DIGRA 2024: DIGRA 2024 - PLAYGROUNDS

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Agloro, Alexandrina	Playful Latinidades: Rasquache Methods, Latinx Migrations, and Antifascist Design
Agrawal, Shruti	Subjective Experience of Rule-Based Immersion in Abstract Strategy Tabletop Games In the Flux: A Constructivist Perspective on Effort and Emotions in Tabletop Games
Altizer Jr., Roger	Games and Colonialism: Expanding Studies in Research, Design, and Reception
Alvarenga, Thais	Road to Acceptance: A Gamified VR Narrative Journey Through the Stages of Grief
Andiloro, Andrea	From Nothingness to Game: Understanding the Emergence of Videogames through Posthumanism and Nishida Kitaro
Apperley, Tom	Digitizing Shining Path - The Struggle for Peru: Reclaiming and Reconstructing the Peruvian Armed Conflict
Appleby, Chloe	Reflecting on Pride at Play
Arangelov, Vasil A.	Grounds for Coping: When and Why Women Gamers Employ Different Harassment Management Strategies
Argo Chávez, Mary Anne	Who Can Play in the Game Studies Playground? Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Chile: Early History, Context, and Adoption
Ariese, Csilla	The Past as Playground
Ask, Kristine	Merging Ludus and Mimesis: Playful Engagements with NPCs on TikTok
Aylett, Ruth	A Bechdel Test for Computer Games?
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Bankler, Jon Viktor	Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation
Barroso, Diego	Play to Make a City. Cultural-historical Identities and Affordances in Videogame Versions of Hong Kong
Bashandy, Hamza	Who Owns the Gamespace? Negotiating Spatial Agency in Video Games
Beyea, David	Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design in Meeting Platforms
Björkman, Tony	Attention-Based Initiative In Real Time Strategy
Blakey, Heather	Love and Other Terrors: Intimacy and Vulnerability in English-Language Dating Simulators and Romance Games
Blamey, Courtney	Learning to Code Games and Politics: An Examination of Misinformation in Scratch Studios
Boellstorff, Tom	Videogames and Public Play in the Late 1970s: the Case of TV POWWW!
Boluk, Stephanie	Speculation by Design: Speculative Media and Productivity in Online 'Playgrounds'
Bourscheid, Daeana Paula	Crunch on the Playground: Long Hours of Work in Game Development
Bouzek, Dalton	Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design in Meeting Platforms
Bowman, Sarah Lynne	Personality, Fantasy, and Spirituality: Comparing Analog Role-players to Other Populations Synchronizing Measurements of Emotional Arousal and Facial Emotion Expression of Players during a Physical Play Sessions
Brtis, Chelsea	Shapeless
Burell Jr., Shane L.	Grounds for Coping: When and Why Women Gamers Employ Different Harassment Management Strategies
Butt, Mahli-Ann	Reset and Replay: Planning Game Industry Events Post-Pandemic
Byers, Thomas	Temporality of Play: Time in Digital Playgrounds Understanding Content Creation: An Exploration of the Social, Technical, and Professional Elements of Video Game Content Creation
Bódi, Bettina	Playing with Capitalism: Metareference, Comedy, and Coziness in Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (Snoozy Kazoo 2021)
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C. Aguerri, Jesús	Gamblification of Video Games: the Introduction of Gambling in Digital Leisure and its Consequences Toxicity in Video Games: An Approach through Multicausality
Cahill, Tiernan	Navigating the Virtual Playground: How Do Players Choose What, When, and How to Play?
