Program for Thursday, June 22nd: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 22ND: TALK VIEW

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09:30-10:30 Keynote: Paolo Pedercini

11:00-13:00

PANEL: Pushing the Limits of Games: How Do Sports Fit in?

Christopher Paul, Florence Chee, Kishonna Gray, Maria Ruotsalainen, Olli Sotamaa

11:00-13:00

PANEL: Fictional Games and Fictional Game Studies

S. Gualeni, R. Fassone, C. Di Maio, D. Vella, N. Van de Mosselaer

11:00-13:00

PANEL: Past, Present, and Future of Game (Cultural) Studies in South Korea

Yaewon Jin, Bora Na, Jung Yeop Lee, Tae-Jin Yoon

11:00-13:00

PANEL: Navigating the Lines: Towards a Multi-Perspective Approach on Videogame Monetisation

Declerck, Dupont, Grosemans, Petrovskaya, Geudens, Sas, Dumont

11:00-13:00

PANEL: The Matter of Gaming: Technology, Aesthetics and Materialist Approaches to Game Development

Ivan Girina, Merlin Seller, Paolo Ruffino, Aleena Chia

11:00-11:20

Considering Large Student Teams in Game Development Education: a Post-Mortem

Jose Zagal

11:20-11:40

Designing Games in the Margin: Queer and Intersectional Feminist Meanings of Gender Perspective in Videogames

Alexandra Samper-Martínez, Beatriz Legeren-Lago, Diana Moisés-Toro

11:40-12:00

Insights into Competence Development Through Playfulness in a Cooperative Game Scenario: A Preliminary

Valéria Pinto, Mariana Seiça, Licinio Roque

12:00-12:20

Playful Learning and Design Futures to Enhance Urban Civic Competences Through a Card Game and

M. Fernández Ruiz, C. Sora-Domenjó, J.M. Tomasena, A. Roig Telo

11:00-11:20

Demonic Games: Demonic Figures and Functions in Contemporary Digital Games

Frans Mäyrä

11:20-11:40

The Harmony of Escaping Hell: Ludonarrative Interplay in Hades

Yotam Shibolet

11:00-11:20

Regret in Play and in Paint: Authorship, Narrative, and Intertextuality in Pentiment (2022)

Danielle Kleinerman, Chiara Haynes

11:20-11:40

Sky's the Limit: Skyboxes and Backgrounds as Narrative and Imaginative Elements

Giorgio Chiappa

11:40-12:00

Motivation and Flow Experience as Crucial Factors in the Completion of Narrative Games

Dalila Martins, Nelson Zagalo, Ana Patrícia Oliveira

12:00-12:20

"Select Your Instrument": Musical Character Customization in Divinity: Original Sin 2

Ragnhild Solberg

11:00-11:20

Players' Perceptions of Andalusian Cultural Heritage Representations in the Digital Game Blasphemous

Teresa de la Hera, Salvador Gómez, Deborah Castro

11:20-11:40

A Co-Operative Study of Transnational European Histories of Videogames

Alex Wade, Maria Garda, Ivo Furman, Miroslaw Filiciak, Maryja Supa

11:40-12:00

Pushing in from the Margins: Player Efforts to Insert Polish-Lithuanian Cultural Heritage into Games

Jakub Majewski, Michał Mochocki, Paweł Schreiber

11:00-11:20

Articulating the Field of Videogame Production

Brendan Keogh

11:20-11:40

Digital Games and the Category of Auteur: a Re-Evaluation and Perspectives

Filip Jankowski

11:40-12:00

To Become a Cultural Fit, or to Leave? Game Industry Expatriates and the Issue of Migration and

Solip Park

12:00-12:20

If You Don't like the Game, Change the Rules: Unions and Co-Operatives in the Canadian Game Industry

Michael Iantorno, Marie LeBlanc Flanagan

11:00-11:20

A Method for Design Materialization: Accountable Game Design Research

Rilla Khaled, Pippin Barr

11:20-11:40

Designerly Ways of Analysing Gameplay and Player Experiences

Malay Dhamelia, Girish Dalvi

11:40-12:00

"I Really Think of These Things More as Toys": Will Wright's Toy-Based Design Philosophy

Amanda Cote

12:00-12:20

Beyond the Old Game Design: a New Design Paradigm in Game Studies through C-K Theory

Enrique Perez

14:30-14:50

Allegorithmic Politics of Game Exchange – Subversion, Ideology, and Capitalism in Strategy Game

Filip Hauer

14:50-15:10

Producing the Post-Gamer: Game Engines as Tools for Ideological Expansion

Aleena Chia, Maxwell Foxman

15:10-15:30

Fake News and Disinformation in Ludonarrative Contexts. The Case of Headliner: Novinews

