Program for Tuesday, July 2nd: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR TUESDAY, JULY 2ND: TALK VIEW

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09:00-09:30 Official Opening

09:30-10:30 KEYNOTE José Zagal: “What is best in games?”

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-13:00

Journey to the Centre of Videogame History: Reconciling Vernacular Practices and Material

Alex Custodio, Dany Guay-Bélanger, Michael Iantorno

11:00-13:00

Game Studies Scrimmage

Bart Simon

11:00-13:00

Games and Colonialism: Expanding Studies in Research, Design, and Reception

Mia Consalvo, Roger Altizer Jr., Andrew Phelps, Lindsay Grace, Hartmut Koenitz

11:00-13:00

Speculation by Design: Speculative Media and Productivity in Online 'Playgrounds'

Jacob Mertens, Rowena Chodkowski, Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux

11:00-11:30

“You can be sexy AND powerful!”: Gender Presentation in Video Games using Genshin Impact as an

Mengqi Li, Jingyan Lin

11:30-12:00

Shifting Patterns of Female Representation Across Assassin’s Creed

Andrei Zanescu, Lina Eklund

12:00-12:30

Kidnapping Women, Conquering Countries: Female (Under-)Representation in Asterix Video Games

Paolo D'Indinosante

11:00-11:30

Cursed: A Ludic Genealogy of the Myth of El Dorado

Mikael Jakobsson, Santiago Ojeda-Ramirez

11:30-12:00

History, Time and the Past in Radiant Historia

Nick Webber

12:00-12:30

Restorative vs. Reflective Nostalgia in Arcade Paradise

Péter Makai

12:30-13:00

What Is a National Video Game?

Stanisław Krawczyk

11:00-11:30

Mazy Playgrounds: Constraints and Countergaming in Choose Your Own Adventure

Elly McCausland

11:30-12:00

Exploring the Perspectives of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants on Virtual Reality as a Playground in

Antonia Wurm, Jeffrey Wimmer

12:00-12:30

Dou Dizhu For All: An Accessible Card Game for Visually Impaired Persons in China Powered by ChatGPT’s Language

Yunke Deng

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-15:00

Games Built the Computer: Inverting our Histories of Games

Samuel Pizelo

15:00-15:30

Videogames and Public Play in the Late 1970s: the Case of TV POWWW!

Braxton Soderman, Tom Boellstorff

15:30-16:00

Transmedia in the Early 1980s: Breaking out of the Computer Monitor with the Games by Mel Croucher and Automata

Jaroslav Svelch

14:30-15:00

Colossal Spiders, Saxophones and Petri Dishes: Defining Virtual Worlds

Finn Dawson

15:00-15:30

Arguing for False Moral Dilemmas in Games

Maxime Deslongchamps-Gagnon

14:30-15:00

Crunch on the Playground: Long Hours of Work in Game Development

Daeana Paula Bourscheid, Andrea Valéria Steil

15:00-15:30

What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game

Emil Hammar, Jesper Juul, Alessandro Canossa

15:30-16:00

Interviewed Workers and Industry Worldviews at Ubisoft Montréal’s Assassin’s Creed

Lars de Wildt

14:30-15:00

Playgrounding with Tamagotchis: A Collaborative Autoethnography

Saniye Ince, Aris Politopoulos, Angus Mol, Sybille Lammes

15:00-15:30

Becoming, Circumstances and Practice: A Collective Biography of 3 Games Lecturers

Bruno de Paula, Diane Carr, Danielle Kleinerman

15:30-16:00

The Player-Leader Heuristic - A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Representations of Leadership in

E. Jules Maier-Zucchino

14:30-15:00

Breaking the Fourth Wall: Spectating as Metagaming in Inscryption

Xin Pan

15:00-15:30

Metanarrative Horror: The Existential Dread of Choice

Claire Stricklin, Samuel Muscente

15:30-16:00

Remakes, Remasters, and Paratextual Revisits

René Glas

14:30-15:00

Transmedia Imperialism: Hogwarts Legacy and the Cultural Politics of Diversity

Sarah Christina Ganzon

15:00-15:30

Merging Ludus and Mimesis: Playful Engagements with NPCs on TikTok

Tanja Sihvonen, Kristine Ask

15:30-16:00

The BookTok to Player Pipeline: TikTok and the Baldur’s Gate 3 Fandom

Ashley Ml Guajardo

14:30-15:00

Differential Impact of the Positive and Negative Image of Digital Games on University Students’ Computational

M. Fukui, Y. Sano, K. Okuno, M. Kuroda, E.T. Ong, K.T. Ng, P. Chew

15:00-15:30

Wanting Playfulness to Counter Fatigue from Virtual Meetings: Associations with Social Interaction Anxiety and

