fake VS Fictional Games: On Dark and Deceptive Representations of Non-Actual Games
DEI	Party, but for whom? Accessibility, inclusivity and equity in Finnish game industry events
deliberation	The Human Encounter as a Designable Surface: Leveraging Insights from Larp Design to Enable Democratic Participation
democracy	The Human Encounter as a Designable Surface: Leveraging Insights from Larp Design to Enable Democratic Participation
demographics	The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers
Design	Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community
design cases	Design Decisions and Obstacles in Serious Game Design: Insights from Design Cases
design challenges	Design Decisions and Obstacles in Serious Game Design: Insights from Design Cases
design frameworks	Game Engine for Change, A framework for Balancing the Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Player States at the Heart of Game Design
design process	Exploring Collaborative Practices in Video Game Development: An Ethnographic Study Design Decisions and Obstacles in Serious Game Design: Insights from Design Cases
Design Space Analysis	Unraveling Grief: Design Space Analysis of Death-themed Games
designable surface	The Human Encounter as a Designable Surface: Leveraging Insights from Larp Design to Enable Democratic Participation
Detective Fiction	The Detections of Totality: Cognitive Mapping and Urban Space in Disco Elysium
developer vlogs	Making cozy games: How game developers build (and talk about) cozy games
development workflows
DGBL	A Game Developer's Perspective on Social Impact Video Games: Conclusions from a Qualitative Study
dialogic play interviews
dialogue	Communicative Artificial Intelligence for Nonplayer Characters in Digital Games: Mapping the Field
dice-based mechanics	Cinematic Combat in Turn-Based Games: A through design Approach to Emergent Narrative and Mechanics
Dies Irae	Dies Irae in a fantasy world: Gregorian sequence and Requiem motifs in Heroes of Might and Magic series
difficulty	A study of difficulty in the Daigo Parry; considerations of ludoliteracy, assemblage, and spectacle On the Aesthetic Relevance of Difficulty in Games Analyzing the Challenge of Navigation through the Metroid Series
digital archives	WildStar's rogue archives: exploring an anarchaeological approach to defunct games
Digital Art	History of Artist-Gamemaking: The Art of Tomorrow - Selectparks.net “artists exploring computer games as an emerging, artistic medium”
digital card games
digital communities	LAN is Dead, Long Live LAN
digital discourse
digital divide
digital entrepreneurialism	Pokimane, Myna Snacks and the Cookie Controversy: Combating Platform Dependency by Performing as the Streamer-Entrepreneur
Digital Ethnography	Reshaping Esports Fandom: Insights into Platformization from B.stage and LCK Communities Digital Ethnography of Cross-Cultural Communication in Multiplayer Competitive Games: Game Design, Multimodality, and Cultural Dimensions
digital game industries	Shades of Grey in the Gaming Industry: A Case Study of Commercial Boosting in China
digital games	Discourse Analysis of Game Mechanics: A Methodological Proposition The Moving Pictures Factory”: Designing a Game-based Platform for Cinema Literacy Speak with blocks: Minecraft, environmental education and activism
digital games industry
Digital library	Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community
digital narratives	History Reloaded: How Players Co-Create the Song Dynasty in Justice Mobile
Digital Platform	Playing With Videogames on YouTube in East Asia
digital preservation	The Lost 87%: Towards Improved Access to Games for Game Design Education
digital production	Full paper_“Covertly Using” Generative AI in China’s Game Industry
Digital Services Act
Digital Space	The Detections of Totality: Cognitive Mapping and Urban Space in Disco Elysium
digital task	Playing to win or playing not to lose: Measuring engagement, enjoyment, and performance in the gamification of tasks with positive or negative framing
Digital Twins	MODELS OF SIMULATION IN VIRTUAL REALITY AS DIGITAL TWIN FOR DISASTER SURVIVAL TRAINING
digitalization
diode game	Diode Games: Rediscovering the Bridge between Analog and Video Gaming through the Elektor Magazine
diplomacy	The Crossroads of Esports Diplomacy, Sports Worlds, and Authoritarian Capitalism
disability studies	Virtual Burden: Representations of Animal Disabilities in Video Games and Their Posthuman Contexts Becoming, Not Being: Rethinking Mental Illness at the Crossroads of Videogame Representation
disaster
Disaster Management	MODELS OF SIMULATION IN VIRTUAL REALITY AS DIGITAL TWIN FOR DISASTER SURVIVAL TRAINING
Discord
discourse analysis	Discourse Analysis of Game Mechanics: A Methodological Proposition The digital imaginary of esports: A League of Legends Worlds case study
Discrimination
disinformation	Game Engine for Change, A framework for Balancing the Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Player States at the Heart of Game Design Gaming the Political Arena: An Analysis of Political Messaging on Twitch in Germany
Disney	Crossover Kingdom: Narration, Gamification, and the Platform Unconscious of Kingdom Hearts and Disney Parks
Disneyland	Crossover Kingdom: Narration, Gamification, and the Platform Unconscious of Kingdom Hearts and Disney Parks
distraction	Mindful and Mindless Gaming: Two Approaches to Emotional Regulation Through Play
Diversity	Fair Play Perspectives: Bridging Research, Design, and Industry Party, but for whom? Accessibility, inclusivity and equity in Finnish game industry events The Evolution of Women and Gender Representation in computerized RPGs: The Baldur’s Gate Paradigm
Divine world	Gothic Forests and Magic Flights: Examining the Gothic False Hero in Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
Documentary fidelity	Representations in Video Game: The Tension Between Accuracy and Creativity
Documentary filmmaking	Exploring Online Gaming Communities through Documentary Filmmaking
documentation	From Movable to Still Images. On the Pictorial Practices of Screenshotting Game Cultures
dog	Rhetorics of Puppy Love and Death in The Pale Beyond (2023)
doing research as a collective
Domestic mobile game	When Chineseness Meets Global: The Contra Flow and Cultural influence of China’s Domestic Mobile Game
Domestication	Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion
Dragon’s Lair	Choose Your path Quickly: The Many Crossroads of the Interactive Movie
Dreamcore aesthetic	Dreamcore in Chinese Videogames: Liminal Space, Analog Horror, and The Millennium Year Nostalgia
Drink	One for the Road: A Cultural Comparison of the Food and Drink in The Witcher 3 and Genshin Impact
driving games	Virtual Roads, Real Ecologies: Driving Games, Coziness, and Petroculture
dungeons	Dungeonomics: A Brief History of Hypogaming
Dungeons&Dragons	Dicey Rules. System Design and Automation in the Baldur’s Gate Series
dwelling	Uncanny Homecoming: The Temporality of Dwelling and Return in Digital Games
dying	Making Friends with Death: Posthuman Post-Life Play
Dynamic Storytelling	Reconceptualizing LLM-Induced Hallucinations as Game Features
E
EA Sports FC	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
Early Computer Games	After All, Caesar Never Was a Quitter: Struggling with the past in early game design
early videogame industry	Half Stress, Half Party: Play and Labor at Mattel in the Early Videogame Industry
East Asia	Playing With Videogames on YouTube in East Asia
eating	Mutual Incorporation: On Eating and Being Eaten in Bugsnax (2020) From pixel to plate: Exploring discussions of food in online gaming communities
eco games	Mutual Incorporation: On Eating and Being Eaten in Bugsnax (2020)
eco-play	Bird Games - an exploration into game experience design for children within the Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery Centre. Eco-Play: Designing nature games with Kiwi Conservation club
ecocriticism	By the Law of the Wolf. Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Heart of the Forest between global, national, and fictional Tentacle to the Metal: Ecosophy, Metamodernism, and Splatoon 3 Zoos as utopian enclaves in Ark Nova Undead ecologies: Reconceptualising zombiism in videogames Fantasy Beyond History: Games as Method for Ecocritical Understandings of Time and Change
Ecogame	Solar Powered Minecraft and Infrastructural Intimacy in Serious Games about Energy
Ecogames	Post-optimism: Chants of Sennaar, Norco and the Problem of Optimism in Environmental and Ecogames Gamestudies ‘Anecdotal Evidence’: A Holistic Approach to the Ecological Analysis of Videogames Metroidvania Ecologies: Exploration and the Environmental Imagination in Rain World and Hollow Knight
ecogaming	Soulslike Posthumanism: Open Subjectivity and East Asian Philosophy
ecological crisis	‘Anecdotal Evidence’: A Holistic Approach to the Ecological Analysis of Videogames Undead ecologies: Reconceptualising zombiism in videogames
ecological horror	Posthuman Gaming in a Time of Planetary Crisis: Human Agency at the Crossroads of Technology and Ecology in Signalis
ecologies
Ecology	Mutual Incorporation: On Eating and Being Eaten in Bugsnax (2020) Queer enclosure in the cinematic adaptation of The Last of Us Fantasy Beyond History: Games as Method for Ecocritical Understandings of Time and Change
Ecomedia studies	‘Anecdotal Evidence’: A Holistic Approach to the Ecological Analysis of Videogames
Economic Imaginary	The digital imaginary of esports: A League of Legends Worlds case study
education	The expectation game: Exposing hidden assumptions in a game studies classroom. Preserving Hmong Batik Through Video Games Measuring the impact of an educational project mediated by indie games on students’ personal, social and learning to learn competence: work in progress Indie vs. AAA: A Model for the Educational Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Video Games A Game Developer's Perspective on Social Impact Video Games: Conclusions from a Qualitative Study Playing with Perspectives: German Planspiele as Tools for Political Education
education games	Bird Games - an exploration into game experience design for children within the Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery Centre.
Educational Game	Excitatio Corcyrae: Embracing history through mindful game design
educational game design	Game Engine for Change, A framework for Balancing the Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Player States at the Heart of Game Design
eerie	(Dis)Embodiment: Trans Hauntings in Kitty Horrorshow's Corpus
eFootball	Golden Goal: Altruism versus Toxicity and the Soul of Football (Soccer) Simulators
Elder Abuse	Assemblages of Awareness: Exploring the Role of La Valise de Lise in Addressing Older Adult Mistreatment through Collaborative Play and Cultural Adaptation
electroencephalography	An EEG hyperscanning setup to investigate collaboration in games
electronic practices	Diode Games: Rediscovering the Bridge between Analog and Video Gaming through the Elektor Magazine
Emancipatory design
embedded learning
embodied interaction	Research on the interaction design of VR plant installation under the perspective of embodiment
embodied performer	Games for Fun and Games for Blood: A Framework for Understanding In-Game Violence
embodied spectator	Games for Fun and Games for Blood: A Framework for Understanding In-Game Violence
embodiment	Embody Kin with Games: Redefining Player-Game Relationships through Kinship Embodiment Games for Fun and Games for Blood: A Framework for Understanding In-Game Violence
emergent gameplay	Analyzing Emergence in Pac-Man's Mazes with Systemic Reverberation
emergent narrative	Cinematic Combat in Turn-Based Games: A through design Approach to Emergent Narrative and Mechanics
emerging adults	From pixel to plate: Exploring discussions of food in online gaming communities
emotion	Encounters with the Self as Other: Empathy in the Games of Nomada Studio
Emotional design	Leveraging Emotional Design in Labor Practice of Paid Co-Playing
emotional engagement	From Extended Self to Posthuman Other: Empathy and Morality in Encounters with AI Characters
emotional experience	Leveraging Emotional Design in Labor Practice of Paid Co-Playing
Emotional intelligence	Measuring the impact of an educational project mediated by indie games on students’ personal, social and learning to learn competence: work in progress
emotional regulation	Mindful and Mindless Gaming: Two Approaches to Emotional Regulation Through Play
Emotional Support	WoWing Then, WoWing Now: Players’ Coping with the World of Warcraft Service Disruption in China
empathy	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 Virtual Memories of Displacement: A Narrative Game in VR Exploring Refugee Stories through Symbolic Interaction
Empathy in Games	Assessing Empathy Across Game Fidelity Levels: A Case Study of 3D and Text-Based Versions of Brukel
empirical research	Decisions in the Loop: An Empirical Study of Narrative Time and Player Agency in Hades and Twelve Minutes
emplacement
Energy Transition	Solar Powered Minecraft and Infrastructural Intimacy in Serious Games about Energy
engagement	Mexican crossroads: Wrestling video game based on a comic book
engagement strategies	“Love’s a Game, Wanna Play?“ Games in and around Taylor Swift’s Music
enjoyment	Playing to win or playing not to lose: Measuring engagement, enjoyment, and performance in the gamification of tasks with positive or negative framing
Entrepreneurship	Following the Bunny: Gendered Labor and Digital Play in Livestreaming Cultures
environment	Post-optimism: Chants of Sennaar, Norco and the Problem of Optimism in Environmental and Ecogames Gamestudies
environmental advocacy	Bird Games - an exploration into game experience design for children within the Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery Centre. Eco-Play: Designing nature games with Kiwi Conservation club
Environmental education	Speak with blocks: Minecraft, environmental education and activism
Environmental games
environmental storytelling	Environmental Storytelling and Active Spectatorship in Walking Simulators and Exploration Theatre
environmentalism	TREEgame Design Reflections and Dispatches from Treewhere
ephemerality	Rhetorics of Puppy Love and Death in The Pale Beyond (2023)
epiphany	Understanding the paradox of MetroidBrainias: The case of Animal Well
Equity	Fair Play Perspectives: Bridging Research, Design, and Industry
Escape room	Assemblages of Awareness: Exploring the Role of La Valise de Lise in Addressing Older Adult Mistreatment through Collaborative Play and Cultural Adaptation
Escape Rooms	Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-design with Two Communities
esports	Is Eports Spectating Associated with Gambling Behaviour? Mexican crossroads: Wrestling video game based on a comic book A study of difficulty in the Daigo Parry; considerations of ludoliteracy, assemblage, and spectacle The digital imaginary of esports: A League of Legends Worlds case study Making Bodies Possible: Exploring Transformative Justice in Esports The Crossroads of Esports Diplomacy, Sports Worlds, and Authoritarian Capitalism
Esports fandom	Reshaping Esports Fandom: Insights into Platformization from B.stage and LCK Communities
Eternal Ring	Gothic Forests and Magic Flights: Examining the Gothic False Hero in Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
ethical considerations
Ethical Expression	Rewriting the Script: Navigating Cybernetic Dynamics and Ethical Expression in Modular Narrative Games—The Case of Storyteller
ethical values	Towards Ethical Guidelines for Videogame Character Creation with GenAI
ethics	Moral Ambiguity in Playdead games Soulslike Posthumanism: Open Subjectivity and East Asian Philosophy
Ethnographic research
Ethnography	Roleplay with chatbots on character.ai: A new direction for online gaming? Making Bodies Possible: Exploring Transformative Justice in Esports Exploring Collaborative Practices in Video Game Development: An Ethnographic Study Designing Anthrogames: Theory, Methods, and AI Integration in Cultural Gaming The Benefits of Banding: Overcoming Barriers to Community Participation Among Magic: The Gathering Players
EU policy	The impact of tax credits on the Irish games production landscape: too little, too late, too limited?
EVE Online	Racketeering, Cartels, Collusion and Extortion: Exploring the Language of Player-Organized ‘Criminality’ in MMORPGs
events	Party, but for whom? Accessibility, inclusivity and equity in Finnish game industry events
EVO tournament	A study of difficulty in the Daigo Parry; considerations of ludoliteracy, assemblage, and spectacle
Existential ludology
Existential spaces
existentialism	Cosmoludics: Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, and the Crossroad of Cricket
expatriates	Platform alternatives or platform power: Custom and commercial game engines in the work of foreigners in Czech game production
expectation analysis	Finnish lapsed players and (game) cultural expectations
expectations	Finnish lapsed players and (game) cultural expectations
experience	Micro-Resistance in Romance: Gender Identity and Agency in a 3D Otome Game
experience design	The Human Encounter as a Designable Surface: Leveraging Insights from Larp Design to Enable Democratic Participation Bird Games - an exploration into game experience design for children within the Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery Centre.
