DIGRA 2019: THE 12TH DIGITAL GAMES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

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academia	‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies
Academic Reference	How to Reference a Digital Game
action
activism agile design	Designing Global Empowerment? Self-Narratives of Workshop Facilitators in Culturally Mixed Settings
Activity-led learning	Co-creating serious game for sustainability transition: Case study of the Serious Board Game Jam 2018 in Kyoto
Actor-Network Theory	Emergent Threat or Residual Trace: Reassembling the Indie Sector as an Interdependent Sociotechnical Practice
Adaptation	Authorial Affordance opportunities in App-Assisted Boardgames Translating and Localizing Games in Global Contexts Port or conversion? An ontological framework for classifying game versions
Adjuncts	Teaching Industry Professional Adjuncts to Teach Videogame Development: No Tweed Allowed
adolescents’ cultural consumption	Critical Thinking of ‘Excessive Indulgence of Playing Saps Ambitions (wan wu sang zhi)’: A Research on Urban Adolescents’ Consumption of Peripheral Products of Digital Games in Mainland China
adult learning	Fostering ethics and morality in adult learning through gameplay
aesthetic experience	Ludo Mix as an Aesthetic Experience: Designing Games for Franchises
aesthetics	Replaying the Past: Wholesome Nostalgia or Morbid Melancholia?
Affect	The Path That Lies Ahead: Intimacy Through Overwhelmedness in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Counting Clicks: Gameplay Metrics, Power and the Body Politics of Competitive Videogames
affect theory	‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies
affective disposition theory	The Affective Messaging of Gameplay Livestream Viewers
affective labour	‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies
Affordance	Authorial Affordance opportunities in App-Assisted Boardgames
Affordance theory
agents	Categorizing Morality Systems Through the Lens of Fallout
AI	Should the Monster Play Fair?: Reception of AI in Alien: Isolation
Akihabara	Playing with character information - Akihabara’s bishōjo-visual novel ludo-mix
Alexa	New Media Ecosystems: Amazon and the Advancing Game Economy
algorithm	Automated Inequality: Behind the Apparent Neutrality of Steam’s Algorithmic Culture
Alief	Belief-Discordant Alief: A Common Denominator of Fiction and Non-Fictional Games
Alien: Isolation	Emergent Threat or Residual Trace: Reassembling the Indie Sector as an Interdependent Sociotechnical Practice
allegation	Dialogue or Monologue? Intertextuality as Allegation in Child of Light and My Memory of Us
Alternate Reality	“Monopoly” in Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces
amateur	Game Production beyond the Studio: From Playbour to Gamework
amateur competition	Fired in a blog post: The End of Heroes of the Storm Esports
Amazon	New Media Ecosystems: Amazon and the Advancing Game Economy
Analog Game	Constructing Haenyeo: Defamiliarzation and Sensemaking in the Game Design Process
Analysis	The Current Canon of Games Research: An Analysis of the Most Cited Publications Epistemological Issues in Understanding Games Design, Play-Experience, and Reportage
analytics	The data assemblage of play: Videogame data analytics and surveillance
Anger	‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries
anime media mix	From Otome Road to #OtomeArmada: Towards a History of Otome Games and Gaming Cultures
anniversaries	Monetising memory? MMOGs, anniversaries, and ownership of the past
anthropomorphization of AI	Perceived Buffoonery: Analysing the Appeal of AI vs. AI Spectatorship in Saltybet.com
App-supported Games	Authorial Affordance opportunities in App-Assisted Boardgames
appropriation	Cities appropriate Pokémon GO: Remix models for local needs
Archaeoacoustics	Bad Vibrations: The Auditory Experience of Digital Dark Tourism
archive	What a mess…: Navigating media mixes in the archive
archives	Mythmaking and codebreaking: The hunt for GTAV’s Bigfoot and/as digital cultural memory
Arena of Valor；
Aristotle	Consciously working on one’s game: the mutual constitution of habitus and identity
Art	Live Streaming and Research: New Directions Audience perception in artistic audiovisual game performances
art games	Dialogue or Monologue? Intertextuality as Allegation in Child of Light and My Memory of Us
artgames	Replaying the Past: Wholesome Nostalgia or Morbid Melancholia?
Artifact	From Artifact to Auto Chess: Dota 2’s Meta Media Mix
Artificial Intelligence	Perceived Buffoonery: Analysing the Appeal of AI vs. AI Spectatorship in Saltybet.com Is There a Playfulness of Empathy? A Multidisciplinary Perspective Should the Monster Play Fair?: Reception of AI in Alien: Isolation
artists	Live Streaming and Research: New Directions
asd	Transcultural Learning and Live-Action Role-Play in Japan
aspirational labour	Is this still participation? A case study of the disempowerment of player labourers
associationalism	Esports Associationalism
associations	Esports Associationalism
attention
Attention economy	Indie Game Studios and the Attention Economy: On route to actually participatory media?
attitudes	The experience of procedurality: effects and appreciation of persuasive gameplay rhetoric
Audience	Audience perception in artistic audiovisual game performances
Audience Perception	Audience perception in artistic audiovisual game performances
Audiovisual composition	Audience perception in artistic audiovisual game performances
augmentation	Hybrid Board Game Design Guidelines
augmented reality	"Can you send me a photo?" - A Game-Based Approach for Increasing Young Children’s Risk Awareness to Prevent Online Sexual Grooming Middle-aged Players & Memorable Moments with Pokémon GO
Aura	Trapped in the Ludo Mix: Kingdom Hearts and the Failed Bildungsroman
Australia	Schoolyard Riot: League of Legends and High School Esports
Authorial intention	Glitches as Fictional (Mis)Communication
Authorship	God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’ How to Reference a Digital Game
Auto Chess	From Artifact to Auto Chess: Dota 2’s Meta Media Mix
autobiography	The Uses of Ludobiography: Life Writing and Game Studies
autoethnography
Avatar	Effects of Game Design Features on Player-Avatar Relationships and Motivation for Buying Decorative Virtual Items
Awareness Campaign	The HOPE Project: from a serious game to an awareness campaign
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Ba- construction	Multimodal analysis of using video game Minecraft to study BA-construction in Chinese
Bandai	Joy Family: Japanese Board Games in the Post-War Shōwa Period
Battlefront	Gaming, Gambling & the New Monetization of Digital Play
behavioural boundaries	Boundaries, Trust and Reputation in Virtual and Illicit Markets
Belief	Belief-Discordant Alief: A Common Denominator of Fiction and Non-Fictional Games
Benjamin	Trapped in the Ludo Mix: Kingdom Hearts and the Failed Bildungsroman
Bernard Stiegler	Complexity, Mystagogy, and the Limits of the ‘Analytical’ Learning Cycle
BGM	How Musical Leitmotifs Enhance Narration and Evoke Emotion
big five	The Comparative Self: Understanding the Motivation to Play and the Subsequent Video Game Use
biopolitics	Fast Times in FINAL FANTASY VII: Modern Anxieties, Postmodern Hopes
bishōjo	Playing with character information - Akihabara’s bishōjo-visual novel ludo-mix
blockchain	CryptoKitties and the New Ludic Economy: How blockchain introduces value, ownership, and scarcity in the digital world
Board game	Hybrid Board Game Design Guidelines
board game design	Mechanical Narrative: The Relationship Between Rules and Narrative in Boardgame Design
board games	Authorial Affordance opportunities in App-Assisted Boardgames Joy Family: Japanese Board Games in the Post-War Shōwa Period Mechanical Narrative: The Relationship Between Rules and Narrative in Boardgame Design
boardgames	People@Meeple: "it's a community thing"
bodies	Live Streaming and Research: New Directions
borders	Beyond the Wall: The Boundaries of the Neomedieval Town in Single Player Roleplaying Games
Boredom	Ludic Boredom: Discussing a Manifesto
bottom-up approach
boundaries	Beyond the Wall: The Boundaries of the Neomedieval Town in Single Player Roleplaying Games
Bourdieu	Consciously working on one’s game: the mutual constitution of habitus and identity
brandfests	Procedural and Promotional Rhetorics of Participation in Digital Games
branding	Character construction and transnational branding: Super Mario’s 'Italianness'
Brazil	The Awakening of the Goddess in Competitive League of Legends
bug	God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’
building	Dwelling in Digital Game Worlds
business model	The Business Model Network of eSports: The Case of Overwatch
Business Strategy	The Mobile Suit Gundam Franchise: a Case Study of Transmedia Storytelling Practices and the Role of Digital Games in Japan
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Camus	Trapped in the Ludo Mix: Kingdom Hearts and the Failed Bildungsroman
Cancer	The HOPE Project: from a serious game to an awareness campaign
canon	Describing the Game Studies Canon: A Game Citation Analysis
canonization	The politics of game canonization: Tales from the frontlines of creating a national history of games
Capitalism	Consumptive Play: The Reification of Capitalism in Grand Theft Auto Online
capitals
Captured Media	Rock Stars & Plastic Guitars: Designing & Playing with Captured Experiences in Music Videogames
care	Expressions of care and concern in eco-critical computer game play
careers	Diversity and conformism on Twitch. The effects of the labor market for video game live streaming on artistic convention.
carnivalesque	Locating transgressions: Transgressive Play and Transgressive Aesthetics
Cartola FC	The “not so” Beautiful Game: a study on Brazilian players of the fantasy soccer game​ Cartola FC
case study	No Rivalry Without Commentary: Misja Esport Case Study
categorization	Categorizing Morality Systems Through the Lens of Fallout
Central and Eastern Europe	Breaking into the Polish Videogame Industry: Education, Informality and Inequality
challenge	Challenge Types in Videogame Play
character design	Visualizing Diversity: A Character Design Tool For Creative Reflection
characters	Modding the Waste Land: Intertextual Mutation Between Games and Poems
cheating
China	Framing Esports in Chinese University Campuses Introduction to Chinese Game Policies The Marketing of a Controversial Identity: A Case Study on Chinese Parents
Chinese Character	The materiality on the hermeneutics of Chinese character-based playable media
Chinese context	Gaming in the Chinese Context
Chinese Dream	Framing Esports in Chinese University Campuses
Chinese gaming culture
Chinese language learning	Multimodal analysis of using video game Minecraft to study BA-construction in Chinese
Chinese role-playing games
choreography	Dancing with the Hands: Frictions with Videogames, Dance and Gender
Citation	How to Reference a Digital Game
citation analysis	Describing the Game Studies Canon: A Game Citation Analysis
cities	Cities appropriate Pokémon GO: Remix models for local needs Beyond the Wall: The Boundaries of the Neomedieval Town in Single Player Roleplaying Games
city	Localism with (Serious) Games: Horizontal Channels and Models
civic	Cities appropriate Pokémon GO: Remix models for local needs
class
clone	Port or conversion? An ontological framework for classifying game versions
close readings	"Is This Really Happening?": Game Mechanics as Unreliable Narrator
co-creation	Procedural and Promotional Rhetorics of Participation in Digital Games Is this still participation? A case study of the disempowerment of player labourers
Cognition	Epistemological Issues in Understanding Games Design, Play-Experience, and Reportage
Cognitive Functions	Exergaming Cognitive Functions: A Virtual Reality-Based Training for Older Adults
Cognitive mapping	Complexity, Mystagogy, and the Limits of the ‘Analytical’ Learning Cycle
collaborative gaming	Every Escape Room in this City: In Search of A Well-Played Game
collective action	Challenges and Opportunities for Collective Action in Local Games Industries “For the Horde”: Players’ Collaborative Actions in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
collectives	Dawn of Machinic Cyclicality: Life as We Don’t Know It
colonialism	Observant play: colonial readings in Breath of the Wild
commentary	No Rivalry Without Commentary: Misja Esport Case Study
commodification	Games and Gestures - Remarks on Emotes in Digital Online Games
Commodity cultures
commonplaces	Character construction and transnational branding: Super Mario’s 'Italianness'
Communication	Glitches as Fictional (Mis)Communication “Monopoly” in Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces
Communication rituals	The interaction of discourse and acts: Games spectating as communication rituals in China
community	“Mute, Report, Block.”: Dissonance in Moderating Overwatch
Community Outreach	GAMERella, Community Outreach and Inclusive Design
competition	The Awakening of the Goddess in Competitive League of Legends
competitive gaming	Skill, Streaming and Sociality in Contemporary Esports The Business Model Network of eSports: The Case of Overwatch
computational complexity	Complexity, Mystagogy, and the Limits of the ‘Analytical’ Learning Cycle
computer graphics	Polygonal Modeling: The Aestheticization of Identity
concern	Expressions of care and concern in eco-critical computer game play
Consciousness of Computer Programming	The Relationship between Prior Gaming Experience and Consciousness of Computer Programming or Social Views on Information: An Empirical Study of High School Students in Japan
Conspiracy theories	By Svarog! Slavic Game Renaissance and the Ideology of the Extreme Right
constitutive rhetoric	YouTubers and Real Games: Examining the Discourse of Play Itself
constraint	Play // Make: Media Mix Games as Controlled Open Reading
consumer behavior	The “not so” Beautiful Game: a study on Brazilian players of the fantasy soccer game​ Cartola FC
Consumer critique
Consumption	Consumptive Play: The Reification of Capitalism in Grand Theft Auto Online
Consumption motivation	Effects of Game Design Features on Player-Avatar Relationships and Motivation for Buying Decorative Virtual Items
content analysis	Discourse at play: construction and professionalism of video-based game reviews
content creators	Game Over for Machinima: Fan and Creator Reactions to the Loss of Gaming Culture
context	Game Streaming Revisited: Some Observations on Marginal Practices and Contexts
conventions	Diversity and conformism on Twitch. The effects of the labor market for video game live streaming on artistic convention. People@Meeple: "it's a community thing"
Convergence	Authorial Affordance opportunities in App-Assisted Boardgames Free-to-Play: Converging or changing games, meaning and ways of play?
