The Influence of Historical Theory on Historical Game’s Design (abstract)

Co-Producing Play of the Past in the Present: Intergenerational Community Connection through Historical Video Games (abstract)

“We found another Swiss Game !” Reflexive Epistemology of Enthusiasm and Methodological Nationalism in Local Game Histories (abstract)

How do we afford gaming? a history of affordances and its ‘player’ (abstract)

‘Perhapsing’ Through Collaborative Play: The Neighborhood that Once Was and Could Be. (abstract)

Can independent curated video games teach critical media literacy? (abstract)

Collections Educator or Game Designer? Why not both? (abstract)

A Framework for Game-Based Learning in Health Science Education: Bridging Pedagogy, Technology and Educator Development at a Public University in the Gauteng Province, South Africa (abstract)

Walking the Psyche: Expanding the Poetics of Performative Virtual Architecture through Real-Time Game Engine (abstract)

PHARMACOLOGICAL PRAXIS: A LUDONARRATIVE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE INTERSECTIONAL IMPASSE (abstract)

Videogame Spatial Cinematics: Towards an Interdisciplinary Framework for Analysing Spatial Cinematic Environments in Contemporary Games (abstract)

Digital forests, meadows, towns: Representation of landscape in Czech digital games (abstract)

Through Ruins, Dark Woodlands, White Cities: The Representation of Ancient Landscapes in Video Games (abstract)

The Videogame Aesthetics: On the Interplay of Narrative and Ludic Elements (abstract)

The Transition from Choice to Mastery in Videogame Aesthetics (abstract)

Investigating Stakeholder Conflict in Blue Crab Management Using Video Games (abstract)

Role and anger: investigations for live streamers, co-players and common players (abstract)

Presentation of age(ing) and elderly people in digital games: The Pokémon game series (abstract)

Body and Game: Making and Playing a Game in Daoism (abstract)

Playing with my imaginary friends: Character art commissions as affective play (abstract)

The Liminal Capacity of Code - Connecting Developer Intentions and Player Experience in Early Video Games (abstract)

Procedural Praxis: Making and Thinking Antifascism Through Games (abstract)

Making Monsters: Embodying Queerness in Game Development (abstract)

Exploring Videogame Design in Academic Contexts: A Research-Creation Approach to Ideation (abstract)

The Braiding Framework: A Semiotic Approach to Engaging and Meaningful Games (abstract)

Platformization of Virtual Morality: Mediation, Emotion, and Power in Embedded Philanthropy of Chinese Mobile Games -- An empirical analysis based on SEM and fsQCA (abstract)

You’re Just an NPC: The Colonial Poetics of Play in Late Modernity (abstract)

“My France Hurts:” Rethinking Cultural Odor in Pokémon Legends: Z-A (abstract)

The Sumerian Game: Study of the construction, use and reception of foreign past imaginaries in video games (abstract)

Transfiguring In and Out of Worlds: Archaeological Knowledge as Narrative Video Games (abstract)

Argentine video games: work processes, production conditions and symbolic disputes from the Global South. (abstract)

The Social Production of Space Between Global Play and Local Production in Southern European Digital Games (abstract)

On the World Videogame: Language, Nation, and Reality Across Borders (abstract)

Playable Heritage: Wu Hua Mi Xin as an Interactive Museum within China’s Digital Culture and Museum Development (abstract)

From Resource to Kin: Designing for Environmental Resilience in the Okanagan (abstract)

How time flies! A flow-driven design framework for educational games (abstract)

Defining Single-player Video Games NPC Societies: An Ethnographic Approach (abstract)

Gaming Behaviours as Windows into Implicit Psychological Needs and Motivations (abstract)

Speculative Sentiment: The Dementia Narrative in Digital Games (abstract)

Playing with ADHD: Exploring Crip resonances between ADHD and game-making (abstract)

Pixelated Ideology: Hegemonic Intermediality in Video Games (abstract)

Playing with Existence: Values in Post-Apocalyptic Gameworlds (abstract)

Multilayered Queerness in Videogames: Mechanics, Aesthetics, Narrative, and Production (abstract)

My Avatar Made Me Buy it: The Interaction of Avatar and User Gender in Shaping Consumer Behaviour (abstract)

Algorithmic Imperialism in the Architecture of NLP Agents and Play (abstract)

Gender Representations and Gender Dynamics: A Feminist Analysis of “Female-oriented Mobile Games” in China (abstract)

Nostalgia-play in Chilean tabletop role-playing communities: Reflections to analyse game practices in a global north-global south dialogue. (abstract)

Queercrip Mythmaking in Contemporary Role-Playing Games (abstract)

Mapping women’s legacy in video game: constellation of Japanese creators in the 2000s (abstract)

Representations of Suicide in Computer Games (abstract)

Is it a survival horror, an action horror or a Metal Gear Solid 3-related title? The categorisation of Resident Evil 4 from gamers’ point of view (abstract)

Devil, Mecha, Implant：A Media Archaeological Study of ‘Flesh Modification’ (abstract)

9Night and Good Mourning: Game Mechanics towards Memory Work (abstract)

An exploration of methods for preserving live-service videogames: the role and responsibility of the developer-curator (abstract)

