DIGRA 2024: DIGRA 2024 - PLAYGROUNDS

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1980s	Transmedia in the Early 1980s: Breaking out of the Computer Monitor with the Games by Mel Croucher and Automata UK
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3d	City Residuals
3D Models	MA Pitch (Draft)
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AAA	Interviewed Workers and Industry Worldviews at Ubisoft Montréal’s Assassin’s Creed
Abjection	1-Bit Skin: Materializing Abjection in World of Horror (2023)
absorption	Personality, Fantasy, and Spirituality: Comparing Analog Role-players to Other Populations
abstract strategy	Subjective Experience of Rule-Based Immersion in Abstract Strategy Tabletop Games
academic history	Colossal Spiders, Saxophones and Petri Dishes: Defining Virtual Worlds
access	Temporality of Play: Time in Digital Playgrounds
Accessibility	Reset and Replay: Planning Game Industry Events Post-Pandemic Translating Japanese Videogame Theory
Accident	Pierced Windscreens and Virtual Agency: Reckless Driving Gaming As a “safe” Playground for Vehicular Carnage
Acculturation	Workshopping with the Acculturative Game Design Framework
Acculturative Game Design	Workshopping with the Acculturative Game Design Framework
Acousmatics
act of play	Play as Apparatus and Ludic “Asianness” as Diffracted Realities
actor-network theory
Adaptation	Eques Polonus Sum. Intentional and Accidental Tropes of Polish Heritage in Sienkiewicz-themed Digital Games Good Gamer, Good Citizen: Representing Video Games in Chinese Television
adoration	Love and Other Terrors: Intimacy and Vulnerability in English-Language Dating Simulators and Romance Games
adventure	Mazy Playgrounds: Constraints and Countergaming in Choose Your Own Adventure
Advertising	Illegal Loot Box Advertising on Social Media: An Analysis of Meta and TikTok Ad Libraries
aesthetics	“Just like amma used to make”: Venba and Packaging the Aesthetics of Diaspora Big Brother Meets Joystick: Ethical Perspectives on Surveillance Imagery in Digital Games
affect	Terribly Bored Lizards: Speculating with the Captive Animal in Jurassic World: Evolution (2019) “Just like amma used to make”: Venba and Packaging the Aesthetics of Diaspora The Fearful Realism: Chinese Horror Indie Games and the Realist Horror Making Sense of ‘Game Feel’ through Affective Science A Body Without End: The Trans Twine Games of Porpentine Charity Heartscape
affect theory	Restorative vs. Reflective Nostalgia in Arcade Paradise
affective experience	Experiencing the 'Love Fantasy' Playground: Cosplay/Crossplay and Affective Experiences in Female Gamers Practice
affordances	Propping Up Play: Game Objects, Affordances, and Perceptual Multiplicity
age-appropriate design	Child Appropriate Game Design: Year 1 Findings
agency	Playgrounds of Authority: Space, Power, and Agency in Dying Light Big Brother Meets Joystick: Ethical Perspectives on Surveillance Imagery in Digital Games Understanding Content Creation: An Exploration of the Social, Technical, and Professional Elements of Video Game Content Creation ‘Hey! You’re not supposed to be here!’: Simulated Trespass and Intrusion in Virtual Playgrounds The Player-Leader Heuristic - A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Representations of Leadership in Videogames Metanarrative Horror: The Existential Dread of Choice
agender	Shapeless
AI	Gaming the Future: How Games Help Us Play What’s to Come From Modding To AI Generators: The Shifting Landscape of Remix Culture and Intellectual Property 1001 Nights: AI-native Narrative Game Driven by Large Language Models
AI and Game Design	Game Studies from the Southern Cone: Interdisciplinary Insights and Innovations
AI native game	1001 Nights: AI-native Narrative Game Driven by Large Language Models
AI/ML education	Framework-based Roguelike Game for AI/ML Education
Alan Turing	Games Built the Computer: Inverting our Histories of Games
alcohol	Reset and Replay: Planning Game Industry Events Post-Pandemic
Alternate Reality Game	Motivational Landscapes of ARG Players: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective
alternate reality games	Transmedia in the Early 1980s: Breaking out of the Computer Monitor with the Games by Mel Croucher and Automata UK
Alternative business models	Building from the (Play)ground Up: Finding Sustainable Game Industry Futures
alternative controls	Game Design Education for AAA, Creativity, or Critical Thinking
analog games	Games Built the Computer: Inverting our Histories of Games
analog role-playing games	Personality, Fantasy, and Spirituality: Comparing Analog Role-players to Other Populations
analogue games	Synchronizing Measurements of Emotional Arousal and Facial Emotion Expression of Players during a Physical Play Sessions ‘Jogos de Mesa contra Fake News’: Reflections on Serious Analogue Games for Media Literacy
analysis	Greening Vvanderfell. An Ecocritical Retrospective on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Androcentric Hegemony	Tim the Tatman, Fall Guys, & Dude Bro Streamers: Unpacking Hegemonic Masculinity on Twitch
Anglicisation	Who Can Play in the Game Studies Playground?
animal	Terribly Bored Lizards: Speculating with the Captive Animal in Jurassic World: Evolution (2019)
animal playgrounds	What Is It Like to Play like a Dog?
animation
anime subculture
anthropocene	Dinosaurs in Your Playgrounds: Remediating the Anthropocene and Othering in Jurassic World: Evolution
anthropomorphism	The Universe Peoples: Towards a Symptomatic Deep Ecology in OReilly’s Everything A Stray Autoethnography: Becoming-animal, or Anthropomorphic Humanism?
anti-colonialism	Kidnapping Women, Conquering Countries: Female (Under-)Representation in Asterix Video Games
antifascism	Playful Latinidades: Rasquache Methods, Latinx Migrations, and Antifascist Design
Apex Legends
Arcades	Highly-reflective screens: game centers as self-reflexive objects in digital games
Architecture
archiving	Newsgames as a Case Study for The Value and Challenges of Archiving Digital Games
Arena
art games	Patterns for Designing Poetic Gameplay
art practice	Renewable Artgames Residency: A zine
art residency	A Renewable Artgames Residency: Exploring Sustainable Practices for Art Game Design
artgames	A Renewable Artgames Residency: Exploring Sustainable Practices for Art Game Design
artificial intelligence	ChatGPT – The Future of Queer Play?
Artist book	Playscape
artistic practice
Asian games	Play as Apparatus and Ludic “Asianness” as Diffracted Realities
Assassin's Creed	Shifting Patterns of Female Representation Across Assassin’s Creed
assemblage	Gran Turismo 7 and Me: An Autoethnographic Approach to Ludic Subjectivity
Assemblages	Bodies Whithin Virtuality and Reality: Assemblages Between Affect and Videogames
Asterix	Kidnapping Women, Conquering Countries: Female (Under-)Representation in Asterix Video Games
asymmetrical design	Digitizing Shining Path - The Struggle for Peru: Reclaiming and Reconstructing the Peruvian Armed Conflict
Atlas.Ti
audience studies
augmented reality games	Frame 352: Making Folklore
authenticity	“Just like amma used to make”: Venba and Packaging the Aesthetics of Diaspora Dinosaurs in Your Playgrounds: Remediating the Anthropocene and Othering in Jurassic World: Evolution Playable Archive: The management of data in the FIFA/EA Sports franchise.
authority	Playgrounds of Authority: Space, Power, and Agency in Dying Light Playing by the Rules of The Dominant Player
autoethnography	Poly-Pervasive Playgrounds and Pitfalls: A Deployment Autoethnography of What We Take With Us Gran Turismo 7 and Me: An Autoethnographic Approach to Ludic Subjectivity Playgrounds of Whiteness: Confronting Epistemic Bias in European Game Studies A Stray Autoethnography: Becoming-animal, or Anthropomorphic Humanism? Observant Play and Modding: The Postcolonial, Environmentalist Playthrough of Minecraft
Avatar customization	The Gender Expression Influencing Factors: Understanding the Gender Expression in Avatar Customization
Avatars	Furry Ex Machina: How does VRChat allow for modern instances of digital identity generation and immersion in the furry fandom?
avoiding and participatory strategies	Grounds for Coping: When and Why Women Gamers Employ Different Harassment Management Strategies
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Baldur's Gate 3	Can I Play with God? Case Study of Baldur’s Gate III Inability to Support a Religious Identity Play
Balkanism and Balkanization	A [W]hole in One. Balkanization, Empire, and the Apocalypse as Playground in 'Golf Club Nostalgia'
Bandersnatch	Metanarrative Horror: The Existential Dread of Choice
Bastion
becoming-animal	A Stray Autoethnography: Becoming-animal, or Anthropomorphic Humanism?
beginner village	Demystify the Concept of Beginner Village in Chinese Role-playing Games: A Discourse Analysis
bible	Elapse: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance with Intentional Design Dynamical-meaning Focused Design: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance
biometrics	Synchronizing Measurements of Emotional Arousal and Facial Emotion Expression of Players during a Physical Play Sessions
biopolitics
Blender	MA Pitch (Draft)
board games	Developing a Theory of Player Intent in Board Games Cursed: A Ludic Genealogy of the Myth of El Dorado ‘Jogos de Mesa contra Fake News’: Reflections on Serious Analogue Games for Media Literacy
boardgame digitization	Digitizing Shining Path - The Struggle for Peru: Reclaiming and Reconstructing the Peruvian Armed Conflict
boardgames	Creative Playgrounds : Authors and Boardgames in the Making
bodies	Unsweet Tea: Games as Bodies
body horror	A Body Without End: The Trans Twine Games of Porpentine Charity Heartscape
body-politics	Play, Politics and Public Space: An Analysis of Cultural and Biopolitical Concerns in the Design for Urban Play in Copenhagen
borders	How Latinidad and Border Politics Construct Cyberpunk 2077
boredom	Terribly Bored Lizards: Speculating with the Captive Animal in Jurassic World: Evolution (2019)
business studies	What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game Production
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capital
capitalism	Playing with Capitalism: Metareference, Comedy, and Coziness in Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (Snoozy Kazoo 2021) Lost in Paradise! Open-World Landscapes as Baroque Pleasure Gardens Poverty (Is All Fun) and Games The Sim Who Sold the World. Distorted Environmentalism in Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle
captivity	Terribly Bored Lizards: Speculating with the Captive Animal in Jurassic World: Evolution (2019)
carbon footprint	The Sim Who Sold the World. Distorted Environmentalism in Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle
card games	‘Jogos de Mesa contra Fake News’: Reflections on Serious Analogue Games for Media Literacy
care	Playgrounding with Tamagotchis: A Collaborative Autoethnography
carnal ethnography
case studies	Newsgames as a Case Study for The Value and Challenges of Archiving Digital Games
case study	Firewatch: (Studying) the Anatomy of a Game Design Process
causal reasoning	Own-experience Learning in a Digital Playground: Measuring Children’s Causal Reasoning Using Video Games
CCTV	Big Brother Meets Joystick: Ethical Perspectives on Surveillance Imagery in Digital Games
Character design	A Bechdel Test for Computer Games?
Character development	A Bechdel Test for Computer Games?