convergence culture	The theme park experience: Kingdom Hearts and the franchise
conversion	Port or conversion? An ontological framework for classifying game versions
coping	‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies
copyright	ROM Hacks, Randomizers, and Retro Games: Challenging Copyright and Remixing Zelda
corporate rhetoric	“Mute, Report, Block.”: Dissonance in Moderating Overwatch
craft	Who is a videogame developer? The politics of videogame maker identities Failure in Videogames: Similarities and Differences to Textile Craft
Crafts	Beyond the Recipe: A Critical Analysis of Craft in Games
crafts in games	Beyond the Recipe: A Critical Analysis of Craft in Games
crcade	Spatial Narrative Fragments: Contemporary Media Integration and Spatiality in Game Centers through the Case Study of SEGA GIGO Ikebukuro
Creative Agency	A Ludo Mix Perspective on Dynamic Game Characters
creative critique	Live Streaming and Research: New Directions
creative industry	Ludo Mix as an Aesthetic Experience: Designing Games for Franchises
creative practice	Live Streaming and Research: New Directions
creativity	Ludo Mix as an Aesthetic Experience: Designing Games for Franchises ctrl+R: Reflections on Prompting Reflective Game Design
creativity tool	Visualizing Diversity: A Character Design Tool For Creative Reflection
critical making	Beyond the Recipe: A Critical Analysis of Craft in Games
critical media industries studies	Breaking into the Polish Videogame Industry: Education, Informality and Inequality
critical media studies	Is this still participation? A case study of the disempowerment of player labourers
Critical reception	A Recipe for Disaster? The Emerging Ludo Mix and the Outsourcing of Narrative
critical theory	Fired in a blog post: The End of Heroes of the Storm Esports
Criticism	Epistemological Issues in Understanding Games Design, Play-Experience, and Reportage
critics	Discourse at play: construction and professionalism of video-based game reviews
cross-platform distribution	Character-Driven Narrative Engine. Storytelling System for Building Interactive Narrative Experiences
cryptogames	CryptoKitties and the New Ludic Economy: How blockchain introduces value, ownership, and scarcity in the digital world
CryptoKitties	CryptoKitties and the New Ludic Economy: How blockchain introduces value, ownership, and scarcity in the digital world
Crytek	New Media Ecosystems: Amazon and the Advancing Game Economy
Cultural differences
cultural domain	Playing with character information - Akihabara’s bishōjo-visual novel ludo-mix
cultural heritage	Sami Game Jam – Learning, Exploring, Reflecting and Sharing Indigenous Culture through Game Jamming The politics of game canonization: Tales from the frontlines of creating a national history of games
cultural industries	Is this still participation? A case study of the disempowerment of player labourers
Cultural intermediaries
cultural memory	Tracing the Histories of Videogame Piracy in Eastern Europe in the 1980s-1990s
Cultural production	Indie Game Studios and the Attention Economy: On route to actually participatory media?
Culture	Ludic Boredom: Discussing a Manifesto Meta/Style: Strategic Histories in Korean Esports
curation	‘Next Generation’: towards best practices in preserving, curating and exhibiting videogames
Curriculum	Negotiating Pedagogy and Play in the Games-as-text English classroom
curriculum design	Integrating Social Justice for Game Design and Development Curricula
custom games	From Artifact to Auto Chess: Dota 2’s Meta Media Mix
cyber security education	A Challenge of Developing Serious Games to Raise the Awareness of Cybersecurity Issues
Cyberbullying	You can troll your own way: Defining and discussing toxicity in online games
cybermedia	Musicking with Digital Games
cyclicality	Dawn of Machinic Cyclicality: Life as We Don’t Know It
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DADA	On the de-familiarizing and re-ontologizing effects of glitches and glitch-alikes
dance	Dancing with the Hands: Frictions with Videogames, Dance and Gender
dark play	Locating transgressions: Transgressive Play and Transgressive Aesthetics
Dark tourism	Bad Vibrations: The Auditory Experience of Digital Dark Tourism
data	The data assemblage of play: Videogame data analytics and surveillance
dating sim games	Playing for Love in the Age of Messaging Apps: Mystic Messenger and its Online Youth Fandom
Dating Sims	Revisiting Playbor: Extending the Ludo Mix into Media Industries
David Lynch	Exploring the Third Place: Reconstructing Gamer Subjectivity Through David Lynch’s Iconic Playstation Adverts.
De-familiarization	On the de-familiarizing and re-ontologizing effects of glitches and glitch-alikes
death	Perma-dying worlds and other mechanics of limiting the access to digital games
Defamiliarization	Constructing Haenyeo: Defamiliarzation and Sensemaking in the Game Design Process
Defiance	“More interaction, more story, more lore” : motivations related to game-centric transmedia
denationalization	Character construction and transnational branding: Super Mario’s 'Italianness'
Dependency Theory	Video Games Production Networks in the periphery: the Chilean case
design	Hybrid Board Game Design Guidelines At Your Service: Event-Based Design in Japanese Mobile Games Methods Beyond the Screen: Conducting remote player studies for game design research Play // Make: Media Mix Games as Controlled Open Reading GAMERella, Community Outreach and Inclusive Design Beyond the Recipe: A Critical Analysis of Craft in Games
design methods	Ludo Mix as an Aesthetic Experience: Designing Games for Franchises
design practice	Character-Driven Narrative Engine. Storytelling System for Building Interactive Narrative Experiences
Design Strategies	Strategies for Endogenous Design of Educational Games
Design-based Research	Constructing Haenyeo: Defamiliarzation and Sensemaking in the Game Design Process
Designer	Is There a Playfulness of Empathy? A Multidisciplinary Perspective
designer fallacy	God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’
Developer	Who is a videogame developer? The politics of videogame maker identities
developers	At Your Service: Event-Based Design in Japanese Mobile Games
development tools	A Taxonomy of Game Engines and the Tools that Drive the Industry
Deviant Leisure	Consumptive Play: The Reification of Capitalism in Grand Theft Auto Online
Dialogical teaching
digital cultural memory	Mythmaking and codebreaking: The hunt for GTAV’s Bigfoot and/as digital cultural memory
digital distribution	Automated Inequality: Behind the Apparent Neutrality of Steam’s Algorithmic Culture
Digital economy	The Impacts of Live Streaming on the Video Game Industry
digital ethnography	Firmware is Anything But Firm: Remembering and Forgetting the PlayStation Portable Homebrew Software Production Scene
digital fandoms	From Otome Road to #OtomeArmada: Towards a History of Otome Games and Gaming Cultures
Digital game based learning
digital games	“More interaction, more story, more lore” : motivations related to game-centric transmedia Negotiating Pedagogy and Play in the Games-as-text English classroom Beyond God’s Eye: on the Reliability of Gameworld Images How to Reference a Digital Game Is this still participation? A case study of the disempowerment of player labourers
digital media	Is this still participation? A case study of the disempowerment of player labourers
digital rights management	Firmware is Anything But Firm: Remembering and Forgetting the PlayStation Portable Homebrew Software Production Scene
digital scarcity	CryptoKitties and the New Ludic Economy: How blockchain introduces value, ownership, and scarcity in the digital world
digital-game peripheral products	Critical Thinking of ‘Excessive Indulgence of Playing Saps Ambitions (wan wu sang zhi)’: A Research on Urban Adolescents’ Consumption of Peripheral Products of Digital Games in Mainland China
Discord	ROM Hacks, Randomizers, and Retro Games: Challenging Copyright and Remixing Zelda
discourse	Defining Gaming Communities: A Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Case Study Discourse at play: construction and professionalism of video-based game reviews
discussion forum	Should the Monster Play Fair?: Reception of AI in Alien: Isolation
Disk-jockey	Game jockey as an intermediary between DJ practice and video games
Disney	The theme park experience: Kingdom Hearts and the franchise
diversity	Who is a videogame developer? The politics of videogame maker identities Visualizing Diversity: A Character Design Tool For Creative Reflection Spatial Reasoning: Re-Coding Spaces for Inclusive Informal Game Making ‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies
diversity in games	In Situ: Researching corporate diversity initiatives with game developers
Dota 2	The data assemblage of play: Videogame data analytics and surveillance From Artifact to Auto Chess: Dota 2’s Meta Media Mix Gaming DOTA Players: Iterative Platform Design and Capture
Douyin(TikTok)
Douyu.com	The interaction of discourse and acts: Games spectating as communication rituals in China
DualShock	A Typology of Rumble
dwelling	Dwelling in Digital Game Worlds
Dynamic Game Characters	A Ludo Mix Perspective on Dynamic Game Characters
Détournement	Video Game Détournement: Playing Across Media
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e-Mental Health	Gaming my way to recovery: Understanding how to integrate serious video games into youth mental health services
e-sport	The Awakening of the Goddess in Competitive League of Legends
e-sports	No Rivalry Without Commentary: Misja Esport Case Study
Eastern Europe	Tracing the Histories of Videogame Piracy in Eastern Europe in the 1980s-1990s
eco-critical	Expressions of care and concern in eco-critical computer game play
eco-system	The Business Model Network of eSports: The Case of Overwatch
ecocriticism	Expressions of care and concern in eco-critical computer game play
ecology	Expressions of care and concern in eco-critical computer game play
Education	Spatial Reasoning: Re-Coding Spaces for Inclusive Informal Game Making Teaching Industry Professional Adjuncts to Teach Videogame Development: No Tweed Allowed
educational design case	Designing a Digital Roleplaying Game to Foster Awareness of Hidden Disabilities
Educational Games	Strategies for Endogenous Design of Educational Games
Edward Soja	Exploring the Third Place: Reconstructing Gamer Subjectivity Through David Lynch’s Iconic Playstation Adverts.