Perspectives of Critical Theory on Video Game Culture and Industry (abstract)

The Good VR Machine – postcolonial interventions in empathy, peace and justice (abstract)

Child Safety in Platform Gaming: Balancing Protection and Freedom (abstract)

Learning to E-sport: A study of learning opportunities around competitive games (abstract)

Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity (abstract)

Descent Into Video Games (abstract)

Playing together: analysis of gaming and sociocultural practices in Cooperative Games (abstract)

Duet for Flute and Video Game: A Dynamic System for Co-Op Musical Play (abstract)

Identity in Gaming: A Study of Player and Non-Player Character Names and Usernames in Single- and Multiplayer Modes (abstract)

Rules as Ontological Structures: A Three-Layer Framework for Understanding Freedom and Constraint in Digital Games (abstract)

Temporal Features and Player Values: A Means-Ends Account of Time in Digital Play (abstract)

Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games (abstract)

Unlocking Pleasure: The Material Politics of "Backdoors" in Chinese Console Gaming (abstract)

Local Times And Temporalities In The Social History Of Play (abstract)

Playing As More Than Just a Continent: Representation of Southeast Asia in Video Games (abstract)

Web-based Serial Narratives: Actual Plays in the Italian Context (abstract)

WoW gets Trumped: Politics and Play in Azeroth during the Trump Era (abstract)

Combat System Design for Action Games: Key Concepts and Styles (abstract)

China’s Game on Ancient Japan: Pleasure, Identity, and Poetry from “Man’yōshū” in “Genshin Impact” (abstract)

Portraying Unfavorable Sociocultural Circumstances Through the Videoludic Picaresque (abstract)

Who Deserves to Survive the Post-Apocalypse? Deaths of Child Characters in The Walking Dead (abstract)

Monstrous Desires in Pornographic Videogames (abstract)

Disco Elysium: Existential Reflection within Crisis (abstract)

How Streaming Facilitates Affective Transformation: A Case Study of Horror Game Spectatorship (abstract)

Playing Home: Gaming Practices and Imagined Communities among Chinese Overseas Students (abstract)

Not Just Competition: Building Inclusive Communities through Grassroots Esports in Norway (abstract)

Label Offensive and Defensive in Interest-Based Battlefields: Identity Politics and Public Opinion Polarization in China’s ACG Communities (abstract)

Digital Gaming, Disability, and Social Capital: Understanding Intersectional Pleasures and Community Formation (abstract)

Have Generative AIs Made Games More Fun? The Past and Present of Text-Based Generative AI in Games (abstract)

Hobbyist Developers: Studying Notable Nintendo DS Homebrew Games (abstract)

The Classical Roman Reception in Genshin Impact: Within the region of the Sea of Bygone Eras (abstract)

Selling the American Dream: U.S. Gold, Intersectional Pleasures, and the Ludoindustrial Complex (abstract)

That’s My Jam: Understanding the Value of Canadian Game Jams (abstract)

Misleading omissions of loot box presence disclosures: widespread unfair commercial practices in video game advertising on social media in Ireland and the EU (abstract)

Landfill: Designing for Low-Carbon Pleasures (abstract)

Understanding Game Monetization in China from a Gameworker Perspective (abstract)

The Infinite Game in the Engine of Control: Proletarianization, Platform Capitalism, and the Future of Playful Pleasure (abstract)

A World to Build: World-building and Capitalism in Games (abstract)

Three rights to play: Liberal, Fascist, and Compositionist (abstract)

Lifting the Fog of War: Militarism, Colonialism and Encyclopedic Pleasures in Digital Play (abstract)

Play, Faith, and Inclusion: Community Games as Tools for Learning, Expression, and Intersectional Pleasure in Catechism Education among Catholic Students (abstract)

Exploring Critical Utopian Gaming Pedagogy in a youth club in Barcelona (abstract)

The Texture of Play: Feeling Your Way Through Teaching with Games (abstract)

Queer Resistance Through Sexual Role-play: BDSM Larp, Arousal, and Communal Resistance (abstract)

Ecosystems and conflict in environmental themed analog wargames (abstract)

Flanki: Drinking Games and Traditions of Students at AGH University of Kraków (abstract)

“Writing Back” To Which Empire?: Constructing Chinese Identities in Tabletop Roleplaying Games in Singapore (abstract)

It’s all a skinner box? Typical core loop and Operant Conditioning (abstract)

Ambivalent Alliance: How History, Memory, and Gameplay Reshape Women’s Political Legacy (abstract)

From Policy to Paradox: Diversity Washing, Policy Failures, and the Limits of Authentic Intersectional Pleasure in the European Video Game Industry (abstract)

Feel the Force Around You: Haptic Narratology and the Problem of Focalization (abstract)

No Room in the Infinite for the Masculine and Queer: How do dress-up pleasures in Infinity Nikki collide with player desire and queer/masculine fashion? (abstract)

Death-Themed Games and Playing the "Good Death" (abstract)

Analysing Historical Distortion in Large Language Model Roleplay (abstract)

Gacha Game Collaborations and the Production of Affective Legitimacy (abstract)

Perceptions among the youth on the use (or abuse) of dark patterns (abstract)