Character identification	Exploring Character Bleed in Dungeons & Dragons: Impacts of Personality Design
characterisation
Charles Babbage	Games Built the Computer: Inverting our Histories of Games
ChatGPT	Dou Dizhu For All: An Accessible Card Game for Visually Impaired Persons in China Powered by ChatGPT’s Language Model ChatGPT – The Future of Queer Play?
cheating	The Changing Art of ”Housery” in The Age of VAR Who Owns the Gamespace? Negotiating Spatial Agency in Video Games
Child rights	Child Appropriate Game Design: Year 1 Findings
childhood	‘I like to feel strong but not to kill’: An Exploration of Age 4 to 10 Girls’ Console Game Experiences in China Play, Politics and Public Space: An Analysis of Cultural and Biopolitical Concerns in the Design for Urban Play in Copenhagen
children	Own-experience Learning in a Digital Playground: Measuring Children’s Causal Reasoning Using Video Games
Chile	Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Chile: Early History, Context, and Adoption
China	‘I like to feel strong but not to kill’: An Exploration of Age 4 to 10 Girls’ Console Game Experiences in China Grieving World of Warcraft’s Chinese Server Shutdown
Chinese game industry	Demystify the Concept of Beginner Village in Chinese Role-playing Games: A Discourse Analysis
Chinese games	Good Gamer, Good Citizen: Representing Video Games in Chinese Television
Chinese horror game	The Fearful Realism: Chinese Horror Indie Games and the Realist Horror
Chinese realist games	Translating Cultural Memory in Video Games: Realism and Localization of Chinese Parents
Chinese television	Good Gamer, Good Citizen: Representing Video Games in Chinese Television
Choice	Choosing Who to Sacrifice: Embodying Death in Indie Video Games
civil society	‘Jogos de Mesa contra Fake News’: Reflections on Serious Analogue Games for Media Literacy
Civilization VI	Corporeal Capture: The Rhetoric of Boundaries in Procedurality
classical antiquity	Greek Game Developers’ Opinions on the Representation and Reception of (Ancient) Greece in Games: An Exploratory Interview Pilot Study
classical reception	Greek Game Developers’ Opinions on the Representation and Reception of (Ancient) Greece in Games: An Exploratory Interview Pilot Study
Classics
climate action	A Renewable Artgames Residency: Exploring Sustainable Practices for Art Game Design
climate crisis	The Sim Who Sold the World. Distorted Environmentalism in Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle
Coffee Talk	Envisioning the Region through Coffee Brewing: Toge Productions and Community Building in Southeast Asia
Collaboration in Game Dev
collaborative autoethnography	Playgrounding with Tamagotchis: A Collaborative Autoethnography
collective biography	Becoming, Circumstances and Practice: A Collective Biography of 3 Games Lecturers
colonialism	Games and Colonialism: Expanding Studies in Research, Design, and Reception Cursed: A Ludic Genealogy of the Myth of El Dorado Lost in Paradise! Open-World Landscapes as Baroque Pleasure Gardens Kidnapping Women, Conquering Countries: Female (Under-)Representation in Asterix Video Games Transmedia Imperialism: Hogwarts Legacy and the Cultural Politics of Diversity
colonization	Games and Colonialism: Expanding Studies in Research, Design, and Reception
Colosseum
comedy	Playing with Capitalism: Metareference, Comedy, and Coziness in Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (Snoozy Kazoo 2021)
Commercial
Communities	Gamblification of Video Games: the Introduction of Gambling in Digital Leisure and its Consequences
Community	Envisioning the Region through Coffee Brewing: Toge Productions and Community Building in Southeast Asia
community-based design	Playful Latinidades: Rasquache Methods, Latinx Migrations, and Antifascist Design
comparative ethnography	Reset and Replay: Planning Game Industry Events Post-Pandemic
Competition
Competitive Games	Predictability in Competitive Video Games: Effects of Strategic Equilibrium on Player Agency
computational thinking	Differential Impact of the Positive and Negative Image of Digital Games on University Students’ Computational Thinking
conceptual metaphors	“El Niño’s Finger”: A Lightweight H5 Game Using Conceptual Metaphors to Reflect Ecological Thought
Concilio de Dragones	Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Chile: Early History, Context, and Adoption
condensation visualization	Visceral Rhetoric for a Post-Factual Society
Console game	‘I like to feel strong but not to kill’: An Exploration of Age 4 to 10 Girls’ Console Game Experiences in China
constructivist	In the Flux: A Constructivist Perspective on Effort and Emotions in Tabletop Games
consumerism
content analysis	The BookTok to Player Pipeline: TikTok and the Baldur’s Gate 3 Fandom
content creation	Understanding Content Creation: An Exploration of the Social, Technical, and Professional Elements of Video Game Content Creation Is Games Journalism In Crisis? Examining The Shifting Gaming Media Ecosystem
coping	Navigating the Virtual Playground: How Do Players Choose What, When, and How to Play?
coping mechanisms	Grounds for Coping: When and Why Women Gamers Employ Different Harassment Management Strategies
Copyright	Rubble Playgrounds From Modding To AI Generators: The Shifting Landscape of Remix Culture and Intellectual Property
cosplay	Experiencing the 'Love Fantasy' Playground: Cosplay/Crossplay and Affective Experiences in Female Gamers Practice CosTechPlay: Towards a Teaching Concept that brings Cosplay to Schools
costume creation	CosTechPlay: Towards a Teaching Concept that brings Cosplay to Schools
Costume Play	Masculinity in Gaming Communities: An Analysis of Costume Play Meme
countergaming	Mazy Playgrounds: Constraints and Countergaming in Choose Your Own Adventure
counterinsurgency game	Digitizing Shining Path - The Struggle for Peru: Reclaiming and Reconstructing the Peruvian Armed Conflict
COVID-19	Reset and Replay: Planning Game Industry Events Post-Pandemic
Coworking Spaces	Coworking in a Playground: Wellbeing Effects of Playful Design
cozy games	Playing with Capitalism: Metareference, Comedy, and Coziness in Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (Snoozy Kazoo 2021)
creativity	Game Design Education for AAA, Creativity, or Critical Thinking
crime	Crime and Deviance in Esports: A Routine Activities Theory Approach
Critical discourse analysis	Embodiment of User-Generated Content in Electronic Game: A Case Study of the Party Game Eggy Party
critical play	Building The Fun Palace: A 1960s Minecraft SMP Experience
Critical Theory	Shifting Patterns of Female Representation Across Assassin’s Creed
critique	Lost in Paradise! Open-World Landscapes as Baroque Pleasure Gardens
Cronenberg	Pierced Windscreens and Virtual Agency: Reckless Driving Gaming As a “safe” Playground for Vehicular Carnage
crossplay	Experiencing the 'Love Fantasy' Playground: Cosplay/Crossplay and Affective Experiences in Female Gamers Practice
crowdfunding	Speculation by Design: Speculative Media and Productivity in Online 'Playgrounds'
crunch	Crunch on the Playground: Long Hours of Work in Game Development
Crusader Kings	Gods, Kings, and Historians: History and the Dual Diegesis of Crusader Kings in the Assemblage of Play
Crusader Kings III	Corporeal Capture: The Rhetoric of Boundaries in Procedurality
Cultural affordances	Play to Make a City. Cultural-historical Identities and Affordances in Videogame Versions of Hong Kong
Cultural difference	Nancy Drew Video Games and the Spaces of Girlhood Play
cultural discourses	Gambling as a Playground for Adults? Or the Interconnection between Games & Gambling
cultural history	Building The Fun Palace: A 1960s Minecraft SMP Experience
cultural memory	Digitizing Shining Path - The Struggle for Peru: Reclaiming and Reconstructing the Peruvian Armed Conflict
cultural probe approach	Ludic Interventions in Studying Urban Play: Learning from Lack of Participation
Cultural Production	Tim the Tatman, Fall Guys, & Dude Bro Streamers: Unpacking Hegemonic Masculinity on Twitch
Cultural Studies	Shifting Patterns of Female Representation Across Assassin’s Creed
culturalization	Culturalization or Deculturalization? Looking at Smash Brother Franchise from a Fandom Perspective
Culture
curation	Reflecting on Pride at Play
cuteness
cyberpunk	How Latinidad and Border Politics Construct Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077	How Latinidad and Border Politics Construct Cyberpunk 2077
Cyborg	Bodies Whithin Virtuality and Reality: Assemblages Between Affect and Videogames
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danger	Translating Playing Fields: Digital and the Physical Playgrounds
Danish games industry	What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game Production
dark play	The Changing Art of ”Housery” in The Age of VAR
dark souls	The [C]rime of the Ancient Mariner: Locating the Playgrounds of Trauma and its Sublimation in the Mariner’s Journey and Dark Souls
dating games	Reality Dating Show Game Analysis
dating simulator	Love and Other Terrors: Intimacy and Vulnerability in English-Language Dating Simulators and Romance Games
Death	Choosing Who to Sacrifice: Embodying Death in Indie Video Games
Deleuze and Guattari	Playgrounds of Authority: Space, Power, and Agency in Dying Light Corporeal Capture: The Rhetoric of Boundaries in Procedurality
Demographics	Tracing the Demographics of Video Game Players in Latin America
demoscene	What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game Production
Denmark	What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game Production
depression	The [C]rime of the Ancient Mariner: Locating the Playgrounds of Trauma and its Sublimation in the Mariner’s Journey and Dark Souls
derivative remix	From Modding To AI Generators: The Shifting Landscape of Remix Culture and Intellectual Property
design	Elapse: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance with Intentional Design Play, Politics and Public Space: An Analysis of Cultural and Biopolitical Concerns in the Design for Urban Play in Copenhagen Dynamical-meaning Focused Design: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance
Design Frameworks	Workshopping with the Acculturative Game Design Framework
design process	Firewatch: (Studying) the Anatomy of a Game Design Process Patterns for Designing Poetic Gameplay
Design Research	Developing a Theory of Player Intent in Board Games
developers	Temporality of Play: Time in Digital Playgrounds Crunch on the Playground: Long Hours of Work in Game Development
development	Elapse: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance with Intentional Design Dynamical-meaning Focused Design: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance
Development process	Machine Learning Analysis of Player Reviews and Video Game Development: What Information is useful for Games Developers?
deviance	Crime and Deviance in Esports: A Routine Activities Theory Approach
diaspora	“Just like amma used to make”: Venba and Packaging the Aesthetics of Diaspora
diegesis	Gods, Kings, and Historians: History and the Dual Diegesis of Crusader Kings in the Assemblage of Play
digital art	Shapeless
Digital Communication	The Inadvertent Construction of Leaders in Digital Games
Digital Communities	Toxicity in Video Games: An Approach through Multicausality
digital cultural heritage	Restorative vs. Reflective Nostalgia in Arcade Paradise
digital fishing	Radical Digital Fishing: From Minigames to Bad Environmentalism
digital games	Frameplaying: the photographic configurative act in the Gran Turismo series photo modes
Digital Gaming Culture	Exploring Puerto Rico’s Impact in Video Game Studies
Digital immigrants	Exploring the Perspectives of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants on Virtual Reality as a Playground in Museums
digital media	City Residuals
digital natives	Exploring the Perspectives of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants on Virtual Reality as a Playground in Museums
Digital playground	‘I like to feel strong but not to kill’: An Exploration of Age 4 to 10 Girls’ Console Game Experiences in China
digital playgrounds	Translating Playing Fields: Digital and the Physical Playgrounds Speculation by Design: Speculative Media and Productivity in Online 'Playgrounds'
Digital Practices	Playing Beyond the Academy: Playgrounds as Sites for Alternative Community
Dinosaurs	Dinosaurs in Your Playgrounds: Remediating the Anthropocene and Othering in Jurassic World: Evolution
discourse	God’s Playground: On Polish History, Games, and Discourses
discourse analysis	Demystify the Concept of Beginner Village in Chinese Role-playing Games: A Discourse Analysis Order in Chaos: Toward a Theory of Videoludic Noise
discursive game design	Playing the Hidden Curriculum: Designing Games to Materialize and Question the Unwritten Rules in Higher Education Classrooms
Disruptive behavior	Toxicity in Video Games: An Approach through Multicausality
Dissonance	“You can be sexy AND powerful!”: Gender Presentation in Video Games using Genshin Impact as an Example
diverse gender identity	Queer Players' Strategies for Queering Character Interactions
diversity	Who Can Play in the Game Studies Playground?