effects	The experience of procedurality: effects and appreciation of persuasive gameplay rhetoric
electro-mechanical arcade	How Theme Park Rides Adapted the Shooting Gallery
electronic literature	The materiality on the hermeneutics of Chinese character-based playable media
embodiment	Processes of Roling: Mechanisms for Adopting Subjectivities in the Gameworld Failure in Videogames: Similarities and Differences to Textile Craft
Emergent Play	Adapting the Empty Orchestra: the Performance of Play in Karaoke
emotes	Games and Gestures - Remarks on Emotes in Digital Online Games
emotion	How Musical Leitmotifs Enhance Narration and Evoke Emotion
Emotions	Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries
empathy	Fostering ethics and morality in adult learning through gameplay Is There a Playfulness of Empathy? A Multidisciplinary Perspective Different Frames of Players and the Motivation of Prosocial Behavior in Digital Games
Empirical Study	The Relationship between Prior Gaming Experience and Consciousness of Computer Programming or Social Views on Information: An Empirical Study of High School Students in Japan
emulation	Slower, Squashed and Six Months Late! Remembering and forgetting Japanese videogames in Europe, 1991-2019 ROM Hacks, Randomizers, and Retro Games: Challenging Copyright and Remixing Zelda
emulators	ROM Hacks, Randomizers, and Retro Games: Challenging Copyright and Remixing Zelda
Endogenous Design	Strategies for Endogenous Design of Educational Games
English teaching	Negotiating Pedagogy and Play in the Games-as-text English classroom
enjoyment	The experience of procedurality: effects and appreciation of persuasive gameplay rhetoric
environment	Expressions of care and concern in eco-critical computer game play
ephemera	What a mess…: Navigating media mixes in the archive
Epistemology	Epistemological Issues in Understanding Games Design, Play-Experience, and Reportage
ergodicity	Musicking with Digital Games
escape rooms	Every Escape Room in this City: In Search of A Well-Played Game
esports	Skill, Streaming and Sociality in Contemporary Esports Framing Esports in Chinese University Campuses The Business Model Network of eSports: The Case of Overwatch Fired in a blog post: The End of Heroes of the Storm Esports Esports of Empire: The Platformization of ‘StarCraft’ Woke (Pro)Gaming: Or, Why We Need Critical Esports Studies “BECAUSE HE IS GAY LIKE ME (IM NOT JOKING)” THE ROLE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF PLAYABLE HEROES AND PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS IN OVERWATCH FANDOM Gaming in the Chinese Context Meta/Style: Strategic Histories in Korean Esports Esports Associationalism
eternal return	Perma-dying worlds and other mechanics of limiting the access to digital games
Ethereum	CryptoKitties and the New Ludic Economy: How blockchain introduces value, ownership, and scarcity in the digital world
Ethics	Fostering ethics and morality in adult learning through gameplay
Ethnography	Schoolyard Riot: League of Legends and High School Esports
EVE Online	Monetising memory? MMOGs, anniversaries, and ownership of the past Boundaries, Trust and Reputation in Virtual and Illicit Markets
events	People@Meeple: "it's a community thing"
EverQuest	Monetising memory? MMOGs, anniversaries, and ownership of the past
Everyday Space	Evolution of PC Bangs: Traditions and Trends in South Korea
Exergame	Exergaming Cognitive Functions: A Virtual Reality-Based Training for Older Adults
Exergames	The HOPE Project: from a serious game to an awareness campaign
exhibition	‘Next Generation’: towards best practices in preserving, curating and exhibiting videogames
existential ludology	God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’
experience
exploit	God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’
exploitation	Game Production beyond the Studio: From Playbour to Gamework
exploratory factor analysis	Challenge Types in Videogame Play
eye movement analysis	Using physiological response data to examine horror video game enjoyment
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Failure	Failure in Videogames: Similarities and Differences to Textile Craft Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries
Fallout	Romance Never Changes…Or Does It?: Fallout, Queerness, and Mods Categorizing Morality Systems Through the Lens of Fallout
Fan Studies	Into the Meta Mix: Kingdom Hearts and the transnational remediation and adaptation of Japanese and American IP
fan tourism	Promoting Yokosuka via Video Game Tourism: The case of the Shenmue Sacred Spot Guide Map
fandom	Game Over for Machinima: Fan and Creator Reactions to the Loss of Gaming Culture Cities appropriate Pokémon GO: Remix models for local needs “BECAUSE HE IS GAY LIKE ME (IM NOT JOKING)” THE ROLE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF PLAYABLE HEROES AND PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS IN OVERWATCH FANDOM
fans	Game Production beyond the Studio: From Playbour to Gamework
Fantasy sports	The “not so” Beautiful Game: a study on Brazilian players of the fantasy soccer game​ Cartola FC
Fear	Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries
female protagonists
feminist action research	In Situ: Researching corporate diversity initiatives with game developers
feminist games studies	In Situ: Researching corporate diversity initiatives with game developers
feminist philosophy	A TRU Proposal to the Ladies, through #selfcare, Mary Astell, and Xenofeminism
feminist research	‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies
Fiction	Belief-Discordant Alief: A Common Denominator of Fiction and Non-Fictional Games Glitches as Fictional (Mis)Communication Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries Radical game fictionalism
Fictional Stance	Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries
Fictionalism	Radical game fictionalism
field	Who is a videogame developer? The politics of videogame maker identities
Final Fantasy	Into the Meta Mix: Kingdom Hearts and the transnational remediation and adaptation of Japanese and American IP
Final Fantasy VII	Fast Times in FINAL FANTASY VII: Modern Anxieties, Postmodern Hopes
Final Fantasy XV	A Recipe for Disaster? The Emerging Ludo Mix and the Outsourcing of Narrative
Finland	Examining the Gaming Subcultures through the Lens of Finnish Game Journalism: From the 1980s to the 2010s
Finnish gamers
firmware	Firmware is Anything But Firm: Remembering and Forgetting the PlayStation Portable Homebrew Software Production Scene
flipped learning	Gamifying Flipped Learning for Promoting Students’ Online Participation
FMV games	Return of the “video” game: Extracting FMV design knowledge for future games
formal analysis	Structuring Gametime. A Typology of the Temporal Constituents of Video Games
fortnite	Games and Gestures - Remarks on Emotes in Digital Online Games
frame analysis	Framing Esports in Chinese University Campuses Different Frames of Players and the Motivation of Prosocial Behavior in Digital Games
frameworks	A Critical Framework for Games
Framing	How to Reference a Digital Game
franchise	The theme park experience: Kingdom Hearts and the franchise
Fredric Jameson	Complexity, Mystagogy, and the Limits of the ‘Analytical’ Learning Cycle
free-to-play	The imbalanced state of free-to-play game research: A literature review Who Creates Microtransactions: The Production Context of Video Game Monetization Free-to-Play: Converging or changing games, meaning and ways of play?
freemium	The imbalanced state of free-to-play game research: A literature review
G
Gamblification	Gaming DOTA Players: Iterative Platform Design and Capture
Gambling	What do Game Developers Think about Loot Boxes? Gaming, Gambling & the New Monetization of Digital Play
game aesthetics
game analysis	Beyond Procedurality: Situating The Witness in the Proceduralism Debate
game appropriation	Free-to-Play: Converging or changing games, meaning and ways of play?
game archiving	The politics of game canonization: Tales from the frontlines of creating a national history of games
game business	Is this still participation? A case study of the disempowerment of player labourers
game characters	Male and Female Game Players’ Preferences for Game Characters and Real-world Personalities in Japan
Game consumption	What do Game Developers Think about Loot Boxes?
Game critique	A Critical Framework for Games
game culture	Locating transgressions: Transgressive Play and Transgressive Aesthetics Free-to-Play: Converging or changing games, meaning and ways of play?
Game Definitions	How to Reference a Digital Game
game design	"Can you send me a photo?" - A Game-Based Approach for Increasing Young Children’s Risk Awareness to Prevent Online Sexual Grooming Bridging Meaningful Play and Playful Learning - Supporting the Design Process of Gamification in Education Fostering ethics and morality in adult learning through gameplay Ludo Mix as an Aesthetic Experience: Designing Games for Franchises Exploring the Role of Narrative Puzzles in Game Storytelling Adapting the Empty Orchestra: the Performance of Play in Karaoke A TRU Proposal to the Ladies, through #selfcare, Mary Astell, and Xenofeminism Is There a Playfulness of Empathy? A Multidisciplinary Perspective Methods Beyond the Screen: Conducting remote player studies for game design research Exploring How Changes in Game Systems Generate Meaning Effects of Game Design Features on Player-Avatar Relationships and Motivation for Buying Decorative Virtual Items ctrl+R: Reflections on Prompting Reflective Game Design God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’ Every Escape Room in this City: In Search of A Well-Played Game Epistemological Issues in Understanding Games Design, Play-Experience, and Reportage
game design education	Ludonarrative in Game Design Education – a Concrete Approach Integrating Social Justice for Game Design and Development Curricula
game design patterns	Return of the “video” game: Extracting FMV design knowledge for future games
Game Developers Conference	GDC vs. DiGRA: Gaps in Game Production Research
game development	Live Streaming and Research: New Directions The Unintended Consequences of Using Twitch as a University Professor Constructing Haenyeo: Defamiliarzation and Sensemaking in the Game Design Process Designing a Digital Roleplaying Game to Foster Awareness of Hidden Disabilities On the Local Value of Game Jam Games: Beyond Learning from the Process Indie Game Studios and the Attention Economy: On route to actually participatory media? What do Game Developers Think about Loot Boxes? A Recipe for Disaster? The Emerging Ludo Mix and the Outsourcing of Narrative A Taxonomy of Game Engines and the Tools that Drive the Industry In Situ: Researching corporate diversity initiatives with game developers Spatial Reasoning: Re-Coding Spaces for Inclusive Informal Game Making Teaching Industry Professional Adjuncts to Teach Videogame Development: No Tweed Allowed
game economy	CryptoKitties and the New Ludic Economy: How blockchain introduces value, ownership, and scarcity in the digital world
Game Engine	A Taxonomy of Game Engines and the Tools that Drive the Industry New Media Ecosystems: Amazon and the Advancing Game Economy
game hermeneutics	God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’
game history	Joy Family: Japanese Board Games in the Post-War Shōwa Period Examining the Gaming Subcultures through the Lens of Finnish Game Journalism: From the 1980s to the 2010s
Game Industry	Indie Game Studios and the Attention Economy: On route to actually participatory media? Tracing the Histories of Videogame Piracy in Eastern Europe in the 1980s-1990s Revisiting Playbor: Extending the Ludo Mix into Media Industries GDC vs. DiGRA: Gaps in Game Production Research
game jam	A Challenge of Developing Serious Games to Raise the Awareness of Cybersecurity Issues GAMERella, Community Outreach and Inclusive Design ctrl+R: Reflections on Prompting Reflective Game Design
game jams	Sami Game Jam – Learning, Exploring, Reflecting and Sharing Indigenous Culture through Game Jamming On the Local Value of Game Jam Games: Beyond Learning from the Process
game journalism	Examining the Gaming Subcultures through the Lens of Finnish Game Journalism: From the 1980s to the 2010s
Game live-streaming	The interaction of discourse and acts: Games spectating as communication rituals in China
game mechanics	"Is This Really Happening?": Game Mechanics as Unreliable Narrator Beyond the Recipe: A Critical Analysis of Craft in Games Exploring How Changes in Game Systems Generate Meaning “For the Horde”: Players’ Collaborative Actions in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
game mods	From Artifact to Auto Chess: Dota 2’s Meta Media Mix
game museum	The politics of game canonization: Tales from the frontlines of creating a national history of games
game narrator	"Is This Really Happening?": Game Mechanics as Unreliable Narrator
Game ontology	God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’
game performance	Exploring the Effects of VR Gameplay Videos on Performance and Experience
Game Policies	Introduction to Chinese Game Policies
game policy	Gaming in the Chinese Context
game preservation	The politics of game canonization: Tales from the frontlines of creating a national history of games
Game Production	On the Local Value of Game Jam Games: Beyond Learning from the Process GDC vs. DiGRA: Gaps in Game Production Research
game reception	Should the Monster Play Fair?: Reception of AI in Alien: Isolation
Game Research	GDC vs. DiGRA: Gaps in Game Production Research
game reviews	Discourse at play: construction and professionalism of video-based game reviews
Game spectator-ship	The interaction of discourse and acts: Games spectating as communication rituals in China
game studies	Video game’s intermediality and localization practices Who said anything about games? – Tracing the prehistory of game studies (1980-1996) Describing the Game Studies Canon: A Game Citation Analysis ‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies The “not so” Beautiful Game: a study on Brazilian players of the fantasy soccer game​ Cartola FC The Current Canon of Games Research: An Analysis of the Most Cited Publications Current Trends of Retro Gaming Research and Ludo Mix in the Context of Retro Gaming Japanese Role-Playing Games in the Ludo Mix: Paradigms, Practices, and Challenges
game textuality
game tourism	Promoting Yokosuka via Video Game Tourism: The case of the Shenmue Sacred Spot Guide Map
game-based learning	Learning Through Game Design - Is This Deep Learning? "Can you send me a photo?" - A Game-Based Approach for Increasing Young Children’s Risk Awareness to Prevent Online Sexual Grooming Bridging Meaningful Play and Playful Learning - Supporting the Design Process of Gamification in Education
game-centric transmedia	“More interaction, more story, more lore” : motivations related to game-centric transmedia
game-studies studies	Who said anything about games? – Tracing the prehistory of game studies (1980-1996)
gameplay	The Affective Messaging of Gameplay Livestream Viewers Fostering ethics and morality in adult learning through gameplay Sites of Play: Locating Gameplace in Red Dead Redemption 2 Free-to-Play: Converging or changing games, meaning and ways of play?