Aesthetics of Prohibition: Moral Transgression, Control, and Pleasure in Political Games (abstract)

Dressing Against Code: How Twitch Plays with/on Green Screen Shorts (abstract)

Intersectional Pleasures and Limits of Game Cultural Participation and Belonging (abstract)

A Chronicle of Emulation: Proposed Eras for Video Game Emulators (abstract)

Let’s Play The Sims: The Un(der)studied Women’s Origins of a Media Format (abstract)

Game-Mechanics Archaeological Method: The Case of Affinity-Mechanism Archaeology (abstract)

Games Against Death (abstract)

When Localization Meets Game Design: Strengthening Collaboration (abstract)

Far from Complete Compliance: Loot Box Prevalence, Probability Disclosure, and Kompu Gacha Policy in Japanese Mobile Games (abstract)

Making Games Sustainable – One Short Story at the Time (abstract)

Poor Compliance with Loot Box Probability Disclosure and Warning Regulations in Taiwan (abstract)

Aesthetics of Holarchic Narrative Design: Participatory and Intersectional Pleasures of Game Storyworlds (abstract)

From the Eudaimonic to the Demonic in Gameplay Narratives (abstract)

A Mechanism Model for AI-Driven Narrative Loops in Embodied Gamified Interaction (abstract)

The Ludic Narrator: Towards a New Typology (abstract)

Graphonauts: Introducing a Hybrid Human–AI Pipeline for Text-to-Game Transformation via Knowledge Graphs (abstract)

Reshaping Failure: The Design of Hospites Teatro’s Theatre Games (abstract)

Game as Inquiry: An Diffractive and Experimental Approach to Designing and Evaluating Games with a Message (abstract)

Designing vulnerability: Framework, design, and evaluation of a serious game depicting victims of domestic abuse (abstract)

Player Experience of Hybridity in a Narrative Boardgame (abstract)

Game Parlours or Incidental Etchings? Material Traces of Incised Boardgames in Ancient South Asian Communal Spaces. (abstract)

To Play (or Not to Play) the Nakba. Representing the First Arab-Israeli War in Historical Boardgames (abstract)

Loyalty vs. Heresy: Kitbashing and Materiality Negotiation in Tabletop Games (abstract)

Slow Gaming: Applying Slow Movement to Post-anthropocentric Play (abstract)

The Husbando Super-App: Troubling “Player Investment” with Love and Deepspace (abstract)

Killing them Softly: Exploring the Contradictory Pleasures of Cosy Detective Videogames (abstract)

Designing Hybrid Agency: AI–Mech Collaboration in Contemporary Mecha Games (abstract)

The Impact of Evolving Character Customization on Emotional Engagement and Player Behaviour in RPGs (abstract)

‘Changing the Game Forever’: MapleStory’s Big Bang as a Climate Change Event (abstract)

Culture as (Extra)ordinary: Authentic Representation of Working-Class Experience in Still Wakes the Deep (abstract)

Close-Playing War Trauma: The Tension Between Agency and Inevitability in My Child Lebensborn and Bury Me, My Love (abstract)

Unruly Forces and Marginalized Pleasures: Exploring Glitch Aesthetics and Agency in Alternative Control Schemes (abstract)

Shaping Interactions and Experiences: Investigating the Effects of a Game-Specific Custom Controller on Player Experience in a Digital Game Environment (abstract)

How Accessible QTE Inputs Reshape Suspense Trajectories in Survival Horror (abstract)

Lightweight Rituals and Player Belonging in Video Games: The "Sacrifice Flow" in Stardew Valley Community Center Reconstruction (abstract)

Powered by GameSpy: Theorizing and Analyzing the GameSpy Network As Platform Infrastructure (abstract)

Arcade Soldiers: Early Japanese Shooters in Dialogue with Hollywood Militarism (abstract)

A Spellbook of Pleasures: Game Informer and the Review Discourse of the Modern Magic System (abstract)

Football Without Fans: Are Matches Just for Gambling? (abstract)

Asymmetric Play in a Competitive Landscape: Attitudes and Fairness (abstract)

The final frontier of space in video games. Spatio-narrative design in Judgment by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio (abstract)

“Shut up and let us make the game” Game developers, preserving games, and the dynamics of corporate governance (abstract)

Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies (abstract)

Rethinking Ludic Pleasure from an Object-oriented Perspective (abstract)

Flesh, Plastic, Stone: The Pleasure of Recontextualised Character Models (abstract)

Interactivity as Embodied Pleasure: A Media-Phenomenological Reframing through “Interactive” Short Videos (abstract)

Intersectional Pleasures: An Empirical Study of Embodied Emotions in Video Games (abstract)

"Gotta kill 'em all!" – A Game about Billionaires and Climate Obstruction (abstract)

Designing Virtual Reality Games About Grief: Reflections from Psychology and Healthcare Professionals (abstract)

Gaming Across Cultures: Lessons from Sweden and Bhutan on Digital Education (abstract)

Applied ethics techniques for video game ethics (abstract)

Tracing Gender Affordances in Avatar Customization: A Methodological Framework (abstract)

Absent Pleasures, or Pleasure in Absence? Player Engagement in Minimalist Digital Horror Games (abstract)