Calcagnile, Angelica	Escaping Moloch’s Gauntlet: Undergraduate Pedagogical Perspectives in Minecraft
Canossa, Alessandro	Visceral Rhetoric for a Post-Factual Society
Canossa, Alessandro	What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game Production
Caracciolo, Marco	Radical Digital Fishing: From Minigames to Bad Environmentalism
Carlson, Kristin	Predictability in Competitive Video Games: Effects of Strategic Equilibrium on Player Agency
Carr, Diane	Becoming, Circumstances and Practice: A Collective Biography of 3 Games Lecturers
Castro Valdez, Mauricio	Digitizing Shining Path - The Struggle for Peru: Reclaiming and Reconstructing the Peruvian Armed Conflict
Chen, Dody	Translating Cultural Memory in Video Games: Realism and Localization of Chinese Parents
Chen, Haiyan	Playbour or Leisure: Unveiling Subjectivity in Chinese Digital Game Labor Landscape
Chew, Peter	Differential Impact of the Positive and Negative Image of Digital Games on University Students’ Computational Thinking
Chia, Aleena	Critical Video Game Engine Studies
Cho, Yunhee	Masculinity in Gaming Communities: An Analysis of Costume Play Meme
Chodkowski, Rowena	Speculation by Design: Speculative Media and Productivity in Online 'Playgrounds'
Conde, Samantha	Workshopping with the Acculturative Game Design Framework
Consalvo, Mia	Games and Colonialism: Expanding Studies in Research, Design, and Reception Class Tourism, Empathy Machines, and Videogames
Consalvo, Mia	Learning to Code Games and Politics: An Examination of Misinformation in Scratch Studios
Corness, Greg	Predictability in Competitive Video Games: Effects of Strategic Equilibrium on Player Agency
Cote, Amanda	Building from the (Play)ground Up: Finding Sustainable Game Industry Futures Grounds for Coping: When and Why Women Gamers Employ Different Harassment Management Strategies
Custodio, Alex	Journey to the Centre of Videogame History: Reconciling Vernacular Practices and Material Collections
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D'Indinosante, Paolo	Kidnapping Women, Conquering Countries: Female (Under-)Representation in Asterix Video Games
Dalvi, Girish	Subjective Experience of Rule-Based Immersion in Abstract Strategy Tabletop Games Developing a Theory of Player Intent in Board Games In the Flux: A Constructivist Perspective on Effort and Emotions in Tabletop Games
Daunt, Fae	Reflecting on Pride at Play
Dawson, Finn	Colossal Spiders, Saxophones and Petri Dishes: Defining Virtual Worlds
de Paula, Bruno	Who Can Play in the Game Studies Playground? Becoming, Circumstances and Practice: A Collective Biography of 3 Games Lecturers
de Vasconcellos, Marcelo	‘Jogos de Mesa contra Fake News’: Reflections on Serious Analogue Games for Media Literacy
de Wildt, Lars	Grieving World of Warcraft’s Chinese Server Shutdown Interviewed Workers and Industry Worldviews at Ubisoft Montréal’s Assassin’s Creed
de Wit, Jan	Exploring Character Bleed in Dungeons & Dragons: Impacts of Personality Design
DeAnda, Michael	Playful Latinidades: Rasquache Methods, Latinx Migrations, and Antifascist Design
Dejong, Scott	Class Tourism, Empathy Machines, and Videogames Learning to Code Games and Politics: An Examination of Misinformation in Scratch Studios
Deng, Yunke	Dou Dizhu For All: An Accessible Card Game for Visually Impaired Persons in China Powered by ChatGPT’s Language Model
Denk, Natalie	CosTechPlay: Towards a Teaching Concept that brings Cosplay to Schools
Deramond, Aurore	Creative Playgrounds : Authors and Boardgames in the Making
Deslongchamps-Gagnon, Maxime	Arguing for False Moral Dilemmas in Games
Dhamelia, Malay	Developing a Theory of Player Intent in Board Games
Donald, Iain	Playable Archive: The management of data in the FIFA/EA Sports franchise.
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Edström, Mika	Game Design Education for AAA, Creativity, or Critical Thinking
Eklund, Lina	Shifting Patterns of Female Representation Across Assassin’s Creed
Ellis, James	At the Push of a Button: Player/Avatar Fusion and the ‘Gestural Potential’ of Video Game Music
Elor, Aviv	Workshopping with the Acculturative Game Design Framework
Engström, Henrik	Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation
Erkkilä, Valpuri	Coworking in a Playground: Wellbeing Effects of Playful Design
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Fellner, Lucas	ChatGPT – The Future of Queer Play?