Documentary Games	Game Studies from the Southern Cone: Interdisciplinary Insights and Innovations
dog playgrounds	What Is It Like to Play like a Dog?
dominant player	Playing by the Rules of The Dominant Player
Dota 2
Dress-up	Masculinity in Gaming Communities: An Analysis of Costume Play Meme
drinking cultures	Reset and Replay: Planning Game Industry Events Post-Pandemic
Dude Bro Streamer	Tim the Tatman, Fall Guys, & Dude Bro Streamers: Unpacking Hegemonic Masculinity on Twitch
Dungeons & Dragons	Exploring Character Bleed in Dungeons & Dragons: Impacts of Personality Design
Durga Puja	Puja, Pandals and Paratextual Playgrounds: A Case Study of Durga Puja 2023 in Kolkata, India
dwelling	The Dynamic Roles of Home Bases: Finding Home in Game Worlds
dwelling and building	Creative Playgrounds : Authors and Boardgames in the Making
dynamical meaning	Elapse: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance with Intentional Design Dynamical-meaning Focused Design: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance
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EA Sports FC	Playable Archive: The management of data in the FIFA/EA Sports franchise.
ecocritical	Greening Vvanderfell. An Ecocritical Retrospective on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
ecocriticism	The Universe Peoples: Towards a Symptomatic Deep Ecology in OReilly’s Everything Rhizomatic Playgrounds and Virtual Machine Ecologies in Horizon: Forbidden West
ecogames	Greening Vvanderfell. An Ecocritical Retrospective on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
ecogaming	Radical Digital Fishing: From Minigames to Bad Environmentalism
ecological awareness	“El Niño’s Finger”: A Lightweight H5 Game Using Conceptual Metaphors to Reflect Ecological Thought
ecological crisis	Radical Digital Fishing: From Minigames to Bad Environmentalism
ecology	The Sim Who Sold the World. Distorted Environmentalism in Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle
education	CosTechPlay: Towards a Teaching Concept that brings Cosplay to Schools Escaping Moloch’s Gauntlet: Undergraduate Pedagogical Perspectives in Minecraft ‘Jogos de Mesa contra Fake News’: Reflections on Serious Analogue Games for Media Literacy
edutainment	Exploring the Perspectives of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants on Virtual Reality as a Playground in Museums
effort	In the Flux: A Constructivist Perspective on Effort and Emotions in Tabletop Games
El Dorado	Cursed: A Ludic Genealogy of the Myth of El Dorado
El Niño	“El Niño’s Finger”: A Lightweight H5 Game Using Conceptual Metaphors to Reflect Ecological Thought
Embodied Cognition	Towards Qualia-Driven Design
embodied controls	Visceral Rhetoric for a Post-Factual Society
Embodied Experience	Bodies Whithin Virtuality and Reality: Assemblages Between Affect and Videogames
embodiment	Gods, Kings, and Historians: History and the Dual Diegesis of Crusader Kings in the Assemblage of Play Embodiment of User-Generated Content in Electronic Game: A Case Study of the Party Game Eggy Party Furry Ex Machina: How does VRChat allow for modern instances of digital identity generation and immersion in the furry fandom?
Emergence
Emergent narrative
emotion	Synchronizing Measurements of Emotional Arousal and Facial Emotion Expression of Players during a Physical Play Sessions Navigating the Virtual Playground: How Do Players Choose What, When, and How to Play? Making Sense of ‘Game Feel’ through Affective Science
empathy	Road to Acceptance: A Gamified VR Narrative Journey Through the Stages of Grief Personality, Fantasy, and Spirituality: Comparing Analog Role-players to Other Populations A Stray Autoethnography: Becoming-animal, or Anthropomorphic Humanism?
Empathy Assessment	Exploring Empathy Assessment in a Role-Play Format within Indian context
empathy machines	Class Tourism, Empathy Machines, and Videogames
Empire and Multitude	A [W]hole in One. Balkanization, Empire, and the Apocalypse as Playground in 'Golf Club Nostalgia'
empirical study	Patterns for Designing Poetic Gameplay Visceral Rhetoric for a Post-Factual Society
Engagement	At the Push of a Button: Player/Avatar Fusion and the ‘Gestural Potential’ of Video Game Music
English Premier League	What Fantasy Soccer Offers Game Studies
environment	The Sim Who Sold the World. Distorted Environmentalism in Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle A Renewable Artgames Residency: Exploring Sustainable Practices for Art Game Design
Environmental Narrative	A [W]hole in One. Balkanization, Empire, and the Apocalypse as Playground in 'Golf Club Nostalgia'
environmentalism	The Sim Who Sold the World. Distorted Environmentalism in Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle Observant Play and Modding: The Postcolonial, Environmentalist Playthrough of Minecraft Renewable Artgames Residency: A zine
epistemic violence	Playgrounds of Whiteness: Confronting Epistemic Bias in European Game Studies
epistemology	Big Brother Meets Joystick: Ethical Perspectives on Surveillance Imagery in Digital Games
escape room	Escaping Moloch’s Gauntlet: Undergraduate Pedagogical Perspectives in Minecraft
esports	Videogames and Public Play in the Late 1970s: the Case of TV POWWW! Lefebvre at the arcade: Understanding gaming houses as esports’ playgrounds Crime and Deviance in Esports: A Routine Activities Theory Approach Grounds for Coping: When and Why Women Gamers Employ Different Harassment Management Strategies Playing Beyond the Academy: Playgrounds as Sites for Alternative Community Good Gamer, Good Citizen: Representing Video Games in Chinese Television
ethics	Big Brother Meets Joystick: Ethical Perspectives on Surveillance Imagery in Digital Games
ethnicity
ethnography	Competitiveness and Meritocracy in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: An Ethnography of Gaming Practices in Santiago, Chile Interviewed Workers and Industry Worldviews at Ubisoft Montréal’s Assassin’s Creed Grieving World of Warcraft’s Chinese Server Shutdown
Eudaimonic gaming	Choosing Who to Sacrifice: Embodying Death in Indie Video Games
Eurocentrism	Playgrounds of Whiteness: Confronting Epistemic Bias in European Game Studies
event	From Nothingness to Game: Understanding the Emergence of Videogames through Posthumanism and Nishida Kitaro
events	Creative Playgrounds : Authors and Boardgames in the Making
everyday life	Game as History: How does Pentiment Recreate a Vivid Sixteenth-century Central European Everyday Life?
exhibition	Reflecting on Pride at Play
existentialism	Metanarrative Horror: The Existential Dread of Choice
experience	Temporality of Play: Time in Digital Playgrounds From Nothingness to Game: Understanding the Emergence of Videogames through Posthumanism and Nishida Kitaro In the Flux: A Constructivist Perspective on Effort and Emotions in Tabletop Games
experimental design	Unsweet Tea: Games as Bodies
experimental games	Game Design Education for AAA, Creativity, or Critical Thinking
Experimental Media	MA Pitch (Draft)
experimental videogame
experimental writing
experimentation	What Is It Like to Play like a Dog?
eXplainable AI	Can Games Be AI Explanations? An Exploratory Study of Simulation Games
explorative play	Own-experience Learning in a Digital Playground: Measuring Children’s Causal Reasoning Using Video Games
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Failure	Playgrounding with Tamagotchis: A Collaborative Autoethnography MA Pitch (Draft)
failures	Translating Playing Fields: Digital and the Physical Playgrounds
Fairchild Channel F	Videogames and Public Play in the Late 1970s: the Case of TV POWWW!
Fake News	Learning to Code Games and Politics: An Examination of Misinformation in Scratch Studios
fan studies	A Beginner’s Guide to Painted Worlds: The Haunted Mansion, Dark Souls III, and the Playground of Interpretation
fandom	Culturalization or Deculturalization? Looking at Smash Brother Franchise from a Fandom Perspective The BookTok to Player Pipeline: TikTok and the Baldur’s Gate 3 Fandom The Other Playground: Negotiating Precarity in Dark Souls III Player vs Player Encounters
fantasy football	What Fantasy Soccer Offers Game Studies
fantasy soccer	What Fantasy Soccer Offers Game Studies
fantasy sports	What Fantasy Soccer Offers Game Studies
female characters	Kidnapping Women, Conquering Countries: Female (Under-)Representation in Asterix Video Games
female gaming community	Empowerment Playgrounds: The Rise of Feminist Ideology in Female-Leading Indie Game Community
female player	Experiencing the 'Love Fantasy' Playground: Cosplay/Crossplay and Affective Experiences in Female Gamers Practice
feminism	Kidnapping Women, Conquering Countries: Female (Under-)Representation in Asterix Video Games
feminist ideology	Empowerment Playgrounds: The Rise of Feminist Ideology in Female-Leading Indie Game Community
Feminist Studies	Shifting Patterns of Female Representation Across Assassin’s Creed
feminist theory	Critical Video Game Engine Studies
FIFA	Playable Archive: The management of data in the FIFA/EA Sports franchise.
film
financing	“We want to give others the same chance we had”: When Indie Developers Become Money Capitalists
Firewatch	Firewatch: (Studying) the Anatomy of a Game Design Process
focus groups	Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design in Meeting Platforms
folklore	Frame 352: Making Folklore
football	The Changing Art of ”Housery” in The Age of VAR Playable Archive: The management of data in the FIFA/EA Sports franchise.
Formal framework methodology
foul play	The Changing Art of ”Housery” in The Age of VAR
frame analysis
frameplay	Frameplaying: the photographic configurative act in the Gran Turismo series photo modes
Fredric Jameson	The Ludic Unconscious: Towards a ‘Symptomatic Reading’ of Play and Narrative in the Watch Dogs Series
French game studies	Beyond Huizinga and Caillois: French Play Studies Before Game Studies
Fun	Game Studies Scrimmage Developing a Theory of Player Intent in Board Games
Furry fandom	Furry Ex Machina: How does VRChat allow for modern instances of digital identity generation and immersion in the furry fandom?
futurities	The Past as Playground
G
gambling	Gamblification of Video Games: the Introduction of Gambling in Digital Leisure and its Consequences Gambling as a Playground for Adults? Or the Interconnection between Games & Gambling
game accessibility	Dou Dizhu For All: An Accessible Card Game for Visually Impaired Persons in China Powered by ChatGPT’s Language Model
game adaptation	Digitizing Shining Path - The Struggle for Peru: Reclaiming and Reconstructing the Peruvian Armed Conflict
game analysis	Game Studies Scrimmage The Other Playground: Negotiating Precarity in Dark Souls III Player vs Player Encounters Reality Dating Show Game Analysis
game assisted learning	Roll 20 for a Successful Compile: A Game Development RPG
Game Camps	Playing Beyond the Academy: Playgrounds as Sites for Alternative Community
Game Centers	Highly-reflective screens: game centers as self-reflexive objects in digital games
game creation	Creative Playgrounds : Authors and Boardgames in the Making
Game Culture	Masculinity in Gaming Communities: An Analysis of Costume Play Meme
game cultures	Playing by the Rules of The Dominant Player
game definitions	What Is a National Video Game?