"Arctictopia" and its Cozy, Casual Climate Catastrophe (abstract)

Pleasure in Play: Hyperscanning Shared Card Game Experience (abstract)

Mythic Alternatives: Mythological Mechanics Beyond Violence (abstract)

Unplayable Encounters with the Anthropocene: Rethinking Scale and Agency in Game Studies (abstract)

The Evolution of Emotion Work in The Sims 1-4 (abstract)

"Cuz She is My Daughter": How Players Navigate Ludo-Narrative Dissonance (abstract)

“Report any Violations”: Compliance Play, Procedural Rhetoric, and Affect in the Beholder Series (abstract)

Genshin Impact: Cultural hybridisation, localisation and contra-flow of cultural production in China's open-world role-playing game (abstract)

Epistemic Disobedience in Digital Games: Mega Man X8 16-bit case (abstract)

Diablerie of a Lore: A Comparative Analysis of Gaming Pleasure in Bloodlines and Bloodlines 2 (abstract)

Female Machamp, Male Lopunny, and Bearded Dragon Gym Leaders Who May Like it Rough: Identarian Openness in Pokémon (abstract)

Bodily Pleasures of Repetitive Labour and Rhythm in Finnish Cottage Simulator (abstract)

From Restoration to Extinction: Intersectional Pleasures in Ecological Game Reception (abstract)

Intersectional complexity between players and non-players in Bhutan (abstract)

“This industry has ruined me”: categorizing the experiences of Brazilian feminist gaming streamers through an intersectional approach (abstract)

For the Trees: Envisioning Sustainable Futures Through Ecomodded Minecraft (abstract)

The Demographics and Motivations of Trading Card Game Players (abstract)

Fun on the Eastern Front: Chris Crawford and the Pleasure of Early Digital Wargames (abstract)

Community Resilience and Nostalgia: the case of the Metal Slug saga (abstract)

Stranger in a Strange Land: A South African Perspective on the Evolution of British Game Development (abstract)

LLM Roleplay Re-introduces Omissions to Collective Memory (abstract)

Playing with the Past: The Pleasures of Nostalgic Design with Playdate (abstract)

The Assemblage of Peripheral Game Development: A Case Study of Dundee (abstract)

Producing Games, Reproducing Inequalities: gender and labour in the Argentine Video Game Market. (abstract)

Desired but Also Undesired: Immigrant Game Workers in Between the Discourse of Labour Shortage and Anti-Immigration in Finland (abstract)

Playable folklore - Digital games and the representation of folklore and CH (abstract)

Pleased to play, paid to please: memory commodification within Roblox’s creator economy (abstract)

The Hamster Wheel of Terror - Gambling Ludemes and Game Loops from Hell in CloverPit (abstract)

Intention, Interpretation, and the Sensory Life of Queerness: Reading Reception in Bioware’s Dragon Age Games (abstract)

The Place of the Marginalized: Witchers and Dwelling in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (abstract)

Temporalised Hyperobjects and Affective Play in Outer Wilds (abstract)

The Algorithmic Hostess: Social Mediation, Affective Discipline, and Sanitized Pleasures of Generative AI NPCs in Petit Planet (abstract)

Make Games No One Wants to Play (abstract)

The Absent Teacher in Eco-Games: A Theoretical Framework for Teacher Integration in Eco-Games (abstract)

The Pleasurable Stress of the VRAVG Beat Saber: A Mixed-Methods Study (abstract)

What Now? Ecogames after Missed Climate Targets (abstract)

Exploring VR Shinrin-Yoku Stress Relief: A Comparative Study of Virtual and Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Environments (abstract)

Physical Blind Boxes' Compliance with Information Disclosure Requirements: Exploring the Game-like Nature of Blind Box Consumption in the Chinese Regulatory Context (abstract)

Exploring Experiential Fidelity in Board Game Adaptations of Video Games (abstract)

Diegetic Pleasure: Multimodal Immersion and Emotional Engagement in Escape Rooms (abstract)

18XX Forever: Railway Time and Fossil Play on the Tabletop (abstract)

Representation, Resistance, and Moderation: The Politics of Review Bombing in Assassin’s Creed Shadows (abstract)

Nostalgic Development Practices: Fantasy Consoles and DIY Game Engines (abstract)

From Player-Centered to Agent-Centered: A New Paradigm for Interactive Narrative in the Age of Large Language Models (abstract)

A glossary of haunted games (abstract)

Remediations of Japanese Cinema and History in Ghost of Yōtei (abstract)

Monstera pocketii: The Botanical Vitality of Pokémon (abstract)

The "Chinese" Non-city: Thematic (in)coherence and level design in Sifu (abstract)

Buy, build, live: The Sims’ American Dream, neoliberal utopia and its impact on city design (abstract)

Playing on Her Terms: Otome Gamers’ Negotiations with Hegemonic Sexual Scripts in China (abstract)

“We are trapped in the mud of binary selections”: An Investigation into the Feminist Consciousness of Chinese Female Otome Game Players (abstract)

“It’s Just a Hoax”: Climate Change Denial in Civilization VI’s Reddit Communities (abstract)

Haptic Dialects: Translating Pleasure Between Adaptive Controllers and Universal Design for Disabled Players (abstract)