Feng, Zihan	Demystify the Concept of Beginner Village in Chinese Role-playing Games: A Discourse Analysis
Fiadotau, Mikhail	Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation
Firkins, Mio	A Bechdel Test for Computer Games?
Fletcher, Akil	Playing Beyond the Academy: Playgrounds as Sites for Alternative Community
Fontoura, Marcelo	‘Jogos de Mesa contra Fake News’: Reflections on Serious Analogue Games for Media Literacy
Fox, Theodore	Escaping Moloch’s Gauntlet: Undergraduate Pedagogical Perspectives in Minecraft
Fox, Thomas Boyd	Can Games Be AI Explanations? An Exploratory Study of Simulation Games
Foxman, Maxwell	Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design in Meeting Platforms Wanting Playfulness to Counter Fatigue from Virtual Meetings: Associations with Social Interaction Anxiety and Workaholism Grounds for Coping: When and Why Women Gamers Employ Different Harassment Management Strategies
Franzó, Alessandro	Lefebvre at the arcade: Understanding gaming houses as esports’ playgrounds
Fraser, Emma	The Past as Playground Rubble Playgrounds
Fuchs, Mathias	What Is It Like to Play like a Dog?
Fukazawa, Yoshiaki	Framework-based Roguelike Game for AI/ML Education
Fukui, Masanori	Differential Impact of the Positive and Negative Image of Digital Games on University Students’ Computational Thinking
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Ganzon, Sarah Christina	Transmedia Imperialism: Hogwarts Legacy and the Cultural Politics of Diversity
Garda, Maria	Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation
Gardner, Reginald	Playing Beyond the Academy: Playgrounds as Sites for Alternative Community
Gass, Arianna	Critical Video Game Engine Studies
Gerritsen, Corine	The Past as Playground
Gibbs, Martin	Temporality of Play: Time in Digital Playgrounds
Giri, Nandhini	Culturalization or Deculturalization? Looking at Smash Brother Franchise from a Fandom Perspective
Gissurardóttir, Salvor	Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation
Glackin, Dana	Own-experience Learning in a Digital Playground: Measuring Children’s Causal Reasoning Using Video Games
Glas, René	Remakes, Remasters, and Paratextual Revisits
Gomes da Fontoura, Mariana	Frameplaying: the photographic configurative act in the Gran Turismo series photo modes
Grabarczyk, Pawel	Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation
Grace, Lindsay	Games and Colonialism: Expanding Studies in Research, Design, and Reception Newsgames as a Case Study for The Value and Challenges of Archiving Digital Games
Gray, Kishonna	Playing Beyond the Academy: Playgrounds as Sites for Alternative Community
Grez, Ariel	Game Studies from the Southern Cone: Interdisciplinary Insights and Innovations
Grimes, Sara	Child Appropriate Game Design: Year 1 Findings
Guajardo, Ashley Ml	The BookTok to Player Pipeline: TikTok and the Baldur’s Gate 3 Fandom Reality Dating Show Game Analysis
Guay-Bélanger, Dany	Journey to the Centre of Videogame History: Reconciling Vernacular Practices and Material Collections
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Hall, David	A Beginner’s Guide to Painted Worlds: The Haunted Mansion, Dark Souls III, and the Playground of Interpretation
Hammar, Emil	What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game Production
Han, Yisong	The Gender Expression Influencing Factors: Understanding the Gender Expression in Avatar Customization
Hardwick, Taylor	Reset and Replay: Planning Game Industry Events Post-Pandemic
Hargreaves Bueno, Antonia	Who Can Play in the Game Studies Playground? Bodies Whithin Virtuality and Reality: Assemblages Between Affect and Videogames
Harrer, Sabine	Playgrounds of Whiteness: Confronting Epistemic Bias in European Game Studies
Harris, Brandon	Tim the Tatman, Fall Guys, & Dude Bro Streamers: Unpacking Hegemonic Masculinity on Twitch
Harris, Brandon C.	Building from the (Play)ground Up: Finding Sustainable Game Industry Futures
Harteveld, Casper	Visceral Rhetoric for a Post-Factual Society
Haynes, Chiara	1-Bit Skin: Materializing Abjection in World of Horror (2023)
Healy, John P.	Firewatch: (Studying) the Anatomy of a Game Design Process