Mireya Vicent-Ibáñez, Salvador Gómez-García, Joseba Bonaut-Iriarte

14:30-14:50

Trans Tissue: If Found…'s (2020) Dehiscence, Liminality and Decreation

Merlin Seller

14:50-15:10

Subtle Presence and (Dis)Identification: Transmasculinity in Narrative Video Games

Robin Longobardi Zingarelli

15:10-15:30

Intersectional Masculinities in Mass Effect

Leandro Lima

14:30-14:50

Gamers at War: The Relationship Between Military and Esports

Pablo Nolla Michel

14:50-15:10

The Limits of Influence: Negotiating the Hegemony of Game Companies in Collegiate Esports in the US

Can, Foxman, Wilson, Cote, Rahman, Burrell, Harris, Hansen, Fickle

15:10-15:30

Extended Abstract: Exploring Constructions of Situated Esports Aesthetics Within and Outside Gameplay in a Nordic

Matilda Ståhl, Maria Ruotsalainen, Usva Friman, Fredrik Rusk

14:30-14:50

"Smurfing Is a Pretty Common Problem": Toward a Performative Conception of Toxicity

Ben Scholl, Maria Sommers, Philippa Adams, Alberto Lusoli, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

14:50-15:10

Polarized Pills Vs. Gaming Thrills: Empirical Exploration of R/TheRedPill and R/TheBluePill Users in

Giacomo Lauritano, Valeria Marina Borodi, Chien Lu, Jaakko Peltonen

15:10-15:30

Genealogy of a Hate Raid

Josh Jarrett, David Murphy

14:30-14:50

'A Definition of Enchantment': a New Approach to Ludic Magic Systems Analysis

Mikael Sebag

14:50-15:10

Virtual Game Spaces and Diegetic Fictionality

Rune Klevjer

15:10-15:30

Game Studies Through 'Conceptual Games': the Case of Doors

Stefano Gualeni, Nele Van de Mosselaer

14:30-14:50

An Examination of Gender Differences in Happiness Perceived by Japanese University Students in Games

Kazuki Okuno, Masanori Fukui, Hiroaki Ohdachi, Masakatsu Kuroda, Yuji Sasaki

14:50-15:10

An Empirical Investigation into the Impact of the First-Person Role-Playing Games to Improve Knowledge Retention in Middle-School Children in India: a Pre-Post Study of the Game 'Tattva

Chaitanya Solanki, Deepak John Mathew

15:10-15:30

Teaching Chinese with Games: Knowledge, Attitudes and Experience of Teachers

Paul Martin, Yanhui Zhang

14:30-14:50

Making Antiquity Resonate in Assassin's Creed: Origins, Odyssey & Articulated Resonance

Andrei Zanescu

14:50-15:10

Museums of Myth and Mechanics of Mythography in Mythological Video Games

Alexander Vandewalle

14:30-14:50

Postapocalyptic Margins, Motherhood and Feminist Identity in Naughty Dogs' The Last of Us Part II

Rebecca Käpernick

14:50-15:10

Post-Racial Post-Apocalyptic Narratives?: Navigating Player Character Identity in Naughty Dog's the Last of

Adrienne Domasin

15:10-15:30

Posthumanist, Postapocalyptic, Postanthropocentrism: Morals and Multiplicities in My Friend Is a

Poppy Wilde

14:30-14:50

Pervasive Larps at Scale: Design Challenges of a Novel Work

Benjamin Viney

14:50-15:10

Could an AI Design a Larp? Processes and Applications

Alba Torrebejano Osorio

15:10-15:30

Safety and Identity Exploration: How Queer TTRPGs Provide Structure for Players

Jailyn Zabala, Josie Zvelebilova, Alexandra To

15:30-15:50

Genre Awareness and Nostalgia: Textual Aspects of Role-Playing in Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness

Norbert Krek

14:30-14:50

Prestige or Promotion: Industrial Reflexivity and Political Economy of the Game Awards

Jan Švelch

14:50-15:10

State Aids for Digital Games in the European Union: a Symbiotic or Parasitic Relationship?

Maria O'Brien

15:10-15:30

Corteo and Political Play in Late 1970s Italy

Riccardo Fassone, Giaime Alonge

14:30-14:50

"Let's Unbox!". Gambling-like Elements on Twitch and Simulated Gambling Among Flemish Teenagers

Eva Grosemans, Tim Smits, Bieke Zaman, Rozane De Cock

14:50-15:10

What Did Players Think About Belgium's 'Ban' on Loot Boxes?