Guilty (Un)pleasures: The Reception of Muriel Tramis’s Erotic Trilogy in France and the United Kingdom (abstract)

Feeling with, or Feeling like? Empathy, Identification, and the Pleasures of Self-Reflection in Story-Driven Games (abstract)

Douchebag Games: White Grievance and Reactionary Identity Formation in the Xbox Era (abstract)

“is dondald trump woke?” and Other Trolling Questions: Rise and Fall of the Woke Content Detector Steam Group (abstract)

The Foreigner, The Joker: Dual Identity of Migrant Game Industry Workers in South Korea (abstract)

From Pixels to Planet: How Game Makers Strive for Planetary Impact Beyond the Magic Circle (abstract)

Achievement Unlocked: The Art of Localizing Minecraft’s Advancements (abstract)

Engine Workers: Scalability and Frictions in Game Engine Culture (abstract)

"Identifying with a character" but "embodying an avatar": Differentiating relationships between players and their on-screen representations in video games (abstract)

Designing Open Dialogue Systems for LLM-Based NPCs (abstract)

Artificial Pleasures and Ideological Subjectivation in Video Games: The Function of Positive Artefact Emotions in the Naturalisation of Ideology (abstract)

Tacky Games (abstract)

The Multidimensional Spectrum of Abstraction, Realism and Cultural Meaning in Serious Games (abstract)

Between Pleasure and Harm: Transcreating a Serious Game on Older Adult (abstract)

Global Games Education Now: Regional Realities and Pedagogical Innovations (abstract)

Democratizing Interactive Filmmaking: A No-Code Solution for Arts Students (abstract)

Them’s Fighting Words: The Unlikely Marriage of Language Games and Simulated Hand-to-Hand Combat (abstract)

Translating the Game Space Model from Analytic Framework to Practical Methodology for Game Development and Research (abstract)

Between Diverse Industry and Game Characters - An Analysis of Tool-based Representation Design (abstract)

Transparency Isn't Enough: How Ordinary Features of Games Contribute to Exploitative Monetization (abstract)

A History of Non-Violence. Symbiosis and Care Work in L.O.L.: Lack of Love and Spiritfarer (abstract)

Play as Preservation: Folklore and Mythology in The Mooseman (abstract)

It is time to stop painting – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as a dilemma of pleasant fictionality (abstract)

Soft Worlds, Sonic Seams: How Cozy Games Stitch Sound Design into Musical Score (abstract)

“No Way, Did You See That Move?”: Constructing the Entertaining Spectacle in Game Live Streaming (abstract)

Racial Recursivity as Critical Race Game Studies Methodology (abstract)

The Post-Socialist Road Trip: Nostalgia, Labor, and Migration in 'Jalopy' (abstract)

Artistic In-Game Photography as Media of Care (abstract)

Towards a New Paradigm for Understanding Men and Masculinity in Gaming (abstract)

I Play, Therefore I Identify: A Fan Study of Character Attachment in Honor of Kings (abstract)

How General Game Expertise Shapes Player Experience and Problem-Solving Across Different Onboarding Approaches in a Puzzle Video Game (abstract)

Making the Past Count: Developing quantitative measures for past-player experience (abstract)

Rise of the faux pixels (abstract)

Extended Abstract - Intersectional Pleasures: Reframing the Value of BIPOC Game Studies and Production (abstract)

FINAL BOSS: Videogame as a Technology of Geopolitical Cultural Power (abstract)

How to Play Academia: Conceptual and methodological observations (abstract)

Re-evaluating the Pursuit of Hyper-Realism in Virtual Reality Game Design through the Lens of Ludo proprioceptive Dissonance (abstract)

And the Crops Withered: Designing TTRPGs To Enliven Myths (abstract)

Balancing In/formality within the Brno Video Game Industry Ecosystem (abstract)

Neurodivergent Pleasures in Game Environmental Design (abstract)

Virtual Reality in the 2020s: Peace Machine or War Machine? (abstract)

Play in Context: Adapting Game-Based Learning for African Cultural Frameworks (abstract)

Entropic Temporality & Care-Based Agency in Ecological Survival Games (abstract)

Why Do We Suffer for Fun? Ordeal Pleasure in Souls-like Games (abstract)

Embodied Entrepreneurship: Exploring How an Analogue Role-Play Game Develops Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Master’s Engineering Students (abstract)

Neighborhood Making of Story Games: Accessible Joy in Low-Tech Design (abstract)

Pleasure Under Pressure: Laughter, Learning, and Competitive Play in Professional Wargaming (abstract)

Dungeons and Dissonance: Coherence in GLAM Games (abstract)

Tarot, Money, and Mnemonics: Histories of Card Games Beyond Quantifiable-outcome Games (abstract)

“Remembering Play” Beyond Retro: An Analysis of YouTube Videos and Comment Data on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in South Korea (abstract)

Rendering Romania. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Othering in Video Games (abstract)

Hussars of Might and Magic: The Influence of Gaming Media on Polish Gaming Canons (abstract)

Mapping eco(politics) in ecogames (abstract)

Looping Across Genres: How Time Loops, Roguelikes, and Cyclical Levels Shape Narrative Structure (abstract)