game deployment	Poly-Pervasive Playgrounds and Pitfalls: A Deployment Autoethnography of What We Take With Us
game design	Learning to Code Games and Politics: An Examination of Misinformation in Scratch Studios Towards Qualia-Driven Design Videogames and Public Play in the Late 1970s: the Case of TV POWWW! Dou Dizhu For All: An Accessible Card Game for Visually Impaired Persons in China Powered by ChatGPT’s Language Model Games and Colonialism: Expanding Studies in Research, Design, and Reception Motivational Landscapes of ARG Players: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective A Bechdel Test for Computer Games? Making Sense of ‘Game Feel’ through Affective Science ‘Jogos de Mesa contra Fake News’: Reflections on Serious Analogue Games for Media Literacy Predictability in Competitive Video Games: Effects of Strategic Equilibrium on Player Agency Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation Workshopping with the Acculturative Game Design Framework Reality Dating Show Game Analysis Renewable Artgames Residency: A zine
game design education	Game Design Education for AAA, Creativity, or Critical Thinking
game design patterns	Patterns for Designing Poetic Gameplay
game design research	Firewatch: (Studying) the Anatomy of a Game Design Process
game development	Firewatch: (Studying) the Anatomy of a Game Design Process Roll 20 for a Successful Compile: A Game Development RPG Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation Fringe Game Craft: An Exploration of Fantasy Consoles and Exotic Game Tools
game engines	Queering Data and Dating: AroAce Modding and File System Playgrounds in Stardew Valley
game feel	Making Sense of ‘Game Feel’ through Affective Science
game history	Transmedia in the Early 1980s: Breaking out of the Computer Monitor with the Games by Mel Croucher and Automata UK Games Built the Computer: Inverting our Histories of Games The Past as Playground
game industry events	Reset and Replay: Planning Game Industry Events Post-Pandemic
game jams	Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation Renewable Artgames Residency: A zine
game journalism	Demystify the Concept of Beginner Village in Chinese Role-playing Games: A Discourse Analysis
game localization	Translating Cultural Memory in Video Games: Realism and Localization of Chinese Parents
game making	A Renewable Artgames Residency: Exploring Sustainable Practices for Art Game Design
game marketing	Remakes, Remasters, and Paratextual Revisits
game mechanics	Queer Players' Strategies for Queering Character Interactions
game objects
game preservation	Journey to the Centre of Videogame History: Reconciling Vernacular Practices and Material Collections
Game Production	Envisioning the Region through Coffee Brewing: Toge Productions and Community Building in Southeast Asia Towards Qualia-Driven Design Remakes, Remasters, and Paratextual Revisits “We want to give others the same chance we had”: When Indie Developers Become Money Capitalists
Game production studies	Building from the (Play)ground Up: Finding Sustainable Game Industry Futures
game regulation	Child Appropriate Game Design: Year 1 Findings
game research	Towards Qualia-Driven Design Newsgames as a Case Study for The Value and Challenges of Archiving Digital Games
Game reviews	Machine Learning Analysis of Player Reviews and Video Game Development: What Information is useful for Games Developers?
game rules	Playing by the Rules of The Dominant Player
Game spaces	Nancy Drew Video Games and the Spaces of Girlhood Play
game stream	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Spectating as Metagaming in Inscryption
game studies	Becoming, Circumstances and Practice: A Collective Biography of 3 Games Lecturers Playgrounds of Whiteness: Confronting Epistemic Bias in European Game Studies Video Games as Participatory Playgrounds for Civic Imaginations on War: The Case of Laika: Aged Through Blood Order in Chaos: Toward a Theory of Videoludic Noise The Universe Peoples: Towards a Symptomatic Deep Ecology in OReilly’s Everything Child Appropriate Game Design: Year 1 Findings Translating Japanese Videogame Theory
game studies methods	Game Studies Scrimmage
Game Theory	Predictability in Competitive Video Games: Effects of Strategic Equilibrium on Player Agency
game toxicity	Grounds for Coping: When and Why Women Gamers Employ Different Harassment Management Strategies
game user experience	City Residuals
game walkthrough	Playbour or Leisure: Unveiling Subjectivity in Chinese Digital Game Labor Landscape
game world	The Dynamic Roles of Home Bases: Finding Home in Game Worlds
Game-Based Learning	Exploring Empathy Assessment in a Role-Play Format within Indian context
gamebooks	Mazy Playgrounds: Constraints and Countergaming in Choose Your Own Adventure
Gameplay as Ludic Form	Developing a Theory of Player Intent in Board Games
gamer identification	Grounds for Coping: When and Why Women Gamers Employ Different Harassment Management Strategies
Gamers	Tracing the Demographics of Video Game Players in Latin America
games	Games and Colonialism: Expanding Studies in Research, Design, and Reception Gambling as a Playground for Adults? Or the Interconnection between Games & Gambling Escaping Moloch’s Gauntlet: Undergraduate Pedagogical Perspectives in Minecraft
Games analysis	A Bechdel Test for Computer Games?
games and history	The Battle Game at the Bannockburn Experience
games as texts	Let’s Play Illiberal Democracy: Authoritarian Political Simulators as Playgrounds of History
games careers	Is Games Journalism In Crisis? Examining The Shifting Gaming Media Ecosystem
games education	Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation
Games for Learning	Can Games Be AI Explanations? An Exploratory Study of Simulation Games
games media	Is Games Journalism In Crisis? Examining The Shifting Gaming Media Ecosystem
games studies	Colossal Spiders, Saxophones and Petri Dishes: Defining Virtual Worlds
gamification	Road to Acceptance: A Gamified VR Narrative Journey Through the Stages of Grief City Residuals
gaming
gaming behaviour
Gaming Communities	Playing Beyond the Academy: Playgrounds as Sites for Alternative Community
Gaming Community	Masculinity in Gaming Communities: An Analysis of Costume Play Meme
gaming content creation
gaming houses	Lefebvre at the arcade: Understanding gaming houses as esports’ playgrounds
gaming journalism	Is Games Journalism In Crisis? Examining The Shifting Gaming Media Ecosystem
gaming podcasting	Is Games Journalism In Crisis? Examining The Shifting Gaming Media Ecosystem
Gaming podcasts
Gaming practices	Competitiveness and Meritocracy in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: An Ethnography of Gaming Practices in Santiago, Chile
gardens	Lost in Paradise! Open-World Landscapes as Baroque Pleasure Gardens
Gaymers
Gender	Masculinity in Gaming Communities: An Analysis of Costume Play Meme Nancy Drew Video Games and the Spaces of Girlhood Play
Gender Dynamics in Game Streaming	Game Studies from the Southern Cone: Interdisciplinary Insights and Innovations
Gender expression	The Gender Expression Influencing Factors: Understanding the Gender Expression in Avatar Customization
gender identity	Shapeless
gender problematics
Gender representation	“You can be sexy AND powerful!”: Gender Presentation in Video Games using Genshin Impact as an Example
Gender studies	Shifting Patterns of Female Representation Across Assassin’s Creed A Bechdel Test for Computer Games?
gendered spaces	Reset and Replay: Planning Game Industry Events Post-Pandemic
genre	Love and Other Terrors: Intimacy and Vulnerability in English-Language Dating Simulators and Romance Games
Gesture	At the Push of a Button: Player/Avatar Fusion and the ‘Gestural Potential’ of Video Game Music
ghost	The Fearful Realism: Chinese Horror Indie Games and the Realist Horror
Gilles Deleuze
Girl	‘I like to feel strong but not to kill’: An Exploration of Age 4 to 10 Girls’ Console Game Experiences in China
Girls' games	Nancy Drew Video Games and the Spaces of Girlhood Play
Gladiator
Global	Tracing the Demographics of Video Game Players in Latin America
global game studies	Who Can Play in the Game Studies Playground?
Global North	Who Can Play in the Game Studies Playground?
Global South	Who Can Play in the Game Studies Playground? Playing Beyond the Academy: Playgrounds as Sites for Alternative Community
Gold farming	Playgrounds as ‘Workgrounds’: How Real-money Trading Transforms the Gaming Experience
gothic	The [C]rime of the Ancient Mariner: Locating the Playgrounds of Trauma and its Sublimation in the Mariner’s Journey and Dark Souls
governmentality	Let’s Play Illiberal Democracy: Authoritarian Political Simulators as Playgrounds of History
Gran Turismo	Gran Turismo 7 and Me: An Autoethnographic Approach to Ludic Subjectivity Frameplaying: the photographic configurative act in the Gran Turismo series photo modes
Greece	Greek Game Developers’ Opinions on the Representation and Reception of (Ancient) Greece in Games: An Exploratory Interview Pilot Study
grief	Road to Acceptance: A Gamified VR Narrative Journey Through the Stages of Grief Salmon Grief in Sámi Digital Games Grieving World of Warcraft’s Chinese Server Shutdown
Groos	What Is It Like to Play like a Dog?
Grounded theory	The Gender Expression Influencing Factors: Understanding the Gender Expression in Avatar Customization
GSR	Synchronizing Measurements of Emotional Arousal and Facial Emotion Expression of Players during a Physical Play Sessions
guardianship	Crime and Deviance in Esports: A Routine Activities Theory Approach
H
habit
habituation
Habitus	Gran Turismo 7 and Me: An Autoethnographic Approach to Ludic Subjectivity
Harry Potter	Transmedia Imperialism: Hogwarts Legacy and the Cultural Politics of Diversity
Hate Raid	A Mythology of Raids: How Raiding Persists as a Cultural Phenomenon of Torturous Play
Hate Speech	Toxicity in Video Games: An Approach through Multicausality
hegemony of play	Playing by the Rules of The Dominant Player
Heritage	Eques Polonus Sum. Intentional and Accidental Tropes of Polish Heritage in Sienkiewicz-themed Digital Games
heritage games	The Battle Game at the Bannockburn Experience
hermeneutics	A Beginner’s Guide to Painted Worlds: The Haunted Mansion, Dark Souls III, and the Playground of Interpretation
Hidden curriculum	Playing the Hidden Curriculum: Designing Games to Materialize and Question the Unwritten Rules in Higher Education Classrooms
higher education	Playing the Hidden Curriculum: Designing Games to Materialize and Question the Unwritten Rules in Higher Education Classrooms
historic trauma	Digitizing Shining Path - The Struggle for Peru: Reclaiming and Reconstructing the Peruvian Armed Conflict
historical game	Game as History: How does Pentiment Recreate a Vivid Sixteenth-century Central European Everyday Life?
historical game studies	Gods, Kings, and Historians: History and the Dual Diegesis of Crusader Kings in the Assemblage of Play The Past as Playground History, Time and the Past in Radiant Historia
Historical games
historical representations	Play as Apparatus and Ludic “Asianness” as Diffracted Realities
historiography	The Battle Game at the Bannockburn Experience Play to Make a City. Cultural-historical Identities and Affordances in Videogame Versions of Hong Kong History, Time and the Past in Radiant Historia
history	Gods, Kings, and Historians: History and the Dual Diegesis of Crusader Kings in the Assemblage of Play Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Chile: Early History, Context, and Adoption Translating Playing Fields: Digital and the Physical Playgrounds Gambling as a Playground for Adults? Or the Interconnection between Games & Gambling
history of computation	Games Built the Computer: Inverting our Histories of Games
history of mathematics	Games Built the Computer: Inverting our Histories of Games
hollow	The [C]rime of the Ancient Mariner: Locating the Playgrounds of Trauma and its Sublimation in the Mariner’s Journey and Dark Souls
home	The Dynamic Roles of Home Bases: Finding Home in Game Worlds
Hong Kong	Play to Make a City. Cultural-historical Identities and Affordances in Videogame Versions of Hong Kong
Horror	1-Bit Skin: Materializing Abjection in World of Horror (2023) Metanarrative Horror: The Existential Dread of Choice
Human-Computer Interaction	Exploring Empathy Assessment in a Role-Play Format within Indian context
humanities	Order in Chaos: Toward a Theory of Videoludic Noise
hyperlink	City Residuals
I
identification
identification and radical otherness
identity	Can I Play with God? Case Study of Baldur’s Gate III Inability to Support a Religious Identity Play
identity tourism	Class Tourism, Empathy Machines, and Videogames
Identity Work
ideology	God’s Playground: On Polish History, Games, and Discourses The Ludic Unconscious: Towards a ‘Symptomatic Reading’ of Play and Narrative in the Watch Dogs Series
image of digital games	Differential Impact of the Positive and Negative Image of Digital Games on University Students’ Computational Thinking
Imaginary
imagination	Video Games as Participatory Playgrounds for Civic Imaginations on War: The Case of Laika: Aged Through Blood
immersion	Demystify the Concept of Beginner Village in Chinese Role-playing Games: A Discourse Analysis Furry Ex Machina: How does VRChat allow for modern instances of digital identity generation and immersion in the furry fandom? Subjective Experience of Rule-Based Immersion in Abstract Strategy Tabletop Games From Nothingness to Game: Understanding the Emergence of Videogames through Posthumanism and Nishida Kitaro At the Push of a Button: Player/Avatar Fusion and the ‘Gestural Potential’ of Video Game Music
Incidental gaming	Puja, Pandals and Paratextual Playgrounds: A Case Study of Durga Puja 2023 in Kolkata, India
Inclusive Design	Workshopping with the Acculturative Game Design Framework
inclusivity	Reset and Replay: Planning Game Industry Events Post-Pandemic
indie	What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game Production “We want to give others the same chance we had”: When Indie Developers Become Money Capitalists
indie games	Empowerment Playgrounds: The Rise of Feminist Ideology in Female-Leading Indie Game Community What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game Production Translating Cultural Memory in Video Games: Realism and Localization of Chinese Parents
indigeneity	Playful Latinidades: Rasquache Methods, Latinx Migrations, and Antifascist Design
Indigenous games	Salmon Grief in Sámi Digital Games
Indigenous Representation
Indonesia	Envisioning the Region through Coffee Brewing: Toge Productions and Community Building in Southeast Asia
Inductive thematic analysis	Tim the Tatman, Fall Guys, & Dude Bro Streamers: Unpacking Hegemonic Masculinity on Twitch
Initiative	Attention-Based Initiative In Real Time Strategy
installation	What Is It Like to Play like a Dog?
intelligent narrative	1001 Nights: AI-native Narrative Game Driven by Large Language Models
Intellivision	Videogames and Public Play in the Late 1970s: the Case of TV POWWW!