Hennig, Martin	Big Brother Meets Joystick: Ethical Perspectives on Surveillance Imagery in Digital Games
Hernandez, Luke	How Latinidad and Border Politics Construct Cyberpunk 2077
Hernandez, Ruben	Roll 20 for a Successful Compile: A Game Development RPG
Hilu, Reem	Nancy Drew Video Games and the Spaces of Girlhood Play
Ho, Xavier	Reflecting on Pride at Play
Hollinetz, Hannelore	CosTechPlay: Towards a Teaching Concept that brings Cosplay to Schools
Holopainen, Jussi	Play to Make a City. Cultural-historical Identities and Affordances in Videogame Versions of Hong Kong
Huber, William	The Battle Game at the Bannockburn Experience
Hugaas, Kjell Hedgard	Personality, Fantasy, and Spirituality: Comparing Analog Role-players to Other Populations
Hutchinson, Rachael	Translating Japanese Videogame Theory
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Iantorno, Michael	Journey to the Centre of Videogame History: Reconciling Vernacular Practices and Material Collections Building from the (Play)ground Up: Finding Sustainable Game Industry Futures
Idone Cassone, Vincenzo	Highly-reflective screens: game centers as self-reflexive objects in digital games
Imbierowicz, Eleonora	The Sim Who Sold the World. Distorted Environmentalism in Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle Poverty (Is All Fun) and Games
Ince, Saniye	Playgrounding with Tamagotchis: A Collaborative Autoethnography
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Jakobsson, Mikael	Cursed: A Ludic Genealogy of the Myth of El Dorado
Jankowski, Filip	Beyond Huizinga and Caillois: French Play Studies Before Game Studies
Jaramillo, Marco	Game Studies from the Southern Cone: Interdisciplinary Insights and Innovations Protest Video Games in the Popular Uprising in Chile: Analysis of their Discourses and Contributions to the Discussion on Political Video Games in Contemporary Social Movements. Competitiveness and Meritocracy in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: An Ethnography of Gaming Practices in Santiago, Chile
Jerrett, Adam	Poly-Pervasive Playgrounds and Pitfalls: A Deployment Autoethnography of What We Take With Us
Jin, Yaewon	Who Can Play in the Game Studies Playground?
Jorgensen, Ida Kathrine H.	Play, Politics and Public Space: An Analysis of Cultural and Biopolitical Concerns in the Design for Urban Play in Copenhagen
Juul, Jesper	What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game Production
Juvrud, Joshua	Own-experience Learning in a Digital Playground: Measuring Children’s Causal Reasoning Using Video Games Personality, Fantasy, and Spirituality: Comparing Analog Role-players to Other Populations Synchronizing Measurements of Emotional Arousal and Facial Emotion Expression of Players during a Physical Play Sessions
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Kar, Souvik	Puja, Pandals and Paratextual Playgrounds: A Case Study of Durga Puja 2023 in Kolkata, India
Kato, Hiloko	Pass and Play in Mixed Reality: Unconventional use of a MR headset as a shareable display
Keogh, Brendan	Building from the (Play)ground Up: Finding Sustainable Game Industry Futures “We want to give others the same chance we had”: When Indie Developers Become Money Capitalists
Kim, Do Own Donna	Video Games as Participatory Playgrounds for Civic Imaginations on War: The Case of Laika: Aged Through Blood
Kim, Dohyun	Predictability in Competitive Video Games: Effects of Strategic Equilibrium on Player Agency
Klebig, Brian	Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design in Meeting Platforms
Kleinerman, Danielle	Becoming, Circumstances and Practice: A Collective Biography of 3 Games Lecturers
Kobenova, Amina	Road to Acceptance: A Gamified VR Narrative Journey Through the Stages of Grief
Koenitz, Hartmut	Games and Colonialism: Expanding Studies in Research, Design, and Reception
Kozyra, Magdalena	Eques Polonus Sum. Intentional and Accidental Tropes of Polish Heritage in Sienkiewicz-themed Digital Games God’s Playground: On Polish History, Games, and Discourses
Krampe, Theresa	Big Brother Meets Joystick: Ethical Perspectives on Surveillance Imagery in Digital Games
Krawczyk, Stanisław	Who Can Play in the Game Studies Playground? What Is a National Video Game?