gameplay experience	Exploring the Effects of VR Gameplay Videos on Performance and Experience
gameplay video	Exploring the Effects of VR Gameplay Videos on Performance and Experience
gamer	Locating transgressions: Transgressive Play and Transgressive Aesthetics
gamer habitus	Consciously working on one’s game: the mutual constitution of habitus and identity
gamergate	‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies
gamers	You can troll your own way: Defining and discussing toxicity in online games Remixing Masculinities: Identity and Intersectionality in Video Gaming
games	The imbalanced state of free-to-play game research: A literature review Belief-Discordant Alief: A Common Denominator of Fiction and Non-Fictional Games Ludic Boredom: Discussing a Manifesto YouTubers and Real Games: Examining the Discourse of Play Itself ROM Hacks, Randomizers, and Retro Games: Challenging Copyright and Remixing Zelda Radical game fictionalism
games as a service	Games and Gestures - Remarks on Emotes in Digital Online Games
games for change	Localism with (Serious) Games: Horizontal Channels and Models
games industry	The Impacts of Live Streaming on the Video Game Industry Game Production beyond the Studio: From Playbour to Gamework Challenges and Opportunities for Collective Action in Local Games Industries
games philosophy	A TRU Proposal to the Ladies, through #selfcare, Mary Astell, and Xenofeminism
games spectatorship	The Unintended Consequences of Using Twitch as a University Professor
games-as-services	At Your Service: Event-Based Design in Japanese Mobile Games
gamework	Game Production beyond the Studio: From Playbour to Gamework Challenges and Opportunities for Collective Action in Local Games Industries
gameworld	Sites of Play: Locating Gameplace in Red Dead Redemption 2 Processes of Roling: Mechanisms for Adopting Subjectivities in the Gameworld
gamification	The Gamification of Tactical Thinking; Linking Gamification with Spatial Concepts. Gamifying Flipped Learning for Promoting Students’ Online Participation Bridging Meaningful Play and Playful Learning - Supporting the Design Process of Gamification in Education Revisiting Playbor: Extending the Ludo Mix into Media Industries An Attempt to Develop SIR (“shit-game is real”) Index
gamified learning	Gamifying Flipped Learning for Promoting Students’ Online Participation
gaming	Gaming in the Chinese Context
Gaming communities	Indie Game Studios and the Attention Economy: On route to actually participatory media? Playing Polybius: Navigating Marginalizing Discourses on Youth and Gaming Through Myth Transgression Defining Gaming Communities: A Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Case Study
gaming community	Fired in a blog post: The End of Heroes of the Storm Esports
Gaming Culture	Evolution of PC Bangs: Traditions and Trends in South Korea
Gaming Disorder	Meta-analysis and systematic review of recent literature on gaming disorder
Gaming history
gaming social capital	Me, myself and others: Connecting player identification to gaming social capital
Gaming Spectatorship	Audience perception in artistic audiovisual game performances
gender	Does Jumin Han Is Gay?: Cultural Hybridity, and the Intimate Economies of Otome Games in English Toeing the Gender Line: Unpacking Gendered Video Game Spaces Building a Gamer: Player Preferences and Motivations Across Gender and Genre From Otome Road to #OtomeArmada: Towards a History of Otome Games and Gaming Cultures
gender and sexuality	Playing for Love in the Age of Messaging Apps: Mystic Messenger and its Online Youth Fandom
gender stereotypes	Male and Female Game Players’ Preferences for Game Characters and Real-world Personalities in Japan
gender studies
Germany	Loot boxes in Germany: political players, public perception and legislation
gig economy	Challenges and Opportunities for Collective Action in Local Games Industries
glitch	Meaningful Transformation: Intraactivity and Video Games God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’ On the de-familiarizing and re-ontologizing effects of glitches and glitch-alikes
Glitch-alike	On the de-familiarizing and re-ontologizing effects of glitches and glitch-alikes
Glitches	Glitches as Fictional (Mis)Communication
Global Production Networks	Video Games Production Networks in the periphery: the Chilean case
Go	Meta/Style: Strategic Histories in Korean Esports
Gone Home	Emergent Threat or Residual Trace: Reassembling the Indie Sector as an Interdependent Sociotechnical Practice
governance	Esports Associationalism
Grand Theft Auto	Consumptive Play: The Reification of Capitalism in Grand Theft Auto Online
green game studies	Expressions of care and concern in eco-critical computer game play
grey import	Slower, Squashed and Six Months Late! Remembering and forgetting Japanese videogames in Europe, 1991-2019
guidelines	Hybrid Board Game Design Guidelines
H
habitus	Consciously working on one’s game: the mutual constitution of habitus and identity
hacking and user-production culture	Firmware is Anything But Firm: Remembering and Forgetting the PlayStation Portable Homebrew Software Production Scene
Haptic feedback	A Typology of Rumble
haptic media studies	Ready to Rumble: Hypermasculine Touch and Nintendo’s HD Rumble
haptic preparedness	Living in the Present: Rethinking the Paradox of Suspense through Videogames
haptics	Ready to Rumble: Hypermasculine Touch and Nintendo’s HD Rumble
harm	Boundaries, Trust and Reputation in Virtual and Illicit Markets
Hauntology	Rock Stars & Plastic Guitars: Designing & Playing with Captured Experiences in Music Videogames
health	Framing Esports in Chinese University Campuses
Health Literacy	The HOPE Project: from a serious game to an awareness campaign
Health Promotion	The HOPE Project: from a serious game to an awareness campaign
Hegemony	Toeing the Gender Line: Unpacking Gendered Video Game Spaces GAMERella, Community Outreach and Inclusive Design
Hegemony of Play	Exploring the Third Place: Reconstructing Gamer Subjectivity Through David Lynch’s Iconic Playstation Adverts.
hermeneutics	The materiality on the hermeneutics of Chinese character-based playable media Should the Monster Play Fair?: Reception of AI in Alien: Isolation
hexis	Consciously working on one’s game: the mutual constitution of habitus and identity
High School	Schoolyard Riot: League of Legends and High School Esports
High School Students	The Relationship between Prior Gaming Experience and Consciousness of Computer Programming or Social Views on Information: An Empirical Study of High School Students in Japan
Higher-Order Thinking Skills	Learning Through Game Design - Is This Deep Learning?
historical consciousness	Games as a Recall for Popular Memory in Taiwan: Revealing the Procedural Rhetorics in Pan-Political Indie games of Raid on Taihoku and Detention
history	Tracing the Histories of Videogame Piracy in Eastern Europe in the 1980s-1990s Introduction to Chinese Game Policies Meta/Style: Strategic Histories in Korean Esports Monetising memory? MMOGs, anniversaries, and ownership of the past The Uses of Ludobiography: Life Writing and Game Studies What a mess…: Navigating media mixes in the archive
history of homebrew software production	Firmware is Anything But Firm: Remembering and Forgetting the PlayStation Portable Homebrew Software Production Scene
hobbyist	Game Production beyond the Studio: From Playbour to Gamework
home	Dwelling in Digital Game Worlds
homophobia
Hong Kong	Schoolyard Riot: League of Legends and High School Esports On the Local Value of Game Jam Games: Beyond Learning from the Process
hope labour	Is this still participation? A case study of the disempowerment of player labourers
horror entertainment	Using physiological response data to examine horror video game enjoyment
horror game consumption	Using physiological response data to examine horror video game enjoyment
human	Dawn of Machinic Cyclicality: Life as We Don’t Know It
hybrid	Hybrid Board Game Design Guidelines
hybridity	Authorial Affordance opportunities in App-Assisted Boardgames Does Jumin Han Is Gay?: Cultural Hybridity, and the Intimate Economies of Otome Games in English
I
identity	Who is a videogame developer? The politics of videogame maker identities You can troll your own way: Defining and discussing toxicity in online games Remixing Masculinities: Identity and Intersectionality in Video Gaming The Marketing of a Controversial Identity: A Case Study on Chinese Parents The Uses of Ludobiography: Life Writing and Game Studies Co-Constructing Virtual Identities: Insights from Linguistic Analysis Polygonal Modeling: The Aestheticization of Identity
Identity construction；
ideology	Observant play: colonial readings in Breath of the Wild
IGD	Meta-analysis and systematic review of recent literature on gaming disorder
imaginary	The Marketing of a Controversial Identity: A Case Study on Chinese Parents
imagination	Mechanical Narrative: The Relationship Between Rules and Narrative in Boardgame Design
Imagination gap	Co-creating serious game for sustainability transition: Case study of the Serious Board Game Jam 2018 in Kyoto
immersion	Using physiological response data to examine horror video game enjoyment
in-game behaviors	Different Frames of Players and the Motivation of Prosocial Behavior in Digital Games
in-game monetization	Who Creates Microtransactions: The Production Context of Video Game Monetization
inclusive design	Visualizing Diversity: A Character Design Tool For Creative Reflection
Incoherence	Glitches as Fictional (Mis)Communication
index	An Attempt to Develop SIR (“shit-game is real”) Index
Indexicality	Rock Stars & Plastic Guitars: Designing & Playing with Captured Experiences in Music Videogames
indie game	The Marketing of a Controversial Identity: A Case Study on Chinese Parents
indie games	Games as a Recall for Popular Memory in Taiwan: Revealing the Procedural Rhetorics in Pan-Political Indie games of Raid on Taihoku and Detention Emergent Threat or Residual Trace: Reassembling the Indie Sector as an Interdependent Sociotechnical Practice
Indie labour	Indie Game Studios and the Attention Economy: On route to actually participatory media?
Indiepocalypse	Emergent Threat or Residual Trace: Reassembling the Indie Sector as an Interdependent Sociotechnical Practice
Indies	Indie Game Studios and the Attention Economy: On route to actually participatory media?
indigenous cultures	Sami Game Jam – Learning, Exploring, Reflecting and Sharing Indigenous Culture through Game Jamming
Indigenous Knowledge	Playful Explorations of Indigenous Cartography
industry	At Your Service: Event-Based Design in Japanese Mobile Games Who is a videogame developer? The politics of videogame maker identities Esports of Empire: The Platformization of ‘StarCraft’
Industry Partners	Teaching Industry Professional Adjuncts to Teach Videogame Development: No Tweed Allowed
informal economy	Tracing the Histories of Videogame Piracy in Eastern Europe in the 1980s-1990s
informality	Breaking into the Polish Videogame Industry: Education, Informality and Inequality
instructional design	Bridging Meaningful Play and Playful Learning - Supporting the Design Process of Gamification in Education
Intellectual Property	The Mobile Suit Gundam Franchise: a Case Study of Transmedia Storytelling Practices and the Role of Digital Games in Japan
intentional fallacy	God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’
Interaction Mapping	Gaming DOTA Players: Iterative Platform Design and Capture
interactive data visualization	Visualizing Diversity: A Character Design Tool For Creative Reflection
interactive digital narrative (IDN)	Ludonarrative in Game Design Education – a Concrete Approach
interactive fiction	Who said anything about games? – Tracing the prehistory of game studies (1980-1996)
interactive narrative	Exploring the Role of Narrative Puzzles in Game Storytelling Exploring How Changes in Game Systems Generate Meaning Character-Driven Narrative Engine. Storytelling System for Building Interactive Narrative Experiences
interactive narrative design	Ludonarrative in Game Design Education – a Concrete Approach
interactivity	Procedural and Promotional Rhetorics of Participation in Digital Games
interdisciplinary research	Player Persona Research
interface
Internet Gaming Disorder	Meta-analysis and systematic review of recent literature on gaming disorder
Internet of Things
intersectionality	Visualizing Diversity: A Character Design Tool For Creative Reflection Remixing Masculinities: Identity and Intersectionality in Video Gaming
intertextuality	Dialogue or Monologue? Intertextuality as Allegation in Child of Light and My Memory of Us Modding the Waste Land: Intertextual Mutation Between Games and Poems Dragonborn is for Porn. The intertextual semiotics of the TESV: Skyrim fan made pornographic modifications
interview
interviews	‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies
Intimacy	Does Jumin Han Is Gay?: Cultural Hybridity, and the Intimate Economies of Otome Games in English The Path That Lies Ahead: Intimacy Through Overwhelmedness in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Intra-action	Meaningful Transformation: Intraactivity and Video Games
Intrinsic Integration	Strategies for Endogenous Design of Educational Games
Introduction	Introduction to Chinese Game Policies
Italy	Character construction and transnational branding: Super Mario’s 'Italianness'
iteration
J
Japan	Character construction and transnational branding: Super Mario’s 'Italianness' Male and Female Game Players’ Preferences for Game Characters and Real-world Personalities in Japan Spatial Narrative Fragments: Contemporary Media Integration and Spatiality in Game Centers through the Case Study of SEGA GIGO Ikebukuro
Japanese games	Joy Family: Japanese Board Games in the Post-War Shōwa Period
Japanese postmodernity	Fast Times in FINAL FANTASY VII: Modern Anxieties, Postmodern Hopes
Japanese Role-Playing Games	Japanese Role-Playing Games in the Ludo Mix: Paradigms, Practices, and Challenges
Japanese Studies	Japanese Role-Playing Games in the Ludo Mix: Paradigms, Practices, and Challenges
Japanese videogames
JRPG	How Musical Leitmotifs Enhance Narration and Evoke Emotion
junk	What a mess…: Navigating media mixes in the archive
K
Karen Barad	Meaningful Transformation: Intraactivity and Video Games
karma	Categorizing Morality Systems Through the Lens of Fallout
Kingdom Hearts	Trapped in the Ludo Mix: Kingdom Hearts and the Failed Bildungsroman The theme park experience: Kingdom Hearts and the franchise
Kingdom Hearts franchise	Into the Meta Mix: Kingdom Hearts and the transnational remediation and adaptation of Japanese and American IP
Knowledge-action gap	Co-creating serious game for sustainability transition: Case study of the Serious Board Game Jam 2018 in Kyoto
Korea	Meta/Style: Strategic Histories in Korean Esports
Korean History	Constructing Haenyeo: Defamiliarzation and Sensemaking in the Game Design Process
L
labor market	Diversity and conformism on Twitch. The effects of the labor market for video game live streaming on artistic convention.