Intentionality	Eques Polonus Sum. Intentional and Accidental Tropes of Polish Heritage in Sienkiewicz-themed Digital Games
interaction	Culturalization or Deculturalization? Looking at Smash Brother Franchise from a Fandom Perspective
interactive fiction	Mazy Playgrounds: Constraints and Countergaming in Choose Your Own Adventure Let’s Play Illiberal Democracy: Authoritarian Political Simulators as Playgrounds of History
interactive storytelling	Empowerment Playgrounds: The Rise of Feminist Ideology in Female-Leading Indie Game Community
interactivity	Propping Up Play: Game Objects, Affordances, and Perceptual Multiplicity Videogames and Public Play in the Late 1970s: the Case of TV POWWW!
interpretation	Reality Dating Show Game Analysis
Intersectional	A Mythology of Raids: How Raiding Persists as a Cultural Phenomenon of Torturous Play
interviews	Interviewed Workers and Industry Worldviews at Ubisoft Montréal’s Assassin’s Creed Navigating the Virtual Playground: How Do Players Choose What, When, and How to Play? Greek Game Developers’ Opinions on the Representation and Reception of (Ancient) Greece in Games: An Exploratory Interview Pilot Study
intimacy	Love and Other Terrors: Intimacy and Vulnerability in English-Language Dating Simulators and Romance Games
intra-action	Play as Apparatus and Ludic “Asianness” as Diffracted Realities
isometric	Playscape
J
Jacques Henriot	Beyond Huizinga and Caillois: French Play Studies Before Game Studies
Japanese	Translating Japanese Videogame Theory
Jean Château	Beyond Huizinga and Caillois: French Play Studies Before Game Studies
Jean-Michel Lefèvre	Beyond Huizinga and Caillois: French Play Studies Before Game Studies
jeu	Beyond Huizinga and Caillois: French Play Studies Before Game Studies
John von Neumann	Games Built the Computer: Inverting our Histories of Games
journalism	Is Games Journalism In Crisis? Examining The Shifting Gaming Media Ecosystem
Jurassic World: Evolution	Terribly Bored Lizards: Speculating with the Captive Animal in Jurassic World: Evolution (2019)
K
K/DA
Karan Barad	Corporeal Capture: The Rhetoric of Boundaries in Procedurality
Konrad Zuse	Games Built the Computer: Inverting our Histories of Games
L
labour	Understanding Content Creation: An Exploration of the Social, Technical, and Professional Elements of Video Game Content Creation
lack of participation	Ludic Interventions in Studying Urban Play: Learning from Lack of Participation
landscape	Playscape
landscapes	Lost in Paradise! Open-World Landscapes as Baroque Pleasure Gardens
language gaps	Who Can Play in the Game Studies Playground?
lara croft
Lara Phenomenon	“You can be sexy AND powerful!”: Gender Presentation in Video Games using Genshin Impact as an Example
Latin America	Tracing the Demographics of Video Game Players in Latin America
Latin American Games
Latine	Workshopping with the Acculturative Game Design Framework
latinidad	Playful Latinidades: Rasquache Methods, Latinx Migrations, and Antifascist Design
Latinx	How Latinidad and Border Politics Construct Cyberpunk 2077
Law	Compliance with Loot Box Regulation in the UK, the Netherlands, China, South Korea, and Taiwan
Law and regulation	Illegal Loot Box Advertising on Social Media: An Analysis of Meta and TikTok Ad Libraries
Leadership	The Inadvertent Construction of Leaders in Digital Games The Player-Leader Heuristic - A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Representations of Leadership in Videogames
League of Legends
learning games	Visceral Rhetoric for a Post-Factual Society
lightweight game	“El Niño’s Finger”: A Lightweight H5 Game Using Conceptual Metaphors to Reflect Ecological Thought
liminality	Drifting in the Trees: Creating Playgrounds with Recreational Urban Tree Climbing
Literature	Are you Lázaro? Picaresque Childhood in Baldur’s Gate 3
Live-Streaming	A Mythology of Raids: How Raiding Persists as a Cultural Phenomenon of Torturous Play
LLM	ChatGPT – The Future of Queer Play?
LLM application	1001 Nights: AI-native Narrative Game Driven by Large Language Models
Loot boxes	Illegal Loot Box Advertising on Social Media: An Analysis of Meta and TikTok Ad Libraries Gambling as a Playground for Adults? Or the Interconnection between Games & Gambling Compliance with Loot Box Regulation in the UK, the Netherlands, China, South Korea, and Taiwan
Loot-box	Gamblification of Video Games: the Introduction of Gambling in Digital Leisure and its Consequences
loss	Grieving World of Warcraft’s Chinese Server Shutdown
Louis Althusser	The Ludic Unconscious: Towards a ‘Symptomatic Reading’ of Play and Narrative in the Watch Dogs Series
low-carbon	Renewable Artgames Residency: A zine
luck	What Fantasy Soccer Offers Game Studies
ludic	Merging Ludus and Mimesis: Playful Engagements with NPCs on TikTok
Ludic Genealogy	Cursed: A Ludic Genealogy of the Myth of El Dorado
ludic interventions	Ludic Interventions in Studying Urban Play: Learning from Lack of Participation
ludic race	Play as Apparatus and Ludic “Asianness” as Diffracted Realities
Ludic subjectivity	Gran Turismo 7 and Me: An Autoethnographic Approach to Ludic Subjectivity
ludic thresholds	Highly-reflective screens: game centers as self-reflexive objects in digital games
Ludo-spectatorship
Ludoforming	Play to Make a City. Cultural-historical Identities and Affordances in Videogame Versions of Hong Kong
ludological semiotics	Studying the Ground of Play: Towards Ludological Semiotics of Playful Traces
Ludomusicology	Game Studies from the Southern Cone: Interdisciplinary Insights and Innovations At the Push of a Button: Player/Avatar Fusion and the ‘Gestural Potential’ of Video Game Music
ludonarrative
ludonarrative dissonance	Elapse: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance with Intentional Design Dynamical-meaning Focused Design: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance
ludonarratology	Mazy Playgrounds: Constraints and Countergaming in Choose Your Own Adventure
M
machine learning	Machine Learning Analysis of Player Reviews and Video Game Development: What Information is useful for Games Developers? Speculation by Design: Speculative Media and Productivity in Online 'Playgrounds'
magic circle	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Spectating as Metagaming in Inscryption Highly-reflective screens: game centers as self-reflexive objects in digital games
Magic: the Gathering
making	CosTechPlay: Towards a Teaching Concept that brings Cosplay to Schools
male gamers
management	Terribly Bored Lizards: Speculating with the Captive Animal in Jurassic World: Evolution (2019)
marketing
Marxism	“We want to give others the same chance we had”: When Indie Developers Become Money Capitalists
Masculinity	Masculinity in Gaming Communities: An Analysis of Costume Play Meme
materiality
Materialization	1-Bit Skin: Materializing Abjection in World of Horror (2023)
Mattel Electronics	Videogames and Public Play in the Late 1970s: the Case of TV POWWW!
media archaeology	Order in Chaos: Toward a Theory of Videoludic Noise
media literacy	‘Jogos de Mesa contra Fake News’: Reflections on Serious Analogue Games for Media Literacy
Media panic	Pierced Windscreens and Virtual Agency: Reckless Driving Gaming As a “safe” Playground for Vehicular Carnage
meme	Merging Ludus and Mimesis: Playful Engagements with NPCs on TikTok
memory	Rubble Playgrounds
mental health	Gaming the Future: How Games Help Us Play What’s to Come
Meritocracy	Competitiveness and Meritocracy in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: An Ethnography of Gaming Practices in Santiago, Chile
meta games	Roll 20 for a Successful Compile: A Game Development RPG
meta-analysis	God’s Playground: On Polish History, Games, and Discourses
metagaming	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Spectating as Metagaming in Inscryption
metanarrative	Metanarrative Horror: The Existential Dread of Choice
metareference	Playing with Capitalism: Metareference, Comedy, and Coziness in Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (Snoozy Kazoo 2021)
method of clues	Studying the Ground of Play: Towards Ludological Semiotics of Playful Traces
methodology	Order in Chaos: Toward a Theory of Videoludic Noise
methods	In the Flux: A Constructivist Perspective on Effort and Emotions in Tabletop Games
Mexico
microhistory	Game as History: How does Pentiment Recreate a Vivid Sixteenth-century Central European Everyday Life?
militainment	Mazy Playgrounds: Constraints and Countergaming in Choose Your Own Adventure
military
mimesis	Merging Ludus and Mimesis: Playful Engagements with NPCs on TikTok
Minecraft	Building The Fun Palace: A 1960s Minecraft SMP Experience Escaping Moloch’s Gauntlet: Undergraduate Pedagogical Perspectives in Minecraft Observant Play and Modding: The Postcolonial, Environmentalist Playthrough of Minecraft
minimalism	Poverty (Is All Fun) and Games
Misinformation	Learning to Code Games and Politics: An Examination of Misinformation in Scratch Studios
mixed reality	Pass and Play in Mixed Reality: Unconventional use of a MR headset as a shareable display Frame 352: Making Folklore
MMO studies	Colossal Spiders, Saxophones and Petri Dishes: Defining Virtual Worlds
MMORPG	Grieving World of Warcraft’s Chinese Server Shutdown
modding	Building The Fun Palace: A 1960s Minecraft SMP Experience Journey to the Centre of Videogame History: Reconciling Vernacular Practices and Material Collections Queering Data and Dating: AroAce Modding and File System Playgrounds in Stardew Valley From Modding To AI Generators: The Shifting Landscape of Remix Culture and Intellectual Property Observant Play and Modding: The Postcolonial, Environmentalist Playthrough of Minecraft
model theory	Games Built the Computer: Inverting our Histories of Games
Monetisation models	Playgrounds as ‘Workgrounds’: How Real-money Trading Transforms the Gaming Experience
money capital	“We want to give others the same chance we had”: When Indie Developers Become Money Capitalists
monstrosity	The Fearful Realism: Chinese Horror Indie Games and the Realist Horror
Moral dilemmas	Arguing for False Moral Dilemmas in Games
Moral engagement	Arguing for False Moral Dilemmas in Games
Morality	Choosing Who to Sacrifice: Embodying Death in Indie Video Games
Morrowind	Greening Vvanderfell. An Ecocritical Retrospective on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
motion capture	Playscape
multimedia	Transmedia in the Early 1980s: Breaking out of the Computer Monitor with the Games by Mel Croucher and Automata UK
multiplayer	The Other Playground: Negotiating Precarity in Dark Souls III Player vs Player Encounters
museum exhibition	Exploring the Perspectives of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants on Virtual Reality as a Playground in Museums
Music	At the Push of a Button: Player/Avatar Fusion and the ‘Gestural Potential’ of Video Game Music
Myth	A Mythology of Raids: How Raiding Persists as a Cultural Phenomenon of Torturous Play
Mythology	Cursed: A Ludic Genealogy of the Myth of El Dorado
N
Nagel	What Is It Like to Play like a Dog?