Kross, Zoe	Own-experience Learning in a Digital Playground: Measuring Children’s Causal Reasoning Using Video Games
Kultima, Annakaisa	Firewatch: (Studying) the Anatomy of a Game Design Process
Kurniawan, Sri	Workshopping with the Acculturative Game Design Framework
Kuroda, Masakatsu	Differential Impact of the Positive and Negative Image of Digital Games on University Students’ Computational Thinking
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Laiti, Outi	Salmon Grief in Sámi Digital Games
Lajeunesse, Marc	Learning to Code Games and Politics: An Examination of Misinformation in Scratch Studios
Lakkala, Arttu	Coworking in a Playground: Wellbeing Effects of Playful Design
Lammes, Sybille	The Past as Playground Rubble Playgrounds Playgrounding with Tamagotchis: A Collaborative Autoethnography
Lander, Maxwell	Frame 352: Making Folklore
Lee, Yeonwoo	Masculinity in Gaming Communities: An Analysis of Costume Play Meme
Leisi, Chris Elvis	Pass and Play in Mixed Reality: Unconventional use of a MR headset as a shareable display
Leith, Alex	Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design in Meeting Platforms Wanting Playfulness to Counter Fatigue from Virtual Meetings: Associations with Social Interaction Anxiety and Workaholism
LeMieux, Patrick	Speculation by Design: Speculative Media and Productivity in Online 'Playgrounds'
Li, Mengqi	“You can be sexy AND powerful!”: Gender Presentation in Video Games using Genshin Impact as an Example
Li, Yunfei	‘I like to feel strong but not to kill’: An Exploration of Age 4 to 10 Girls’ Console Game Experiences in China
Liang, Jasmine	Dynamical-meaning Focused Design: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance Elapse: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance with Intentional Design
Lim, Chaeyun	Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design in Meeting Platforms Wanting Playfulness to Counter Fatigue from Virtual Meetings: Associations with Social Interaction Anxiety and Workaholism
Lim, Jerald	The Universe Peoples: Towards a Symptomatic Deep Ecology in OReilly’s Everything
Lima, Leandro A. Borges	Who Can Play in the Game Studies Playground?