Experiential Learning
experiment	Iterating the Past: Using Game Analytic Methods in Historical Game Studies
expert interview	From Tradition to Touchscreen: Understanding How Chinese Mobile Game Designers Represent Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage
Exploitation	A Labour of Love: Critical Games and Burnout in Creative Industries
exploration	Metroidvania Ecologies: Exploration and the Environmental Imagination in Rain World and Hollow Knight
explorative agency	Environmental Storytelling and Active Spectatorship in Walking Simulators and Exploration Theatre
F
Failure	Losing Intentionally: Comedic Resistance to Meritocratic Genshin Impact
fairness	Towards Ethical Guidelines for Videogame Character Creation with GenAI
faith	Conspiracy Thinking and Videogame Interpretation
fake advertisements	Fake VS Fictional Games: On Dark and Deceptive Representations of Non-Actual Games
Fake games	Fake VS Fictional Games: On Dark and Deceptive Representations of Non-Actual Games
False hero	Gothic Forests and Magic Flights: Examining the Gothic False Hero in Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
Family Relationships	Intergenerational Dynamics and Coping Strategies from Workshopping Games on Acculturative Stress with First-Generation Latine Communities
fan culture	Is Eports Spectating Associated with Gambling Behaviour?
fan studies	Between preservation and nostalgic fantasy. Approaches to fanmade remasters
Fandom	Golden Goal: Altruism versus Toxicity and the Soul of Football (Soccer) Simulators
Fandom platform	Reshaping Esports Fandom: Insights into Platformization from B.stage and LCK Communities
fans	Music beyond gameplay: embodied experience of acoustic music in the covers of original game soundtracks
Fantasy	Tentacle to the Metal: Ecosophy, Metamodernism, and Splatoon 3 Fantasy Beyond History: Games as Method for Ecocritical Understandings of Time and Change
fantasy RPGs	Hardcore Gamers in Ballgowns: At the Crossroads of Gender and Play
farming sim	“A train is passing through Stardew Valley”: Post, Complex, and Cyberpastoral Video Games
Fashion	Transforming Shibuya through the power of graffiti, fashion, music, and friendship.
fat stigma	“Be who you are (as long as you’re not fat).” A study on fat bodies in contemporary videogames
Fear of Missing Out	“I Used to Be an Adventurer Like You”: Fear of Missing Out in The Elder Scrolls Online
female gamer
female ghosts	The Terrible Victims: "Female Ghosts" as a Cultural Symbol in Chinese Indie Video Games
femininity	Studying the Invisible: Femininity and Gaming in Girls’ Lifestyle Magazines Folklore-driven representations of femininity in Slavic-coded video games: the figure of Baba Yaga
Feminism	Micro-Resistance in Romance: Gender Identity and Agency in a 3D Otome Game A feminist analysis of modern board games The Benefits of Banding: Overcoming Barriers to Community Participation Among Magic: The Gathering Players
fiction	Fake VS Fictional Games: On Dark and Deceptive Representations of Non-Actual Games
fictional games	Fake VS Fictional Games: On Dark and Deceptive Representations of Non-Actual Games
field of video game	Creating video games in Barcelona: field, capital(s), habitus and belonging
FIFA	Theatre of (Virtual) Dreams: Exploring the Cultural Heritage Value of Stadiums in the EA FC/FIFA Franchise
Fight for Representation
film education	The Moving Pictures Factory”: Designing a Game-based Platform for Cinema Literacy
Filter	Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community
Final Fantasy	User-generated content and community dynamics of Final Fantasy XIV players in China
Final Fantasy XIV	Alterity and seriality in a massively-multiplayer role-playing game.
Finite State Machines (FSM)	Adaptive Scenario Selection in Serious Games Using Finite State Machines and Agent-Based Models
Flat Reading	The Art of Counting Labor: Worker Placement Games as Capitalist Realism
FMV	Choose Your path Quickly: The Many Crossroads of the Interactive Movie
FMV Experimental Documentary	Endurance Tests: Media Horror, FMV Documentary, and Speculative Sport in Soccerthon ’88
Focus Group	Intergenerational Dynamics and Coping Strategies from Workshopping Games on Acculturative Stress with First-Generation Latine Communities
food	One for the Road: A Cultural Comparison of the Food and Drink in The Witcher 3 and Genshin Impact From pixel to plate: Exploring discussions of food in online gaming communities
Food games	Mutual Incorporation: On Eating and Being Eaten in Bugsnax (2020)
Food Studies	Mutual Incorporation: On Eating and Being Eaten in Bugsnax (2020)
Football	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
foresight games	Speculative Games: Games Envisioning Possible Futures
Forests	Gothic Forests and Magic Flights: Examining the Gothic False Hero in Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
formal analysis	Analyzing Emergence in Pac-Man's Mazes with Systemic Reverberation
formalism	Ludo-Computationalism: How Computation Shapes Game Scholarship
forum studies
framing	Playing to win or playing not to lose: Measuring engagement, enjoyment, and performance in the gamification of tasks with positive or negative framing
free speech	How the US Military’s Relationship with the Video Games Industry Threatens Global Speech Rights
Freemium	“It's a real con”: Parent Attitudes Toward Children’s Game Spending
freeware
FromSoftware	The Narrative of 'Hollow Knight' Styled as a Soulslike Game. Soulslike Posthumanism: Open Subjectivity and East Asian Philosophy
Full-body haptics	Impact of Full-Body Haptic Feedback on the Sense of Presence, Affective Experience, and Game Engagement in a VR Game
Full-motion video	Choose Your path Quickly: The Many Crossroads of the Interactive Movie
fun
Futures
G
gacha	Love as a service in otome games Card pack and loot box spending are both positively correlated with problem gambling but not linked to negative mental health Still failing to disclose loot box presence: Identifying illegal UK video game ads using Meta’s advertising repository
gacha games
gamblification	Is Eports Spectating Associated with Gambling Behaviour? Love as a service in otome games
gambling	Is Eports Spectating Associated with Gambling Behaviour? Card pack and loot box spending are both positively correlated with problem gambling but not linked to negative mental health
gambling-like elements	“GOLD GOLD GOLD”: gambling-like elements on Twitch and Kick
Game	Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community
game access	The Lost 87%: Towards Improved Access to Games for Game Design Education
Game Analyses	Immersion in Tabletop Role-Playing Games: A Quantitative Analysis
Game Analysis	“How absurd and pathetic.”: A Multimodal Analysis of the Nosense! As a Cutscene in Black Myth: Wukong Death at the Crossroads of Subjecthood in Happy Wheels (Fancy Force, 2010)
Game art	At the Crossroads of Art and Games: NPCs in Contemporary Video Art
Game as a service	The Rise of Gamer-Consumers: Anger, Protests, and Divisions in South Korean Gamer Activism
Game assisted learning
Game Awards	The Spike Video Game Awards Are Dead, Long Live the Game Awards: Reconsidering Awards Shows as the Struggle for a Field of Cultural Production
Game based learning	The Moving Pictures Factory”: Designing a Game-based Platform for Cinema Literacy
game bleed	Games that Play You: Outmersion, Game Bleed, and Transformative Vulnerability in Hellblade
game culture	Gaming streamers as influencers and intermediaries: Differentializing the micro, meso and macro contexts of streaming Avatar, community, and lore: An exploratory study of independent VTubers "You have to prove yourself all the time": Misogyny and countermeasures in game journalism From Movable to Still Images. On the Pictorial Practices of Screenshotting Game Cultures
game cultures	Finnish lapsed players and (game) cultural expectations Music beyond gameplay: embodied experience of acoustic music in the covers of original game soundtracks
game design	Reconceptualizing LLM-Induced Hallucinations as Game Features Making cozy games: How game developers build (and talk about) cozy games The Lost 87%: Towards Improved Access to Games for Game Design Education The George Saunders Games Collection: Adapting the Unadaptable Short Story "What? So what? Now what?": Prompting Game Design Reflection Half Stress, Half Party: Play and Labor at Mattel in the Early Videogame Industry Excitatio Corcyrae: Embracing history through mindful game design Sonic Lead: A Survey of Sound-First Games The Ludum Platform: Exploring the impact of game design on prosocial behavior in children’s digital play We. The Revolution: Liberty, Fraternity, Equality, Authenticity. Cinematic Combat in Turn-Based Games: A through design Approach to Emergent Narrative and Mechanics Digital Ethnography of Cross-Cultural Communication in Multiplayer Competitive Games: Game Design, Multimodality, and Cultural Dimensions Bird Games - an exploration into game experience design for children within the Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery Centre. Beyond the Rulebook: An Autoethnographic Journey into the Craft of Game Design Eco-Play: Designing nature games with Kiwi Conservation club Unraveling Grief: Design Space Analysis of Death-themed Games Game Engine for Change, A framework for Balancing the Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Player States at the Heart of Game Design Feasible Antiquity: Ancient History in the Unity, Unreal, Godot and itch.io Asset Stores Game Jams as Pedagogic Playgrounds for Problem Deconstruction and Reflective Learning Design Decisions and Obstacles in Serious Game Design: Insights from Design Cases
game design processes
Game designer	From Tradition to Touchscreen: Understanding How Chinese Mobile Game Designers Represent Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage
game development	"We’ll always go with what’s more sustainable”: Understanding the Financialised Logics of Game Development Towards Ethical Guidelines for Videogame Character Creation with GenAI Platform alternatives or platform power: Custom and commercial game engines in the work of foreigners in Czech game production Selling Time: Time-Centric Language in Video Game Marketing on Steam 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
Game Development Education
game education	The Lost 87%: Towards Improved Access to Games for Game Design Education
Game engagement	Impact of Full-Body Haptic Feedback on the Sense of Presence, Affective Experience, and Game Engagement in a VR Game
game engine	On Simema: The Radical Passivity of Self-Playing Games
Game engines	Game Studies, Game Engines, and Infrastructuring Technofascism Platform alternatives or platform power: Custom and commercial game engines in the work of foreigners in Czech game production
Game Fidelity	Assessing Empathy Across Game Fidelity Levels: A Case Study of 3D and Text-Based Versions of Brukel
game genre	Dreamcore in Chinese Videogames: Liminal Space, Analog Horror, and The Millennium Year Nostalgia
game genres	Exploring virtual reality genres
game history	Anatomy of a failed console. The case of Atari 5200 Half Stress, Half Party: Play and Labor at Mattel in the Early Videogame Industry Dungeonomics: A Brief History of Hypogaming Preserving Japanese Indie Games at BitSummit Drift 2024 Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community
game industries	(Semi-)Peripheral Gameplay in Video Games
game industry	A Labour of Love: Critical Games and Burnout in Creative Industries The Spike Video Game Awards Are Dead, Long Live the Game Awards: Reconsidering Awards Shows as the Struggle for a Field of Cultural Production At the Crossroads of Game Studies and Business Ethics: What are the Sustainability Obligations of Stakeholders in the Game Industry? Party, but for whom? Accessibility, inclusivity and equity in Finnish game industry events How Video Game Journalists Cover Sexual Misconduct in the Industry Shifting The Meta: Bridging The Gap Between Scholar and Developer Perspectives of the Post-Pandemic Game Industry
game industry in China	Full paper_“Covertly Using” Generative AI in China’s Game Industry
Game jams	Game Jams as Pedagogic Playgrounds for Problem Deconstruction and Reflective Learning Jamming Together: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Game Jams
game journalism	How Video Game Journalists Cover Sexual Misconduct in the Industry "You have to prove yourself all the time": Misogyny and countermeasures in game journalism
game live streaming	The Impact of Game Live Streaming on In-Game Purchases of Chinese Young Game Users
game localisation	Game Localisation in Live Game Streaming: A Practice-Led Case Study
game making	Expanded Abstract_Gaming in the Gray: The Making of “Mindie” Games in China's In/Formal Network
game mechanics	Discourse Analysis of Game Mechanics: A Methodological Proposition After All, Caesar Never Was a Quitter: Struggling with the past in early game design Micro-Resistance in Romance: Gender Identity and Agency in a 3D Otome Game TREEgame Design Reflections and Dispatches from Treewhere
game mod	Running a Royal Harem: The Participatory Narrative of The Sims Players in China
game music	Music beyond gameplay: embodied experience of acoustic music in the covers of original game soundtracks
game narratives	Haircuts, Matricides, Pain: Transgender Masculinity in Scripted Characters in Video Games
game ontology	Exploring virtual reality genres
Game Over	Fighting Against Return: a taxonomy of time loops in digital games
Game player
Game players	Digital Ethnography of Cross-Cultural Communication in Multiplayer Competitive Games: Game Design, Multimodality, and Cultural Dimensions
game preservation	The Lost 87%: Towards Improved Access to Games for Game Design Education Preserving Japanese Indie Games at BitSummit Drift 2024
game production	Making cozy games: How game developers build (and talk about) cozy games Party, but for whom? Accessibility, inclusivity and equity in Finnish game industry events Exploring Collaborative Practices in Video Game Development: An Ethnographic Study Trajectories of Professionalization as Game Developer in 2000s Brazil: stories from Tectoy Digital/Zeebo Interactive Studios/Tectoy Studios
game production studies	Creating video games in Barcelona: field, capital(s), habitus and belonging
game rule	Watching different play styles: The pleasure of transgressive play in Tears of the Kingdom
game rules	Ludo-Computationalism: How Computation Shapes Game Scholarship
game space	Dungeonomics: A Brief History of Hypogaming Now Play Nicely: An Autoethnography of Nostalgia and the Shared Spaces of Gaming
game streamers	Game Localisation in Live Game Streaming: A Practice-Led Case Study
game streams	Watching different play styles: The pleasure of transgressive play in Tears of the Kingdom
game studies	Pluralist Game Studies: Practical Tools for the Crisis of (Inter)disciplinarity A feminist analysis of modern board games From Myth to Market: Lessons from Black Myth: Wukong’s Success Scary Business: Mascot Horror as Product and Reflection of Platformisation Ludo-Computationalism: How Computation Shapes Game Scholarship
game systems	Analyzing Emergence in Pac-Man's Mazes with Systemic Reverberation
game time	Temporal Agency and Timeplay in Video Games
Game world
game-based interventions	Preliminary Results from a Systematic Review of Narrative Game-based Interventions for Mental Health
game-based learning
game-comics	Playfulness in Comics
Game-player Assemblage	Backyard Survival: Ecology of Killer Insects and Violent Nature in Grounded (2022)
gameplay	Stabilising Ideology in Gameplay An ideological critique of modal consonance in video games Two Routes to Research and their Implications for Avatar-based Interviewing
gamer	Outlining the spectrum of values of self-identified gamers The Rise of Gamer-Consumers: Anger, Protests, and Divisions in South Korean Gamer Activism Identifying Differential Perceptions of Video Game Players Based on Gaming Platform
gamer identity	The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers Hardcore Gamers in Ballgowns: At the Crossroads of Gender and Play
gamergate	Game Studies, Game Engines, and Infrastructuring Technofascism
gamers	From pixel to plate: Exploring discussions of food in online gaming communities
games	Memorializing the Dead with Games Intergenerational Dynamics and Coping Strategies from Workshopping Games on Acculturative Stress with First-Generation Latine Communities Ludotariat: problematizing the gaming class Effects of a local multiplayer cooperative game club for the development of children’s social skills
games and imperialism	Reaganoludography: The 1980s Japanese Digital Games in the Service of the United States
games and philosophy	Soulslike Posthumanism: Open Subjectivity and East Asian Philosophy
games for change	A Game Developer's Perspective on Social Impact Video Games: Conclusions from a Qualitative Study
games history	Studying the Invisible: Femininity and Gaming in Girls’ Lifestyle Magazines
Games industry	The impact of tax credits on the Irish games production landscape: too little, too late, too limited?