Time vs. History in JRPGs (abstract)

Let’s play the ‘refugee crisis’: a postcolonial deconstruction of the refugee in post-2015 European videogames (abstract)

The Playful Pleasures of the Videogame Detective Board (abstract)

How to be Non-Human : A Thematic Analysis of Animal Embodiment in VR Games (abstract)

Right click to de-escalate – Call of Duty & turning propaganda into pleasure (abstract)

“Perhaps, this is Hell”: Descent Narratives in Video Games (abstract)

No Good Endings: The Tragic Pleasure of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (abstract)

Quiet Play: How Desktop Moyu Games Carve Out Enjoyment Inside Workplace (abstract)

From Play to Poetics: Reconfiguring Pleasure through Defamiliarisation in Game Poems (abstract)

Playing (with) Toxicity and Irony on Twitch: The ambiguous case of the “Court of the Bans” (abstract)

Environmental Storytelling as Embodied Experience: Take What Remains of Edith Finch (2017) as an Example (abstract)

Game Streaming and Motives of Play (abstract)

More man vs nature mechanics? Exploring romanticized notions of solitude in r/SurvivalGaming (abstract)

Grand Theft Auto: National Identity, Transnational Production, and the Ambivalent Politics of Play (abstract)

Sacred Places: Designing 360° Narrative VR Games for Hybrid Use in CAVE and Mobile HMD Setups (abstract)

Towards a Strategy Using the "Intervention Level Framework" in Japanese Game Archives: Integrating Material and Functional Authenticity Based on Conservation Science (abstract)

Pleasures Under Pressure: Misogyny, Moral Outrage, and Creative Contraction in Contemporary Chinese Game Culture (abstract)

From Restricted to Shared: The Intersectional Pleasure Mechanisms in Chinese Horror Games (2001-2024) (abstract)

Docugame design for Conservation: Designing The Moose of Fiordland biopic game. (abstract)

Affective Economies: Gendered play, Monetisation, and Precarity in Otome Gacha Games (abstract)

Failure to Franchise as Profane Comedy in Dante’s Inferno: The Poem: The Game: The Book (abstract)

Introducing The Comet Cock, a Murderous AI Dating Sim (abstract)

Moneyball, but for kids: Games as vehicles for predatory prediction markets (abstract)

The Conjurative Voice of the Player in Escape Rooms: A Framework (abstract)

Imbalanced Pleasures? System Design and Social Rules in the Survivors-like Game Megabonk (abstract)

Making and Playing for Catharsis (abstract)

Six Positive Words for Talking about Theory in Games Research (in Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity) (abstract)

Sketch for a Phenomenology of Gameplay (as) Performance: Bodies, Systems, Worlds (abstract)

Missing in Action: Professional Wargaming in Game Studies (abstract)

Games and the Posthuman Condition: How game design represents memory and identity through embodied experience (abstract)

Beyond the Studio: Long-term Career Trajectories of Swedish Game Graduates (abstract)

A House Is Not a Home: Queergaming and Recuperative History in Molly House (abstract)

Queering the Third Place: Dungeons & Dragons at Your Friendly Local Game Store (abstract)

Are Themes Really Conceit? A Semiotic Proposal (abstract)

When Space Becomes Cardboard: Rethinking Escape Room Narratives in Tabletop Games (abstract)

Between Punches and Flying Attacks: Ludonarrative Imaginaries in 1980s Beat ’em Up Games (abstract)

Games analysis, Transforming Pixels into Plates: Harnessing Game Strategies for Sustainable Food Practices. (abstract)

Cursed Coziness: Cursed Mechanics in Dark Cozy Games (abstract)

Veggie Vigilantes: Queering Crime Tropes in Cosy Comedy Games (abstract)

On Inhabiting Nonhuman Bodies: Review of Research Perspectives (abstract)

Constructing Civilizations: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Fictional Languages in Chants of Sennaar (abstract)

Schrödinger’s Feminist Cat: The Positional Feminism of Five Hearts Under One Roof (abstract)

Playing anachronisme in Time: Towards the Ludobiography in the Context of Chinese Indie Games (abstract)

Playing Across the Strait: Chinese WoW Diasporas on Taiwanese Servers (abstract)

Towards a New Player Discourse: A Close Reading of Let’s Play Videos as Retellings (abstract)

Competing Otherwise: Latin American Perspectives on Meritocratic Resistance in Competitive Gameplay (abstract)

Predicting Trolling Behaviors Using In-Game Timeline Data: Uncovering Divergent Mechanisms Behind AFK and Item Tier-Dropping in MOBA Games (abstract)

Valuable Childhoods: Nostalgia, Intersectionalities, and Vintage Game Fairs (abstract)

Now Your Playing with Graphics Processing Power: Nvidia and the Discursive Pleasure of Artificial Intelligence (abstract)

Experiences of Age and Gender in Early UK Tabletop Role-Playing Magazines (abstract)

Myth, Memory, and the Melting Pot: Anti-Imperialism in Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 (abstract)

The Convergence of Historical Game Design and Digital Heritage (abstract)

Beyond necessity and passion: Crunch as a habitus in the field of video game production (abstract)