Nancy Drew	Nancy Drew Video Games and the Spaces of Girlhood Play
Narrative	Road to Acceptance: A Gamified VR Narrative Journey Through the Stages of Grief How Latinidad and Border Politics Construct Cyberpunk 2077 A Bechdel Test for Computer Games?
narrative autonomy	Empowerment Playgrounds: The Rise of Feminist Ideology in Female-Leading Indie Game Community
narrative games	Class Tourism, Empathy Machines, and Videogames
narrativity	‘Hey! You’re not supposed to be here!’: Simulated Trespass and Intrusion in Virtual Playgrounds
Nash Equilibrium	Predictability in Competitive Video Games: Effects of Strategic Equilibrium on Player Agency
nation-states	What Is a National Video Game?
National culture	Eques Polonus Sum. Intentional and Accidental Tropes of Polish Heritage in Sienkiewicz-themed Digital Games
national games	What Is a National Video Game?
Natural language processing	Machine Learning Analysis of Player Reviews and Video Game Development: What Information is useful for Games Developers?
necropolitics
neoliberalism	Playing with Capitalism: Metareference, Comedy, and Coziness in Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (Snoozy Kazoo 2021)
newsgames	Newsgames as a Case Study for The Value and Challenges of Archiving Digital Games
Nier: Automata
noise	Order in Chaos: Toward a Theory of Videoludic Noise
non-player character	Merging Ludus and Mimesis: Playful Engagements with NPCs on TikTok
nonhuman	Radical Digital Fishing: From Minigames to Bad Environmentalism
Nordic games	What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game Production
Nostalgia	Restorative vs. Reflective Nostalgia in Arcade Paradise
NPCs	Kidnapping Women, Conquering Countries: Female (Under-)Representation in Asterix Video Games
O
objectification
observant play	Observant Play and Modding: The Postcolonial, Environmentalist Playthrough of Minecraft
observation	Studying the Ground of Play: Towards Ludological Semiotics of Playful Traces
ontology	From Nothingness to Game: Understanding the Emergence of Videogames through Posthumanism and Nishida Kitaro
Ontology of play(grounds)	Translating Playing Fields: Digital and the Physical Playgrounds
Open-World	Lost in Paradise! Open-World Landscapes as Baroque Pleasure Gardens
OpenStreetMap	Who Owns the Gamespace? Negotiating Spatial Agency in Video Games
oral histories	Journey to the Centre of Videogame History: Reconciling Vernacular Practices and Material Collections
Organizations	The Inadvertent Construction of Leaders in Digital Games
Orientalism	Translating Japanese Videogame Theory
orientations
othering	Kidnapping Women, Conquering Countries: Female (Under-)Representation in Asterix Video Games Dinosaurs in Your Playgrounds: Remediating the Anthropocene and Othering in Jurassic World: Evolution
otome game	Experiencing the 'Love Fantasy' Playground: Cosplay/Crossplay and Affective Experiences in Female Gamers Practice
overtime work	Crunch on the Playground: Long Hours of Work in Game Development
P
packaging	“Just like amma used to make”: Venba and Packaging the Aesthetics of Diaspora
Papers Please	Arguing for False Moral Dilemmas in Games
parasocial relationships	Understanding Content Creation: An Exploration of the Social, Technical, and Professional Elements of Video Game Content Creation
paratextuality	Remakes, Remasters, and Paratextual Revisits Puja, Pandals and Paratextual Playgrounds: A Case Study of Durga Puja 2023 in Kolkata, India
Participatory culture
participatory game studies	Game Studies Scrimmage
pass and play	Pass and Play in Mixed Reality: Unconventional use of a MR headset as a shareable display
past-play
pastiche	From Modding To AI Generators: The Shifting Landscape of Remix Culture and Intellectual Property
Pathological behavior	Gamblification of Video Games: the Introduction of Gambling in Digital Leisure and its Consequences
pedagogy	Games and Colonialism: Expanding Studies in Research, Design, and Reception Playful Latinidades: Rasquache Methods, Latinx Migrations, and Antifascist Design Escaping Moloch’s Gauntlet: Undergraduate Pedagogical Perspectives in Minecraft Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation
Pentiment	Game as History: How does Pentiment Recreate a Vivid Sixteenth-century Central European Everyday Life?
performance	A Beginner’s Guide to Painted Worlds: The Haunted Mansion, Dark Souls III, and the Playground of Interpretation The Other Playground: Negotiating Precarity in Dark Souls III Player vs Player Encounters
personal games	Poly-Pervasive Playgrounds and Pitfalls: A Deployment Autoethnography of What We Take With Us
personality	Personality, Fantasy, and Spirituality: Comparing Analog Role-players to Other Populations
perspective taking	Personality, Fantasy, and Spirituality: Comparing Analog Role-players to Other Populations
Perspective-taking	Road to Acceptance: A Gamified VR Narrative Journey Through the Stages of Grief
pervasive games	Transmedia in the Early 1980s: Breaking out of the Computer Monitor with the Games by Mel Croucher and Automata UK Poly-Pervasive Playgrounds and Pitfalls: A Deployment Autoethnography of What We Take With Us Frame 352: Making Folklore
pet toys	What Is It Like to Play like a Dog?
Phenomenology	Towards Qualia-Driven Design
photo mode	Frameplaying: the photographic configurative act in the Gran Turismo series photo modes
photography	Frame 352: Making Folklore
Picaresque	Are you Lázaro? Picaresque Childhood in Baldur’s Gate 3
place	From Nothingness to Game: Understanding the Emergence of Videogames through Posthumanism and Nishida Kitaro The Dynamic Roles of Home Bases: Finding Home in Game Worlds
platform capitalism	Speculation by Design: Speculative Media and Productivity in Online 'Playgrounds'
Platform studies	Critical Video Game Engine Studies
Play	Game Studies Scrimmage Playgrounds as ‘Workgrounds’: How Real-money Trading Transforms the Gaming Experience A Mythology of Raids: How Raiding Persists as a Cultural Phenomenon of Torturous Play Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design in Meeting Platforms At the Push of a Button: Player/Avatar Fusion and the ‘Gestural Potential’ of Video Game Music Escaping Moloch’s Gauntlet: Undergraduate Pedagogical Perspectives in Minecraft Ludic Interventions in Studying Urban Play: Learning from Lack of Participation
Play and players	The BookTok to Player Pipeline: TikTok and the Baldur’s Gate 3 Fandom
play as experience	The Past as Playground
play practices	Drifting in the Trees: Creating Playgrounds with Recreational Urban Tree Climbing
play theory	A Beginner’s Guide to Painted Worlds: The Haunted Mansion, Dark Souls III, and the Playground of Interpretation
Play-to-Earn	Playgrounds as ‘Workgrounds’: How Real-money Trading Transforms the Gaming Experience
playable city	Drifting in the Trees: Creating Playgrounds with Recreational Urban Tree Climbing
playbor	Playgrounding with Tamagotchis: A Collaborative Autoethnography
playbour	Playbour or Leisure: Unveiling Subjectivity in Chinese Digital Game Labor Landscape
Player Agency	Let’s Play Illiberal Democracy: Authoritarian Political Simulators as Playgrounds of History Predictability in Competitive Video Games: Effects of Strategic Equilibrium on Player Agency
Player as Designer	Developing a Theory of Player Intent in Board Games
player behaviour	Playing by the Rules of The Dominant Player
player experience	Developing a Theory of Player Intent in Board Games Propping Up Play: Game Objects, Affordances, and Perceptual Multiplicity Subjective Experience of Rule-Based Immersion in Abstract Strategy Tabletop Games Making Sense of ‘Game Feel’ through Affective Science Visceral Rhetoric for a Post-Factual Society
player motivations	The BookTok to Player Pipeline: TikTok and the Baldur’s Gate 3 Fandom
player studies	Games and Colonialism: Expanding Studies in Research, Design, and Reception
Player Taxonomy	Motivational Landscapes of ARG Players: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective
player-character
player-game relationship	Play as Apparatus and Ludic “Asianness” as Diffracted Realities
Player-Leader	The Player-Leader Heuristic - A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Representations of Leadership in Videogames
players	Tracing the Demographics of Video Game Players in Latin America Temporality of Play: Time in Digital Playgrounds The Other Playground: Negotiating Precarity in Dark Souls III Player vs Player Encounters
Player’s Motivation	Motivational Landscapes of ARG Players: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective
Playful Features	Wanting Playfulness to Counter Fatigue from Virtual Meetings: Associations with Social Interaction Anxiety and Workaholism
playfulness	Game Design Education for AAA, Creativity, or Critical Thinking At the Push of a Button: Player/Avatar Fusion and the ‘Gestural Potential’ of Video Game Music Coworking in a Playground: Wellbeing Effects of Playful Design Merging Ludus and Mimesis: Playful Engagements with NPCs on TikTok
playground	God’s Playground: On Polish History, Games, and Discourses Playgrounds as ‘Workgrounds’: How Real-money Trading Transforms the Gaming Experience Creative Playgrounds : Authors and Boardgames in the Making Drifting in the Trees: Creating Playgrounds with Recreational Urban Tree Climbing
playground design	Translating Playing Fields: Digital and the Physical Playgrounds
playgrounding	Playgrounding with Tamagotchis: A Collaborative Autoethnography
playgrounds	Crime and Deviance in Esports: A Routine Activities Theory Approach Video Games as Participatory Playgrounds for Civic Imaginations on War: The Case of Laika: Aged Through Blood Playing Beyond the Academy: Playgrounds as Sites for Alternative Community Play, Politics and Public Space: An Analysis of Cultural and Biopolitical Concerns in the Design for Urban Play in Copenhagen
Playgrounds of Game Development	Fringe Game Craft: An Exploration of Fantasy Consoles and Exotic Game Tools
playtime
pleasure
podcasts
poetic gameplay	Patterns for Designing Poetic Gameplay
Pokémon GO	Who Owns the Gamespace? Negotiating Spatial Agency in Video Games
Polish history	God’s Playground: On Polish History, Games, and Discourses
politainment
political communication
political simulation	Let’s Play Illiberal Democracy: Authoritarian Political Simulators as Playgrounds of History
political unconscious	The Ludic Unconscious: Towards a ‘Symptomatic Reading’ of Play and Narrative in the Watch Dogs Series
politics	The Past as Playground
politics and play	Building The Fun Palace: A 1960s Minecraft SMP Experience
politics of urban design	Play, Politics and Public Space: An Analysis of Cultural and Biopolitical Concerns in the Design for Urban Play in Copenhagen
pollution	The Sim Who Sold the World. Distorted Environmentalism in Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle
poornography	Poverty (Is All Fun) and Games
Popular uprising in Chile	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.