games preservation
Games research	Fair Play Perspectives: Bridging Research, Design, and Industry
gameworld	Many Faces of Open-World Games: Characteristics and Applications Across Video Game Genres
Gamification	Augmented Reality and Gamification in Disseminating Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Systematic Literature Review Adaptive Scenario Selection in Serious Games Using Finite State Machines and Agent-Based Models Designing Anthrogames: Theory, Methods, and AI Integration in Cultural Gaming “The Protagonist Training Project”: How Simulator-Style Produsage on Social Media Shapes Our Gamified Daily
Gamified Charity
gaming and gambling	Play, Pay, Profit: Exploring When Gaming Becomes Gambling
Gaming and gambling convergence	Just Can't Get Enough: Exploring the concept of tolerance in gaming and gambling
Gaming behaviour	Just Can't Get Enough: Exploring the concept of tolerance in gaming and gambling
gaming capital	The expectation game: Exposing hidden assumptions in a game studies classroom.
gaming community
Gaming culture	"We were the porters of overseas media." -- An investigation into the gaming information media under the influence of the state
Gaming cultures
Gaming ecosystem	Speak with blocks: Minecraft, environmental education and activism
gaming history	LAN is Dead, Long Live LAN
gaming magazines	Studying the Invisible: Femininity and Gaming in Girls’ Lifestyle Magazines
Gaming media	"One-and-a-Quarter Way Relationships”: Understanding Authenticity and Asymmetry In Gaming Podcast Audiences
Gaming men	An "easy life" or "no freedom of expression"? Men’s experiences of game culture
gaming platform	Identifying Differential Perceptions of Video Game Players Based on Gaming Platform
Gaming podcasts	"One-and-a-Quarter Way Relationships”: Understanding Authenticity and Asymmetry In Gaming Podcast Audiences
Gaming Practices	Towards a Southern Epistemology in Game Studies: Gaming Practices, Ideological Struggle, and Common Sense in Latin America
gaming regulation	Expanded Abstract_Gaming in the Gray: The Making of “Mindie” Games in China's In/Formal Network
Gaming streamers	Pokimane, Myna Snacks and the Cookie Controversy: Combating Platform Dependency by Performing as the Streamer-Entrepreneur
gaming values	Outlining the spectrum of values of self-identified gamers
Gaminiscing Game	Assessing Empathy Across Game Fidelity Levels: A Case Study of 3D and Text-Based Versions of Brukel
garbage	Exploring Waste and Garbage through a Digital Game: The Case of Stardew Valley
gay porn
gender	The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers Fair Play Perspectives: Bridging Research, Design, and Industry Following the Bunny: Gendered Labor and Digital Play in Livestreaming Cultures Micro-Resistance in Romance: Gender Identity and Agency in a 3D Otome Game Hardcore Gamers in Ballgowns: At the Crossroads of Gender and Play Queer enclosure in the cinematic adaptation of The Last of Us A Space for Everyone: Gender Demographics in Board Gaming "You have to prove yourself all the time": Misogyny and countermeasures in game journalism
Gender Dynamics	Identity at the Crossroads: Cultural Negotiation in Player-Character Relationships
Gender Equality	Jamming Together: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Game Jams
Gender Representation	Balancing the Table: Investigating Gender Representation in Italian Analogue Games Industry (2010–2024) “You MUST Be Both Sexy and Powerful”: Community Expectations of Female Representation in Video Games
Gender roles	The Evolution of Women and Gender Representation in computerized RPGs: The Baldur’s Gate Paradigm
Gender stereotypes	Scary Business: Mascot Horror as Product and Reflection of Platformisation Jamming Together: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Game Jams
Generative AI	Communicative Artificial Intelligence for Nonplayer Characters in Digital Games: Mapping the Field Of Tadpoles & Illithids: On the Algorithmic Poetics of the Oneiric, the Monadic, & the Kairotic Full paper_“Covertly Using” Generative AI in China’s Game Industry My Teammate is an AI: Evaluating Generative AI in Game Asset Creation through a Post-GameJam Study
Genius loci
genre	The radical lessons from cozy games Many Faces of Open-World Games: Characteristics and Applications Across Video Game Genres
Genshin Impact	Reshaping soft masculinity in Chinese gaming: the Qing Lang Campaign and the cultural impact of male characters design in “Genshin Impact” One for the Road: A Cultural Comparison of the Food and Drink in The Witcher 3 and Genshin Impact Losing Intentionally: Comedic Resistance to Meritocratic Genshin Impact
geopolitical narratives	Neocolonialism in Video Games: the Social Discourse of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
geopolitics	Cross-Border Conflicts in Gaming: Indo-Pak Tensions in Competitive Multiplayer Spaces
George Saunders	The George Saunders Games Collection: Adapting the Unadaptable Short Story
Germany	Divided by Politics, United by Play: Computing in East and West Germany during the 1980s
Girl Gamer	Studying the Invisible: Femininity and Gaming in Girls’ Lifestyle Magazines
Global South	LUDIFYING DIGITAL PROTESTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: THE BANGLADESH SCENARIO
Going out policy	When Chineseness Meets Global: The Contra Flow and Cultural influence of China’s Domestic Mobile Game
Gothic	Gothic Forests and Magic Flights: Examining the Gothic False Hero in Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
governance	Ludotariat: problematizing the gaming class
Graffiti	Transforming Shibuya through the power of graffiti, fashion, music, and friendship.
grammarization	Death at the Crossroads of Subjecthood in Happy Wheels (Fancy Force, 2010)
Gregorian chant	Dies Irae in a fantasy world: Gregorian sequence and Requiem motifs in Heroes of Might and Magic series
grief	Encounters with the Self as Other: Empathy in the Games of Nomada Studio Making Friends with Death: Posthuman Post-Life Play
grief play	Racketeering, Cartels, Collusion and Extortion: Exploring the Language of Player-Organized ‘Criminality’ in MMORPGs
H
Habitus	The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers
Hades
Hallucinations	Reconceptualizing LLM-Induced Hallucinations as Game Features
Happy Wheels	Death at the Crossroads of Subjecthood in Happy Wheels (Fancy Force, 2010)
hardware	Divided by Politics, United by Play: Computing in East and West Germany during the 1980s
Hardware Modification	"Attention Users, Please Refrain from Modifying Your Ataris" - Corporate Region-Locking Practices and Creative Computing Responses in Türkiye
Hate speech	"You have to prove yourself all the time": Misogyny and countermeasures in game journalism
haunting	(Dis)Embodiment: Trans Hauntings in Kitty Horrorshow's Corpus
Hauntology	Playing the Othered Self as Wukong: a Resilience in Speculative-Mythological Games
helping	The Ludum Platform: Exploring the impact of game design on prosocial behavior in children’s digital play
Henri Lefebvre	Transforming Shibuya through the power of graffiti, fashion, music, and friendship.
heritage	Benefits and Weaknesses of Historical Consultancy for Games: A CEE-centred Perspective
hermeneutics	Inducing and non-inducing interpretations of the sinograph in Word Game Conspiracy Thinking and Videogame Interpretation
Hero Archetype	The Military-Entertainment Hero Complex: Playing the War Hero
Hero's journey	Gothic Forests and Magic Flights: Examining the Gothic False Hero in Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
Heroes of Might and Magic	Dies Irae in a fantasy world: Gregorian sequence and Requiem motifs in Heroes of Might and Magic series
Hidden curriculum	The expectation game: Exposing hidden assumptions in a game studies classroom.
higher education
Hikikomori	Suicide Livestreams in NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
historical
historical adaptation	History Reloaded: How Players Co-Create the Song Dynasty in Justice Mobile
historical game studies	Fifty Shades of Red. Depictions of the Eastern Bloc in American and European Cold War-themed real time strategies Iterating the Past: Using Game Analytic Methods in Historical Game Studies A Plague Tale: Autoethnography and Authenticity in Historical Games Research Feasible Antiquity: Ancient History in the Unity, Unreal, Godot and itch.io Asset Stores Cozy History? Frameworks, Contrasts, and Affect in Cozy Historical Video Games Fantasy Beyond History: Games as Method for Ecocritical Understandings of Time and Change
Historical Games	Benefits and Weaknesses of Historical Consultancy for Games: A CEE-centred Perspective After All, Caesar Never Was a Quitter: Struggling with the past in early game design Unexpected Feelings: Counterfactual History in The Seven Cities of Gold (1984) We. The Revolution: Liberty, Fraternity, Equality, Authenticity. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and the Depiction of Female “Britishness” in Victorian London
Historical simulation	Playing Decolonization. On Ben Madison’s "The White Tribe"
Historical Theory	Fantasy Beyond History: Games as Method for Ecocritical Understandings of Time and Change
History	Excitatio Corcyrae: Embracing history through mindful game design Benefits and Weaknesses of Historical Consultancy for Games: A CEE-centred Perspective Feasible Antiquity: Ancient History in the Unity, Unreal, Godot and itch.io Asset Stores Cozy History? Frameworks, Contrasts, and Affect in Cozy Historical Video Games
history of games	Trajectories of Professionalization as Game Developer in 2000s Brazil: stories from Tectoy Digital/Zeebo Interactive Studios/Tectoy Studios
History of Videogames	Reframing Art and Games as Historical Twins: art bit’s Curatorial Practices in Japan
Hmong	Preserving Hmong Batik Through Video Games
hobbyism	A Space for Everyone: Gender Demographics in Board Gaming
hobbyists	Diode Games: Rediscovering the Bridge between Analog and Video Gaming through the Elektor Magazine
Hollow Knight	Metroidvania Ecologies: Exploration and the Environmental Imagination in Rain World and Hollow Knight
home	Uncanny Homecoming: The Temporality of Dwelling and Return in Digital Games
homosexuality	Cruising in Apulia. Mediterranea Inferno at the Crossroads of Queer Desire and Political Crisis
Horizon Zero Dawn	Stabilising Ideology in Gameplay An ideological critique of modal consonance in video games
Horror	AI Nightmares: Videogames and The Uncanny Valley in Images Generated by Artificial Intelligence (Dis)Embodiment: Trans Hauntings in Kitty Horrorshow's Corpus
Horror games	The Fractured Imbunche: a Study of Chilean Horror Games
horror puzzle games	The Terrible Victims: "Female Ghosts" as a Cultural Symbol in Chinese Indie Video Games
Hugh Hefner	Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion
human-machine communication	Roleplay with chatbots on character.ai: A new direction for online gaming?
humanity	Soulslike Posthumanism: Open Subjectivity and East Asian Philosophy
hybrid identity	By the Law of the Wolf. Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Heart of the Forest between global, national, and fictional
hybrid work
hybridity	A Dating Sim Without the Dating: New Adventures at the Crossroads of Literature and Games
hypogaming	Dungeonomics: A Brief History of Hypogaming
I
identification and radical otherness
Identitarian Collectives
identity	The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers Identity at the Crossroads: Cultural Negotiation in Player-Character Relationships Outlining the spectrum of values of self-identified gamers An "easy life" or "no freedom of expression"? Men’s experiences of game culture Avatar and Real Me: Identity Anxiety of Chinese Mobile Otome Game Players—A Case Study of Papergames Identifying Differential Perceptions of Video Game Players Based on Gaming Platform
identity exploration	“I felt like I was them. I just didn’t know it.”: Exploring Queer Identity through TTRPG Play
identity performance	Pokimane, Myna Snacks and the Cookie Controversy: Combating Platform Dependency by Performing as the Streamer-Entrepreneur
Ideological Struggle	Towards a Southern Epistemology in Game Studies: Gaming Practices, Ideological Struggle, and Common Sense in Latin America
ideology	Stabilising Ideology in Gameplay An ideological critique of modal consonance in video games
ideology of anxiety	How Video Game Journalists Cover Sexual Misconduct in the Industry
IESF World Esports Championship	The Crossroads of Esports Diplomacy, Sports Worlds, and Authoritarian Capitalism
Imaginaries
imagination	Unexpected Feelings: Counterfactual History in The Seven Cities of Gold (1984) Conspiracy Thinking and Videogame Interpretation Fake VS Fictional Games: On Dark and Deceptive Representations of Non-Actual Games
Imagination of gender	“You MUST Be Both Sexy and Powerful”: Community Expectations of Female Representation in Video Games
imaginative play	Eco-Play: Designing nature games with Kiwi Conservation club
immaterial labor	The Production of Machinic Subjectivity in Online PC Games
immersion	Immersion in Tabletop Role-Playing Games: A Quantitative Analysis Embody Kin with Games: Redefining Player-Game Relationships through Kinship Embodiment Otium and Walking Simulators
Immersion questionnaire	Immersion in Tabletop Role-Playing Games: A Quantitative Analysis
immersive experience	Research on the interaction design of VR plant installation under the perspective of embodiment
Immersive Game Design	Games in Cultural Venues Using Public VR: Designing Motion-Tracked and Story-Driven Experiences
Immersive storytelling	Virtual Memories of Displacement: A Narrative Game in VR Exploring Refugee Stories through Symbolic Interaction
immersive theatre	Environmental Storytelling and Active Spectatorship in Walking Simulators and Exploration Theatre
implied player	Finnish lapsed players and (game) cultural expectations Dark Souls, Implied Player and Stoic Ethics
in-game concerts	Silent In-game Concerts: Text-Based Musical Performances in MUDs
in-game purchases	“It's a real con”: Parent Attitudes Toward Children’s Game Spending The Impact of Game Live Streaming on In-Game Purchases of Chinese Young Game Users
in-game violence	Games for Fun and Games for Blood: A Framework for Understanding In-Game Violence
inaction inertia	Exploring Inaction Inertia and Proactive Procrastination among MMORPG Players
Incidental News Exposure	Gaming the Political Arena: An Analysis of Political Messaging on Twitch in Germany
inclusion	Party, but for whom? Accessibility, inclusivity and equity in Finnish game industry events
Inclusivity	The Evolution of Women and Gender Representation in computerized RPGs: The Baldur’s Gate Paradigm “Be who you are (as long as you’re not fat).” A study on fat bodies in contemporary videogames Jamming Together: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Game Jams
Incompleteness	Conspiracy Thinking and Videogame Interpretation The Detective in the Furnace: Belief and Fictional Illegibility
independent games	“Purpose-Built for Happiness”: Panic’s Playdate as a Cozy Platform Indie Innovation: Norms, Cultural Platforms and Shaming v. Intellectual Property in Independent Videogame Creation, 2005-2019
indexical storytelling	Environmental Storytelling and Active Spectatorship in Walking Simulators and Exploration Theatre
indie	Indie Innovation: Norms, Cultural Platforms and Shaming v. Intellectual Property in Independent Videogame Creation, 2005-2019 Preserving Japanese Indie Games at BitSummit Drift 2024
indie games	“Purpose-Built for Happiness”: Panic’s Playdate as a Cozy Platform Reframing Art and Games as Historical Twins: art bit’s Curatorial Practices in Japan (Re-)Playing Yugoslavia: Heritage and Memory Mediation in Indie Video Games Measuring the impact of an educational project mediated by indie games on students’ personal, social and learning to learn competence: work in progress Indie vs. AAA: A Model for the Educational Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Video Games
Indies	A Labour of Love: Critical Games and Burnout in Creative Industries
Indigenous Communities	Withholding the APOLLO Subfunction: An exploration of how Indigenous Communities are represented in the Horizon Series
industry	How the US Military’s Relationship with the Video Games Industry Threatens Global Speech Rights
Industry barriers	Fair Play Perspectives: Bridging Research, Design, and Industry
Inequality
Influencer	Gaming streamers as influencers and intermediaries: Differentializing the micro, meso and macro contexts of streaming
Informal economy in video game industry	Expanded Abstract_Gaming in the Gray: The Making of “Mindie” Games in China's In/Formal Network
information disclosure	Still failing to disclose loot box presence: Identifying illegal UK video game ads using Meta’s advertising repository
information influence
Information Literacy	Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-design with Two Communities
Information Technology	MODELS OF SIMULATION IN VIRTUAL REALITY AS DIGITAL TWIN FOR DISASTER SURVIVAL TRAINING
Infrastructure	Game Studies, Game Engines, and Infrastructuring Technofascism Solar Powered Minecraft and Infrastructural Intimacy in Serious Games about Energy
innovation
Inscryption	From Paper to Pixels: Horrific Remediation in Inscryption
Installation games	Revisiting the Magic Circle for Critical-ethical Reflection through Artistic Installation Game Design
Intangible Cultural Heritage	Augmented Reality and Gamification in Disseminating Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Systematic Literature Review Copyright and games preservation: lessons and opportunities in de-colonization
integration	Post-optimism: Chants of Sennaar, Norco and the Problem of Optimism in Environmental and Ecogames Gamestudies
Intellectual history	Unexpected Feelings: Counterfactual History in The Seven Cities of Gold (1984)
intellectual property	Indie Innovation: Norms, Cultural Platforms and Shaming v. Intellectual Property in Independent Videogame Creation, 2005-2019 At the crossroads of innovation and regulation: legal implications of using AI in game development.