Lin, Jingyan	Embodiment of User-Generated Content in Electronic Game: A Case Study of the Party Game Eggy Party
Lin, Jingyan	“You can be sexy AND powerful!”: Gender Presentation in Video Games using Genshin Impact as an Example
Loh, Wulf	Big Brother Meets Joystick: Ethical Perspectives on Surveillance Imagery in Digital Games
Lu, Yanhong	Culturalization or Deculturalization? Looking at Smash Brother Franchise from a Fandom Perspective
Lundblade, Kirk	Gods, Kings, and Historians: History and the Dual Diegesis of Crusader Kings in the Assemblage of Play
Luo, Haoxi	Translating Cultural Memory in Video Games: Realism and Localization of Chinese Parents
Luo, Haoxi	The Fearful Realism: Chinese Horror Indie Games and the Realist Horror
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Mackenzie, Mads	Reflecting on Pride at Play
Maheux, Frédérick	Order in Chaos: Toward a Theory of Videoludic Noise
Maier-Zucchino, E. Jules	The Player-Leader Heuristic - A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Representations of Leadership in Videogames
Majkowski, Tomasz	Eques Polonus Sum. Intentional and Accidental Tropes of Polish Heritage in Sienkiewicz-themed Digital Games God’s Playground: On Polish History, Games, and Discourses
Makai, Péter	Restorative vs. Reflective Nostalgia in Arcade Paradise Let’s Play Illiberal Democracy: Authoritarian Political Simulators as Playgrounds of History
Maksimova, Michel	Video Games as Participatory Playgrounds for Civic Imaginations on War: The Case of Laika: Aged Through Blood
Malazita, James	Critical Video Game Engine Studies
Maletska, Mark	Queer Players' Strategies for Queering Character Interactions
Malinen, Ville	Pierced Windscreens and Virtual Agency: Reckless Driving Gaming As a “safe” Playground for Vehicular Carnage
Marji, Yanal	Coworking in a Playground: Wellbeing Effects of Playful Design
Masek, Leland	Coworking in a Playground: Wellbeing Effects of Playful Design
Mateas, Michael	Corporeal Capture: The Rhetoric of Boundaries in Procedurality Towards Qualia-Driven Design
Matencio Durán, David	Are you Lázaro? Picaresque Childhood in Baldur’s Gate 3
Maycock, Heather	The Other Playground: Negotiating Precarity in Dark Souls III Player vs Player Encounters
McCausland, Elly	Mazy Playgrounds: Constraints and Countergaming in Choose Your Own Adventure
McDonald, Peter	Critical Video Game Engine Studies
McKeown, Will	Playgrounds of Authority: Space, Power, and Agency in Dying Light Rhizomatic Playgrounds and Virtual Machine Ecologies in Horizon: Forbidden West
McNair, Riley	Child Appropriate Game Design: Year 1 Findings
Mejeur, Cody	Playing Beyond the Academy: Playgrounds as Sites for Alternative Community
Mejía-Alandia, Diego Andrés	A [W]hole in One. Balkanization, Empire, and the Apocalypse as Playground in 'Golf Club Nostalgia'
Melcer, Edward	Towards Qualia-Driven Design
Mertens, Jacob	Speculation by Design: Speculative Media and Productivity in Online 'Playgrounds'
Meshi, Dar	Wanting Playfulness to Counter Fatigue from Virtual Meetings: Associations with Social Interaction Anxiety and Workaholism
Metze, Tamara	Visceral Rhetoric for a Post-Factual Society
Mieres, Rocío	Game Studies from the Southern Cone: Interdisciplinary Insights and Innovations
Mikkelsen, Ronny S.	Making Sense of ‘Game Feel’ through Affective Science
Milik, Oskar	The Inadvertent Construction of Leaders in Digital Games
Miró Llinares, Fernando	Gamblification of Video Games: the Introduction of Gambling in Digital Leisure and its Consequences
Mitchell, Alex	Patterns for Designing Poetic Gameplay
Mol, Angus	The Past as Playground Playgrounding with Tamagotchis: A Collaborative Autoethnography
Mombiela Laborda, Javier	Playgrounds as ‘Workgrounds’: How Real-money Trading Transforms the Gaming Experience
Mondelli, Frank	Translating Japanese Videogame Theory
Montembeault, Hugo	Order in Chaos: Toward a Theory of Videoludic Noise
Moreno, Cuauhtemoc	Fringe Game Craft: An Exploration of Fantasy Consoles and Exotic Game Tools
Mount, Reuben	Furry Ex Machina: How does VRChat allow for modern instances of digital identity generation and immersion in the furry fandom?