A Ludic PSY AI-Game-Engine for Utopia: Exploring Pl[AI] for a Viable Future (abstract)

Deceptive Design in VR Games: Lies that invite Surprise and Pleasure (abstract)

From Hopscotch to Digital Games: The Pleasure and Dilemma of Interactivity (abstract)

The Relationship Between Signs and Context: Semiotic Meaning-Making in Digital Games (abstract)

Time in Digital Games: A Comparative Map of Temporal Constructs (abstract)

Aiōn and Digital Play: Toward a Cosmo-Phenomenological Approach (abstract)

The Institutionalization of the Nokia N-Gage as a National Symbol: From Corporate and Fan Heritage to Public Cultural Heritage (abstract)

Localized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Solutions in Game Culture Environments (abstract)

Old Pleasures, Dying Flames: Final Fantasy XIV and the Evolution of the MMO Genre (abstract)

How Can an Unfinished Multiplayer Networking Scheme Produce Pleasure? XBAND as an Affective Infrastructure (abstract)

The Reinvention of Hardcore: Authenticity and Identity Among Korean “Real” Gamers (abstract)

Player ‘superstitions’ or algorithmic literacy? Marvel Rivals players’ practices in the age of AI Matchmaking (abstract)

From Checklists to Playability: A systematic mapping of player reviews to the Game Accessibility Guidelines (abstract)

Queer Games Studies Material Turn: Centering Trans Bodies in Video Games (abstract)

Killjoy Play: Illness, Disability, and No-Fun Pleasures in Video Games (abstract)

The Pleasure(s) of Griefing: Tracing Multimodal Toxicity in League of Legends (abstract)

Oneiric Timespaces: History and Image-Affects in Benign Land and The Séance of Blake Manor (abstract)

Gameful disconnection: how digital detox and productivity apps blend play, work, and profit (abstract)

Spectating the Samurai: Performing and Preserving History through Twitch (abstract)

When a Game Is More Than 'Just a Game': Metanarrative Integration Tools in Video Games (abstract)

Posthuman Cuteness: Affective and agentic tensions (abstract)

My Cozy Hero: How Cozy Games Challenge Conventional Hero Dynamics (abstract)

Forms of self-reflexivity in team hero shooters and beyond (abstract)

Mod Choreography: Transforming the Contexts of Digital Play (abstract)

Visual Representation of Alternative Masculinities in a Mexican Gaymer Group’s Instagram Presence (abstract)

The domesticating role of memes in esports cultures (abstract)

Why Do They Stay Home? The Dual Structure of Identity and Constraints in Offline Esports Consumption (abstract)

The Right to Play, The Right to Pleasure (abstract)

Parasocial Incidental Politics: How Twitch Users Navigate Political Content and Misinformation in Livestreaming Environments (abstract)

The Invisibility of Women Streamers in Game Studies (abstract)

Tracing the political economy of the "microgame" (abstract)

Counterfeit Circuits: Decolonial Practices and the Rise of Video Games in Brazil (abstract)

Decentralising Queer Game Studies: The British Situation (abstract)

Make it Cuddle, Make it Fight, Market it Pink: Virtual Pets and Affective Economies of Gendered Play (abstract)

Examining Jank as Design Through Casual Gameplay (abstract)

Working Conditions and Mental Health among Professionals with Disabilities in Brazilian Video Game Production (abstract)

Why We Can’t Rely on GDC Talks: Accountability in Developer Intent (abstract)

Playable Returns: Seriality and Medium-Specific Aesthetics in Videogame Remakes and Demakes (abstract)

Cruel Pleasure: Affective Security and Territoriality in Games (abstract)

Navigating the Sacred Magic Circle: Ritual, Play, and the Urban Transformation of a City into a Magic Circle (abstract)

Modernities of authenticity in recreated online digital games: A comparative case study (abstract)

The Hero with a Thousand Misattributions: Scrutinizing the Hero's Journey in Videogame Discourse (abstract)

“Default” Leadership – Critiquing Normative Leader Identities in Single-Player Videogames (abstract)

Cross-Species Affinities: Agency and the Pleasures of the Weird and Uncanny (abstract)

Hauntecology: Arboreal Pleasures as represented in Elden Ring (2021) (abstract)

Disclosure and the “Secret Underground Movement” - Analysing Queerness in Disco Elysium and its Place in the Quotidian (abstract)

Rethinking City Builders from Latin America: A Cultural Study of Urbek City Builder (abstract)

Winter is gaming: study of gamers' habits throughout the year (abstract)

From the Invisible to Glitch: Rethinking the Possibilities of Aesthetics, Bodies, and Connection in Virtual Parties (abstract)

Hiking (Dis)Pleasure Island: Enjoyment & Critical Gameplay in Baby Steps (abstract)

Hoarding, Looting, Consuming: Toward an Ecology of Care (abstract)

Player Enjoyment Through Mechanical Engagement with Text in “The Séance of Blake Manor” (abstract)

Where are the Girls’ Games? Trends in Themes, Aesthetic, and Gameplay (abstract)

Thinking on Our Feet: Baby Steps (2025) Towards (Im)balancing the Somatic and the Stoney (abstract)