Intellivision	Half Stress, Half Party: Play and Labor at Mattel in the Early Videogame Industry
interaction	Roleplay with chatbots on character.ai: A new direction for online gaming? On Tabletop Gaming Tables: Capital, Emblem, Symbol
Interaction Preferences	Exploring Compatible Interaction Preferences with a Puzzle Video Game
Interactive design	Designing Anthrogames: Theory, Methods, and AI Integration in Cultural Gaming
interactive fiction	A Dating Sim Without the Dating: New Adventures at the Crossroads of Literature and Games
Interactive Mechanics	Reconceptualizing LLM-Induced Hallucinations as Game Features
interactive movies	Choose Your path Quickly: The Many Crossroads of the Interactive Movie
Interactive Narrative Ambiguity	Identity at the Crossroads: Cultural Negotiation in Player-Character Relationships
Interactive Public Welfare Narrative Agency
interactive storytelling	Decisions in the Loop: An Empirical Study of Narrative Time and Player Agency in Hades and Twelve Minutes
interdisciplinarity	A Dating Sim Without the Dating: New Adventures at the Crossroads of Literature and Games Pluralist Game Studies: Practical Tools for the Crisis of (Inter)disciplinarity Exploring Collaborative Practices in Video Game Development: An Ethnographic Study
interface studies
international relations	The Evolution of Liberalism in the XCOM Franchise Reboot
Internet gaming disorder	Just Can't Get Enough: Exploring the concept of tolerance in gaming and gambling
Internet of Things	Gameful IoT Repair
interpassivity	Between Action and Inaction: A Distant-Play Reading of The Longing
Interpretation	The Detective in the Furnace: Belief and Fictional Illegibility
intertextuality	By the Law of the Wolf. Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Heart of the Forest between global, national, and fictional “How absurd and pathetic.”: A Multimodal Analysis of the Nosense! As a Cutscene in Black Myth: Wukong “Spatial Rape”: Interleaving House of Leaves with MyHouse.pk3 “Reading” an Un-Romanced Quest Romance: Jane Eyre, Shadow Academy and Intertextuality in Jeffrey Yohalem’s Child of Light Parties, partying, and party games in single-player videogames
Interviewing	Shifting The Meta: Bridging The Gap Between Scholar and Developer Perspectives of the Post-Pandemic Game Industry
interviews	An "easy life" or "no freedom of expression"? Men’s experiences of game culture
Iron Curtain	Divided by Politics, United by Play: Computing in East and West Germany during the 1980s
italian gaming community
Italian Market	Balancing the Table: Investigating Gender Representation in Italian Analogue Games Industry (2010–2024)
italy	Cruising in Apulia. Mediterranea Inferno at the Crossroads of Queer Desire and Political Crisis
J
Jacques Lacan	This Gift of a Fragile Vessel: Encountering Perspectives on the Real in Slay the Princess
Japan	A study of difficulty in the Daigo Parry; considerations of ludoliteracy, assemblage, and spectacle Alterity and seriality in a massively-multiplayer role-playing game. Preserving Japanese Indie Games at BitSummit Drift 2024 Japanese Game Live Streamers: Between Japan and the World
Japanese digital games	Reaganoludography: The 1980s Japanese Digital Games in the Service of the United States
Japanese Game Studies	Male, Japanese, and Imperial: Japanese male-oriented character intimacy games in perspective
Japanese Imperialism	Male, Japanese, and Imperial: Japanese male-oriented character intimacy games in perspective
Jeffrey Yohalem	“Reading” an Un-Romanced Quest Romance: Jane Eyre, Shadow Academy and Intertextuality in Jeffrey Yohalem’s Child of Light
Jet Set Radio	Transforming Shibuya through the power of graffiti, fashion, music, and friendship.
Journal	Writing the World: Personal Journals in Video Games
Julian Oliver	History of Artist-Gamemaking: The Art of Tomorrow - Selectparks.net “artists exploring computer games as an emerging, artistic medium”
Julius Caesar	The characterization of Julius Caesar in video games
K
Kick	“GOLD GOLD GOLD”: gambling-like elements on Twitch and Kick
kinaesthetic engagement	Games for Fun and Games for Blood: A Framework for Understanding In-Game Violence
kind games	The radical lessons from cozy games
Kingdom Hearts III	Crossover Kingdom: Narration, Gamification, and the Platform Unconscious of Kingdom Hearts and Disney Parks
kinship	From Extended Self to Posthuman Other: Empathy and Morality in Encounters with AI Characters Embody Kin with Games: Redefining Player-Game Relationships through Kinship Embodiment
Kitty Horrorshow	(Dis)Embodiment: Trans Hauntings in Kitty Horrorshow's Corpus
L
Labor Theory	The Art of Counting Labor: Worker Placement Games as Capitalist Realism
labour	"We’ll always go with what’s more sustainable”: Understanding the Financialised Logics of Game Development At the Crossroads of Art and Games: NPCs in Contemporary Video Art “Planting World Seeds”: Procedural Content Generation, Labour and Conceptual Art in Digital Games Shades of Grey in the Gaming Industry: A Case Study of Commercial Boosting in China
LAN	LAN is Dead, Long Live LAN
language	Japanese Game Live Streamers: Between Japan and the World
lapsed players	Finnish lapsed players and (game) cultural expectations
Large Language Models	Reconceptualizing LLM-Induced Hallucinations as Game Features Designing Anthrogames: Theory, Methods, and AI Integration in Cultural Gaming
larp design	The Human Encounter as a Designable Surface: Leveraging Insights from Larp Design to Enable Democratic Participation
Latent Dirichlet Allocation	“I Used to Be an Adventurer Like You”: Fear of Missing Out in The Elder Scrolls Online
Latin America	Towards a Southern Epistemology in Game Studies: Gaming Practices, Ideological Struggle, and Common Sense in Latin America
Latin America gamers
Latine Communities	Intergenerational Dynamics and Coping Strategies from Workshopping Games on Acculturative Stress with First-Generation Latine Communities
law	Indie Innovation: Norms, Cultural Platforms and Shaming v. Intellectual Property in Independent Videogame Creation, 2005-2019
LCK	Reshaping Esports Fandom: Insights into Platformization from B.stage and LCK Communities
League of Legends	The digital imaginary of esports: A League of Legends Worlds case study
leisure
leisure electronics	Diode Games: Rediscovering the Bridge between Analog and Video Gaming through the Elektor Magazine
Let’s Play	More than Let’s Plays? Towards a content analysis of game-related YouTube videos Playing With Videogames on YouTube in East Asia
LGBTQi	The Evolution of Women and Gender Representation in computerized RPGs: The Baldur’s Gate Paradigm
liberalism	The Evolution of Liberalism in the XCOM Franchise Reboot
lies	Fake VS Fictional Games: On Dark and Deceptive Representations of Non-Actual Games
life-writing	Writing the World: Personal Journals in Video Games
liminal space	Dreamcore in Chinese Videogames: Liminal Space, Analog Horror, and The Millennium Year Nostalgia
listening
literary games	Between Action and Inaction: A Distant-Play Reading of The Longing
literary studies	A Dating Sim Without the Dating: New Adventures at the Crossroads of Literature and Games
live action roleplay	Hardcore Gamers in Ballgowns: At the Crossroads of Gender and Play
live game streaming	Game Localisation in Live Game Streaming: A Practice-Led Case Study
live service games	Private Servers Are More than Video Game Piracy
Live Streaming	Avatar, community, and lore: An exploratory study of independent VTubers Japanese Game Live Streamers: Between Japan and the World
live-action video	Choose Your path Quickly: The Many Crossroads of the Interactive Movie
lived experiences	Encounters with the Self as Other: Empathy in the Games of Nomada Studio
livestreaming	Following the Bunny: Gendered Labor and Digital Play in Livestreaming Cultures “I’m So Ban Happy”: Game Influencer Livestreaming, Self-Care, Trauma Dumping, and Managing Mental Health Topics Across Platformed Parasocial Relationships
Livestreams	Suicide Livestreams in NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
local co-op	Effects of a local multiplayer cooperative game club for the development of children’s social skills
local culture	Swiss Pinball Culture: Between Nostalgia and Revival
Local production practice	"We were the porters of overseas media." -- An investigation into the gaming information media under the influence of the state
Location Based game
Location-based experience	Bird Games - an exploration into game experience design for children within the Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery Centre.
logistics	From Military Simulation to Ludic War: A Generational Typology of the Mobilization of Play
Loop	Fighting Against Return: a taxonomy of time loops in digital games
loot boxes	Is Eports Spectating Associated with Gambling Behaviour? Play, Pay, Profit: Exploring When Gaming Becomes Gambling Assessing the landscape of illegal loot box advertising in Belgium Card pack and loot box spending are both positively correlated with problem gambling but not linked to negative mental health Still failing to disclose loot box presence: Identifying illegal UK video game ads using Meta’s advertising repository
loss	Encounters with the Self as Other: Empathy in the Games of Nomada Studio
love	Love as a service in otome games
love studies	P(l)aying for Love: Capitalizing on patterns of contemporary romance fiction in PlayMe Studio’s MeChat
ludex	Writing the World: Personal Journals in Video Games
ludic agency	Temporal Agency and Timeplay in Video Games
ludic history
ludic method	TREEgame Design Reflections and Dispatches from Treewhere
ludic war	From Military Simulation to Ludic War: A Generational Typology of the Mobilization of Play
ludicity	A Conceptual Framework for Socienactive Scenarios of Play: a Pilot Study
Ludification	LUDIFYING DIGITAL PROTESTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: THE BANGLADESH SCENARIO
ludology	Ludo-Computationalism: How Computation Shapes Game Scholarship
ludomusicology
ludoporn
Ludotariat	Ludotariat: problematizing the gaming class
ludotopia
lyrics	“Love’s a Game, Wanna Play?“ Games in and around Taylor Swift’s Music
M
machinic enslavement	The Production of Machinic Subjectivity in Online PC Games
machinic subjectivity	The Production of Machinic Subjectivity in Online PC Games
Mad Dog McCree	Choose Your path Quickly: The Many Crossroads of the Interactive Movie
mad studies	Becoming, Not Being: Rethinking Mental Illness at the Crossroads of Videogame Representation
magic circle	Ludus Triumphorum. A Ludological Introducion to Tarot
Magic flight	Gothic Forests and Magic Flights: Examining the Gothic False Hero in Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
manhood	Haircuts, Matricides, Pain: Transgender Masculinity in Scripted Characters in Video Games
Map Creation	Excitatio Corcyrae: Embracing history through mindful game design
marginality
Market analysis	From Myth to Market: Lessons from Black Myth: Wukong’s Success
marketing	Selling Time: Time-Centric Language in Video Game Marketing on Steam
Marxist Criticism	The Detections of Totality: Cognitive Mapping and Urban Space in Disco Elysium
mascot horror	Scary Business: Mascot Horror as Product and Reflection of Platformisation
Masculinities
masculinity	Haircuts, Matricides, Pain: Transgender Masculinity in Scripted Characters in Video Games Love is not Around: Wandan-likes and Precarious Masculinity An "easy life" or "no freedom of expression"? Men’s experiences of game culture
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG)	WoWing Then, WoWing Now: Players’ Coping with the World of Warcraft Service Disruption in China
Material Culture	The Art of Counting Labor: Worker Placement Games as Capitalist Realism
materialism	Rhetorics of Puppy Love and Death in The Pale Beyond (2023)
Materiality	Solar Powered Minecraft and Infrastructural Intimacy in Serious Games about Energy
Mattel	Half Stress, Half Party: Play and Labor at Mattel in the Early Videogame Industry
Mattel Electronics	Half Stress, Half Party: Play and Labor at Mattel in the Early Videogame Industry
Measure	Measuring the impact of an educational project mediated by indie games on students’ personal, social and learning to learn competence: work in progress
mechanics and meaning	Game Jams as Pedagogic Playgrounds for Problem Deconstruction and Reflective Learning
Media Archeology	Endurance Tests: Media Horror, FMV Documentary, and Speculative Sport in Soccerthon ’88
media literacy	Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-design with Two Communities The Moving Pictures Factory”: Designing a Game-based Platform for Cinema Literacy
media materialism	Undead ecologies: Reconceptualising zombiism in videogames
Media Panic	“It's a real con”: Parent Attitudes Toward Children’s Game Spending
Media representation	Representations in Video Game: The Tension Between Accuracy and Creativity
mediated memory	Production and reception of Yugoslav past through Roblox games
Mega-events	The digital imaginary of esports: A League of Legends Worlds case study
member clubs	Swiss Pinball Culture: Between Nostalgia and Revival
memorialisation	Memorializing the Dead with Games
memorials	Memorializing the Dead with Games
memory	Now Play Nicely: An Autoethnography of Nostalgia and the Shared Spaces of Gaming
memory culture	(Semi-)Peripheral Gameplay in Video Games
mental health	Party Games as a Crossroad Between Strangers: A Mixed-Methods Study Preliminary Results from a Systematic Review of Narrative Game-based Interventions for Mental Health “I’m So Ban Happy”: Game Influencer Livestreaming, Self-Care, Trauma Dumping, and Managing Mental Health Topics Across Platformed Parasocial Relationships
mental illness	Becoming, Not Being: Rethinking Mental Illness at the Crossroads of Videogame Representation Suicide Livestreams in NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
merchandise	Scary Business: Mascot Horror as Product and Reflection of Platformisation
Meta games
metadiscourse	“Test Trophy Please Ignore”: Achievements as Paratexts in Palimpsestic Readings of Remasters and Remakes
Metafictional Game Studies	From Paper to Pixels: Horrific Remediation in Inscryption
Metagame	Metaplay: Play Practices, Communication, and Interaction in Pokémon from 1998-2020 Understanding the paradox of MetroidBrainias: The case of Animal Well
Metagames	A Labour of Love: Critical Games and Burnout in Creative Industries Beyond Metagames: Analyzing Metareference in Videogames
metagaming	Watching different play styles: The pleasure of transgressive play in Tears of the Kingdom
metalepsis	Beyond Metagames: Analyzing Metareference in Videogames
Metamodernism	Tentacle to the Metal: Ecosophy, Metamodernism, and Splatoon 3
Metaphor	Revisiting the Magic Circle for Critical-ethical Reflection through Artistic Installation Game Design
Metaplay	Metaplay: Play Practices, Communication, and Interaction in Pokémon from 1998-2020
metareference	Beyond Metagames: Analyzing Metareference in Videogames Playfulness in Comics
Metareferentiality	Between Action and Inaction: A Distant-Play Reading of The Longing
Metaverse	University Campus Metaverse with Serious Games to support multidisciplinary cooperation among students
method	Discourse Analysis of Game Mechanics: A Methodological Proposition
method development
Methodology	"What? So what? Now what?": Prompting Game Design Reflection Gameplay-Elicited interviews: Exploring Worldness and the Processes of Play Beyond the Rulebook: An Autoethnographic Journey into the Craft of Game Design Running a Games Lab: Challenges and Opportunities to Public Research with Arts Organizations
Methods	Gameplay-Elicited interviews: Exploring Worldness and the Processes of Play
Metroid series	Analyzing the Challenge of Navigation through the Metroid Series
MetroidBrainia	Understanding the paradox of MetroidBrainias: The case of Animal Well
Metroidvania	Analyzing the Challenge of Navigation through the Metroid Series
Metroidvania games	Metroidvania Ecologies: Exploration and the Environmental Imagination in Rain World and Hollow Knight
microcomputing	Diode Games: Rediscovering the Bridge between Analog and Video Gaming through the Elektor Magazine
Microgame-based learning	University Campus Metaverse with Serious Games to support multidisciplinary cooperation among students
microtransactions	“It's a real con”: Parent Attitudes Toward Children’s Game Spending P(l)aying for Love: Capitalizing on patterns of contemporary romance fiction in PlayMe Studio’s MeChat
migration	Post-optimism: Chants of Sennaar, Norco and the Problem of Optimism in Environmental and Ecogames Gamestudies Theorizing Player Affects beyond Empathy in Digital Migration Games
militarism	Neocolonialism in Video Games: the Social Discourse of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
militarization	From Military Simulation to Ludic War: A Generational Typology of the Mobilization of Play
Militarized Masculinity	The Military-Entertainment Hero Complex: Playing the War Hero
military	How the US Military’s Relationship with the Video Games Industry Threatens Global Speech Rights
military innovation	From Military Simulation to Ludic War: A Generational Typology of the Mobilization of Play
Mimesis	The Detective in the Furnace: Belief and Fictional Illegibility
mimicry	Ludus Triumphorum. A Ludological Introducion to Tarot
Minecraft	Solar Powered Minecraft and Infrastructural Intimacy in Serious Games about Energy Speak with blocks: Minecraft, environmental education and activism
minority embodiment	“Be who you are (as long as you’re not fat).” A study on fat bodies in contemporary videogames
Misinformation	Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-design with Two Communities
Misogyny
misrepresentation	Mexican crossroads: Wrestling video game based on a comic book
mixed-methods	Iterating the Past: Using Game Analytic Methods in Historical Game Studies
MMO	Private Servers Are More than Video Game Piracy
MMORPG	Alterity and seriality in a massively-multiplayer role-playing game.