labour	The Impacts of Live Streaming on the Video Game Industry Game Production beyond the Studio: From Playbour to Gamework Challenges and Opportunities for Collective Action in Local Games Industries
language	Co-Constructing Virtual Identities: Insights from Linguistic Analysis
larp	Transcultural Learning and Live-Action Role-Play in Japan
Latin America	Video Games Production Networks in the periphery: the Chilean case
Law	Esports of Empire: The Platformization of ‘StarCraft’
league of legends	The Awakening of the Goddess in Competitive League of Legends Schoolyard Riot: League of Legends and High School Esports
learning	ctrl+R: Reflections on Prompting Reflective Game Design
Learning Mechanics	Learning Through Game Design - Is This Deep Learning?
Learning Through Game Design	Learning Through Game Design - Is This Deep Learning?
Legal regulation	Boundaries, Trust and Reputation in Virtual and Illicit Markets
Leitmotif	How Musical Leitmotifs Enhance Narration and Evoke Emotion
let’s play
let’s-play
life narration	Critical Thinking of ‘Excessive Indulgence of Playing Saps Ambitions (wan wu sang zhi)’: A Research on Urban Adolescents’ Consumption of Peripheral Products of Digital Games in Mainland China
life writing	The Uses of Ludobiography: Life Writing and Game Studies
Literature Review	The imbalanced state of free-to-play game research: A literature review GDC vs. DiGRA: Gaps in Game Production Research Introduction to Chinese Game Policies
live performance	Game jockey as an intermediary between DJ practice and video games
Live streaming	Live Streaming and Research: New Directions Skill, Streaming and Sociality in Contemporary Esports The Impacts of Live Streaming on the Video Game Industry Diversity and conformism on Twitch. The effects of the labor market for video game live streaming on artistic convention.
live-action role-play	Transcultural Learning and Live-Action Role-Play in Japan
lived experience	‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies
livestreaming	The Affective Messaging of Gameplay Livestream Viewers
local	Loot boxes in Germany: political players, public perception and legislation
local meaning	On the Local Value of Game Jam Games: Beyond Learning from the Process
localisation	Slower, Squashed and Six Months Late! Remembering and forgetting Japanese videogames in Europe, 1991-2019
localism	Localism with (Serious) Games: Horizontal Channels and Models
Localization	Joy Family: Japanese Board Games in the Post-War Shōwa Period Translating and Localizing Games in Global Contexts
location
Location Based Games	Playful Explorations of Indigenous Cartography
location-based	Localism with (Serious) Games: Horizontal Channels and Models Cities appropriate Pokémon GO: Remix models for local needs
location-based games	Middle-aged Players & Memorable Moments with Pokémon GO
location-based gaming	Playable Cities Now
Locative Games	Contested Space in Playable Cities
loot box	Analyzing random reward system mechanics and social perception Who Creates Microtransactions: The Production Context of Video Game Monetization Loot boxes in Germany: political players, public perception and legislation
Loot boxes	What do Game Developers Think about Loot Boxes? Gaming, Gambling & the New Monetization of Digital Play
ludic sublime	Should the Monster Play Fair?: Reception of AI in Alien: Isolation
ludo mix	A Recipe for Disaster? The Emerging Ludo Mix and the Outsourcing of Narrative Ludo Mix as an Aesthetic Experience: Designing Games for Franchises Modding the Waste Land: Intertextual Mutation Between Games and Poems Play // Make: Media Mix Games as Controlled Open Reading A Ludo Mix Perspective on Dynamic Game Characters Japanese Role-Playing Games in the Ludo Mix: Paradigms, Practices, and Challenges
ludo-mix	Playing with character information - Akihabara’s bishōjo-visual novel ludo-mix
Ludo-narrative debate	Who said anything about games? – Tracing the prehistory of game studies (1980-1996)
ludocriticism	A Critical Framework for Games
Ludology	Games on Working, Games on Gaming, Working on Games, and Games on Working on Games: On the self-referentiality that entangles neoliberal play and work
Ludonarrative pedagogy	Ludonarrative in Game Design Education – a Concrete Approach
Lumberyard	New Media Ecosystems: Amazon and the Advancing Game Economy
Lusory Attitude	Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries
M
Machinima	Game Over for Machinima: Fan and Creator Reactions to the Loss of Gaming Culture
Magic Circle	“Monopoly” in Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces
magic cycle	Complexity, Mystagogy, and the Limits of the ‘Analytical’ Learning Cycle
Magical Realism	On the de-familiarizing and re-ontologizing effects of glitches and glitch-alikes
Make-Believe	Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries
mapping	Beyond God’s Eye: on the Reliability of Gameworld Images
maps	Beyond God’s Eye: on the Reliability of Gameworld Images
Marginalized People	GAMERella, Community Outreach and Inclusive Design
marketing	The Marketing of a Controversial Identity: A Case Study on Chinese Parents
masculinities	Remixing Masculinities: Identity and Intersectionality in Video Gaming
Masculinity	Dancing with the Hands: Frictions with Videogames, Dance and Gender Ready to Rumble: Hypermasculine Touch and Nintendo’s HD Rumble
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games	Me, myself and others: Connecting player identification to gaming social capital
meaningful play experience	Character-Driven Narrative Engine. Storytelling System for Building Interactive Narrative Experiences
mechanics	Mechanical Narrative: The Relationship Between Rules and Narrative in Boardgame Design
media	Towards an analysis of virtual realism
media archaeology	Mythmaking and codebreaking: The hunt for GTAV’s Bigfoot and/as digital cultural memory How Theme Park Rides Adapted the Shooting Gallery
media art	The materiality on the hermeneutics of Chinese character-based playable media
media consumption	Game Streaming Revisited: Some Observations on Marginal Practices and Contexts
media mix	Authorial Affordance opportunities in App-Assisted Boardgames The Mobile Suit Gundam Franchise: a Case Study of Transmedia Storytelling Practices and the Role of Digital Games in Japan A Recipe for Disaster? The Emerging Ludo Mix and the Outsourcing of Narrative Into the Meta Mix: Kingdom Hearts and the transnational remediation and adaptation of Japanese and American IP Play // Make: Media Mix Games as Controlled Open Reading Taiko no Tatsujin: Musical literacy in the Media Mix Playing with character information - Akihabara’s bishōjo-visual novel ludo-mix What a mess…: Navigating media mixes in the archive Spatial Narrative Fragments: Contemporary Media Integration and Spatiality in Game Centers through the Case Study of SEGA GIGO Ikebukuro A Ludo Mix Perspective on Dynamic Game Characters
Media translation	Video game’s intermediality and localization practices
media-archeology	Games on Working, Games on Gaming, Working on Games, and Games on Working on Games: On the self-referentiality that entangles neoliberal play and work
Medicalization	Meta-analysis and systematic review of recent literature on gaming disorder
melancholia	Replaying the Past: Wholesome Nostalgia or Morbid Melancholia?
Meme Culture
Memory	Monetising memory? MMOGs, anniversaries, and ownership of the past Epistemological Issues in Understanding Games Design, Play-Experience, and Reportage
Mental disorders	Gaming my way to recovery: Understanding how to integrate serious video games into youth mental health services
Mental health	Gaming my way to recovery: Understanding how to integrate serious video games into youth mental health services Designing a Digital Roleplaying Game to Foster Awareness of Hidden Disabilities
men’s health	Ready to Rumble: Hypermasculine Touch and Nintendo’s HD Rumble
Merging Space	“Monopoly” in Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces
Meta	The Current Canon of Games Research: An Analysis of the Most Cited Publications
meta review	Current Trends of Retro Gaming Research and Ludo Mix in the Context of Retro Gaming
Meta-nalysis	Meta-analysis and systematic review of recent literature on gaming disorder
metagames	From Artifact to Auto Chess: Dota 2’s Meta Media Mix Every Escape Room in this City: In Search of A Well-Played Game
metalepsis	"Is This Really Happening?": Game Mechanics as Unreliable Narrator
methodology	Woke (Pro)Gaming: Or, Why We Need Critical Esports Studies Current Trends of Retro Gaming Research and Ludo Mix in the Context of Retro Gaming What a mess…: Navigating media mixes in the archive
methods	Methods Beyond the Screen: Conducting remote player studies for game design research
Metrics	Counting Clicks: Gameplay Metrics, Power and the Body Politics of Competitive Videogames
micro transactions	Loot boxes in Germany: political players, public perception and legislation
micro-celebrity	The interaction of discourse and acts: Games spectating as communication rituals in China YouTubers and Real Games: Examining the Discourse of Play Itself
microtransactions	Who Creates Microtransactions: The Production Context of Video Game Monetization Gaming, Gambling & the New Monetization of Digital Play
middle-aged players	Middle-aged Players & Memorable Moments with Pokémon GO
midway games	How Theme Park Rides Adapted the Shooting Gallery
militarism	Woke (Pro)Gaming: Or, Why We Need Critical Esports Studies
Minecraft	Multimodal analysis of using video game Minecraft to study BA-construction in Chinese
Miscommunication	Glitches as Fictional (Mis)Communication
Misery	Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries
mix	Game jockey as an intermediary between DJ practice and video games
mixed-method	Player Persona Research
MMOG	Monetising memory? MMOGs, anniversaries, and ownership of the past
MMORPGs
Mobile	“Monopoly” in Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces
mobile game
mobile games	At Your Service: Event-Based Design in Japanese Mobile Games Playing for Love in the Age of Messaging Apps: Mystic Messenger and its Online Youth Fandom
Modding	Dragonborn is for Porn. The intertextual semiotics of the TESV: Skyrim fan made pornographic modifications Romance Never Changes…Or Does It?: Fallout, Queerness, and Mods
moderation	“Mute, Report, Block.”: Dissonance in Moderating Overwatch
Modernism	On the de-familiarizing and re-ontologizing effects of glitches and glitch-alikes
modification
Mods	Romance Never Changes…Or Does It?: Fallout, Queerness, and Mods
Monetization	What do Game Developers Think about Loot Boxes? Gaming, Gambling & the New Monetization of Digital Play Loot boxes in Germany: political players, public perception and legislation
monster	Locating transgressions: Transgressive Play and Transgressive Aesthetics
monstrosity	Locating transgressions: Transgressive Play and Transgressive Aesthetics
moral judgement	Categorizing Morality Systems Through the Lens of Fallout
moral panic	Playing Polybius: Navigating Marginalizing Discourses on Youth and Gaming Through Myth Transgression
Moral philosophy
morality	Fostering ethics and morality in adult learning through gameplay
morality systems	Categorizing Morality Systems Through the Lens of Fallout
motif	How Musical Leitmotifs Enhance Narration and Evoke Emotion
Motion Capture	Rock Stars & Plastic Guitars: Designing & Playing with Captured Experiences in Music Videogames
motivation	Game Streaming Revisited: Some Observations on Marginal Practices and Contexts “More interaction, more story, more lore” : motivations related to game-centric transmedia
motivation to play	The Comparative Self: Understanding the Motivation to Play and the Subsequent Video Game Use
motivations	Building a Gamer: Player Preferences and Motivations Across Gender and Genre
museum	‘Next Generation’: towards best practices in preserving, curating and exhibiting videogames
music	Taiko no Tatsujin: Musical literacy in the Media Mix Bad Vibrations: The Auditory Experience of Digital Dark Tourism How Musical Leitmotifs Enhance Narration and Evoke Emotion
Music & Rhythm Games	Rock Stars & Plastic Guitars: Designing & Playing with Captured Experiences in Music Videogames
Music Games	Audience perception in artistic audiovisual game performances
musicking	Musicking with Digital Games Taiko no Tatsujin: Musical literacy in the Media Mix
musicology	Musicking with Digital Games
mutation	Modding the Waste Land: Intertextual Mutation Between Games and Poems
mystagogy	Complexity, Mystagogy, and the Limits of the ‘Analytical’ Learning Cycle
Mystic Messenger	Playing for Love in the Age of Messaging Apps: Mystic Messenger and its Online Youth Fandom
Myth of Sisyphus	Trapped in the Ludo Mix: Kingdom Hearts and the Failed Bildungsroman
N
narration	How Musical Leitmotifs Enhance Narration and Evoke Emotion
narrative	A Recipe for Disaster? The Emerging Ludo Mix and the Outsourcing of Narrative Mechanical Narrative: The Relationship Between Rules and Narrative in Boardgame Design
narrative design	Exploring the Role of Narrative Puzzles in Game Storytelling
Narrative puzzle	Exploring the Role of Narrative Puzzles in Game Storytelling
narrative uncertainty	Living in the Present: Rethinking the Paradox of Suspense through Videogames
narratives	The experience of procedurality: effects and appreciation of persuasive gameplay rhetoric
national	Esports Associationalism
nationalism	Woke (Pro)Gaming: Or, Why We Need Critical Esports Studies By Svarog! Slavic Game Renaissance and the Ideology of the Extreme Right
nationality	Character construction and transnational branding: Super Mario’s 'Italianness'
Naturalization of gaming	Evolution of PC Bangs: Traditions and Trends in South Korea
neighborhood	Localism with (Serious) Games: Horizontal Channels and Models
neoliberalism	Games on Working, Games on Gaming, Working on Games, and Games on Working on Games: On the self-referentiality that entangles neoliberal play and work Counting Clicks: Gameplay Metrics, Power and the Body Politics of Competitive Videogames
Networked Play	Rock Stars & Plastic Guitars: Designing & Playing with Captured Experiences in Music Videogames
New Materialism	Rock Stars & Plastic Guitars: Designing & Playing with Captured Experiences in Music Videogames
New Media Technology	“Monopoly” in Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces
Niconico dôga
Nintendo	Observant play: colonial readings in Breath of the Wild
non-profit	Esports Associationalism
nonhuman	Dawn of Machinic Cyclicality: Life as We Don’t Know It
Nostalgia	Replaying the Past: Wholesome Nostalgia or Morbid Melancholia?