Moyzhes, Leonid	Can I Play with God? Case Study of Baldur’s Gate III Inability to Support a Religious Identity Play
Mukherjee, Hiranya	The [C]rime of the Ancient Mariner: Locating the Playgrounds of Trauma and its Sublimation in the Mariner’s Journey and Dark Souls
Mukherjee, Souvik	Translating Playing Fields: Digital and the Physical Playgrounds Dinosaurs in Your Playgrounds: Remediating the Anthropocene and Othering in Jurassic World: Evolution Puja, Pandals and Paratextual Playgrounds: A Case Study of Durga Puja 2023 in Kolkata, India
Murali, Suraj	Attention-Based Initiative In Real Time Strategy
Muravevskaia, Ekaterina	Exploring Empathy Assessment in a Role-Play Format within Indian context
Muscente, Samuel	Metanarrative Horror: The Existential Dread of Choice
Müllner, Leonhard	Lost in Paradise! Open-World Landscapes as Baroque Pleasure Gardens
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Nansen, Bjørn	Temporality of Play: Time in Digital Playgrounds Understanding Content Creation: An Exploration of the Social, Technical, and Professional Elements of Video Game Content Creation
Nelson, Peter	Rubble Playgrounds Playscape From Modding To AI Generators: The Shifting Landscape of Remix Culture and Intellectual Property
Nemer, David	Playing Beyond the Academy: Playgrounds as Sites for Alternative Community
Neo, Tiffany	Patterns for Designing Poetic Gameplay
Ng, Amber Wing Yan	Playscape
Ng, Khar Thoe	Differential Impact of the Positive and Negative Image of Digital Games on University Students’ Computational Thinking
Nguyen, Anh-Thu	The Dynamic Roles of Home Bases: Finding Home in Game Worlds
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Ojeda-Ramirez, Santiago	Cursed: A Ludic Genealogy of the Myth of El Dorado
Okabe, Tsugumi	Translating Japanese Videogame Theory
Okuno, Kazuki	Differential Impact of the Positive and Negative Image of Digital Games on University Students’ Computational Thinking
Ong, Eng Tek	Differential Impact of the Positive and Negative Image of Digital Games on University Students’ Computational Thinking
Ortiz Ortiz, Yamil	Exploring Puerto Rico’s Impact in Video Game Studies
Oxenstierna, Johan	Attention-Based Initiative In Real Time Strategy
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Pan, Xin	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Spectating as Metagaming in Inscryption
Paul, Christopher	What Fantasy Soccer Offers Game Studies The Changing Art of ”Housery” in The Age of VAR
Pelletier-Gagnon, Jeremie	Translating Japanese Videogame Theory
Penix-Tadsen, Phillip	Tracing the Demographics of Video Game Players in Latin America
Perse, Jack	Unsweet Tea: Games as Bodies
Phelps, Andrew	Games and Colonialism: Expanding Studies in Research, Design, and Reception
Phillips, Amanda	Playful Latinidades: Rasquache Methods, Latinx Migrations, and Antifascist Design
Piano, Andrea	Greening Vvanderfell. An Ecocritical Retrospective on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Pizelo, Samuel	Games Built the Computer: Inverting our Histories of Games
Politopoulos, Aris	The Past as Playground Playgrounding with Tamagotchis: A Collaborative Autoethnography
Poremba, Cindy	Renewable Artgames Residency: A zine A Renewable Artgames Residency: Exploring Sustainable Practices for Art Game Design
Posada Jaramillo, Santiago	Playful Latinidades: Rasquache Methods, Latinx Migrations, and Antifascist Design
Prax, Patrick	Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation
Prokopek, Aleksandra	Eques Polonus Sum. Intentional and Accidental Tropes of Polish Heritage in Sienkiewicz-themed Digital Games God’s Playground: On Polish History, Games, and Discourses
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Quarta, Pablo	Game Studies from the Southern Cone: Interdisciplinary Insights and Innovations
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Rahman, Md Waseq Ur	Grounds for Coping: When and Why Women Gamers Employ Different Harassment Management Strategies