MMORPG player	Exploring Inaction Inertia and Proactive Procrastination among MMORPG Players
MOBA	The Impact of Game Live Streaming on In-Game Purchases of Chinese Young Game Users
MobiCave	Games in Cultural Venues Using Public VR: Designing Motion-Tracked and Story-Driven Experiences
mobile game	From Tradition to Touchscreen: Understanding How Chinese Mobile Game Designers Represent Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage
mobile games	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) P(l)aying for Love: Capitalizing on patterns of contemporary romance fiction in PlayMe Studio’s MeChat
modal consonance	Stabilising Ideology in Gameplay An ideological critique of modal consonance in video games
modding	Private Servers Are More than Video Game Piracy Solar Powered Minecraft and Infrastructural Intimacy in Serious Games about Energy
Model Player	Male, Japanese, and Imperial: Japanese male-oriented character intimacy games in perspective
mods	Communicative Artificial Intelligence for Nonplayer Characters in Digital Games: Mapping the Field
Modular Narrative	Rewriting the Script: Navigating Cybernetic Dynamics and Ethical Expression in Modular Narrative Games—The Case of Storyteller
Monetisation	"We’ll always go with what’s more sustainable”: Understanding the Financialised Logics of Game Development
monetization	Love as a service in otome games
Monstrosity	Are we monsters? Comparison of representation of monstrosity between Vampire the Masquerade fourth and fifth editions. Undead ecologies: Reconceptualising zombiism in videogames
Moral ambiguity	Moral Ambiguity in Playdead games
moral patients	From Extended Self to Posthuman Other: Empathy and Morality in Encounters with AI Characters
morality	From Extended Self to Posthuman Other: Empathy and Morality in Encounters with AI Characters
motherhood
Mothering
Motivation	WoWing Then, WoWing Now: Players’ Coping with the World of Warcraft Service Disruption in China
Motivations	Save-Scumming: A Novel Exploration of Video Game Play
MUDs	Silent In-game Concerts: Text-Based Musical Performances in MUDs
multi-modal design	Research on the interaction design of VR plant installation under the perspective of embodiment
multidisciplinary
Multilingual Reviews	The Role of Games in Cultural Dissemination: A Comparative Analysis of Multilingual Reviews
multimodal communication	Stabilising Ideology in Gameplay An ideological critique of modal consonance in video games
Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA)	“How absurd and pathetic.”: A Multimodal Analysis of the Nosense! As a Cutscene in Black Myth: Wukong
Multimodal interaction	Digital Ethnography of Cross-Cultural Communication in Multiplayer Competitive Games: Game Design, Multimodality, and Cultural Dimensions
multimodality
multiperspectivity
multiplayer	Effects of a local multiplayer cooperative game club for the development of children’s social skills
multiplayer games	Digital Ethnography of Cross-Cultural Communication in Multiplayer Competitive Games: Game Design, Multimodality, and Cultural Dimensions
Multiplayer Gaming	“I Used to Be an Adventurer Like You”: Fear of Missing Out in The Elder Scrolls Online
music	Sonic Lead: A Survey of Sound-First Games
music in video games	Dies Irae in a fantasy world: Gregorian sequence and Requiem motifs in Heroes of Might and Magic series
music industry	“Love’s a Game, Wanna Play?“ Games in and around Taylor Swift’s Music
N
narrative	Communicative Artificial Intelligence for Nonplayer Characters in Digital Games: Mapping the Field The Narrative of 'Hollow Knight' Styled as a Soulslike Game.
narrative architecture	“Spatial Rape”: Interleaving House of Leaves with MyHouse.pk3
Narrative Design	The Detections of Totality: Cognitive Mapping and Urban Space in Disco Elysium Virtual Memories of Displacement: A Narrative Game in VR Exploring Refugee Stories through Symbolic Interaction
Narrative games	Preliminary Results from a Systematic Review of Narrative Game-based Interventions for Mental Health Cruising in Apulia. Mediterranea Inferno at the Crossroads of Queer Desire and Political Crisis
Narrative Innovation	Reconceptualizing LLM-Induced Hallucinations as Game Features
Narrative Surprises	Rewriting the Script: Navigating Cybernetic Dynamics and Ethical Expression in Modular Narrative Games—The Case of Storyteller
Narrative-driven games	Impact of Full-Body Haptic Feedback on the Sense of Presence, Affective Experience, and Game Engagement in a VR Game
narrator	Capturing the Tabletop Experience. Narration in the Baldur’s Gate Series.
national identity	By the Law of the Wolf. Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Heart of the Forest between global, national, and fictional
Natural language processing	An NLP Interface for Social AI Agents in The Resistance: Avalon
nature	Virtual Roads, Real Ecologies: Driving Games, Coziness, and Petroculture
Nature play	Bird Games - an exploration into game experience design for children within the Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery Centre. Eco-Play: Designing nature games with Kiwi Conservation club
navigation	Analyzing the Challenge of Navigation through the Metroid Series
necropolitics	Death at the Crossroads of Subjecthood in Happy Wheels (Fancy Force, 2010)
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD	Suicide Livestreams in NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
NEO: The World Ends With You	Transforming Shibuya through the power of graffiti, fashion, music, and friendship.
neocolonialism	Neocolonialism in Video Games: the Social Discourse of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
Neoliberal Capitalism	The Military-Entertainment Hero Complex: Playing the War Hero
Network	Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community
Neurodivergence	Representations in Video Game: The Tension Between Accuracy and Creativity
Neurodiversity	What can video games tell us about neurodiversity and autism?
New Materialism	The Art of Counting Labor: Worker Placement Games as Capitalist Realism
Night Trap	Choose Your path Quickly: The Many Crossroads of the Interactive Movie
Nintendo	Playfully Conservative: Reinventing Nintendo’s Platform Games through Materiality in Yoshi’s Crafted World
Non-human games
non-human perspectives	Metroidvania Ecologies: Exploration and the Environmental Imagination in Rain World and Hollow Knight
non-violence	Unexpected Feelings: Counterfactual History in The Seven Cities of Gold (1984)
Nonhuman Games	Backyard Survival: Ecology of Killer Insects and Violent Nature in Grounded (2022)
nonplayer characters	Communicative Artificial Intelligence for Nonplayer Characters in Digital Games: Mapping the Field
norms	Indie Innovation: Norms, Cultural Platforms and Shaming v. Intellectual Property in Independent Videogame Creation, 2005-2019
nostalgia	Uncanny Homecoming: The Temporality of Dwelling and Return in Digital Games Swiss Pinball Culture: Between Nostalgia and Revival Now Play Nicely: An Autoethnography of Nostalgia and the Shared Spaces of Gaming Dreamcore in Chinese Videogames: Liminal Space, Analog Horror, and The Millennium Year Nostalgia Between preservation and nostalgic fantasy. Approaches to fanmade remasters (Re-)Playing Yugoslavia: Heritage and Memory Mediation in Indie Video Games LAN is Dead, Long Live LAN Virtual Roads, Real Ecologies: Driving Games, Coziness, and Petroculture Crafting Comfort: Postdigital Practices in Current Cozy Games
Nothingness
novels	A Dating Sim Without the Dating: New Adventures at the Crossroads of Literature and Games
novice play	The expectation game: Exposing hidden assumptions in a game studies classroom.
NPC	At the Crossroads of Art and Games: NPCs in Contemporary Video Art
NPCs	Towards Ethical Guidelines for Videogame Character Creation with GenAI
O
object-oriented ontology	Understanding the paradox of MetroidBrainias: The case of Animal Well
Older adult mistreatment	Assemblages of Awareness: Exploring the Role of La Valise de Lise in Addressing Older Adult Mistreatment through Collaborative Play and Cultural Adaptation
Olympics	The Crossroads of Esports Diplomacy, Sports Worlds, and Authoritarian Capitalism
online	A Space for Everyone: Gender Demographics in Board Gaming
online communities	User-generated content and community dynamics of Final Fantasy XIV players in China
Online Competitive games
Online digital games
Online environments
online game	The Production of Machinic Subjectivity in Online PC Games
Online gaming communities	Exploring Online Gaming Communities through Documentary Filmmaking
Online Intimacy	Following the Bunny: Gendered Labor and Digital Play in Livestreaming Cultures
ontology	Exploring Waste and Garbage through a Digital Game: The Case of Stardew Valley
open world games	Perverse Virtual Actions
Open-world	Many Faces of Open-World Games: Characteristics and Applications Across Video Game Genres
oral history
organising
organized crime	Racketeering, Cartels, Collusion and Extortion: Exploring the Language of Player-Organized ‘Criminality’ in MMORPGs
original game soundtrack	Music beyond gameplay: embodied experience of acoustic music in the covers of original game soundtracks
originality	Northern Lights in Erzurum: Rethinking Inspiration, Cloning and Originality in Video Game
otium	Otium and Walking Simulators
otome	Love as a service in otome games
Otome games	Micro-Resistance in Romance: Gender Identity and Agency in a 3D Otome Game
Out of bounds	Out of Bounds: Exploring Beyond the Map
outmersion	Embody Kin with Games: Redefining Player-Game Relationships through Kinship Embodiment Games that Play You: Outmersion, Game Bleed, and Transformative Vulnerability in Hellblade
P
paid co-playing	Leveraging Emotional Design in Labor Practice of Paid Co-Playing
palimpsest	“Test Trophy Please Ignore”: Achievements as Paratexts in Palimpsestic Readings of Remasters and Remakes
Paradigms in game studies	Exploring Online Gaming Communities through Documentary Filmmaking
paradox	Understanding the paradox of MetroidBrainias: The case of Animal Well
parasocial	“I’m So Ban Happy”: Game Influencer Livestreaming, Self-Care, Trauma Dumping, and Managing Mental Health Topics Across Platformed Parasocial Relationships
Parasocial relationships	"One-and-a-Quarter Way Relationships”: Understanding Authenticity and Asymmetry In Gaming Podcast Audiences
paratext	“Test Trophy Please Ignore”: Achievements as Paratexts in Palimpsestic Readings of Remasters and Remakes
Paratexts	Metaplay: Play Practices, Communication, and Interaction in Pokémon from 1998-2020 WildStar's rogue archives: exploring an anarchaeological approach to defunct games
paratextuality	Folklore-driven representations of femininity in Slavic-coded video games: the figure of Baba Yaga
particiapatory culture	Music beyond gameplay: embodied experience of acoustic music in the covers of original game soundtracks
participatory culture	Running a Royal Harem: The Participatory Narrative of The Sims Players in China
Participatory Design	Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-design with Two Communities Assemblages of Awareness: Exploring the Role of La Valise de Lise in Addressing Older Adult Mistreatment through Collaborative Play and Cultural Adaptation Designing Anthrogames: Theory, Methods, and AI Integration in Cultural Gaming
parties	Parties, partying, and party games in single-player videogames
Party Games	Party Games as a Crossroad Between Strangers: A Mixed-Methods Study Parties, partying, and party games in single-player videogames
passivity	On Simema: The Radical Passivity of Self-Playing Games
past-play	Iterating the Past: Using Game Analytic Methods in Historical Game Studies
Pastoral games	“A train is passing through Stardew Valley”: Post, Complex, and Cyberpastoral Video Games
pattern	Climate Crisis on the Table: The Rhetoric of Environmental Actions in Board Games
pay-what-you-want (PWYW)	Typological analysis of pay-what-you-want donation behavior in virtual world
PC bangs	The Production of Machinic Subjectivity in Online PC Games
pedagogies
pedagogy
pedagogy in game making	Game Jams as Pedagogic Playgrounds for Problem Deconstruction and Reflective Learning
perception	Northern Lights in Erzurum: Rethinking Inspiration, Cloning and Originality in Video Game
performance	Silent In-game Concerts: Text-Based Musical Performances in MUDs
peripheral culture	E-Space Odyssey 2001: China’s Gaming Industry at the Crossroads of Globalization and Reform and Opening-up
peripheral region	E-Space Odyssey 2001: China’s Gaming Industry at the Crossroads of Globalization and Reform and Opening-up
Personal competences	Measuring the impact of an educational project mediated by indie games on students’ personal, social and learning to learn competence: work in progress
personal values	Outlining the spectrum of values of self-identified gamers
persuasive games	Game Engine for Change, A framework for Balancing the Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Player States at the Heart of Game Design
petroculture	Virtual Roads, Real Ecologies: Driving Games, Coziness, and Petroculture
phallus	This Gift of a Fragile Vessel: Encountering Perspectives on the Real in Slay the Princess
PhD study	Roles of Video Games in Benefiting PhD Students’ Study
phenomenology	A Conceptual Framework for Socienactive Scenarios of Play: a Pilot Study
Philippine elections	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)
Philosophy	Care as Becoming, Care as Response-ability: structures of care and agency in Journey and Domestic Tension
Philosophy of dwelling
philosophy of fiction	Communicative Artificial Intelligence for Nonplayer Characters in Digital Games: Mapping the Field
pilot	Iterating the Past: Using Game Analytic Methods in Historical Game Studies
Pinball	Swiss Pinball Culture: Between Nostalgia and Revival Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion
piracy	Private Servers Are More than Video Game Piracy
Planspiel	Playing with Perspectives: German Planspiele as Tools for Political Education
platform	Shades of Grey in the Gaming Industry: A Case Study of Commercial Boosting in China
platform dependency	Pokimane, Myna Snacks and the Cookie Controversy: Combating Platform Dependency by Performing as the Streamer-Entrepreneur
platform economies	Play, Pay, Profit: Exploring When Gaming Becomes Gambling