NPC behavior	Observant play: colonial readings in Breath of the Wild
NPCs	Categorizing Morality Systems Through the Lens of Fallout
O
observational learning	Exploring the Effects of VR Gameplay Videos on Performance and Experience
occasionalism	God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’
older gamers	Middle-aged Players & Memorable Moments with Pokémon GO
online communities
online community	“For the Horde”: Players’ Collaborative Actions in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
Online Culture	Game Over for Machinima: Fan and Creator Reactions to the Loss of Gaming Culture
online fandom	Playing for Love in the Age of Messaging Apps: Mystic Messenger and its Online Youth Fandom
online sexual grooming	"Can you send me a photo?" - A Game-Based Approach for Increasing Young Children’s Risk Awareness to Prevent Online Sexual Grooming
Ontology	Radical game fictionalism
OST	How Musical Leitmotifs Enhance Narration and Evoke Emotion
otome games	Does Jumin Han Is Gay?: Cultural Hybridity, and the Intimate Economies of Otome Games in English From Otome Road to #OtomeArmada: Towards a History of Otome Games and Gaming Cultures Playing for Love in the Age of Messaging Apps: Mystic Messenger and its Online Youth Fandom
oulipo	Play // Make: Media Mix Games as Controlled Open Reading
Overwatch	“BECAUSE HE IS GAY LIKE ME (IM NOT JOKING)” THE ROLE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF PLAYABLE HEROES AND PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS IN OVERWATCH FANDOM “Mute, Report, Block.”: Dissonance in Moderating Overwatch
ownership	Monetising memory? MMOGs, anniversaries, and ownership of the past
P
PAL / NTSC	Slower, Squashed and Six Months Late! Remembering and forgetting Japanese videogames in Europe, 1991-2019
palimpsest trial	Perma-dying worlds and other mechanics of limiting the access to digital games
pan-political games	Games as a Recall for Popular Memory in Taiwan: Revealing the Procedural Rhetorics in Pan-Political Indie games of Raid on Taihoku and Detention
Paradox of Failure	Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries
Paradox of Horror	Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries
Paradox of Tragedy	Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries
participation	Procedural and Promotional Rhetorics of Participation in Digital Games The Marketing of a Controversial Identity: A Case Study on Chinese Parents Is this still participation? A case study of the disempowerment of player labourers
participatory culture	Fired in a blog post: The End of Heroes of the Storm Esports Video Game Détournement: Playing Across Media
pay-to-win	Free-to-Play: Converging or changing games, meaning and ways of play?
PC Bang	Evolution of PC Bangs: Traditions and Trends in South Korea
PC Engine	From Technological Revolution to Cultural Obsolescence. NEC’s PC Engine between American erasure and French edification
pedagogy	The Unintended Consequences of Using Twitch as a University Professor Describing the Game Studies Canon: A Game Citation Analysis Spatial Reasoning: Re-Coding Spaces for Inclusive Informal Game Making Negotiating Pedagogy and Play in the Games-as-text English classroom
Pediatrics	The HOPE Project: from a serious game to an awareness campaign
Performance Play	Adapting the Empty Orchestra: the Performance of Play in Karaoke
performance research	Sites of Play: Locating Gameplace in Red Dead Redemption 2
performing gender
permadeath	Perma-dying worlds and other mechanics of limiting the access to digital games
permapermadeath	Perma-dying worlds and other mechanics of limiting the access to digital games
persona	Player Persona Research
personality	The Comparative Self: Understanding the Motivation to Play and the Subsequent Video Game Use
perspective	Beyond God’s Eye: on the Reliability of Gameworld Images
persuasive games	The experience of procedurality: effects and appreciation of persuasive gameplay rhetoric
Pervasive Game	YomeciLand: Found Sound as Play
Pervasive Games	Playable Cities Now Playful Explorations of Indigenous Cartography Contested Space in Playable Cities
phenomenology	Sites of Play: Locating Gameplace in Red Dead Redemption 2 Every Escape Room in this City: In Search of A Well-Played Game Dwelling in Digital Game Worlds
philosophy	Towards an analysis of virtual realism Radical game fictionalism
philosophy of computer games	Games on Working, Games on Gaming, Working on Games, and Games on Working on Games: On the self-referentiality that entangles neoliberal play and work God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’
philosophy of play	Perceived Buffoonery: Analysing the Appeal of AI vs. AI Spectatorship in Saltybet.com
phygital	Hybrid Board Game Design Guidelines
Physical Activity	The HOPE Project: from a serious game to an awareness campaign
Physical and Digital Interactions
physiological response data	Using physiological response data to examine horror video game enjoyment
pilgrimage	Promoting Yokosuka via Video Game Tourism: The case of the Shenmue Sacred Spot Guide Map
piracy	Tracing the Histories of Videogame Piracy in Eastern Europe in the 1980s-1990s
Place	Sites of Play: Locating Gameplace in Red Dead Redemption 2
place-based	Localism with (Serious) Games: Horizontal Channels and Models
placeness	Sites of Play: Locating Gameplace in Red Dead Redemption 2
platform studies	No Rivalry Without Commentary: Misja Esport Case Study Automated Inequality: Behind the Apparent Neutrality of Steam’s Algorithmic Culture Firmware is Anything But Firm: Remembering and Forgetting the PlayStation Portable Homebrew Software Production Scene
Platformization	Gaming DOTA Players: Iterative Platform Design and Capture
Platforms	Esports of Empire: The Platformization of ‘StarCraft’
play	Game Production beyond the Studio: From Playbour to Gamework Belief-Discordant Alief: A Common Denominator of Fiction and Non-Fictional Games Ludic Boredom: Discussing a Manifesto YomeciLand: Found Sound as Play Games on Working, Games on Gaming, Working on Games, and Games on Working on Games: On the self-referentiality that entangles neoliberal play and work Negotiating Pedagogy and Play in the Games-as-text English classroom Dancing with the Hands: Frictions with Videogames, Dance and Gender Every Escape Room in this City: In Search of A Well-Played Game
play and players	Remixing Masculinities: Identity and Intersectionality in Video Gaming
play cultures	Mythmaking and codebreaking: The hunt for GTAV’s Bigfoot and/as digital cultural memory
play material	Modding the Waste Land: Intertextual Mutation Between Games and Poems
Play studies	Video Game Détournement: Playing Across Media
play theory	Games on Working, Games on Gaming, Working on Games, and Games on Working on Games: On the self-referentiality that entangles neoliberal play and work
play-centrism	Beyond Procedurality: Situating The Witness in the Proceduralism Debate
Play-Experience	Epistemological Issues in Understanding Games Design, Play-Experience, and Reportage
playability	Free-to-Play: Converging or changing games, meaning and ways of play?
Playable Cities	Contested Space in Playable Cities
playable city	Playable Cities Now
Playbor	Revisiting Playbor: Extending the Ludo Mix into Media Industries
playbour	Game Production beyond the Studio: From Playbour to Gamework
Player	Is There a Playfulness of Empathy? A Multidisciplinary Perspective
player agency	Observant play: colonial readings in Breath of the Wild
player experience	Middle-aged Players & Memorable Moments with Pokémon GO Methods Beyond the Screen: Conducting remote player studies for game design research Contested Space in Playable Cities
player experiences	Differences in Player Experiences of Need Satisfaction Across Four Games
player identification	Me, myself and others: Connecting player identification to gaming social capital
player need satisfaction	Differences in Player Experiences of Need Satisfaction Across Four Games
player position	Player Persona Research
player preferences	Challenge Types in Videogame Play
Player Retention	Gaming DOTA Players: Iterative Platform Design and Capture
Player studies	Methods Beyond the Screen: Conducting remote player studies for game design research Quitting Pokemon Go
Player-avatar relationship	Effects of Game Design Features on Player-Avatar Relationships and Motivation for Buying Decorative Virtual Items
player-created content	Is this still participation? A case study of the disempowerment of player labourers
player-driven economies	Boundaries, Trust and Reputation in Virtual and Illicit Markets
players	YouTubers and Real Games: Examining the Discourse of Play Itself
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
Playful Adaptations	Adapting the Empty Orchestra: the Performance of Play in Karaoke
Playing time
Playstation 2	Exploring the Third Place: Reconstructing Gamer Subjectivity Through David Lynch’s Iconic Playstation Adverts.