Leon Y Xiao, Maarten Denoo

15:10-15:30

Gacha Games in East-Asian Transmedia Franchises

Joleen Blom

16:30-16:50

'I Prefer to Play Alone to Recharge My Social Battery': Parent Gamer Identities in Australia

Fae Heaselgrave, Ashlee Borgkvist

16:50-17:10

Recovery and Support: Motivations for Playing a Social Video Game in the Midst of a Pandemic

Hyerim Cho, Jin Ha Lee, Alex Urban

17:10-17:30

Players Making Creepypastas in Roblox – Kindred Appeal of Haunted Houses and Game Creation Systems

Heidi Rautalahti, Elisa Mekler

16:30-16:50

A New Home for Porn: Adult Video Games and the Necessity of Independent Platforms

Harrison Charles

16:50-17:10

Bending Games: Why and How Do Gaymers Produce Porn?

Stephen Schuetz

17:10-17:30

Pornographic Games on Steam: Genres, Modes, and Milieus

Petri Lankoski, Tanja Välisalo

16:30-16:50

National Identity in the Brazilian Gaming Community on Twitter: Esports Tournaments During the 2022

Jungstedt et.al

16:50-17:10

Leisure Electronics as a Cultural Context for the Emergence of the Swiss Video Game

Sophie Bémelmans, Pierre-Yves Hurel, Yannick Rochat

17:10-17:30

Exploring an Arcade in an Arcade Cabinet: Social History Research, Exhibition, and Interactive

Alan Meades

16:30-16:50

The Use of Data in Magic: the Gathering Arena Draft: Complexity and Critical Immeasurability Beyond 'Metric

Feng Zhu

16:50-17:10

The Fandom Frontier: Understanding the Limitless(?) Potential of Collegiate Esports Fans

Cote, Rahman, Foxman, Wilson, Burrell Jr., Harris, Can, Hansen, Fickle

17:10-17:30

Fan Localisation in the Chinese Overwatch Game Community: Conflicts About the Information

Dody Chen

16:30-16:50

Humanist Delusion in Games

Eleonora Imbierowicz

16:50-17:10

Reframing Posthuman Agency Through the Concept of Speed

Hongwei Zhou

17:10-17:30

Graceful Gaming: Aesthetics, Automation, Habit

Doug Stark

16:30-16:50

Spatiality and the Power of Simulation in Covideo Games

Zsófia Orosz-Réti

16:50-17:10

The User-Centered Design of Game-Based Digital Mental Health Interventions

Lauri Lukka

17:10-17:30

Microgames as Intervention for Health Misinformation

Lindsay Grace, Victoria Orrego Dunleavy, Regina Ahn, Danny Mayo

16:30-16:50

'Detective — What Were You Hoping to Accomplish?': Benign Violation as Means of Moral Detection in Disco

Jon Stone

16:50-17:10

Patching up the Problem: Patching and Patch Notes in League of Legends

Rinaldo Del Gallo

17:10-17:30

Fursan Al-Aqsa: An Analysis of Moral Disengagement in the Discursive Strategies of a Pro-Palestine Video

Antonio Cesar Moreno-Cantano, Salvador Gómez

16:30-16:50

Game Studies in Latin America: Reflexions About a Growing Field and Gamer/Player Counter Hegemonic

Antonia Hargreaves, Mary Anne Argo

16:50-17:10

The Local, the Global, and the Intercultural: Strategies for Teaching Games Design in the Neoliberal

Bruno de Paula

17:10-17:30

"Your Subaltern Is Not My Subaltern": Intersectionality and the Dangers of a Single Game-Story

Zahra Rizvi, Souvik Mukherjee

16:30-16:50

The Dualistic Model of Passion in the Scope of Problematic Gaming

A. Infanti, C. Valls-Serrano, J.C. Perales, C. Vögele, J. Billieux

16:50-17:10

Moving the Margins: Setting up Pathway Research Studying Adolescent Video Gaming, Simulated Gambling and Monetary

Eva Grosemans, Bruno Dupont, Tim Smits, Lowie Bradt, Bieke Zaman, Rozane De Cock

17:10-17:30

Learnings from the Case Maple Refugee: a Story of Free-to-Play, Probability, and Gamer Consumer

S. Park, L.Y. Xiao, M. Denoo, E. Grosemans, E. Petrovskaya, N. Ballou

16:30-16:50

Play Value, Gameplay, and Immersion in the Early Videogame Industry

Braxton Soderman

16:50-17:10

(Un)Known Polish Spaces. Strategies of Foreignization and Domestication in Polish Video Games

Magdalena Kozyra, Tomasz Majkowski, Aleksandra Prokopek

16:30-16:50

Let Us Play Oregon Trail: Origin Stories and Gaming Capital Around the First Let's Plays

Annie Harrisson

16:50-17:10

The Past as (Para)text – Relating Histories of Game Experience to Games as Texts

Nick Webber

17:10-17:30

The Case of Missing Cases. On Piratexts — Paratexts Created by Pirates for Pirates

Paweł Grabarczyk

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break