platform studies	“Purpose-Built for Happiness”: Panic’s Playdate as a Cozy Platform Between preservation and nostalgic fantasy. Approaches to fanmade remasters
platformisation	Scary Business: Mascot Horror as Product and Reflection of Platformisation
play	Cosmoludics: Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, and the Crossroad of Cricket Now Play Nicely: An Autoethnography of Nostalgia and the Shared Spaces of Gaming Playing with Identity: Racebending in the God of War Series
Play and gaming	Running a Games Lab: Challenges and Opportunities to Public Research with Arts Organizations
play culture	Swiss Pinball Culture: Between Nostalgia and Revival
play practice	Bird Games - an exploration into game experience design for children within the Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery Centre. Eco-Play: Designing nature games with Kiwi Conservation club
Play scenarios	A Conceptual Framework for Socienactive Scenarios of Play: a Pilot Study
play time	Selling Time: Time-Centric Language in Video Game Marketing on Steam
Playbor	Half Stress, Half Party: Play and Labor at Mattel in the Early Videogame Industry
Playboy	Following the Bunny: Gendered Labor and Digital Play in Livestreaming Cultures Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion
Playdate	“Purpose-Built for Happiness”: Panic’s Playdate as a Cozy Platform
player agency	Decisions in the Loop: An Empirical Study of Narrative Time and Player Agency in Hades and Twelve Minutes History Reloaded: How Players Co-Create the Song Dynasty in Justice Mobile
Player Behavior	Golden Goal: Altruism versus Toxicity and the Soul of Football (Soccer) Simulators Exploring Inaction Inertia and Proactive Procrastination among MMORPG Players
player behaviour	Perverse Virtual Actions
player communities	WildStar's rogue archives: exploring an anarchaeological approach to defunct games
Player Community	“You MUST Be Both Sexy and Powerful”: Community Expectations of Female Representation in Video Games
Player Engagement	Reconceptualizing LLM-Induced Hallucinations as Game Features
player experience	Decisions in the Loop: An Empirical Study of Narrative Time and Player Agency in Hades and Twelve Minutes Redefining Play: A Novel Framework for Differentiating Agency and Autonomy in Video Games
Player experience (PX)	Impact of Full-Body Haptic Feedback on the Sense of Presence, Affective Experience, and Game Engagement in a VR Game
player experiences	Racketeering, Cartels, Collusion and Extortion: Exploring the Language of Player-Organized ‘Criminality’ in MMORPGs
player narrative	Running a Royal Harem: The Participatory Narrative of The Sims Players in China
player perspectives	Play, Pay, Profit: Exploring When Gaming Becomes Gambling
player practices	Racketeering, Cartels, Collusion and Extortion: Exploring the Language of Player-Organized ‘Criminality’ in MMORPGs
player research	Mindful and Mindless Gaming: Two Approaches to Emotional Regulation Through Play
player studies	Gameplay-Elicited interviews: Exploring Worldness and the Processes of Play Hardcore Gamers in Ballgowns: At the Crossroads of Gender and Play
player time	Selling Time: Time-Centric Language in Video Game Marketing on Steam
player typologies	The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers
Player-Character Relationship	Identity at the Crossroads: Cultural Negotiation in Player-Character Relationships
player-game relationship	Embody Kin with Games: Redefining Player-Game Relationships through Kinship Embodiment
players	Now Play Nicely: An Autoethnography of Nostalgia and the Shared Spaces of Gaming Northern Lights in Erzurum: Rethinking Inspiration, Cloning and Originality in Video Game Avatar and Real Me: Identity Anxiety of Chinese Mobile Otome Game Players—A Case Study of Papergames
Players community
playful design	Affording Playfulness in Daniel Benmergui’s Storyteller
playful media technologies	From Military Simulation to Ludic War: A Generational Typology of the Mobilization of Play
playfulness	Party Games as a Crossroad Between Strangers: A Mixed-Methods Study Affording Playfulness in Daniel Benmergui’s Storyteller Playfulness in Comics
pleasure	Watching different play styles: The pleasure of transgressive play in Tears of the Kingdom
Pluralist game studies	Pluralist Game Studies: Practical Tools for the Crisis of (Inter)disciplinarity
poetics of space	“Spatial Rape”: Interleaving House of Leaves with MyHouse.pk3
point de capiton	This Gift of a Fragile Vessel: Encountering Perspectives on the Real in Slay the Princess
Pokemon	Metaplay: Play Practices, Communication, and Interaction in Pokémon from 1998-2020
Political Communication	Gaming the Political Arena: An Analysis of Political Messaging on Twitch in Germany
political economy	The digital imaginary of esports: A League of Legends Worlds case study Shades of Grey in the Gaming Industry: A Case Study of Commercial Boosting in China
political philosophy	The Evolution of Liberalism in the XCOM Franchise Reboot
politics	At the Crossroads of Art and Games: NPCs in Contemporary Video Art LUDIFYING DIGITAL PROTESTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: THE BANGLADESH SCENARIO Playing with Perspectives: German Planspiele as Tools for Political Education
popular romance	P(l)aying for Love: Capitalizing on patterns of contemporary romance fiction in PlayMe Studio’s MeChat
Porn
Post-apocalypse	Withholding the APOLLO Subfunction: An exploration of how Indigenous Communities are represented in the Horizon Series
Post-colonialism	Playing Decolonization. On Ben Madison’s "The White Tribe"
postcolonial	Cosmoludics: Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, and the Crossroad of Cricket
postcolonial studies	Copyright and games preservation: lessons and opportunities in de-colonization
postcolonialism	Fifty Shades of Red. Depictions of the Eastern Bloc in American and European Cold War-themed real time strategies Neocolonialism in Video Games: the Social Discourse of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) E-Space Odyssey 2001: China’s Gaming Industry at the Crossroads of Globalization and Reform and Opening-up
postdigitality	Crafting Comfort: Postdigital Practices in Current Cozy Games
postdualism	Making Friends with Death: Posthuman Post-Life Play
posthuman	From Extended Self to Posthuman Other: Empathy and Morality in Encounters with AI Characters
Posthuman gaming	Posthuman Gaming in a Time of Planetary Crisis: Human Agency at the Crossroads of Technology and Ecology in Signalis
posthumanism	Making Friends with Death: Posthuman Post-Life Play Tentacle to the Metal: Ecosophy, Metamodernism, and Splatoon 3 Rhetorics of Puppy Love and Death in The Pale Beyond (2023) Playing the Othered Self as Wukong: a Resilience in Speculative-Mythological Games
postmodernism	“Spatial Rape”: Interleaving House of Leaves with MyHouse.pk3
powerlessness	Rhetorics of Puppy Love and Death in The Pale Beyond (2023)
practice	From Movable to Still Images. On the Pictorial Practices of Screenshotting Game Cultures
practice as research
praxiography	From Movable to Still Images. On the Pictorial Practices of Screenshotting Game Cultures
preferences	The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers
presumption	Between preservation and nostalgic fantasy. Approaches to fanmade remasters
PRISMA	Augmented Reality and Gamification in Disseminating Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Systematic Literature Review
privacy	Towards Ethical Guidelines for Videogame Character Creation with GenAI
private servers	Private Servers Are More than Video Game Piracy
proactive procrastination	Exploring Inaction Inertia and Proactive Procrastination among MMORPG Players
Procedural Content Generation	“Planting World Seeds”: Procedural Content Generation, Labour and Conceptual Art in Digital Games
procedural rhetoric	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) Dark Souls, Implied Player and Stoic Ethics
production culture
Production Studies	Shifting The Meta: Bridging The Gap Between Scholar and Developer Perspectives of the Post-Pandemic Game Industry
produsage	“The Protagonist Training Project”: How Simulator-Style Produsage on Social Media Shapes Our Gamified Daily
propaganda
Propagandistic advergames	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)
Prosocial behavior	The Ludum Platform: Exploring the impact of game design on prosocial behavior in children’s digital play
prosumption	Music beyond gameplay: embodied experience of acoustic music in the covers of original game soundtracks
Protest	LUDIFYING DIGITAL PROTESTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: THE BANGLADESH SCENARIO
psychoanalytical theory	This Gift of a Fragile Vessel: Encountering Perspectives on the Real in Slay the Princess
Psychological Distance	Immersive Gaming for Climate Action: Evaluating the Impact of Virtual Reality on Psychological Distance and Sustainable Behavior.
Psychological Horror	Endurance Tests: Media Horror, FMV Documentary, and Speculative Sport in Soccerthon ’88
psychology	Card pack and loot box spending are both positively correlated with problem gambling but not linked to negative mental health
Public Engagement	Games in Cultural Venues Using Public VR: Designing Motion-Tracked and Story-Driven Experiences
public recognition	History and operational mechanisms in the video game industry: the case of the Turin cluster
Public research	Running a Games Lab: Challenges and Opportunities to Public Research with Arts Organizations
purchasing behavior	The Impact of Game Live Streaming on In-Game Purchases of Chinese Young Game Users
Puzzle Video Game	Exploring Compatible Interaction Preferences with a Puzzle Video Game
PWYW donation	Typological analysis of pay-what-you-want donation behavior in virtual world
Pyre
Q
QTE	Choose Your path Quickly: The Many Crossroads of the Interactive Movie
Qualitative interviews	"You have to prove yourself all the time": Misogyny and countermeasures in game journalism
Qualitative research	Gameplay-Elicited interviews: Exploring Worldness and the Processes of Play Two Routes to Research and their Implications for Avatar-based Interviewing
qualitative study
Qualitative Tagging	After All, Caesar Never Was a Quitter: Struggling with the past in early game design
queer games	Cruising in Apulia. Mediterranea Inferno at the Crossroads of Queer Desire and Political Crisis
Queer Play
queering dystopia	Posthuman Gaming in a Time of Planetary Crisis: Human Agency at the Crossroads of Technology and Ecology in Signalis
Queerness	Queer enclosure in the cinematic adaptation of The Last of Us “I felt like I was them. I just didn’t know it.”: Exploring Queer Identity through TTRPG Play
quest romance	“Reading” an Un-Romanced Quest Romance: Jane Eyre, Shadow Academy and Intertextuality in Jeffrey Yohalem’s Child of Light
Quran memorization
R
race	At the Crossroads of Art and Games: NPCs in Contemporary Video Art Cosmoludics: Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, and the Crossroad of Cricket Playing with Identity: Racebending in the God of War Series
racebending	Playing with Identity: Racebending in the God of War Series
Rain World	Metroidvania Ecologies: Exploration and the Environmental Imagination in Rain World and Hollow Knight
Reading	The Detective in the Furnace: Belief and Fictional Illegibility
Reaganoludography	Reaganoludography: The 1980s Japanese Digital Games in the Service of the United States
real time strategy	Fifty Shades of Red. Depictions of the Eastern Bloc in American and European Cold War-themed real time strategies
Reception studies	Reshaping soft masculinity in Chinese gaming: the Qing Lang Campaign and the cultural impact of male characters design in “Genshin Impact” The characterization of Julius Caesar in video games
recorder	Music beyond gameplay: embodied experience of acoustic music in the covers of original game soundtracks
Red Dead Redemption 2	Stabilising Ideology in Gameplay An ideological critique of modal consonance in video games
Reddit	Playing with Identity: Racebending in the God of War Series
reflective practice	"What? So what? Now what?": Prompting Game Design Reflection
reform and opening-up	E-Space Odyssey 2001: China’s Gaming Industry at the Crossroads of Globalization and Reform and Opening-up
Region-Locking	"Attention Users, Please Refrain from Modifying Your Ataris" - Corporate Region-Locking Practices and Creative Computing Responses in Türkiye
regional game studies	A Call for an Appalachian Game Studies (Semi-)Peripheral Gameplay in Video Games
Regional games studies	Exploring Online Gaming Communities through Documentary Filmmaking
Remakes	Returning to The Last of Us: The Aesthetics and Contexts of Remaking & Remastering The Last of Us Franchise
Remasters	Returning to The Last of Us: The Aesthetics and Contexts of Remaking & Remastering The Last of Us Franchise Between preservation and nostalgic fantasy. Approaches to fanmade remasters
remediation	Crossover Kingdom: Narration, Gamification, and the Platform Unconscious of Kingdom Hearts and Disney Parks The George Saunders Games Collection: Adapting the Unadaptable Short Story From Paper to Pixels: Horrific Remediation in Inscryption Crafting Comfort: Postdigital Practices in Current Cozy Games Beyond Metagames: Analyzing Metareference in Videogames
remote workers	Platform alternatives or platform power: Custom and commercial game engines in the work of foreigners in Czech game production
replay	Temporal Agency and Timeplay in Video Games
Representation	Fair Play Perspectives: Bridging Research, Design, and Industry Swiss Pinball Culture: Between Nostalgia and Revival Withholding the APOLLO Subfunction: An exploration of how Indigenous Communities are represented in the Horizon Series Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and the Depiction of Female “Britishness” in Victorian London Folklore-driven representations of femininity in Slavic-coded video games: the figure of Baba Yaga “Be who you are (as long as you’re not fat).” A study on fat bodies in contemporary videogames From Tradition to Touchscreen: Understanding How Chinese Mobile Game Designers Represent Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Becoming, Not Being: Rethinking Mental Illness at the Crossroads of Videogame Representation What can video games tell us about neurodiversity and autism?
