Program for Thursday, June 18th: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH: TALK VIEW

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09:00-12:00 WORKSHOP: Towards a Comprehensive Paradigm of Gender and Gaming (Kristine Jørgensen, Mikko Meriläinen, Maria Ruotsalainen, Tom Legierse)

09:00-12:00 WORKSHOP: Thinking inside the Box for Thinking outside the Box (Dorcas Reamonn)

09:30-09:50

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

Marco Jaramillo

09:50-10:10

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

Franciszek Michalski, Karolina Majcherek

10:10-10:30

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

Ecem Berfin Ince, Brando Ratti

10:30-10:50

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

Sarah Thorne

10:50-11:10

Hoarding, Looting, Consuming: Toward an Ecology of Care

Hadi Mehrpouya, Robin Sloan

09:30-09:50

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

Eugenio Triana

09:50-10:10

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

Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin

10:10-10:30

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

Merlyn Seller

10:30-10:50

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

Natalia Corbello

09:30-09:50

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

Tushya Sachan, Dinesh Chhabra

09:50-10:10

Is gameplay fun after all? Queer Indigenous resistances through gameplay

Leandro Wallace

10:10-10:30

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

Mike Hyslop Graham

10:30-10:50

From Play to Idols: How Superfans Shape Esports Ecologies

Mo Jia

10:50-11:10

Bridging Generations Through Play: Elderly Gamers and Identity Formation

Vasil Arangelov

09:30-09:50

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

Argyrios Emmanouloudis, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen

09:50-10:10

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

Robin Zingarelli, Kristian A. Bjørkelo

10:10-10:30

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

Adeline Piercy, Pb Berge

10:30-10:50

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

Shu Wang, Hao Sun

10:50-11:10

Repeated pleasures: Motivations for replaying story-driven games

Koji Yoshimura, Philippe Chauveau

09:30-09:50

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

Corine Gerritsen, Bettina Bódi

09:50-10:10

Pleasure Not For Everyone: Epistemic Injustice Towards Ukrainian Game Studies

Mark Maletska, Kseniia Harshina

10:10-10:30

Video Games and Minoritized Language Revitalization: The Galician Case

Laura Linares

10:30-10:50

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

Milly Gunn

10:50-11:10

Nostalgic Ludopopulism and Neoreactionary Movements in Game Development

James Malazita

09:30-09:50

Beyond the Video Game Nasties: Censorship and the Online Safety Act

Andra Ivanescu

09:50-10:10

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

Scott Knight, Jakub Majewski

10:10-10:30

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

S. Krawczyk, R.T. Nørgård, K. Holflod, M. Groen, P. Lopes

10:30-10:50

Towards a Political Economy of Gamergate

Emma Vossen

10:50-11:10

Swinging Through History: Rope Mechanics in 2D games

Radek Richtr, Barbora Kyseľová

09:30-09:50

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

Gabriela Birnfeld Kurtz, Tarcízio Macedo, Mauricio Wolff Garcia

09:50-10:10

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

Chris Diffin

10:10-10:30

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

Zhiyu Chen, Minxing Wang, Leon Y. Xiao

10:30-10:50

Critical Game Design in Tabletop Roleplaying Games: Applying Two Methods

J. M. L. Whittington

09:30-09:50

Twenty Years of Design Patterns in Games

Chris Barney, Staffan Björk, Jussi Holopainen

09:50-10:10

The endemic intellectual property model of Riot Games

David Cumming, Joshua Jarrett

10:10-10:30

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

E. Penedos-Santiago, P. Cardoso, P. Sá Couto, M. Carvalhais, F. Fava

10:30-10:50

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

Yuantong Yun, Xinyu Kang

10:50-11:10

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

Alice Bi

12:00-13:00 Keynote - Troy

14:00-14:20

Pleasure and Intersectionality in Queer Dating-Sims: an Autoethnographic Research-Creation

Kevser Güngör, Lisa Schwencke

14:20-14:40

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

Luna Loganayagam, Samuel Pizelo

14:40-15:00

On the Mathematics hidden behind games

Yannick Rochat, Sophie Bémelmans

15:00-15:20

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

Xinyu Kang, Yuantong Yun

14:00-14:20

Intersectional Pleasures of Anomie: Helldivers and Democracy at Play

Edward Smith

14:20-14:40

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

Haoran Chang

14:40-15:00

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

Yi Rong, Jiaqi Li

14:00-14:20

On Eating Without a Face in Arctic Eggs (2024)

Eleonora Imbierowicz

14:20-14:40

Glitching Objects as Temporal Mediators: Hyperobject Temporality in NORCO

Maddalena Grattarola

14:40-15:00

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

Christian Voigt

15:00-15:20

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

Katarzyna Matlas

14:00-14:20

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

Tomasz Majkowski, Magdalena Kozyra

14:20-14:40

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

J. M. L. Whittington

14:40-15:00

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

Jack Alexandroff

15:00-15:20

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

Michal Kabát, Juraj Kovalčík, Vojtěch Straka

14:00-14:20

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

Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen, Digdem Sezen

14:20-14:40

Distorting Culture: Memetic Play and Pleasures in Analogue Game Remediation

Valerio Moccia

14:00-14:20

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

Keita Moore

14:20-14:40

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

Chelsea Russell, Michael Nixon

14:40-15:00

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

Angus Mol, Aris Politopoulos, Sybille Lammes

15:00-15:20

Identity Play as Identity Work: Representation, Identity Integration, and Possible Selves in Digital

Paige Safyer, Zach Pino

14:00-14:20

Recreational Rage Play: Exploring Frictious Player Engagement with Rage Physics Games

Bryn Shaffer

14:20-14:40

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

John Paul Vargheese, Iain Donald, Rachel Salzano

14:40-15:00

Digital Cardboard Crack: The Gamblification of Digital Card Games

Ying-Ying Law, Cameron Vanloo

15:00-15:20

Welcome to My Crib: Player Creativity in Animal Crossing

Amanda Curtis

16:00-17:30 DiGRA Annual General Meeting and Conference Closing

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break