Plurisemiotics	Video game’s intermediality and localization practices
poetry	Modding the Waste Land: Intertextual Mutation Between Games and Poems
Pokemon Go	Quitting Pokemon Go
Pokémon GO	Middle-aged Players & Memorable Moments with Pokémon GO
political economy	Fired in a blog post: The End of Heroes of the Storm Esports Esports of Empire: The Platformization of ‘StarCraft’
politics	Who is a videogame developer? The politics of videogame maker identities The politics of game canonization: Tales from the frontlines of creating a national history of games Meta/Style: Strategic Histories in Korean Esports Games on Working, Games on Gaming, Working on Games, and Games on Working on Games: On the self-referentiality that entangles neoliberal play and work
Polybius	Playing Polybius: Navigating Marginalizing Discourses on Youth and Gaming Through Myth Transgression
Polygonal modeling	Polygonal Modeling: The Aestheticization of Identity
popular memory	Games as a Recall for Popular Memory in Taiwan: Revealing the Procedural Rhetorics in Pan-Political Indie games of Raid on Taihoku and Detention
Pornography	Dragonborn is for Porn. The intertextual semiotics of the TESV: Skyrim fan made pornographic modifications
Port	Port or conversion? An ontological framework for classifying game versions
Possibility Space	A Ludo Mix Perspective on Dynamic Game Characters
post-phenomenology	The data assemblage of play: Videogame data analytics and surveillance
posthumanism	Meaningful Transformation: Intraactivity and Video Games The Uses of Ludobiography: Life Writing and Game Studies
Postmedia
postwar Japan	Observant play: colonial readings in Breath of the Wild
Power	Counting Clicks: Gameplay Metrics, Power and the Body Politics of Competitive Videogames Is this still participation? A case study of the disempowerment of player labourers
practice of agency(sociology)	Critical Thinking of ‘Excessive Indulgence of Playing Saps Ambitions (wan wu sang zhi)’: A Research on Urban Adolescents’ Consumption of Peripheral Products of Digital Games in Mainland China
practice theory	Beyond Procedurality: Situating The Witness in the Proceduralism Debate
pragmatism	Ludo Mix as an Aesthetic Experience: Designing Games for Franchises
precarity	Game Production beyond the Studio: From Playbour to Gamework Challenges and Opportunities for Collective Action in Local Games Industries The Path That Lies Ahead: Intimacy Through Overwhelmedness in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
preferences	Building a Gamer: Player Preferences and Motivations Across Gender and Genre
preparedness	Living in the Present: Rethinking the Paradox of Suspense through Videogames
preservation	‘Next Generation’: towards best practices in preserving, curating and exhibiting videogames What a mess…: Navigating media mixes in the archive
press	Examining the Gaming Subcultures through the Lens of Finnish Game Journalism: From the 1980s to the 2010s
Prior Gaming Experience	The Relationship between Prior Gaming Experience and Consciousness of Computer Programming or Social Views on Information: An Empirical Study of High School Students in Japan
procedural rhetoric	The experience of procedurality: effects and appreciation of persuasive gameplay rhetoric Procedural and Promotional Rhetorics of Participation in Digital Games
procedural rhetorics	God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’
proceduralism	Beyond Procedurality: Situating The Witness in the Proceduralism Debate
production pipeline	A Taxonomy of Game Engines and the Tools that Drive the Industry
production studies	A Taxonomy of Game Engines and the Tools that Drive the Industry Who Creates Microtransactions: The Production Context of Video Game Monetization
professional gaming	Fired in a blog post: The End of Heroes of the Storm Esports
Project based learning	Co-creating serious game for sustainability transition: Case study of the Serious Board Game Jam 2018 in Kyoto
promotional culture	Procedural and Promotional Rhetorics of Participation in Digital Games
Promotional Studies	Exploring the Third Place: Reconstructing Gamer Subjectivity Through David Lynch’s Iconic Playstation Adverts.
prosocial behavior	Different Frames of Players and the Motivation of Prosocial Behavior in Digital Games
Protocol Analysis	Strategies for Endogenous Design of Educational Games
psychoanalysis	Fast Times in FINAL FANTASY VII: Modern Anxieties, Postmodern Hopes
public discourse	Loot boxes in Germany: political players, public perception and legislation
public space	Playable Cities Now
Q
qualitative	‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies
qualitative research	Methods Beyond the Screen: Conducting remote player studies for game design research Quitting Pokemon Go Should the Monster Play Fair?: Reception of AI in Alien: Isolation
Quantum Break	“More interaction, more story, more lore” : motivations related to game-centric transmedia
Queer Game Studies	Replaying the Past: Wholesome Nostalgia or Morbid Melancholia? Romance Never Changes…Or Does It?: Fallout, Queerness, and Mods
quests	Beyond the Wall: The Boundaries of the Neomedieval Town in Single Player Roleplaying Games
Quitting	Quitting Pokemon Go
R
race	Woke (Pro)Gaming: Or, Why We Need Critical Esports Studies
random reward mechanisms	Analyzing random reward system mechanics and social perception
rarity management	Analyzing random reward system mechanics and social perception
Raymond Williams	Emergent Threat or Residual Trace: Reassembling the Indie Sector as an Interdependent Sociotechnical Practice
Re-framing	On the de-familiarizing and re-ontologizing effects of glitches and glitch-alikes
reading
realism	Towards an analysis of virtual realism
reception
Reference	How to Reference a Digital Game
Referencing	How to Reference a Digital Game
Reflection	ctrl+R: Reflections on Prompting Reflective Game Design The Current Canon of Games Research: An Analysis of the Most Cited Publications
Reflex	Skill, Streaming and Sociality in Contemporary Esports
regional	Esports Associationalism
Regionalization	Translating and Localizing Games in Global Contexts
regulations	Loot boxes in Germany: political players, public perception and legislation
remaster	Port or conversion? An ontological framework for classifying game versions
Remediation	Into the Meta Mix: Kingdom Hearts and the transnational remediation and adaptation of Japanese and American IP
Remix	Video Game Détournement: Playing Across Media
repertoire	Mythmaking and codebreaking: The hunt for GTAV’s Bigfoot and/as digital cultural memory
Repetition	Trapped in the Ludo Mix: Kingdom Hearts and the Failed Bildungsroman
Reportage	Epistemological Issues in Understanding Games Design, Play-Experience, and Reportage
Representation	Toeing the Gender Line: Unpacking Gendered Video Game Spaces Romance Never Changes…Or Does It?: Fallout, Queerness, and Mods Polygonal Modeling: The Aestheticization of Identity
research agendas	The imbalanced state of free-to-play game research: A literature review
research perspective	Analyzing random reward system mechanics and social perception
research-creation	Game jockey as an intermediary between DJ practice and video games
research-creation for game design	Return of the “video” game: Extracting FMV design knowledge for future games
resistance	‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies
reskin	Port or conversion? An ontological framework for classifying game versions
retro gaming	Current Trends of Retro Gaming Research and Ludo Mix in the Context of Retro Gaming
Rhetoric	Video Game Détournement: Playing Across Media
Rhythm	The Path That Lies Ahead: Intimacy Through Overwhelmedness in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
roleplaying games	Beyond the Wall: The Boundaries of the Neomedieval Town in Single Player Roleplaying Games
roling	Processes of Roling: Mechanisms for Adopting Subjectivities in the Gameworld
Romance	Romance Never Changes…Or Does It?: Fallout, Queerness, and Mods
romantic games	Playing for Love in the Age of Messaging Apps: Mystic Messenger and its Online Youth Fandom
Romanticism	By Svarog! Slavic Game Renaissance and the Ideology of the Extreme Right
ROMs	ROM Hacks, Randomizers, and Retro Games: Challenging Copyright and Remixing Zelda
RPG	Designing a Digital Roleplaying Game to Foster Awareness of Hidden Disabilities
Rules
Rumble	A Typology of Rumble
S
Sadness	Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries
SaltyBet	Perceived Buffoonery: Analysing the Appeal of AI vs. AI Spectatorship in Saltybet.com
samples	Game jockey as an intermediary between DJ practice and video games
sandbox games	Procedural and Promotional Rhetorics of Participation in Digital Games
scientometrics	Describing the Game Studies Canon: A Game Citation Analysis
Scoping review	Gaming my way to recovery: Understanding how to integrate serious video games into youth mental health services
self-concept	The Comparative Self: Understanding the Motivation to Play and the Subsequent Video Game Use
self-expression	Games and Gestures - Remarks on Emotes in Digital Online Games
self-referentiality	Games on Working, Games on Gaming, Working on Games, and Games on Working on Games: On the self-referentiality that entangles neoliberal play and work
Semiotics	Dragonborn is for Porn. The intertextual semiotics of the TESV: Skyrim fan made pornographic modifications A Typology of Rumble
Serious board game jam	Co-creating serious game for sustainability transition: Case study of the Serious Board Game Jam 2018 in Kyoto
serious game	A Challenge of Developing Serious Games to Raise the Awareness of Cybersecurity Issues
serious game jam	A Challenge of Developing Serious Games to Raise the Awareness of Cybersecurity Issues
serious games	Localism with (Serious) Games: Horizontal Channels and Models Sami Game Jam – Learning, Exploring, Reflecting and Sharing Indigenous Culture through Game Jamming The HOPE Project: from a serious game to an awareness campaign "Can you send me a photo?" - A Game-Based Approach for Increasing Young Children’s Risk Awareness to Prevent Online Sexual Grooming Constructing Haenyeo: Defamiliarzation and Sensemaking in the Game Design Process Dialogue or Monologue? Intertextuality as Allegation in Child of Light and My Memory of Us
SexLab	Dragonborn is for Porn. The intertextual semiotics of the TESV: Skyrim fan made pornographic modifications
Sexual orientation	“BECAUSE HE IS GAY LIKE ME (IM NOT JOKING)” THE ROLE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF PLAYABLE HEROES AND PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS IN OVERWATCH FANDOM
shenmue	Promoting Yokosuka via Video Game Tourism: The case of the Shenmue Sacred Spot Guide Map
shooting gallery	How Theme Park Rides Adapted the Shooting Gallery
shoutcasting	Diversity and conformism on Twitch. The effects of the labor market for video game live streaming on artistic convention.
simulation	Fostering ethics and morality in adult learning through gameplay
sit is real	An Attempt to Develop SIR (“shit-game is real”) Index
site-specificity	Every Escape Room in this City: In Search of A Well-Played Game
Skill	Skill, Streaming and Sociality in Contemporary Esports
skins	Polygonal Modeling: The Aestheticization of Identity
Skyrim	Dragonborn is for Porn. The intertextual semiotics of the TESV: Skyrim fan made pornographic modifications
Slavic aesthetics	By Svarog! Slavic Game Renaissance and the Ideology of the Extreme Right
smart cities	Playable Cities Now
soccer	The “not so” Beautiful Game: a study on Brazilian players of the fantasy soccer game​ Cartola FC
social awareness	Designing a Digital Roleplaying Game to Foster Awareness of Hidden Disabilities
Social Interaction	“For the Horde”: Players’ Collaborative Actions in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
social justice	Designing a Digital Roleplaying Game to Foster Awareness of Hidden Disabilities Integrating Social Justice for Game Design and Development Curricula
Social kinds	Radical game fictionalism
Social norms	Defining Gaming Communities: A Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Case Study
social perception	Analyzing random reward system mechanics and social perception
Social Views on Information	The Relationship between Prior Gaming Experience and Consciousness of Computer Programming or Social Views on Information: An Empirical Study of High School Students in Japan
Socialization	Teaching Industry Professional Adjuncts to Teach Videogame Development: No Tweed Allowed
society	Ludic Boredom: Discussing a Manifesto
sociolinguistics	Co-Constructing Virtual Identities: Insights from Linguistic Analysis
sociology of artistic work	Diversity and conformism on Twitch. The effects of the labor market for video game live streaming on artistic convention.
software	The data assemblage of play: Videogame data analytics and surveillance
Sound	YomeciLand: Found Sound as Play
soundtrack	How Musical Leitmotifs Enhance Narration and Evoke Emotion
South Korea	Evolution of PC Bangs: Traditions and Trends in South Korea
sovereign power	Fast Times in FINAL FANTASY VII: Modern Anxieties, Postmodern Hopes
space	Sites of Play: Locating Gameplace in Red Dead Redemption 2 Structuring Gametime. A Typology of the Temporal Constituents of Video Games Spatial Reasoning: Re-Coding Spaces for Inclusive Informal Game Making Beyond the Wall: The Boundaries of the Neomedieval Town in Single Player Roleplaying Games The Path That Lies Ahead: Intimacy Through Overwhelmedness in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Dwelling in Digital Game Worlds Spatial Narrative Fragments: Contemporary Media Integration and Spatiality in Game Centers through the Case Study of SEGA GIGO Ikebukuro
spatial concepts	The Gamification of Tactical Thinking; Linking Gamification with Spatial Concepts.