Representations
Requiem	Dies Irae in a fantasy world: Gregorian sequence and Requiem motifs in Heroes of Might and Magic series
Rescue on Fractalus	Anatomy of a failed console. The case of Atari 5200
Research methodology
research through design	Cinematic Combat in Turn-Based Games: A through design Approach to Emergent Narrative and Mechanics Preserving Hmong Batik Through Video Games
Research-Creation	A Labour of Love: Critical Games and Burnout in Creative Industries
Research-through-Design	Gameful IoT Repair
resilience	Playing with Identity: Racebending in the God of War Series
resistance	The radical lessons from cozy games Losing Intentionally: Comedic Resistance to Meritocratic Genshin Impact
resource management game	Theorizing Player Affects beyond Empathy in Digital Migration Games
rhetoric	How Video Game Journalists Cover Sexual Misconduct in the Industry
rhetorics of play	Ludus Triumphorum. A Ludological Introducion to Tarot
ritual	Memorializing the Dead with Games
Roblox	Production and reception of Yugoslav past through Roblox games “It's a real con”: Parent Attitudes Toward Children’s Game Spending
roguelikes
role change	An EEG hyperscanning setup to investigate collaboration in games
role playing
Role-Playing Games	Save-Scumming: A Novel Exploration of Video Game Play
roleplay	Roleplay with chatbots on character.ai: A new direction for online gaming?
romance	Love is not Around: Wandan-likes and Precarious Masculinity
RPG	The Evolution of Women and Gender Representation in computerized RPGs: The Baldur’s Gate Paradigm Dicey Rules. System Design and Automation in the Baldur’s Gate Series
RSI model	This Gift of a Fragile Vessel: Encountering Perspectives on the Real in Slay the Princess
Ruins
Rules	Dicey Rules. System Design and Automation in the Baldur’s Gate Series
rural	A Call for an Appalachian Game Studies
S
sandbox games	Perverse Virtual Actions
Sandbox video games	Speak with blocks: Minecraft, environmental education and activism
Satisfactory	“A train is passing through Stardew Valley”: Post, Complex, and Cyberpastoral Video Games
Save-Scumming	Save-Scumming: A Novel Exploration of Video Game Play
Scenario adaptation	Adaptive Scenario Selection in Serious Games Using Finite State Machines and Agent-Based Models
science fiction	Speculative Games: Games Envisioning Possible Futures
Scientific Management	The Art of Counting Labor: Worker Placement Games as Capitalist Realism
Scotland
screenshot	From Movable to Still Images. On the Pictorial Practices of Screenshotting Game Cultures
sculpture	Craft, Aura and the struggle with Authenticity in “Man Versus”
Selectparks	History of Artist-Gamemaking: The Art of Tomorrow - Selectparks.net “artists exploring computer games as an emerging, artistic medium”
Self- limitation	Rewriting the Script: Navigating Cybernetic Dynamics and Ethical Expression in Modular Narrative Games—The Case of Storyteller
self-concepts	Conspiracy Thinking and Videogame Interpretation
Self-determination theory	Save-Scumming: A Novel Exploration of Video Game Play
Self-Efficacy	Redefining Play: A Novel Framework for Differentiating Agency and Autonomy in Video Games
self-empathy	Encounters with the Self as Other: Empathy in the Games of Nomada Studio
self-reflexivity	Writing the World: Personal Journals in Video Games Beyond Metagames: Analyzing Metareference in Videogames
Sense of presence (SoP)	Impact of Full-Body Haptic Feedback on the Sense of Presence, Affective Experience, and Game Engagement in a VR Game
sensory ethnography
sensory extension	Research on the interaction design of VR plant installation under the perspective of embodiment
Serious games	University Campus Metaverse with Serious Games to support multidisciplinary cooperation among students Bird Games - an exploration into game experience design for children within the Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery Centre. Assemblages of Awareness: Exploring the Role of La Valise de Lise in Addressing Older Adult Mistreatment through Collaborative Play and Cultural Adaptation A Game Developer's Perspective on Social Impact Video Games: Conclusions from a Qualitative Study Adaptive Scenario Selection in Serious Games Using Finite State Machines and Agent-Based Models Gameful IoT Repair Design Decisions and Obstacles in Serious Game Design: Insights from Design Cases Playing with Perspectives: German Planspiele as Tools for Political Education
Seriuos Games	MODELS OF SIMULATION IN VIRTUAL REALITY AS DIGITAL TWIN FOR DISASTER SURVIVAL TRAINING
service-dominant (S-D) logic	Typological analysis of pay-what-you-want donation behavior in virtual world
sexual misconduct crisis	How Video Game Journalists Cover Sexual Misconduct in the Industry
shadow academy	“Reading” an Un-Romanced Quest Romance: Jane Eyre, Shadow Academy and Intertextuality in Jeffrey Yohalem’s Child of Light
shame	Indie Innovation: Norms, Cultural Platforms and Shaming v. Intellectual Property in Independent Videogame Creation, 2005-2019
sharing	The Ludum Platform: Exploring the impact of game design on prosocial behavior in children’s digital play
Shibuya	Transforming Shibuya through the power of graffiti, fashion, music, and friendship.
shooter games	Neocolonialism in Video Games: the Social Discourse of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
Shooting game	The Impact of Game Live Streaming on In-Game Purchases of Chinese Young Game Users
Sianne Ngai
silent storytelling	Moral Ambiguity in Playdead games
Silkpunk	Playing the Othered Self as Wukong: a Resilience in Speculative-Mythological Games
simulation	On Simema: The Radical Passivity of Self-Playing Games Are we monsters? Comparison of representation of monstrosity between Vampire the Masquerade fourth and fifth editions.
simulation games	Playing with Perspectives: German Planspiele as Tools for Political Education
simulator	“The Protagonist Training Project”: How Simulator-Style Produsage on Social Media Shapes Our Gamified Daily
sinograph	Inducing and non-inducing interpretations of the sinograph in Word Game
situated intersectionality	Creating video games in Barcelona: field, capital(s), habitus and belonging
Skeuomorphic Design	From Paper to Pixels: Horrific Remediation in Inscryption
skill	On the Aesthetic Relevance of Difficulty in Games
Slavic folklore	Folklore-driven representations of femininity in Slavic-coded video games: the figure of Baba Yaga
slowness	Between Action and Inaction: A Distant-Play Reading of The Longing
small worlds play	Eco-Play: Designing nature games with Kiwi Conservation club
smartphone game	The Impact of Game Live Streaming on In-Game Purchases of Chinese Young Game Users
Social
Social Capital	Shifting The Meta: Bridging The Gap Between Scholar and Developer Perspectives of the Post-Pandemic Game Industry
social casino	Assessing the landscape of illegal loot box advertising in Belgium
social change	A Game Developer's Perspective on Social Impact Video Games: Conclusions from a Qualitative Study
Social connection	Party Games as a Crossroad Between Strangers: A Mixed-Methods Study
social deduction games	An NLP Interface for Social AI Agents in The Resistance: Avalon
social density	Typological analysis of pay-what-you-want donation behavior in virtual world
social impact	Game Jams as Pedagogic Playgrounds for Problem Deconstruction and Reflective Learning
Social impact games	Game Engine for Change, A framework for Balancing the Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Player States at the Heart of Game Design A Game Developer's Perspective on Social Impact Video Games: Conclusions from a Qualitative Study
Social justice	Running a Games Lab: Challenges and Opportunities to Public Research with Arts Organizations
social live streaming services	Typological analysis of pay-what-you-want donation behavior in virtual world
social mechanics	The Ludum Platform: Exploring the impact of game design on prosocial behavior in children’s digital play
social media	LUDIFYING DIGITAL PROTESTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: THE BANGLADESH SCENARIO Assessing the landscape of illegal loot box advertising in Belgium From Movable to Still Images. On the Pictorial Practices of Screenshotting Game Cultures “The Protagonist Training Project”: How Simulator-Style Produsage on Social Media Shapes Our Gamified Daily Still failing to disclose loot box presence: Identifying illegal UK video game ads using Meta’s advertising repository
social relationships
social semiotics
social skills	Effects of a local multiplayer cooperative game club for the development of children’s social skills
Social support	WoWing Then, WoWing Now: Players’ Coping with the World of Warcraft Service Disruption in China
socioeconomic background	The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers
Socioenactive Systems	A Conceptual Framework for Socienactive Scenarios of Play: a Pilot Study
sociology	The gaming habitus: An exploration of gender and class differences among student gamers A Game Developer's Perspective on Social Impact Video Games: Conclusions from a Qualitative Study
Sociotechncal Imaginaries
Soft masculinity	Reshaping soft masculinity in Chinese gaming: the Qing Lang Campaign and the cultural impact of male characters design in “Genshin Impact”
Soft skills	Measuring the impact of an educational project mediated by indie games on students’ personal, social and learning to learn competence: work in progress
software	Divided by Politics, United by Play: Computing in East and West Germany during the 1980s
software preservation	Private Servers Are More than Video Game Piracy
Solar Power	Solar Powered Minecraft and Infrastructural Intimacy in Serious Games about Energy
Souls series	The Narrative of 'Hollow Knight' Styled as a Soulslike Game.
soulslike	The Narrative of 'Hollow Knight' Styled as a Soulslike Game.
sound-driven	Sonic Lead: A Survey of Sound-First Games
South Korea	Reshaping Esports Fandom: Insights into Platformization from B.stage and LCK Communities Still failing to disclose loot box presence: Identifying illegal UK video game ads using Meta’s advertising repository
Southern Epitemology	Towards a Southern Epistemology in Game Studies: Gaming Practices, Ideological Struggle, and Common Sense in Latin America
space	Many Faces of Open-World Games: Characteristics and Applications Across Video Game Genres Uncanny Homecoming: The Temporality of Dwelling and Return in Digital Games A Space for Everyone: Gender Demographics in Board Gaming Fighting Against Return: a taxonomy of time loops in digital games
Spaces
spatiality	Now Play Nicely: An Autoethnography of Nostalgia and the Shared Spaces of Gaming
spectacle	A study of difficulty in the Daigo Parry; considerations of ludoliteracy, assemblage, and spectacle
spectating	Is Eports Spectating Associated with Gambling Behaviour?
spectatorship	On Simema: The Radical Passivity of Self-Playing Games Watching different play styles: The pleasure of transgressive play in Tears of the Kingdom
Speculative Design	Gameful IoT Repair
speculative games	Speculative Games: Games Envisioning Possible Futures
Speculative Mythology	Playing the Othered Self as Wukong: a Resilience in Speculative-Mythological Games
Spike TV	The Spike Video Game Awards Are Dead, Long Live the Game Awards: Reconsidering Awards Shows as the Struggle for a Field of Cultural Production
sponsorships	From pixel to plate: Exploring discussions of food in online gaming communities
sport	Cosmoludics: Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, and the Crossroad of Cricket
sportswashing	The Crossroads of Esports Diplomacy, Sports Worlds, and Authoritarian Capitalism
Square Enix	Crossover Kingdom: Narration, Gamification, and the Platform Unconscious of Kingdom Hearts and Disney Parks
Stardew Valley	Exploring Waste and Garbage through a Digital Game: The Case of Stardew Valley “A train is passing through Stardew Valley”: Post, Complex, and Cyberpastoral Video Games
state policy	The impact of tax credits on the Irish games production landscape: too little, too late, too limited?
Steam	Selling Time: Time-Centric Language in Video Game Marketing on Steam
stereotype content model	Identifying Differential Perceptions of Video Game Players Based on Gaming Platform
Stereotypes	Representations in Video Game: The Tension Between Accuracy and Creativity
Stigma	Suicide Livestreams in NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
stoic ethics	Dark Souls, Implied Player and Stoic Ethics
stories	A Dating Sim Without the Dating: New Adventures at the Crossroads of Literature and Games
story-world database	Speculative Games: Games Envisioning Possible Futures
storytelling	Mexican crossroads: Wrestling video game based on a comic book
storyworld
strategy	Playing with Perspectives: German Planspiele as Tools for Political Education
Strategy Games	After All, Caesar Never Was a Quitter: Struggling with the past in early game design
Streamer	Gaming streamers as influencers and intermediaries: Differentializing the micro, meso and macro contexts of streaming
streamers	From pixel to plate: Exploring discussions of food in online gaming communities
Streaming	More than Let’s Plays? Towards a content analysis of game-related YouTube videos Avatar, community, and lore: An exploratory study of independent VTubers Gaming the Political Arena: An Analysis of Political Messaging on Twitch in Germany
streaming-based game localisation	Game Localisation in Live Game Streaming: A Practice-Led Case Study
street fighter	A study of difficulty in the Daigo Parry; considerations of ludoliteracy, assemblage, and spectacle
Street Fighter 6	More than Let’s Plays? Towards a content analysis of game-related YouTube videos
stress	Mindful and Mindless Gaming: Two Approaches to Emotional Regulation Through Play
studio studies
style	The Narrative of 'Hollow Knight' Styled as a Soulslike Game.
stylisation	The Narrative of 'Hollow Knight' Styled as a Soulslike Game.
subject	This Gift of a Fragile Vessel: Encountering Perspectives on the Real in Slay the Princess
subjectivity	A Plague Tale: Autoethnography and Authenticity in Historical Games Research
Sublime	Gothic Forests and Magic Flights: Examining the Gothic False Hero in Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
Suicide	Suicide Livestreams in NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
Supergiant Games
surrogate gaming	Shades of Grey in the Gaming Industry: A Case Study of Commercial Boosting in China
survey	Card pack and loot box spending are both positively correlated with problem gambling but not linked to negative mental health
suspicion	Conspiracy Thinking and Videogame Interpretation
Sustainability	"We’ll always go with what’s more sustainable”: Understanding the Financialised Logics of Game Development At the Crossroads of Game Studies and Business Ethics: What are the Sustainability Obligations of Stakeholders in the Game Industry? Speak with blocks: Minecraft, environmental education and activism
Swiss	Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community
swiss game industry
swiss games
swissness
Switzerland	Swiss Pinball Culture: Between Nostalgia and Revival
Symbolic interaction	Virtual Memories of Displacement: A Narrative Game in VR Exploring Refugee Stories through Symbolic Interaction
system design	Dicey Rules. System Design and Automation in the Baldur’s Gate Series
Systematic Literature Review	Augmented Reality and Gamification in Disseminating Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Systematic Literature Review
systematic review	Preliminary Results from a Systematic Review of Narrative Game-based Interventions for Mental Health
systemic games	Analyzing Emergence in Pac-Man's Mazes with Systemic Reverberation
T
table	On Tabletop Gaming Tables: Capital, Emblem, Symbol
table-top roleplaying games	“I felt like I was them. I just didn’t know it.”: Exploring Queer Identity through TTRPG Play
tabletop	On Tabletop Gaming Tables: Capital, Emblem, Symbol
tabletop games	Craft, Aura and the struggle with Authenticity in “Man Versus”
Tabletop RPGs	Excitatio Corcyrae: Embracing history through mindful game design
Taiwan	Inducing and non-inducing interpretations of the sinograph in Word Game
tarocchi	Ludus Triumphorum. A Ludological Introducion to Tarot
tarot	Ludus Triumphorum. A Ludological Introducion to Tarot
tax credits	The impact of tax credits on the Irish games production landscape: too little, too late, too limited?