Reading queer autobiographical games through the lens of memory and identity studies (abstract)

The Joy of Exploration: A Qualitative Study of Temporal Changes in Player Experiences (abstract)

Is gameplay fun after all? Queer Indigenous resistances through gameplay (abstract)

In Mem(e)ory of Uuugggg: Mod-Users’ use of RimWorld’s Steam Workshop as a Memorial Site (abstract)

From Play to Idols: How Superfans Shape Esports Ecologies (abstract)

Bridging Generations Through Play: Elderly Gamers and Identity Formation (abstract)

An Exploration of Cozy Games as Coping Mechanism to Manage Mental Well-being (abstract)

“They managed to make lesbians unattractive”: anti-woke activism in No Alphabets mod in Baldur’s Gate 3 (abstract)

Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic (abstract)

Making Virtual Romance Real: Intimacy and Relational Labor in Otome Games Cosplay Commission (abstract)

Repeated pleasures: Motivations for replaying story-driven games (abstract)

Cultivating History: Gender, Power, and Reflection in Cozy Botanical Games (abstract)

Pleasure Not For Everyone: Epistemic Injustice Towards Ukrainian Game Studies (abstract)

Video Games and Minoritized Language Revitalization: The Galician Case (abstract)

Ghost in the Dreamcast: Ludomusical Hauntology and Pleasures of a 90s Cross-Franchise Specter (abstract)

Nostalgic Ludopopulism and Neoreactionary Movements in Game Development (abstract)

Beyond the Video Game Nasties: Censorship and the Online Safety Act (abstract)

“The FMV Interval”: The Long Dormant Period of Full Motion Video games 1998 – 2015 (abstract)

Games with Culture: Using Cultural Heritage as Game-Making Material (abstract)

Towards a Political Economy of Gamergate (abstract)

Swinging Through History: Rope Mechanics in 2D games (abstract)

Brazilian Indie games and hyperlocal identity: analyzing culture, design choices, and Steam reception in Gaucho and the Grasslands (abstract)

What strategies for enabling flow-critical play can be derived from the game design of Taskmaster? (abstract)

The Prevalence and Co-occurrences of Dark Patterns in Mobile Free-to-Play Games (abstract)

Critical Game Design in Tabletop Roleplaying Games: Applying Two Methods (abstract)

Twenty Years of Design Patterns in Games (abstract)

The endemic intellectual property model of Riot Games (abstract)

Against seamlessness and hedonistic loops: The cases of pause, reflect, resist, and reform, from Interaction Design into games (abstract)

The Trustworthy Knowledge DLC: A Game-Design-Theory Expansion Pack for Public Services (abstract)

No Faces in the Flop Farm: Data Colonialism, Glitchfrastructure, and Affective Solidarity in Minds Beneath Us (abstract)

Pleasure and Intersectionality in Queer Dating-Sims: an Autoethnographic Research-Creation Perspective (abstract)

The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2 (abstract)

On the Mathematics hidden behind games (abstract)

When AI Promises to “Cure” You: Individual Experiences, Systemic Biases, and Community Action for Marginalized Players in Video Games (abstract)

Intersectional Pleasures of Anomie: Helldivers and Democracy at Play (abstract)

Shan-shui Game: Worldbuilding for a Pluriverse Through Relational Game Assets (abstract)

Existential Ethics and Tactical Realism: Sartrean Moral Frameworks in Ready or Not (abstract)

On Eating Without a Face in Arctic Eggs (2024) (abstract)

Glitching Objects as Temporal Mediators: Hyperobject Temporality in NORCO (abstract)

Post-Heroic Play in Social Work Education: Structural Constraint and Impossible Care (abstract)

(Meta)identity: Renegotiating identity through metamodern design in Slay the Princess (abstract)

The Name of Janosik Will Never Perish: Górals Tradition in Game Culture (abstract)

Appalachian Necropolitics within Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Fallout 76 (abstract)

Mancala’s Eco-Conscious Game Design: Which, if any, Qualities of Mancala Bao la Kiswahili Contain Eco-Conscious Qualities Suitable for Adapting into New Games? (abstract)

Arcades on Wheels: The Materiality and Logistics of Itinerant Gaming in Socialist Czechoslovakia (abstract)

Intersectional Pleasures of Imagining non-Western Futures for Tabletop Role Playing Games (abstract)

Distorting Culture: Memetic Play and Pleasures in Analogue Game Remediation (abstract)

What (Meta)Games We Played: Famicon Fandoms and the Politics of Childhood in 1980s Japan (abstract)

Rolling Together: Intergenerational Dungeons & Dragons, Onboarding, and Infrastructures of Care (abstract)

The Civilization of Sid Meier’s Civilization: Player Reception of Change in A Long-Running Game Series (abstract)

Identity Play as Identity Work: Representation, Identity Integration, and Possible Selves in Digital Games (abstract)

Recreational Rage Play: Exploring Frictious Player Engagement with Rage Physics Games (abstract)

Player As Archivist - A Proposed Analysis of Player-centric Video Game Preservation Practice (abstract)

Digital Cardboard Crack: The Gamblification of Digital Card Games (abstract)

Welcome to My Crib: Player Creativity in Animal Crossing (abstract)