Porpentine	A Body Without End: The Trans Twine Games of Porpentine Charity Heartscape
positive and negative effectiveness	Differential Impact of the Positive and Negative Image of Digital Games on University Students’ Computational Thinking
post fact society	Visceral Rhetoric for a Post-Factual Society
post-apocalypse	Rhizomatic Playgrounds and Virtual Machine Ecologies in Horizon: Forbidden West
Post-apocalyptic Narratives	A [W]hole in One. Balkanization, Empire, and the Apocalypse as Playground in 'Golf Club Nostalgia'
Post-Communist Nostalgia	A [W]hole in One. Balkanization, Empire, and the Apocalypse as Playground in 'Golf Club Nostalgia'
postcolonial
postcolonialism	Games and Colonialism: Expanding Studies in Research, Design, and Reception Observant Play and Modding: The Postcolonial, Environmentalist Playthrough of Minecraft
posthuman
posthumanism	The Universe Peoples: Towards a Symptomatic Deep Ecology in OReilly’s Everything A Stray Autoethnography: Becoming-animal, or Anthropomorphic Humanism? Unsweet Tea: Games as Bodies
postmodern	From Modding To AI Generators: The Shifting Landscape of Remix Culture and Intellectual Property
poverty	Poverty (Is All Fun) and Games
power	Playgrounds of Authority: Space, Power, and Agency in Dying Light Playing by the Rules of The Dominant Player
practice
precarity	Understanding Content Creation: An Exploration of the Social, Technical, and Professional Elements of Video Game Content Creation The Other Playground: Negotiating Precarity in Dark Souls III Player vs Player Encounters
Prediction	Attention-Based Initiative In Real Time Strategy
preservation	Newsgames as a Case Study for The Value and Challenges of Archiving Digital Games
priviledge	Poverty (Is All Fun) and Games
problem-solving	Differential Impact of the Positive and Negative Image of Digital Games on University Students’ Computational Thinking
Procedural Rhetoric	Corporeal Capture: The Rhetoric of Boundaries in Procedurality Visceral Rhetoric for a Post-Factual Society
processes of production and design	Fringe Game Craft: An Exploration of Fantasy Consoles and Exotic Game Tools
production	Creative Playgrounds : Authors and Boardgames in the Making
Production studies	Interviewed Workers and Industry Worldviews at Ubisoft Montréal’s Assassin’s Creed What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game Production
Professionalization
Project scope	Building from the (Play)ground Up: Finding Sustainable Game Industry Futures
props	Propping Up Play: Game Objects, Affordances, and Perceptual Multiplicity
Protest Video Games	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.
prototyping	Creative Playgrounds : Authors and Boardgames in the Making
psychogeography
psychophysiological measures	Synchronizing Measurements of Emotional Arousal and Facial Emotion Expression of Players during a Physical Play Sessions
public education	The Battle Game at the Bannockburn Experience
public urban spaces	Studying the Ground of Play: Towards Ludological Semiotics of Playful Traces
publishers	“We want to give others the same chance we had”: When Indie Developers Become Money Capitalists
Puerto Rican Gamers	Exploring Puerto Rico’s Impact in Video Game Studies
Q
qualitative	In the Flux: A Constructivist Perspective on Effort and Emotions in Tabletop Games
Qualitative Methods	The Inadvertent Construction of Leaders in Digital Games Child Appropriate Game Design: Year 1 Findings
queer game design	ChatGPT – The Future of Queer Play?
Queer game studies	Queer Players' Strategies for Queering Character Interactions Unsweet Tea: Games as Bodies
queer games	Reflecting on Pride at Play
queer games studies	Queering Data and Dating: AroAce Modding and File System Playgrounds in Stardew Valley
queer modding	Queering Data and Dating: AroAce Modding and File System Playgrounds in Stardew Valley
queer play	ChatGPT – The Future of Queer Play?
queering avatar	Queer Players' Strategies for Queering Character Interactions
queering playable character	Queer Players' Strategies for Queering Character Interactions
queerness in videogame
R
race
Random Forest	Attention-Based Initiative In Real Time Strategy
Real Time Strategy	Attention-Based Initiative In Real Time Strategy
Real-money trading	Playgrounds as ‘Workgrounds’: How Real-money Trading Transforms the Gaming Experience
realism	The Fearful Realism: Chinese Horror Indie Games and the Realist Horror
referential visualization	Visceral Rhetoric for a Post-Factual Society
reflection	Reflecting on Pride at Play
Reflective design
reflexivity	Becoming, Circumstances and Practice: A Collective Biography of 3 Games Lecturers
Region	Envisioning the Region through Coffee Brewing: Toge Productions and Community Building in Southeast Asia
Regional	Tracing the Demographics of Video Game Players in Latin America
regional game studies	Competitiveness and Meritocracy in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: An Ethnography of Gaming Practices in Santiago, Chile What is it like to be a Danish Game Maker? What the Game Industry in Denmark tells us about Game Production 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. Greek Game Developers’ Opinions on the Representation and Reception of (Ancient) Greece in Games: An Exploratory Interview Pilot Study
regulation	Gambling as a Playground for Adults? Or the Interconnection between Games & Gambling Compliance with Loot Box Regulation in the UK, the Netherlands, China, South Korea, and Taiwan
relationships	Dynamical-meaning Focused Design: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance
religion	Puja, Pandals and Paratextual Playgrounds: A Case Study of Durga Puja 2023 in Kolkata, India Can I Play with God? Case Study of Baldur’s Gate III Inability to Support a Religious Identity Play Gambling as a Playground for Adults? Or the Interconnection between Games & Gambling
Remakes	Remakes, Remasters, and Paratextual Revisits
remasters	Remakes, Remasters, and Paratextual Revisits
remix	Rubble Playgrounds
Representation	How Latinidad and Border Politics Construct Cyberpunk 2077 Shifting Patterns of Female Representation Across Assassin’s Creed The Player-Leader Heuristic - A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Representations of Leadership in Videogames Good Gamer, Good Citizen: Representing Video Games in Chinese Television
research collections	Journey to the Centre of Videogame History: Reconciling Vernacular Practices and Material Collections
researcher safety	Digitizing Shining Path - The Struggle for Peru: Reclaiming and Reconstructing the Peruvian Armed Conflict
residency	Renewable Artgames Residency: A zine
retrogaming	Restorative vs. Reflective Nostalgia in Arcade Paradise
retrospective	Greening Vvanderfell. An Ecocritical Retrospective on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
rhetoric
rhizomatic space	Playgrounds of Authority: Space, Power, and Agency in Dying Light
rhizome	Rhizomatic Playgrounds and Virtual Machine Ecologies in Horizon: Forbidden West
Ritual	Puja, Pandals and Paratextual Playgrounds: A Case Study of Durga Puja 2023 in Kolkata, India
roguelike	Framework-based Roguelike Game for AI/ML Education
Role-Play Games	Exploring Empathy Assessment in a Role-Play Format within Indian context
role-playing game
role-playing games	Demystify the Concept of Beginner Village in Chinese Role-playing Games: A Discourse Analysis Are you Lázaro? Picaresque Childhood in Baldur’s Gate 3 Can I Play with God? Case Study of Baldur’s Gate III Inability to Support a Religious Identity Play Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Chile: Early History, Context, and Adoption Queering Data and Dating: AroAce Modding and File System Playgrounds in Stardew Valley Exploring Character Bleed in Dungeons & Dragons: Impacts of Personality Design
roleplaying games	Transmedia Imperialism: Hogwarts Legacy and the Cultural Politics of Diversity
romance	Love and Other Terrors: Intimacy and Vulnerability in English-Language Dating Simulators and Romance Games
Rome
routine activity theory	Crime and Deviance in Esports: A Routine Activities Theory Approach
RPG	Are you Lázaro? Picaresque Childhood in Baldur’s Gate 3
RPGs	‘Jogos de Mesa contra Fake News’: Reflections on Serious Analogue Games for Media Literacy
ruins	Rubble Playgrounds
rule negotiation	Playing the Hidden Curriculum: Designing Games to Materialize and Question the Unwritten Rules in Higher Education Classrooms
rules	Developing a Theory of Player Intent in Board Games The Changing Art of ”Housery” in The Age of VAR
S
safety	Reset and Replay: Planning Game Industry Events Post-Pandemic
salmon	Salmon Grief in Sámi Digital Games
sandbox	Rubble Playgrounds From Modding To AI Generators: The Shifting Landscape of Remix Culture and Intellectual Property
sandbox games	Building The Fun Palace: A 1960s Minecraft SMP Experience
Sarmatism	Eques Polonus Sum. Intentional and Accidental Tropes of Polish Heritage in Sienkiewicz-themed Digital Games
science	Dinosaurs in Your Playgrounds: Remediating the Anthropocene and Othering in Jurassic World: Evolution
science-fiction videogames	Gaming the Future: How Games Help Us Play What’s to Come
Scottish history	The Battle Game at the Bannockburn Experience
Scottish politics	The Battle Game at the Bannockburn Experience
Scratch	Learning to Code Games and Politics: An Examination of Misinformation in Scratch Studios
scroll	Playscape
selective exposure	Navigating the Virtual Playground: How Do Players Choose What, When, and How to Play?
self-determination theory	Framework-based Roguelike Game for AI/ML Education
self-efficacy	Grounds for Coping: When and Why Women Gamers Employ Different Harassment Management Strategies
self-experience learning	Own-experience Learning in a Digital Playground: Measuring Children’s Causal Reasoning Using Video Games
self-reflexivity	Highly-reflective screens: game centers as self-reflexive objects in digital games
self-regulation	Navigating the Virtual Playground: How Do Players Choose What, When, and How to Play?
Semiology	A Mythology of Raids: How Raiding Persists as a Cultural Phenomenon of Torturous Play
serious games	Framework-based Roguelike Game for AI/ML Education Roll 20 for a Successful Compile: A Game Development RPG Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation Workshopping with the Acculturative Game Design Framework
server shutdown	Grieving World of Warcraft’s Chinese Server Shutdown
sex and sexuality	The BookTok to Player Pipeline: TikTok and the Baldur’s Gate 3 Fandom
sharable device	Pass and Play in Mixed Reality: Unconventional use of a MR headset as a shareable display
Shenmue	Highly-reflective screens: game centers as self-reflexive objects in digital games
shugyo
Sim racing	Pierced Windscreens and Virtual Agency: Reckless Driving Gaming As a “safe” Playground for Vehicular Carnage
Sims 4	The Sim Who Sold the World. Distorted Environmentalism in Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle
simulation	Pierced Windscreens and Virtual Agency: Reckless Driving Gaming As a “safe” Playground for Vehicular Carnage ‘Hey! You’re not supposed to be here!’: Simulated Trespass and Intrusion in Virtual Playgrounds The Universe Peoples: Towards a Symptomatic Deep Ecology in OReilly’s Everything Poverty (Is All Fun) and Games
Simulation Games	Can Games Be AI Explanations? An Exploratory Study of Simulation Games
situated gaming
sixteenth-century	Game as History: How does Pentiment Recreate a Vivid Sixteenth-century Central European Everyday Life?
skill	What Fantasy Soccer Offers Game Studies
Skin	1-Bit Skin: Materializing Abjection in World of Horror (2023)
slumming	Poverty (Is All Fun) and Games
social class	Class Tourism, Empathy Machines, and Videogames
social critique	Gaming the Future: How Games Help Us Play What’s to Come
Social Discourse Analysis	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.
social interaction	Synchronizing Measurements of Emotional Arousal and Facial Emotion Expression of Players during a Physical Play Sessions
Social Interaction Anxiety	Wanting Playfulness to Counter Fatigue from Virtual Meetings: Associations with Social Interaction Anxiety and Workaholism
Social media	Illegal Loot Box Advertising on Social Media: An Analysis of Meta and TikTok Ad Libraries
Social media platform
social media trend	Merging Ludus and Mimesis: Playful Engagements with NPCs on TikTok
Social play	Pass and Play in Mixed Reality: Unconventional use of a MR headset as a shareable display
Social-Emotional Learning	Exploring Empathy Assessment in a Role-Play Format within Indian context
Sociology	A Bechdel Test for Computer Games?