Chaeyun Lim, Maxwell Foxman, Alex Leith, Dar Meshi, Rabindra Ratan

15:30-16:00

Playing the Hidden Curriculum: Designing Games to Materialize and Question the Unwritten Rules in Higher Education

Jasper Van Vught

14:30-14:35

Shapeless

Chelsea Brtis

14:35-14:40

1001 Nights: AI-native Narrative Game Driven by Large Language Models

Yuqian Sun

14:40-14:45

Unsweet Tea: Games as Bodies

Jack Perse

14:45-14:50

Renewable Artgames Residency: A zine

Kara Stone, Cindy Poremba

14:50-14:55

What Is It Like to Play like a Dog?

Mathias Fuchs

14:55-15:00

City Residuals

Runqi Zhou, Runqi Zhou, Runqi Zhou

15:00-15:05

Playscape

Peter Nelson, Amber Wing Yan Ng

15:05-15:10

Dynamical-meaning Focused Design: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance

Jasmine Liang

15:10-15:15

Frame 352: Making Folklore

Maxwell Lander

15:15-15:20

Fringe Game Craft: An Exploration of Fantasy Consoles and Exotic Game Tools

Cuauhtemoc Moreno

15:20-15:25

MA Pitch (Draft)

Elliot Yu

15:25-15:30

Escaping Moloch’s Gauntlet: Undergraduate Pedagogical Perspectives in Minecraft

Angelica Calcagnile, Nat Torre, Andrew Rochon, Theodore Fox

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:00

Culturalization or Deculturalization? Looking at Smash Brother Franchise from a Fandom Perspective

Yanhong Lu, Nandhini Giri

17:00-17:30

God’s Playground: On Polish History, Games, and Discourses

Aleksandra Prokopek, Tomasz Majkowski, Magdalena Kozyra

17:30-18:00

A Mythology of Raids: How Raiding Persists as a Cultural Phenomenon of Torturous Play

Ben Scholl

16:30-17:00

Propping Up Play: Game Objects, Affordances, and Perceptual Multiplicity

Keerthi Sridharan

17:00-17:30

Frameplaying: the photographic configurative act in the Gran Turismo series photo modes

Mariana Gomes da Fontoura

17:30-18:00

A Beginner’s Guide to Painted Worlds: The Haunted Mansion, Dark Souls III, and the Playground of

David Hall

16:30-17:00

Elapse: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance with Intentional Design

Jasmine Liang

17:00-17:30

Towards Qualia-Driven Design

Samuel Shields, Michael Mateas, Edward Melcer

17:30-18:00

Roll 20 for a Successful Compile: A Game Development RPG

Ruben Hernandez

16:30-17:00

Masculinity in Gaming Communities: An Analysis of Costume Play Meme

Yeonwoo Lee, Yunhee Cho

17:00-17:30

Reflecting on Pride at Play

Xavier Ho, Fae Daunt, Mads Mackenzie, Chloe Appleby

17:30-18:00

Queer Players' Strategies for Queering Character Interactions

Mark Maletska

16:30-17:00

Video Games as Participatory Playgrounds for Civic Imaginations on War: The Case of Laika: Aged Through

Michel Maksimova, Do Own Donna Kim

17:00-17:30

Poverty (Is All Fun) and Games

Eleonora Imbierowicz

17:30-18:00

A Body Without End: The Trans Twine Games of Porpentine Charity Heartscape

Merlyn Seller

16:30-17:00

Playbour or Leisure: Unveiling Subjectivity in Chinese Digital Game Labor Landscape

Haiyan Chen

17:00-17:30

Understanding Content Creation: An Exploration of the Social, Technical, and Professional Elements of Video Game Content

Thomas Byers, Bjørn Nansen

16:30-17:00

Framework-based Roguelike Game for AI/ML Education

Ayana Uematsu, Daisuke Saito, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa

17:00-17:30

Can Games Be AI Explanations? An Exploratory Study of Simulation Games

Jennifer Villareale, Thomas Boyd Fox, Jichen Zhu

17:30-18:00

ChatGPT – The Future of Queer Play?

Lucas Fellner

16:30-17:00

A Renewable Artgames Residency: Exploring Sustainable Practices for Art Game Design

Cindy Poremba, Kara Stone

17:00-17:30

“El Niño’s Finger”: A Lightweight H5 Game Using Conceptual Metaphors to Reflect Ecological

Yi Zhang, Xiaoqing Sun

17:30-18:00

Rhizomatic Playgrounds and Virtual Machine Ecologies in Horizon: Forbidden West

Will McKeown

19:00-22:00 Social Programme