Ratan, Rabindra	Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design in Meeting Platforms Wanting Playfulness to Counter Fatigue from Virtual Meetings: Associations with Social Interaction Anxiety and Workaholism
Ren, Mengshan	Experiencing the 'Love Fantasy' Playground: Cosplay/Crossplay and Affective Experiences in Female Gamers Practice
Reyes Diaz, Sebastián	Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Chile: Early History, Context, and Adoption
Rizov, Vladimir	The Ludic Unconscious: Towards a ‘Symptomatic Reading’ of Play and Narrative in the Watch Dogs Series
Rizvi, Zahra	Who Can Play in the Game Studies Playground? “Just like amma used to make”: Venba and Packaging the Aesthetics of Diaspora Puja, Pandals and Paratextual Playgrounds: A Case Study of Durga Puja 2023 in Kolkata, India
Rochon, Andrew	Escaping Moloch’s Gauntlet: Undergraduate Pedagogical Perspectives in Minecraft
Rodriguez Ramos, Alexis	Exploring Puerto Rico’s Impact in Video Game Studies
Ruseva, Juliana	Choosing Who to Sacrifice: Embodying Death in Indie Video Games
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Sahli, Oliver	Pass and Play in Mixed Reality: Unconventional use of a MR headset as a shareable display
Saito, Daisuke	Framework-based Roguelike Game for AI/ML Education
Sano, Yudai	Differential Impact of the Positive and Negative Image of Digital Games on University Students’ Computational Thinking
Santisteban Galarza, Mario	Toxicity in Video Games: An Approach through Multicausality
Scholl, Ben	A Mythology of Raids: How Raiding Persists as a Cultural Phenomenon of Torturous Play
Scholte Albers, Maxime	Exploring Character Bleed in Dungeons & Dragons: Impacts of Personality Design
Seller, Merlyn	Terribly Bored Lizards: Speculating with the Captive Animal in Jurassic World: Evolution (2019) A Body Without End: The Trans Twine Games of Porpentine Charity Heartscape
Shah, Mehdi	Newsgames as a Case Study for The Value and Challenges of Archiving Digital Games
Sheng, Ziqing	Experiencing the 'Love Fantasy' Playground: Cosplay/Crossplay and Affective Experiences in Female Gamers Practice
Shi, Hanjun	Game as History: How does Pentiment Recreate a Vivid Sixteenth-century Central European Everyday Life?
Shields, Samuel	Towards Qualia-Driven Design
Sihvonen, Lilli	Ludic Interventions in Studying Urban Play: Learning from Lack of Participation Studying the Ground of Play: Towards Ludological Semiotics of Playful Traces
Sihvonen, Tanja	Merging Ludus and Mimesis: Playful Engagements with NPCs on TikTok
Sim, Yuin Theng	Patterns for Designing Poetic Gameplay
Simon, Bart	Game Studies Scrimmage Building The Fun Palace: A 1960s Minecraft SMP Experience
Soderman, Braxton	Videogames and Public Play in the Late 1970s: the Case of TV POWWW!
Sotamaa, Olli	What Fantasy Soccer Offers Game Studies The Changing Art of ”Housery” in The Age of VAR
Soto Cerda, Alonso	Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Chile: Early History, Context, and Adoption
Spies, Thomas	Lost in Paradise! Open-World Landscapes as Baroque Pleasure Gardens
Spöhrer, Markus	Big Brother Meets Joystick: Ethical Perspectives on Surveillance Imagery in Digital Games
Sridharan, Keerthi	“Just like amma used to make”: Venba and Packaging the Aesthetics of Diaspora Propping Up Play: Game Objects, Affordances, and Perceptual Multiplicity
Stanton, Ryan	Is Games Journalism In Crisis? Examining The Shifting Gaming Media Ecosystem
Steil, Andrea Valéria	Crunch on the Playground: Long Hours of Work in Game Development
Stevens, E. Charlotte	‘Jogos de Mesa contra Fake News’: Reflections on Serious Analogue Games for Media Literacy Good Gamer, Good Citizen: Representing Video Games in Chinese Television
Stewart, Carolyn	Own-experience Learning in a Digital Playground: Measuring Children’s Causal Reasoning Using Video Games
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