sociomateriality	Lefebvre at the arcade: Understanding gaming houses as esports’ playgrounds
Sociotechnical
Solastalgia
solidarity	The Universe Peoples: Towards a Symptomatic Deep Ecology in OReilly’s Everything
solo role-playing	Frame 352: Making Folklore
Sound Studies
Southeast Asia	Envisioning the Region through Coffee Brewing: Toge Productions and Community Building in Southeast Asia
Southern Cone Game Studies	Game Studies from the Southern Cone: Interdisciplinary Insights and Innovations
space	Lefebvre at the arcade: Understanding gaming houses as esports’ playgrounds The Dynamic Roles of Home Bases: Finding Home in Game Worlds
Space Nostalgia	A [W]hole in One. Balkanization, Empire, and the Apocalypse as Playground in 'Golf Club Nostalgia'
spatial	City Residuals
Spatial Agency	Who Owns the Gamespace? Negotiating Spatial Agency in Video Games
spectatorship	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Spectating as Metagaming in Inscryption
speculation	Terribly Bored Lizards: Speculating with the Captive Animal in Jurassic World: Evolution (2019)
speculative design	Speculation by Design: Speculative Media and Productivity in Online 'Playgrounds'
spiritual exercises
sport
Stanley Parable	Metanarrative Horror: The Existential Dread of Choice
stardom
Steam
storytelling	1001 Nights: AI-native Narrative Game Driven by Large Language Models
stress	Navigating the Virtual Playground: How Do Players Choose What, When, and How to Play?
student	Elapse: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance with Intentional Design
subjective	In the Flux: A Constructivist Perspective on Effort and Emotions in Tabletop Games
subjective experience	Subjective Experience of Rule-Based Immersion in Abstract Strategy Tabletop Games
subjectivity	The Player-Leader Heuristic - A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Representations of Leadership in Videogames Playbour or Leisure: Unveiling Subjectivity in Chinese Digital Game Labor Landscape
subversive play	ChatGPT – The Future of Queer Play?
super Mario
Supergiant Games
surveillance games	Big Brother Meets Joystick: Ethical Perspectives on Surveillance Imagery in Digital Games
surveillance images	Big Brother Meets Joystick: Ethical Perspectives on Surveillance Imagery in Digital Games
sustainability	Salmon Grief in Sámi Digital Games Greening Vvanderfell. An Ecocritical Retrospective on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Building from the (Play)ground Up: Finding Sustainable Game Industry Futures A Renewable Artgames Residency: Exploring Sustainable Practices for Art Game Design Game Jams and ‘Heavy’ Topics: Navigating Anxiety through Game Creation Renewable Artgames Residency: A zine
Sámi	Salmon Grief in Sámi Digital Games
T
tabletop	Subjective Experience of Rule-Based Immersion in Abstract Strategy Tabletop Games In the Flux: A Constructivist Perspective on Effort and Emotions in Tabletop Games
tabletop role-playing	Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Chile: Early History, Context, and Adoption
taboo	‘Hey! You’re not supposed to be here!’: Simulated Trespass and Intrusion in Virtual Playgrounds
talent promotion	CosTechPlay: Towards a Teaching Concept that brings Cosplay to Schools
Tamagotchi	Playgrounding with Tamagotchis: A Collaborative Autoethnography
teaching	CosTechPlay: Towards a Teaching Concept that brings Cosplay to Schools
Teaching game studies	Becoming, Circumstances and Practice: A Collective Biography of 3 Games Lecturers
technology ethics	Gaming the Future: How Games Help Us Play What’s to Come
Technomasculinity
television	Videogames and Public Play in the Late 1970s: the Case of TV POWWW!
temporality	Temporality of Play: Time in Digital Playgrounds History, Time and the Past in Radiant Historia
the uncanny	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Spectating as Metagaming in Inscryption
The Walking Dead	Arguing for False Moral Dilemmas in Games
theme parks	Dinosaurs in Your Playgrounds: Remediating the Anthropocene and Othering in Jurassic World: Evolution
Theoretical Framework	The Player-Leader Heuristic - A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Representations of Leadership in Videogames
theoretical object	Highly-reflective screens: game centers as self-reflexive objects in digital games
TikTok	Merging Ludus and Mimesis: Playful Engagements with NPCs on TikTok
time	Temporality of Play: Time in Digital Playgrounds History, Time and the Past in Radiant Historia Dynamical-meaning Focused Design: Overcoming Ludonarrative Dissonance
Toxicity	Toxicity in Video Games: An Approach through Multicausality
traces of play	Studying the Ground of Play: Towards Ludological Semiotics of Playful Traces
trading card game
traditional controls	Visceral Rhetoric for a Post-Factual Society
Trans	A Body Without End: The Trans Twine Games of Porpentine Charity Heartscape
trans studies	Unsweet Tea: Games as Bodies
transcultural memory	Translating Cultural Memory in Video Games: Realism and Localization of Chinese Parents
transgender	A Body Without End: The Trans Twine Games of Porpentine Charity Heartscape
transgression	‘Hey! You’re not supposed to be here!’: Simulated Trespass and Intrusion in Virtual Playgrounds
Translation	Translating Japanese Videogame Theory
transliminality	Personality, Fantasy, and Spirituality: Comparing Analog Role-players to Other Populations
transmedia	Transmedia in the Early 1980s: Breaking out of the Computer Monitor with the Games by Mel Croucher and Automata UK Transmedia Imperialism: Hogwarts Legacy and the Cultural Politics of Diversity
transmedial	The [C]rime of the Ancient Mariner: Locating the Playgrounds of Trauma and its Sublimation in the Mariner’s Journey and Dark Souls
trauma	The [C]rime of the Ancient Mariner: Locating the Playgrounds of Trauma and its Sublimation in the Mariner’s Journey and Dark Souls
tree climbing	Drifting in the Trees: Creating Playgrounds with Recreational Urban Tree Climbing
TV POWWW!	Videogames and Public Play in the Late 1970s: the Case of TV POWWW!
Twine	A Body Without End: The Trans Twine Games of Porpentine Charity Heartscape
Twitch	A Mythology of Raids: How Raiding Persists as a Cultural Phenomenon of Torturous Play Tim the Tatman, Fall Guys, & Dude Bro Streamers: Unpacking Hegemonic Masculinity on Twitch
U
Ubisoft	Shifting Patterns of Female Representation Across Assassin’s Creed
uncanny	Love and Other Terrors: Intimacy and Vulnerability in English-Language Dating Simulators and Romance Games
Unions	Building from the (Play)ground Up: Finding Sustainable Game Industry Futures
United Kingdom	Transmedia in the Early 1980s: Breaking out of the Computer Monitor with the Games by Mel Croucher and Automata UK
Unreal Engine	Critical Video Game Engine Studies
urban play spaces	Drifting in the Trees: Creating Playgrounds with Recreational Urban Tree Climbing
urban space	Ludic Interventions in Studying Urban Play: Learning from Lack of Participation
user experience	Playable Archive: The management of data in the FIFA/EA Sports franchise.
User practices
user reviews
User-Generated Content	Embodiment of User-Generated Content in Electronic Game: A Case Study of the Party Game Eggy Party
V
values-based game design	Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design in Meeting Platforms
vernacular	Journey to the Centre of Videogame History: Reconciling Vernacular Practices and Material Collections
video arcades	Restorative vs. Reflective Nostalgia in Arcade Paradise
Video Assistant Referee	The Changing Art of ”Housery” in The Age of VAR
Video game development	Machine Learning Analysis of Player Reviews and Video Game Development: What Information is useful for Games Developers?
video game engines	Critical Video Game Engine Studies
video game production	Critical Video Game Engine Studies
Video Game Research	Exploring Puerto Rico’s Impact in Video Game Studies
Video game spaces	Play to Make a City. Cultural-historical Identities and Affordances in Videogame Versions of Hong Kong
video games	Are you Lázaro? Picaresque Childhood in Baldur’s Gate 3 Crunch on the Playground: Long Hours of Work in Game Development Cursed: A Ludic Genealogy of the Myth of El Dorado Understanding Content Creation: An Exploration of the Social, Technical, and Professional Elements of Video Game Content Creation Own-experience Learning in a Digital Playground: Measuring Children’s Causal Reasoning Using Video Games Bodies Whithin Virtuality and Reality: Assemblages Between Affect and Videogames Video Games as Participatory Playgrounds for Civic Imaginations on War: The Case of Laika: Aged Through Blood Good Gamer, Good Citizen: Representing Video Games in Chinese Television Shapeless
videoconferencing	Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design in Meeting Platforms
videogame	From Nothingness to Game: Understanding the Emergence of Videogames through Posthumanism and Nishida Kitaro Escaping Moloch’s Gauntlet: Undergraduate Pedagogical Perspectives in Minecraft
Videogame cognitivism	Arguing for False Moral Dilemmas in Games
videogame history	Videogames and Public Play in the Late 1970s: the Case of TV POWWW!
videogames	Class Tourism, Empathy Machines, and Videogames
virtual ecologies	Rhizomatic Playgrounds and Virtual Machine Ecologies in Horizon: Forbidden West
Virtual Meeting	Wanting Playfulness to Counter Fatigue from Virtual Meetings: Associations with Social Interaction Anxiety and Workaholism
virtual meetings	Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design in Meeting Platforms
virtual photographic camera	Frameplaying: the photographic configurative act in the Gran Turismo series photo modes
virtual reality	Exploring the Perspectives of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants on Virtual Reality as a Playground in Museums Furry Ex Machina: How does VRChat allow for modern instances of digital identity generation and immersion in the furry fandom? Pass and Play in Mixed Reality: Unconventional use of a MR headset as a shareable display
Virtual Reality (VR)	Road to Acceptance: A Gamified VR Narrative Journey Through the Stages of Grief
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Virtual worlds	Colossal Spiders, Saxophones and Petri Dishes: Defining Virtual Worlds Rhizomatic Playgrounds and Virtual Machine Ecologies in Horizon: Forbidden West
Virtuality	Bodies Whithin Virtuality and Reality: Assemblages Between Affect and Videogames
Virtue ethics	Arguing for False Moral Dilemmas in Games
visual media	A Beginner’s Guide to Painted Worlds: The Haunted Mansion, Dark Souls III, and the Playground of Interpretation
visual novel	Empowerment Playgrounds: The Rise of Feminist Ideology in Female-Leading Indie Game Community
visually impaired players	Dou Dizhu For All: An Accessible Card Game for Visually Impaired Persons in China Powered by ChatGPT’s Language Model
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war	Video Games as Participatory Playgrounds for Civic Imaginations on War: The Case of Laika: Aged Through Blood
Watch Dogs	The Ludic Unconscious: Towards a ‘Symptomatic Reading’ of Play and Narrative in the Watch Dogs Series
website	City Residuals
weird	Radical Digital Fishing: From Minigames to Bad Environmentalism
Well-being	Exploring Character Bleed in Dungeons & Dragons: Impacts of Personality Design
wellbeing	Poly-Pervasive Playgrounds and Pitfalls: A Deployment Autoethnography of What We Take With Us Coworking in a Playground: Wellbeing Effects of Playful Design
whiteness	Playgrounds of Whiteness: Confronting Epistemic Bias in European Game Studies
Women's studies	A Bechdel Test for Computer Games?
Workaholism	Wanting Playfulness to Counter Fatigue from Virtual Meetings: Associations with Social Interaction Anxiety and Workaholism
workers	Interviewed Workers and Industry Worldviews at Ubisoft Montréal’s Assassin’s Creed Crunch on the Playground: Long Hours of Work in Game Development
Workplace	Wanting Playfulness to Counter Fatigue from Virtual Meetings: Associations with Social Interaction Anxiety and Workaholism
World of Horror	1-Bit Skin: Materializing Abjection in World of Horror (2023)
Worldbuilding	Are you Lázaro? Picaresque Childhood in Baldur’s Gate 3
worlds	Propping Up Play: Game Objects, Affordances, and Perceptual Multiplicity
worldviews	Interviewed Workers and Industry Worldviews at Ubisoft Montréal’s Assassin’s Creed
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Youth and Media	Learning to Code Games and Politics: An Examination of Misinformation in Scratch Studios
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Zoom Fatigue	Wanting Playfulness to Counter Fatigue from Virtual Meetings: Associations with Social Interaction Anxiety and Workaholism

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