Taylor Swift	“Love’s a Game, Wanna Play?“ Games in and around Taylor Swift’s Music
Teaching video games	A Longitudinal Look Into University Student Video Game Designs
Teamwork	Exploring Compatible Interaction Preferences with a Puzzle Video Game
techno-solutionism	Climate Crisis on the Table: The Rhetoric of Environmental Actions in Board Games
tectoy	Trajectories of Professionalization as Game Developer in 2000s Brazil: stories from Tectoy Digital/Zeebo Interactive Studios/Tectoy Studios
temporal agency	Temporal Agency and Timeplay in Video Games
temporal investment	Selling Time: Time-Centric Language in Video Game Marketing on Steam
temporality	Playing the Othered Self as Wukong: a Resilience in Speculative-Mythological Games
Tentacular	Tentacle to the Metal: Ecosophy, Metamodernism, and Splatoon 3
Territorialization	The Spike Video Game Awards Are Dead, Long Live the Game Awards: Reconsidering Awards Shows as the Struggle for a Field of Cultural Production
Teslasuit	Impact of Full-Body Haptic Feedback on the Sense of Presence, Affective Experience, and Game Engagement in a VR Game
Text-based Game	Assessing Empathy Across Game Fidelity Levels: A Case Study of 3D and Text-Based Versions of Brukel
Textual analysis	‘Anecdotal Evidence’: A Holistic Approach to the Ecological Analysis of Videogames
textures	Playfully Conservative: Reinventing Nintendo’s Platform Games through Materiality in Yoshi’s Crafted World
The last of Us	Returning to The Last of Us: The Aesthetics and Contexts of Remaking & Remastering The Last of Us Franchise
The Playboy Mansion	Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion
The Sims	Running a Royal Harem: The Participatory Narrative of The Sims Players in China
The Witcher 3	One for the Road: A Cultural Comparison of the Food and Drink in The Witcher 3 and Genshin Impact
Theme parks	Crossover Kingdom: Narration, Gamification, and the Platform Unconscious of Kingdom Hearts and Disney Parks
Theory	Two Routes to Research and their Implications for Avatar-based Interviewing
Thought experiment	Revisiting the Magic Circle for Critical-ethical Reflection through Artistic Installation Game Design
time	Selling Time: Time-Centric Language in Video Game Marketing on Steam Fighting Against Return: a taxonomy of time loops in digital games
Time and Space
time loop	Temporal Agency and Timeplay in Video Games
time loops	Decisions in the Loop: An Empirical Study of Narrative Time and Player Agency in Hades and Twelve Minutes
time manipulation	Temporal Agency and Timeplay in Video Games
tinkering	Diode Games: Rediscovering the Bridge between Analog and Video Gaming through the Elektor Magazine
Tolerance	Just Can't Get Enough: Exploring the concept of tolerance in gaming and gambling
Topic Modeling	“I Used to Be an Adventurer Like You”: Fear of Missing Out in The Elder Scrolls Online Gaming the Political Arena: An Analysis of Political Messaging on Twitch in Germany
Total Girl	Studying the Invisible: Femininity and Gaming in Girls’ Lifestyle Magazines
Toxicity	Golden Goal: Altruism versus Toxicity and the Soul of Football (Soccer) Simulators Cross-Border Conflicts in Gaming: Indo-Pak Tensions in Competitive Multiplayer Spaces
toy design	Half Stress, Half Party: Play and Labor at Mattel in the Early Videogame Industry
toy industry	Half Stress, Half Party: Play and Labor at Mattel in the Early Videogame Industry
Trade unions
trading and collectible card games	Card pack and loot box spending are both positively correlated with problem gambling but not linked to negative mental health
Trading card games	The Benefits of Banding: Overcoming Barriers to Community Participation Among Magic: The Gathering Players
Tragedy	Oedipus at the Crossroads: Tragic Agency in Contemporary Videogame
Trans	(Dis)Embodiment: Trans Hauntings in Kitty Horrorshow's Corpus
trans studies	Haircuts, Matricides, Pain: Transgender Masculinity in Scripted Characters in Video Games
transculturation	The Fractured Imbunche: a Study of Chilean Horror Games
transformative games	Dark Souls, Implied Player and Stoic Ethics
transformative justice	Making Bodies Possible: Exploring Transformative Justice in Esports
transformative play	Games that Play You: Outmersion, Game Bleed, and Transformative Vulnerability in Hellblade
transgender	Haircuts, Matricides, Pain: Transgender Masculinity in Scripted Characters in Video Games
Transgender studies
transgressive play	Watching different play styles: The pleasure of transgressive play in Tears of the Kingdom
Transistor
transition	(Dis)Embodiment: Trans Hauntings in Kitty Horrorshow's Corpus
Transmasculine	Haircuts, Matricides, Pain: Transgender Masculinity in Scripted Characters in Video Games
transmedia	Crossover Kingdom: Narration, Gamification, and the Platform Unconscious of Kingdom Hearts and Disney Parks
transmedia fandom	Running a Royal Harem: The Participatory Narrative of The Sims Players in China
transmedia memory work	(Re-)Playing Yugoslavia: Heritage and Memory Mediation in Indie Video Games
transparency	Towards Ethical Guidelines for Videogame Character Creation with GenAI
trauma	Haircuts, Matricides, Pain: Transgender Masculinity in Scripted Characters in Video Games
trauma dumping	“I’m So Ban Happy”: Game Influencer Livestreaming, Self-Care, Trauma Dumping, and Managing Mental Health Topics Across Platformed Parasocial Relationships
trophies	“Test Trophy Please Ignore”: Achievements as Paratexts in Palimpsestic Readings of Remasters and Remakes
trpg	Capturing the Tabletop Experience. Narration in the Baldur’s Gate Series. Speculative Games: Games Envisioning Possible Futures
TTRPG	Immersion in Tabletop Role-Playing Games: A Quantitative Analysis
Turin	History and operational mechanisms in the video game industry: the case of the Turin cluster
TV series	Queer enclosure in the cinematic adaptation of The Last of Us
Twitch	“GOLD GOLD GOLD”: gambling-like elements on Twitch and Kick "One-and-a-Quarter Way Relationships”: Understanding Authenticity and Asymmetry In Gaming Podcast Audiences Gaming the Political Arena: An Analysis of Political Messaging on Twitch in Germany “I’m So Ban Happy”: Game Influencer Livestreaming, Self-Care, Trauma Dumping, and Managing Mental Health Topics Across Platformed Parasocial Relationships Japanese Game Live Streamers: Between Japan and the World Playing with Identity: Racebending in the God of War Series
Twitch.tv
Türkiye	"Attention Users, Please Refrain from Modifying Your Ataris" - Corporate Region-Locking Practices and Creative Computing Responses in Türkiye
U
UK	Still failing to disclose loot box presence: Identifying illegal UK video game ads using Meta’s advertising repository
uncanny	Uncanny Homecoming: The Temporality of Dwelling and Return in Digital Games
Uncanny Valley	AI Nightmares: Videogames and The Uncanny Valley in Images Generated by Artificial Intelligence
Uncertainty
Unconventional play	Out of Bounds: Exploring Beyond the Map
Unity	Feasible Antiquity: Ancient History in the Unity, Unreal, Godot and itch.io Asset Stores
University Campus Digital Twin	University Campus Metaverse with Serious Games to support multidisciplinary cooperation among students
Unreal	Feasible Antiquity: Ancient History in the Unity, Unreal, Godot and itch.io Asset Stores
Urban Imaginary	The digital imaginary of esports: A League of Legends Worlds case study
Urban Space	Transforming Shibuya through the power of graffiti, fashion, music, and friendship.
Urban Theory	The Detections of Totality: Cognitive Mapping and Urban Space in Disco Elysium
User Experience	Theatre of (Virtual) Dreams: Exploring the Cultural Heritage Value of Stadiums in the EA FC/FIFA Franchise
user-generated content	User-generated content and community dynamics of Final Fantasy XIV players in China
user-generated online games	Production and reception of Yugoslav past through Roblox games
uses and gratifications theory	User-generated content and community dynamics of Final Fantasy XIV players in China Typological analysis of pay-what-you-want donation behavior in virtual world
utopias	Zoos as utopian enclaves in Ark Nova
V
value	The digital imaginary of esports: A League of Legends Worlds case study Conspiracy Thinking and Videogame Interpretation
Vampire: the Masqeurade	Are we monsters? Comparison of representation of monstrosity between Vampire the Masquerade fourth and fifth editions.
Victorian	Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and the Depiction of Female “Britishness” in Victorian London
video	Japanese Game Live Streamers: Between Japan and the World
video game	Northern Lights in Erzurum: Rethinking Inspiration, Cloning and Originality in Video Game Playing to win or playing not to lose: Measuring engagement, enjoyment, and performance in the gamification of tasks with positive or negative framing
video game aesthetics
Video Game Analysis	The Detections of Totality: Cognitive Mapping and Urban Space in Disco Elysium
video game clusters	History and operational mechanisms in the video game industry: the case of the Turin cluster
Video Game Consoles	"Attention Users, Please Refrain from Modifying Your Ataris" - Corporate Region-Locking Practices and Creative Computing Responses in Türkiye
Video game design	A Longitudinal Look Into University Student Video Game Designs
video game development	Exploring Collaborative Practices in Video Game Development: An Ethnographic Study
Video game history	"We were the porters of overseas media." -- An investigation into the gaming information media under the influence of the state
Video game industry	History and operational mechanisms in the video game industry: the case of the Turin cluster
video game journalism	How Video Game Journalists Cover Sexual Misconduct in the Industry
video game law and regulation	Assessing the landscape of illegal loot box advertising in Belgium Card pack and loot box spending are both positively correlated with problem gambling but not linked to negative mental health Still failing to disclose loot box presence: Identifying illegal UK video game ads using Meta’s advertising repository
Video game magazines	"We were the porters of overseas media." -- An investigation into the gaming information media under the influence of the state
Video Game Mods	Of Tadpoles & Illithids: On the Algorithmic Poetics of the Oneiric, the Monadic, & the Kairotic
video game players	Outlining the spectrum of values of self-identified gamers
video game preservation	Copyright and games preservation: lessons and opportunities in de-colonization
video game soundtrack	Dies Irae in a fantasy world: Gregorian sequence and Requiem motifs in Heroes of Might and Magic series
Video game space	Out of Bounds: Exploring Beyond the Map
Video game streaming	“GOLD GOLD GOLD”: gambling-like elements on Twitch and Kick
Video game subjects	A Longitudinal Look Into University Student Video Game Designs
video game violence	Perverse Virtual Actions
video games	Many Faces of Open-World Games: Characteristics and Applications Across Video Game Genres Neocolonialism in Video Games: the Social Discourse of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) Play, Pay, Profit: Exploring When Gaming Becomes Gambling Micro-Resistance in Romance: Gender Identity and Agency in a 3D Otome Game Preserving Hmong Batik Through Video Games The Role of Games in Cultural Dissemination: A Comparative Analysis of Multilingual Reviews Roles of Video Games in Benefiting PhD Students’ Study The Evolution of Women and Gender Representation in computerized RPGs: The Baldur’s Gate Paradigm Folklore-driven representations of femininity in Slavic-coded video games: the figure of Baba Yaga “Reading” an Un-Romanced Quest Romance: Jane Eyre, Shadow Academy and Intertextuality in Jeffrey Yohalem’s Child of Light Redefining Play: A Novel Framework for Differentiating Agency and Autonomy in Video Games The Rise of Gamer-Consumers: Anger, Protests, and Divisions in South Korean Gamer Activism What can video games tell us about neurodiversity and autism? Game Localisation in Live Game Streaming: A Practice-Led Case Study
Video games community
video sharing platform	More than Let’s Plays? Towards a content analysis of game-related YouTube videos
Videogame	Oedipus at the Crossroads: Tragic Agency in Contemporary Videogame Gothic Forests and Magic Flights: Examining the Gothic False Hero in Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
videogame preservation	WildStar's rogue archives: exploring an anarchaeological approach to defunct games
videogame realism
Videogames	Parties, partying, and party games in single-player videogames History of Artist-Gamemaking: The Art of Tomorrow - Selectparks.net “artists exploring computer games as an emerging, artistic medium”
Vintage	Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community
violence	Games for Fun and Games for Blood: A Framework for Understanding In-Game Violence
Virtual	Tentacle to the Metal: Ecosophy, Metamodernism, and Splatoon 3
virtual and non-virtual communities
virtual assemblage	Embody Kin with Games: Redefining Player-Game Relationships through Kinship Embodiment
virtual currencies	Play, Pay, Profit: Exploring When Gaming Becomes Gambling
virtual ethics	Perverse Virtual Actions
Virtual ethnography	Exploring Online Gaming Communities through Documentary Filmmaking
Virtual Reality	MODELS OF SIMULATION IN VIRTUAL REALITY AS DIGITAL TWIN FOR DISASTER SURVIVAL TRAINING Exploring virtual reality genres Immersive Gaming for Climate Action: Evaluating the Impact of Virtual Reality on Psychological Distance and Sustainable Behavior. Research on the interaction design of VR plant installation under the perspective of embodiment Games that Play You: Outmersion, Game Bleed, and Transformative Vulnerability in Hellblade
Virtual reality (VR)	Impact of Full-Body Haptic Feedback on the Sense of Presence, Affective Experience, and Game Engagement in a VR Game
virtual worlds	Silent In-game Concerts: Text-Based Musical Performances in MUDs
visual novel	By the Law of the Wolf. Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Heart of the Forest between global, national, and fictional This Gift of a Fragile Vessel: Encountering Perspectives on the Real in Slay the Princess
visual novels	Cruising in Apulia. Mediterranea Inferno at the Crossroads of Queer Desire and Political Crisis
Visualities	AI Nightmares: Videogames and The Uncanny Valley in Images Generated by Artificial Intelligence
VR game	Virtual Memories of Displacement: A Narrative Game in VR Exploring Refugee Stories through Symbolic Interaction
VR Games	Games in Cultural Venues Using Public VR: Designing Motion-Tracked and Story-Driven Experiences
vr movement	Exploring virtual reality genres
VTubers	Avatar, community, and lore: An exploratory study of independent VTubers
VTubing	Avatar, community, and lore: An exploratory study of independent VTubers
W
Walking interviews
walking simulators	Environmental Storytelling and Active Spectatorship in Walking Simulators and Exploration Theatre Otium and Walking Simulators
wandan	Love is not Around: Wandan-likes and Precarious Masculinity
War Games	The Military-Entertainment Hero Complex: Playing the War Hero
wargames
wargaming	Fifty Shades of Red. Depictions of the Eastern Bloc in American and European Cold War-themed real time strategies
waste management	Exploring Waste and Garbage through a Digital Game: The Case of Stardew Valley
We. The Revolution	We. The Revolution: Liberty, Fraternity, Equality, Authenticity.
webcam	Japanese Game Live Streamers: Between Japan and the World
Website	Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community
well-being
wellbeing	“I’m So Ban Happy”: Game Influencer Livestreaming, Self-Care, Trauma Dumping, and Managing Mental Health Topics Across Platformed Parasocial Relationships
Werewolf: The Apocalypse	By the Law of the Wolf. Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Heart of the Forest between global, national, and fictional
Wikipedia	Chludens.ch: Developing an digital archive for Swiss vintage games and its community
WildStar	WildStar's rogue archives: exploring an anarchaeological approach to defunct games
Word Game	Inducing and non-inducing interpretations of the sinograph in Word Game
work and play	Half Stress, Half Party: Play and Labor at Mattel in the Early Videogame Industry
Worker Placement Games	The Art of Counting Labor: Worker Placement Games as Capitalist Realism
workers
working time
World Building	Excitatio Corcyrae: Embracing history through mindful game design
World of Warcraft	WoWing Then, WoWing Now: Players’ Coping with the World of Warcraft Service Disruption in China Racketeering, Cartels, Collusion and Extortion: Exploring the Language of Player-Organized ‘Criminality’ in MMORPGs
worldbuilding
Worldness	Gameplay-Elicited interviews: Exploring Worldness and the Processes of Play
wrestling	Mexican crossroads: Wrestling video game based on a comic book
wuxia	From Wuxia to Cultivation Games: Reimagining Chinese Cosmology in Digital Space
X
XCOM	The Evolution of Liberalism in the XCOM Franchise Reboot
xiaohongshu	“The Protagonist Training Project”: How Simulator-Style Produsage on Social Media Shapes Our Gamified Daily
Y
young people	From pixel to plate: Exploring discussions of food in online gaming communities
Youth	Two Routes to Research and their Implications for Avatar-based Interviewing
Youth Cultures	Transforming Shibuya through the power of graffiti, fashion, music, and friendship.
YouTube	More than Let’s Plays? Towards a content analysis of game-related YouTube videos Playing With Videogames on YouTube in East Asia
Yugoslavia	Production and reception of Yugoslav past through Roblox games (Re-)Playing Yugoslavia: Heritage and Memory Mediation in Indie Video Games
Z
Zelda:ToK	More than Let’s Plays? Towards a content analysis of game-related YouTube videos
zombies	Undead ecologies: Reconceptualising zombiism in videogames
zoos	Zoos as utopian enclaves in Ark Nova