spatial practices	Beyond God’s Eye: on the Reliability of Gameworld Images
spectatorship	Game Streaming Revisited: Some Observations on Marginal Practices and Contexts Perceived Buffoonery: Analysing the Appeal of AI vs. AI Spectatorship in Saltybet.com
sport	Esports Associationalism
sports tourism	People@Meeple: "it's a community thing"
Square Enix	The theme park experience: Kingdom Hearts and the franchise
Steam	Automated Inequality: Behind the Apparent Neutrality of Steam’s Algorithmic Culture
stereotypes	Remixing Masculinities: Identity and Intersectionality in Video Gaming
stereotyping	Transcultural Learning and Live-Action Role-Play in Japan
story-driven video game	Exploring the Role of Narrative Puzzles in Game Storytelling
Storytelling	The HOPE Project: from a serious game to an awareness campaign
storytelling system	Character-Driven Narrative Engine. Storytelling System for Building Interactive Narrative Experiences
strategic management	The Business Model Network of eSports: The Case of Overwatch
Strategy	Meta/Style: Strategic Histories in Korean Esports
streamer	Game Streaming Revisited: Some Observations on Marginal Practices and Contexts
subcultures	Examining the Gaming Subcultures through the Lens of Finnish Game Journalism: From the 1980s to the 2010s
subjectivity	Processes of Roling: Mechanisms for Adopting Subjectivities in the Gameworld The Uses of Ludobiography: Life Writing and Game Studies
sugoroku	Joy Family: Japanese Board Games in the Post-War Shōwa Period
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate	Defining Gaming Communities: A Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Case Study
Surrealism	On the de-familiarizing and re-ontologizing effects of glitches and glitch-alikes
survey	Different Frames of Players and the Motivation of Prosocial Behavior in Digital Games Challenge Types in Videogame Play
survey study	Differences in Player Experiences of Need Satisfaction Across Four Games
Suspense	Using physiological response data to examine horror video game enjoyment Living in the Present: Rethinking the Paradox of Suspense through Videogames
Sustainable society	Co-creating serious game for sustainability transition: Case study of the Serious Board Game Jam 2018 in Kyoto
Sámi pedagogy	Sami Game Jam – Learning, Exploring, Reflecting and Sharing Indigenous Culture through Game Jamming
T
Tabletop Games
tactical	The Gamification of Tactical Thinking; Linking Gamification with Spatial Concepts.
Taiko no Tatsujin	Taiko no Tatsujin: Musical literacy in the Media Mix
targeted email attacks	A Challenge of Developing Serious Games to Raise the Awareness of Cybersecurity Issues
taxonomy	Analyzing random reward system mechanics and social perception A Taxonomy of Game Engines and the Tools that Drive the Industry
Teaching	The Unintended Consequences of Using Twitch as a University Professor Teaching Industry Professional Adjuncts to Teach Videogame Development: No Tweed Allowed
Technical Skills	Teaching Industry Professional Adjuncts to Teach Videogame Development: No Tweed Allowed
technoliberalism	Procedural and Promotional Rhetorics of Participation in Digital Games
technology	Ludic Boredom: Discussing a Manifesto
text-based game	The materiality on the hermeneutics of Chinese character-based playable media
Textiles	Failure in Videogames: Similarities and Differences to Textile Craft
texts
textual analysis	Framing Esports in Chinese University Campuses
the lost decade	Fast Times in FINAL FANTASY VII: Modern Anxieties, Postmodern Hopes
the player-game relationship	Meaningful Transformation: Intraactivity and Video Games
The Third Place	Exploring the Third Place: Reconstructing Gamer Subjectivity Through David Lynch’s Iconic Playstation Adverts.
The Witcher 3	By Svarog! Slavic Game Renaissance and the Ideology of the Extreme Right
The Witness	Beyond Procedurality: Situating The Witness in the Proceduralism Debate
thematic analysis	Designing Global Empowerment? Self-Narratives of Workshop Facilitators in Culturally Mixed Settings
theme	Mechanical Narrative: The Relationship Between Rules and Narrative in Boardgame Design How Musical Leitmotifs Enhance Narration and Evoke Emotion
theme park	The theme park experience: Kingdom Hearts and the franchise
theme parks	How Theme Park Rides Adapted the Shooting Gallery
theorycraft	Should the Monster Play Fair?: Reception of AI in Alien: Isolation
theorycrafting	Should the Monster Play Fair?: Reception of AI in Alien: Isolation
think-aloud protocol
third parties	Esports Associationalism
Time	Dawn of Machinic Cyclicality: Life as We Don’t Know It Structuring Gametime. A Typology of the Temporal Constituents of Video Games
touring	Beyond God’s Eye: on the Reliability of Gameworld Images
tourist gaze	The theme park experience: Kingdom Hearts and the franchise
toxic culture	Locating transgressions: Transgressive Play and Transgressive Aesthetics
toxicity	You can troll your own way: Defining and discussing toxicity in online games “Mute, Report, Block.”: Dissonance in Moderating Overwatch
Traductology	Video game’s intermediality and localization practices
transcultural learning	Transcultural Learning and Live-Action Role-Play in Japan
transgression	Locating transgressions: Transgressive Play and Transgressive Aesthetics Playing Polybius: Navigating Marginalizing Discourses on Youth and Gaming Through Myth Transgression
transgressive aesthetics	Locating transgressions: Transgressive Play and Transgressive Aesthetics
transgressive play	God is a Game Designer – Accelerating ‘Existential Ludology’
Translation	Translating and Localizing Games in Global Contexts
Transmedia	“More interaction, more story, more lore” : motivations related to game-centric transmedia Video Game Détournement: Playing Across Media
transmedia design	Character-Driven Narrative Engine. Storytelling System for Building Interactive Narrative Experiences
Transmedia Storytelling	The Mobile Suit Gundam Franchise: a Case Study of Transmedia Storytelling Practices and the Role of Digital Games in Japan Into the Meta Mix: Kingdom Hearts and the transnational remediation and adaptation of Japanese and American IP
Transmediality	Emergent Threat or Residual Trace: Reassembling the Indie Sector as an Interdependent Sociotechnical Practice Japanese Role-Playing Games in the Ludo Mix: Paradigms, Practices, and Challenges
Transnational	Translating and Localizing Games in Global Contexts
transnationalism	Character construction and transnational branding: Super Mario’s 'Italianness'
Trolling	You can troll your own way: Defining and discussing toxicity in online games
Twitch	The Affective Messaging of Gameplay Livestream Viewers The Impacts of Live Streaming on the Video Game Industry The Unintended Consequences of Using Twitch as a University Professor Revisiting Playbor: Extending the Ludo Mix into Media Industries ROM Hacks, Randomizers, and Retro Games: Challenging Copyright and Remixing Zelda
Twitch.tv	Perceived Buffoonery: Analysing the Appeal of AI vs. AI Spectatorship in Saltybet.com
Typology	Structuring Gametime. A Typology of the Temporal Constituents of Video Games A Typology of Rumble
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UK Gaming magazines
unions	Challenges and Opportunities for Collective Action in Local Games Industries
unit operation	Games and Gestures - Remarks on Emotes in Digital Online Games
Units of Being	Epistemological Issues in Understanding Games Design, Play-Experience, and Reportage
university	Framing Esports in Chinese University Campuses
unreliable narration	"Is This Really Happening?": Game Mechanics as Unreliable Narrator
urban	Localism with (Serious) Games: Horizontal Channels and Models Cities appropriate Pokémon GO: Remix models for local needs
urban legends	Playing Polybius: Navigating Marginalizing Discourses on Youth and Gaming Through Myth Transgression
Urban Playspaces	“Monopoly” in Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces
urban space	The Gamification of Tactical Thinking; Linking Gamification with Spatial Concepts.
user reviews
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value	On the Local Value of Game Jam Games: Beyond Learning from the Process CryptoKitties and the New Ludic Economy: How blockchain introduces value, ownership, and scarcity in the digital world
version	Port or conversion? An ontological framework for classifying game versions
vicarious trauma	‘Fuck Game Studies’: (Not)coping and the affective labour of diversity workers in Game Studies
victimisation	Boundaries, Trust and Reputation in Virtual and Illicit Markets
Video game	Multimodal analysis of using video game Minecraft to study BA-construction in Chinese
video game history	Return of the “video” game: Extracting FMV design knowledge for future games
video game live streaming	Game Streaming Revisited: Some Observations on Marginal Practices and Contexts
Video game localization	Video game’s intermediality and localization practices
video game production	Who Creates Microtransactions: The Production Context of Video Game Monetization
video game use	The Comparative Self: Understanding the Motivation to Play and the Subsequent Video Game Use
video games	Gaming my way to recovery: Understanding how to integrate serious video games into youth mental health services New Media Ecosystems: Amazon and the Advancing Game Economy Toeing the Gender Line: Unpacking Gendered Video Game Spaces Structuring Gametime. A Typology of the Temporal Constituents of Video Games Game jockey as an intermediary between DJ practice and video games Promoting Yokosuka via Video Game Tourism: The case of the Shenmue Sacred Spot Guide Map
Videogame	Meta/Style: Strategic Histories in Korean Esports Slower, Squashed and Six Months Late! Remembering and forgetting Japanese videogames in Europe, 1991-2019
videogame archives	From Technological Revolution to Cultural Obsolescence. NEC’s PC Engine between American erasure and French edification
videogame documentation	From Technological Revolution to Cultural Obsolescence. NEC’s PC Engine between American erasure and French edification
videogame hacking	ROM Hacks, Randomizers, and Retro Games: Challenging Copyright and Remixing Zelda
videogame history	From Technological Revolution to Cultural Obsolescence. NEC’s PC Engine between American erasure and French edification From Otome Road to #OtomeArmada: Towards a History of Otome Games and Gaming Cultures
Videogame literacies	Negotiating Pedagogy and Play in the Games-as-text English classroom
videogame preservation	Mythmaking and codebreaking: The hunt for GTAV’s Bigfoot and/as digital cultural memory
videogame production	Breaking into the Polish Videogame Industry: Education, Informality and Inequality
Videogames	Designing Global Empowerment? Self-Narratives of Workshop Facilitators in Culturally Mixed Settings Playing Polybius: Navigating Marginalizing Discourses on Youth and Gaming Through Myth Transgression Failure in Videogames: Similarities and Differences to Textile Craft Categorizing Morality Systems Through the Lens of Fallout
violence	Boundaries, Trust and Reputation in Virtual and Illicit Markets Consumptive Play: The Reification of Capitalism in Grand Theft Auto Online
virtual ethnography	Playing for Love in the Age of Messaging Apps: Mystic Messenger and its Online Youth Fandom
Virtual reality	Gaming my way to recovery: Understanding how to integrate serious video games into youth mental health services Exergaming Cognitive Functions: A Virtual Reality-Based Training for Older Adults Hybrid Board Game Design Guidelines
virtual worlds	Co-Constructing Virtual Identities: Insights from Linguistic Analysis Towards an analysis of virtual realism On the de-familiarizing and re-ontologizing effects of glitches and glitch-alikes
visual novel	Playing with character information - Akihabara’s bishōjo-visual novel ludo-mix
visual representation	Beyond God’s Eye: on the Reliability of Gameworld Images
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Walt Disney	Into the Meta Mix: Kingdom Hearts and the transnational remediation and adaptation of Japanese and American IP
wanwusangzhi	Framing Esports in Chinese University Campuses
Western Role-Playing Games	Japanese Role-Playing Games in the Ludo Mix: Paradigms, Practices, and Challenges
women	The Awakening of the Goddess in Competitive League of Legends
work	Game Production beyond the Studio: From Playbour to Gamework Games on Working, Games on Gaming, Working on Games, and Games on Working on Games: On the self-referentiality that entangles neoliberal play and work
World of Warcraft	Monetising memory? MMOGs, anniversaries, and ownership of the past
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yokosuka	Promoting Yokosuka via Video Game Tourism: The case of the Shenmue Sacred Spot Guide Map
youth	On the Local Value of Game Jam Games: Beyond Learning from the Process
youth gamers	Playing for Love in the Age of Messaging Apps: Mystic Messenger and its Online Youth Fandom
Youth mental health services	Gaming my way to recovery: Understanding how to integrate serious video games into youth mental health services
YouTube	YouTubers and Real Games: Examining the Discourse of Play Itself Discourse at play: construction and professionalism of video-based game reviews
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Zelda	The Path That Lies Ahead: Intimacy Through Overwhelmedness in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild