DIGRA2026: DIGITAL GAMES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2026: INTERSECTIONAL PLEASURES

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Abatangelo, Romi Sofia	Reshaping Failure: The Design of Hospites Teatro’s Theatre Games
Abramovic, Boris	A Ludic PSY AI-Game-Engine for Utopia: Exploring Pl[AI] for a Viable Future
Agarwal, Himadri	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
Aksay, Kübra	Playable Returns: Seriality and Medium-Specific Aesthetics in Videogame Remakes and Demakes
Alexandroff, Jack	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?
Almo, André	From Play to Poetics: Reconfiguring Pleasure through Defamiliarisation in Game Poems
Alonge, Andrea Giaime	To Play (or Not to Play) the Nakba. Representing the First Arab-Israeli War in Historical Boardgames
Alvarenga, Thais	Designing Virtual Reality Games About Grief: Reflections from Psychology and Healthcare Professionals
Amadori, Gaia	Pleased to play, paid to please: memory commodification within Roblox’s creator economy “It’s Just a Hoax”: Climate Change Denial in Civilization VI’s Reddit Communities
Anderson, Austin	Racial Recursivity as Critical Race Game Studies Methodology
Anderson, Craig	How General Game Expertise Shapes Player Experience and Problem-Solving Across Different Onboarding Approaches in a Puzzle Video Game
Anglada Pujol, Ona	Representation, Resistance, and Moderation: The Politics of Review Bombing in Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Apperley, Thomas	The Institutionalization of the Nokia N-Gage as a National Symbol: From Corporate and Fan Heritage to Public Cultural Heritage
Apperley, Tom	Douchebag Games: White Grievance and Reactionary Identity Formation in the Xbox Era
Aranda, Daniel	Perceptions among the youth on the use (or abuse) of dark patterns
Arangelov, Vasil	Bridging Generations Through Play: Elderly Gamers and Identity Formation
Argo Chávez, Mary Anne	Nostalgia-play in Chilean tabletop role-playing communities: Reflections to analyse game practices in a global north-global south dialogue.
Arnedo-Moreno, Joan	Perceptions among the youth on the use (or abuse) of dark patterns
Arrias Weiller, Thais	It’s all a skinner box? Typical core loop and Operant Conditioning How to Play Academia: Conceptual and methodological observations
Arroyo, Hazel	Neighborhood Making of Story Games: Accessible Joy in Low-Tech Design
Asensio Casasús, Pol	Exploring Critical Utopian Gaming Pedagogy in a youth club in Barcelona
Augustyniak, Konrad	Diegetic Pleasure: Multimodal Immersion and Emotional Engagement in Escape Rooms When Space Becomes Cardboard: Rethinking Escape Room Narratives in Tabletop Games
Austin, Hailey	Asymmetric Play in a Competitive Landscape: Attitudes and Fairness
Aydinlik, Burcak	Pixelated Ideology: Hegemonic Intermediality in Video Games
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Bagnall, Gaynor	Feeling with, or Feeling like? Empathy, Identification, and the Pleasures of Self-Reflection in Story-Driven Games
Barkman, Cassandra	The Playful Pleasures of the Videogame Detective Board
Barnabé, Fanny	Playing (with) Toxicity and Irony on Twitch: The ambiguous case of the “Court of the Bans”
Barney, Chris	Twenty Years of Design Patterns in Games
Barroso, Diego	The "Chinese" Non-city: Thematic (in)coherence and level design in Sifu The final frontier of space in video games. Spatio-narrative design in Judgment by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Bell, Andrew	Making Monsters: Embodying Queerness in Game Development Decentralising Queer Game Studies: The British Situation
Bellaard, Fabian	Games analysis, Transforming Pixels into Plates: Harnessing Game Strategies for Sustainable Food Practices.
Belmonte Ávila, Juan Francisco	Female Machamp, Male Lopunny, and Bearded Dragon Gym Leaders Who May Like it Rough: Identarian Openness in Pokémon
Bendig, Cullan	The Social Production of Space Between Global Play and Local Production in Southern European Digital Games
Bennerstedt, Ulrika	Pleasure Under Pressure: Laughter, Learning, and Competitive Play in Professional Wargaming
Berge, Pb	Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic
Bi, Alice	No Faces in the Flop Farm: Data Colonialism, Glitchfrastructure, and Affective Solidarity in Minds Beneath Us
Bicker, Gordon Graham	Asymmetric Play in a Competitive Landscape: Attitudes and Fairness
Birnfeld Kurtz, Gabriela	Brazilian Indie games and hyperlocal identity: analyzing culture, design choices, and Steam reception in Gaucho and the Grasslands
Björk, Staffan	Twenty Years of Design Patterns in Games
Bjørkelo, Kristian A.	“They managed to make lesbians unattractive”: anti-woke activism in No Alphabets mod in Baldur’s Gate 3
Blakey, Heather	A glossary of haunted games
Blamey, Courtney	Why We Can’t Rely on GDC Talks: Accountability in Developer Intent
Blanco, Beatriz	“This industry has ruined me”: categorizing the experiences of Brazilian feminist gaming streamers through an intersectional approach
Blom, Joleen	The Husbando Super-App: Troubling “Player Investment” with Love and Deepspace
Booij, Sophia	Collections Educator or Game Designer? Why not both?
Boudreau, Kelly	Global Games Education Now: Regional Realities and Pedagogical Innovations My Cozy Hero: How Cozy Games Challenge Conventional Hero Dynamics
Bourscheid, Daeana Paula	Working Conditions and Mental Health among Professionals with Disabilities in Brazilian Video Game Production
Bowman, Dean	Killing them Softly: Exploring the Contradictory Pleasures of Cosy Detective Videogames
Bowman, Nicholas	"Identifying with a character" but "embodying an avatar": Differentiating relationships between players and their on-screen representations in video games
Brandis, Rüdiger	The Influence of Historical Theory on Historical Game’s Design
Brandstetter, Thomas	LLM Roleplay Re-introduces Omissions to Collective Memory Analysing Historical Distortion in Large Language Model Roleplay
Brückner, Maximilian	Between Diverse Industry and Game Characters - An Analysis of Tool-based Representation Design How to Play Academia: Conceptual and methodological observations
Butler, Will	An exploration of methods for preserving live-service videogames: the role and responsibility of the developer-curator “Shut up and let us make the game” Game developers, preserving games, and the dynamics of corporate governance
Byers, Thomas	Time in Digital Games: A Comparative Map of Temporal Constructs Temporal Features and Player Values: A Means-Ends Account of Time in Digital Play
Bémelmans, Sophie	“We found another Swiss Game !” Reflexive Epistemology of Enthusiasm and Methodological Nationalism in Local Game Histories On the Mathematics hidden behind games
Bódi, Bettina	Cultivating History: Gender, Power, and Reflection in Cozy Botanical Games Veggie Vigilantes: Queering Crime Tropes in Cosy Comedy Games
Böhm, Ondřej	Child Safety in Platform Gaming: Balancing Protection and Freedom
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Calderara, Diego	Fun on the Eastern Front: Chris Crawford and the Pleasure of Early Digital Wargames
Campbell, Andrew	Digital Gaming, Disability, and Social Capital: Understanding Intersectional Pleasures and Community Formation
Cao, Qi	How Can an Unfinished Multiplayer Networking Scheme Produce Pleasure? XBAND as an Affective Infrastructure
Caracciolo, Marco	Mythic Alternatives: Mythological Mechanics Beyond Violence
Cardoso, Pedro	Against seamlessness and hedonistic loops: The cases of pause, reflect, resist, and reform, from Interaction Design into games The Invisibility of Women Streamers in Game Studies
Carpenter, Zack	How General Game Expertise Shapes Player Experience and Problem-Solving Across Different Onboarding Approaches in a Puzzle Video Game
Carter, Marcus	Understanding Game Monetization in China from a Gameworker Perspective
Carvalhais, Miguel	Against seamlessness and hedonistic loops: The cases of pause, reflect, resist, and reform, from Interaction Design into games
Chan, Mun Kuan	The Pleasurable Stress of the VRAVG Beat Saber: A Mixed-Methods Study
Chang, Hao	Constructing Civilizations: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Fictional Languages in Chants of Sennaar
Chang, Haoran	Body and Game: Making and Playing a Game in Daoism Shan-shui Game: Worldbuilding for a Pluriverse Through Relational Game Assets
Chauveau, Philippe	Repeated pleasures: Motivations for replaying story-driven games
Chee, Florence	Moneyball, but for kids: Games as vehicles for predatory prediction markets
Chen, Kaxin	I Play, Therefore I Identify: A Fan Study of Character Attachment in Honor of Kings
Chen, Vivian Hsueh Hua	An Exploration of Cozy Games as Coping Mechanism to Manage Mental Well-being
Chen, Yanyu	Constructing Civilizations: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Fictional Languages in Chants of Sennaar
Chen, Zhiyu	The Prevalence and Co-occurrences of Dark Patterns in Mobile Free-to-Play Games
Chen, Zihan	From Player-Centered to Agent-Centered: A New Paradigm for Interactive Narrative in the Age of Large Language Models
Chhabra, Dinesh	The Joy of Exploration: A Qualitative Study of Temporal Changes in Player Experiences
Chiappa, Giorgio	A History of Non-Violence. Symbiosis and Care Work in L.O.L.: Lack of Love and Spiritfarer
Chiasson, Sonia	Game as Inquiry: An Diffractive and Experimental Approach to Designing and Evaluating Games with a Message
Chiorean, Maria	Rendering Romania. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Othering in Video Games
Cicholewski, Alena	"Arctictopia" and its Cozy, Casual Climate Catastrophe
Citko-Duplantis, Malgorzata	China’s Game on Ancient Japan: Pleasure, Identity, and Poetry from “Man’yōshū” in “Genshin Impact”
Cohen, Eliya	Transparency Isn't Enough: How Ordinary Features of Games Contribute to Exploitative Monetization Applied ethics techniques for video game ethics
Collins, Rhianedd	Co-Producing Play of the Past in the Present: Intergenerational Community Connection through Historical Video Games
Consalvo, Mia	My Cozy Hero: How Cozy Games Challenge Conventional Hero Dynamics
Consalvo, Mia	Global Games Education Now: Regional Realities and Pedagogical Innovations
Conti, Leonardo	Defining Single-player Video Games NPC Societies: An Ethnographic Approach
Cooke, Lydia	Multilayered Queerness in Videogames: Mechanics, Aesthetics, Narrative, and Production
Corbello, Natalia	The Transition from Choice to Mastery in Videogame Aesthetics Reading queer autobiographical games through the lens of memory and identity studies
Corcoran, Chloe	Investigating Stakeholder Conflict in Blue Crab Management Using Video Games
Costalunga, Nicola	Community Resilience and Nostalgia: the case of the Metal Slug saga
Couture, Meagan	Neighborhood Making of Story Games: Accessible Joy in Low-Tech Design
Crawford, Garry	Feeling with, or Feeling like? Empathy, Identification, and the Pleasures of Self-Reflection in Story-Driven Games
Croasdale, Alison	Valuable Childhoods: Nostalgia, Intersectionalities, and Vintage Game Fairs
Cumming, David	The endemic intellectual property model of Riot Games Modernities of authenticity in recreated online digital games: A comparative case study
Curtis, Amanda	Welcome to My Crib: Player Creativity in Animal Crossing
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Das, Soham	Intention, Interpretation, and the Sensory Life of Queerness: Reading Reception in Bioware’s Dragon Age Games
Davis, Logan	Nostalgic Development Practices: Fantasy Consoles and DIY Game Engines
Dawson, Finn	A World to Build: World-building and Capitalism in Games
De La Hera, Teresa	Games analysis, Transforming Pixels into Plates: Harnessing Game Strategies for Sustainable Food Practices.
De Paoli, Stefano	The Assemblage of Peripheral Game Development: A Case Study of Dundee
De Paula, Bruno	Valuable Childhoods: Nostalgia, Intersectionalities, and Vintage Game Fairs
DeAnda, Michael	And the Crops Withered: Designing TTRPGs To Enliven Myths
Delaere, Matthieu	The Impact of Evolving Character Customization on Emotional Engagement and Player Behaviour in RPGs
Demleitner, Adrian	The Hamster Wheel of Terror - Gambling Ludemes and Game Loops from Hell in CloverPit The Liminal Capacity of Code - Connecting Developer Intentions and Player Experience in Early Video Games
Demmer, Theresa Rahel	Pleasure in Play: Hyperscanning Shared Card Game Experience
Dhamelia, Malay	Are Themes Really Conceit? A Semiotic Proposal Navigating the Sacred Magic Circle: Ritual, Play, and the Urban Transformation of a City into a Magic Circle
Di Leo, Nadia	From Checklists to Playability: A systematic mapping of player reviews to the Game Accessibility Guidelines
Dickey, Briar	Procedural Praxis: Making and Thinking Antifascism Through Games
Diffin, Chris	What strategies for enabling flow-critical play can be derived from the game design of Taskmaster?
Ding, Leyi	“No Way, Did You See That Move?”: Constructing the Entertaining Spectacle in Game Live Streaming
Dobczyński, Oskar	Flanki: Drinking Games and Traditions of Students at AGH University of Kraków
Donald, Iain	Grand Theft Auto: National Identity, Transnational Production, and the Ambivalent Politics of Play Player As Archivist - A Proposed Analysis of Player-centric Video Game Preservation Practice Myth, Memory, and the Melting Pot: Anti-Imperialism in Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2
Dong, Yue	Why Do They Stay Home? The Dual Structure of Identity and Constraints in Offline Esports Consumption
Dufour, Florent	Graphonauts: Introducing a Hybrid Human–AI Pipeline for Text-to-Game Transformation via Knowledge Graphs
Dulic, Aleksandra	The Absent Teacher in Eco-Games: A Theoretical Framework for Teacher Integration in Eco-Games From Resource to Kin: Designing for Environmental Resilience in the Okanagan Re-evaluating the Pursuit of Hyper-Realism in Virtual Reality Game Design through the Lens of Ludo proprioceptive Dissonance
Dunkel, William	Schrödinger’s Feminist Cat: The Positional Feminism of Five Hearts Under One Roof
Dwyer, Lyne	Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
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Earl, Maia	For the Trees: Envisioning Sustainable Futures Through Ecomodded Minecraft
Edwards, Ruby	Dungeons and Dissonance: Coherence in GLAM Games
Eggel, Ruth	From Pixels to Planet: How Game Makers Strive for Planetary Impact Beyond the Magic Circle
Egliston, Ben	Understanding Game Monetization in China from a Gameworker Perspective
El Mir, Hanine	Make Games No One Wants to Play
Elvig, Markus	How do we afford gaming? a history of affordances and its ‘player’
Emmanouloudis, Argyrios	An Exploration of Cozy Games as Coping Mechanism to Manage Mental Well-being
Escanero, Udbela	Disco Elysium: Existential Reflection within Crisis Playing with Existence: Values in Post-Apocalyptic Gameworlds
Eshgarf, Nasim	How General Game Expertise Shapes Player Experience and Problem-Solving Across Different Onboarding Approaches in a Puzzle Video Game
Espinosa Ospina, Laura	Designing vulnerability: Framework, design, and evaluation of a serious game depicting victims of domestic abuse
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Falkenberg, Anika	Playing As More Than Just a Continent: Representation of Southeast Asia in Video Games
Fan, Flint Xiaofeng	Why Do We Suffer for Fun? Ordeal Pleasure in Souls-like Games
Fava, Fabricio	Against seamlessness and hedonistic loops: The cases of pause, reflect, resist, and reform, from Interaction Design into games
Felczak, Mateusz	Imbalanced Pleasures? System Design and Social Rules in the Survivors-like Game Megabonk
Feliu, Joel	Beyond necessity and passion: Crunch as a habitus in the field of video game production
Feller, Solène	The Sumerian Game: Study of the construction, use and reception of foreign past imaginaries in video games
Feng, Fanxi	Playing Home: Gaming Practices and Imagined Communities among Chinese Overseas Students Gacha Game Collaborations and the Production of Affective Legitimacy
Ferreira, Emmanoel	Between Punches and Flying Attacks: Ludonarrative Imaginaries in 1980s Beat ’em Up Games Counterfeit Circuits: Decolonial Practices and the Rise of Video Games in Brazil
Fillies, Jan	Graphonauts: Introducing a Hybrid Human–AI Pipeline for Text-to-Game Transformation via Knowledge Graphs
Fizek, Sonia	From Pixels to Planet: How Game Makers Strive for Planetary Impact Beyond the Magic Circle
Fousek Krobová, Tereza	Balancing In/formality within the Brno Video Game Industry Ecosystem
Foxman, Maxwell	Playing with the Past: The Pleasures of Nostalgic Design with Playdate
Freitas, Camila	Aiōn and Digital Play: Toward a Cosmo-Phenomenological Approach
Friman, Usva	Localized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Solutions in Game Culture Environments Intersectional Pleasures and Limits of Game Cultural Participation and Belonging
Froń, Eryk	Buy, build, live: The Sims’ American Dream, neoliberal utopia and its impact on city design
Fuchs, Mathias	Tacky Games
Fujiwara, Hitoshi	Intersectional complexity between players and non-players in Bhutan
Furman, Ivo	“Report any Violations”: Compliance Play, Procedural Rhetoric, and Affect in the Beholder Series
Fuławka, Maksymilian	Right click to de-escalate – Call of Duty & turning propaganda into pleasure Buy, build, live: The Sims’ American Dream, neoliberal utopia and its impact on city design
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Gadelkarim, David	The Relationship Between Signs and Context: Semiotic Meaning-Making in Digital Games
Gala, Romina	Producing Games, Reproducing Inequalities: gender and labour in the Argentine Video Game Market. Argentine video games: work processes, production conditions and symbolic disputes from the Global South.
Gallagher, Rob	From the Eudaimonic to the Demonic in Gameplay Narratives Flesh, Plastic, Stone: The Pleasure of Recontextualised Character Models
Galloway, Kate	Soft Worlds, Sonic Seams: How Cozy Games Stitch Sound Design into Musical Score
Gavagnin, Elena	The Pleasure(s) of Griefing: Tracing Multimodal Toxicity in League of Legends
Gerritsen, Corine	Cultivating History: Gender, Power, and Reflection in Cozy Botanical Games Remediations of Japanese Cinema and History in Ghost of Yōtei Cursed Coziness: Cursed Mechanics in Dark Cozy Games Spectating the Samurai: Performing and Preserving History through Twitch
Gibbs, Martin	Time in Digital Games: A Comparative Map of Temporal Constructs Games Against Death
Gil-Juárez, Adriana	Beyond necessity and passion: Crunch as a habitus in the field of video game production
Gislam, Charlotte	Feeling with, or Feeling like? Empathy, Identification, and the Pleasures of Self-Reflection in Story-Driven Games
Glasauer, Stefan	LLM Roleplay Re-introduces Omissions to Collective Memory Analysing Historical Distortion in Large Language Model Roleplay Pleasure in Play: Hyperscanning Shared Card Game Experience
Gomez, Jose	The Assemblage of Peripheral Game Development: A Case Study of Dundee
Gonzales, Yvonne	Queering the Third Place: Dungeons & Dragons at Your Friendly Local Game Store
Gorziglia, Federico	Playing together: analysis of gaming and sociocultural practices in Cooperative Games
Gosling, Victoria	Feeling with, or Feeling like? Empathy, Identification, and the Pleasures of Self-Reflection in Story-Driven Games
Gotzler, Steven	A House Is Not a Home: Queergaming and Recuperative History in Molly House 18XX Forever: Railway Time and Fossil Play on the Tabletop
Grace, Lindsay	Extended Abstract - Intersectional Pleasures: Reframing the Value of BIPOC Game Studies and Production
Grace, Lindsay	Global Games Education Now: Regional Realities and Pedagogical Innovations
Graham, Mike Hyslop	In Mem(e)ory of Uuugggg: Mod-Users’ use of RimWorld’s Steam Workshop as a Memorial Site
Grasmo, Hanne	Queer Resistance Through Sexual Role-play: BDSM Larp, Arousal, and Communal Resistance How to Play Academia: Conceptual and methodological observations
Grattarola, Maddalena	Glitching Objects as Temporal Mediators: Hyperobject Temporality in NORCO
Groen, Maarten	Games with Culture: Using Cultural Heritage as Game-Making Material
Grub, Maria F.	Parasocial Incidental Politics: How Twitch Users Navigate Political Content and Misinformation in Livestreaming Environments
Guardiola, Emmanuel	Designing vulnerability: Framework, design, and evaluation of a serious game depicting victims of domestic abuse
Guenat, Guillaume	“We found another Swiss Game !” Reflexive Epistemology of Enthusiasm and Methodological Nationalism in Local Game Histories Local Times And Temporalities In The Social History Of Play
Gumus, Burcu	From Restoration to Extinction: Intersectional Pleasures in Ecological Game Reception
Gunn, Millicent	The Conjurative Voice of the Player in Escape Rooms: A Framework
Gunn, Milly	Ghost in the Dreamcast: Ludomusical Hauntology and Pleasures of a 90s Cross-Franchise Specter Make it Cuddle, Make it Fight, Market it Pink: Virtual Pets and Affective Economies of Gendered Play
Guo, A	Gaming Behaviours as Windows into Implicit Psychological Needs and Motivations
Guo, Ningxi	Quiet Play: How Desktop Moyu Games Carve Out Enjoyment Inside Workplace
Gutiérrez Carrera, Julián	Representations of Suicide in Computer Games
Görgen, Arno	The Hamster Wheel of Terror - Gambling Ludemes and Game Loops from Hell in CloverPit
Güngör, Kevser	Pleasure and Intersectionality in Queer Dating-Sims: an Autoethnographic Research-Creation Perspective
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Haiven, Max	Three rights to play: Liberal, Fascist, and Compositionist
Hall, Michael	Transfiguring In and Out of Worlds: Archaeological Knowledge as Narrative Video Games
Han, Song	Game-Mechanics Archaeological Method: The Case of Affinity-Mechanism Archaeology
Han, Yisong	Tracing Gender Affordances in Avatar Customization: A Methodological Framework
Hannes Nielsen, Niklas	Exploring VR Shinrin-Yoku Stress Relief: A Comparative Study of Virtual and Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Environments
Hansen, Jared	Hobbyist Developers: Studying Notable Nintendo DS Homebrew Games A Chronicle of Emulation: Proposed Eras for Video Game Emulators
Hao, Yu	Sketch for a Phenomenology of Gameplay (as) Performance: Bodies, Systems, Worlds
Harshina, Kseniia	Pleasure Not For Everyone: Epistemic Injustice Towards Ukrainian Game Studies
Harviainen, J.Tuomas	Queer Resistance Through Sexual Role-play: BDSM Larp, Arousal, and Communal Resistance
Hauff, Jeanette	My Avatar Made Me Buy it: The Interaction of Avatar and User Gender in Shaping Consumer Behaviour
Healy, John P.	Shaping Interactions and Experiences: Investigating the Effects of a Game-Specific Custom Controller on Player Experience in a Digital Game Environment
Heierli, Jasmin	The Pleasure(s) of Griefing: Tracing Multimodal Toxicity in League of Legends
Hemovich, Vanessa	Designing Open Dialogue Systems for LLM-Based NPCs
Herfs, Laurence	Let’s play the ‘refugee crisis’: a postcolonial deconstruction of the refugee in post-2015 European videogames Virtual Reality in the 2020s: Peace Machine or War Machine? The Good VR Machine – postcolonial interventions in empathy, peace and justice
Hewa, Nelanthi	Powered by GameSpy: Theorizing and Analyzing the GameSpy Network As Platform Infrastructure
Hoffmann, Michael	Graphonauts: Introducing a Hybrid Human–AI Pipeline for Text-to-Game Transformation via Knowledge Graphs
Holflod, Kim	Games with Culture: Using Cultural Heritage as Game-Making Material
Holopainen, Jussi	Twenty Years of Design Patterns in Games
Hope, Robyn	More man vs nature mechanics? Exploring romanticized notions of solitude in r/SurvivalGaming
Horn, Benjamin	No Good Endings: The Tragic Pleasure of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Old Pleasures, Dying Flames: Final Fantasy XIV and the Evolution of the MMO Genre
Hosoi, Koichi	Towards a Strategy Using the "Intervention Level Framework" in Japanese Game Archives: Integrating Material and Functional Authenticity Based on Conservation Science
Hosseini, David	Aesthetics of Holarchic Narrative Design: Participatory and Intersectional Pleasures of Game Storyworlds
Houlmont, Pierre-Yves	When Localization Meets Game Design: Strengthening Collaboration Achievement Unlocked: The Art of Localizing Minecraft’s Advancements
Houška, Jan	Balancing In/formality within the Brno Video Game Industry Ecosystem
Howell, Peter	Translating the Game Space Model from Analytic Framework to Practical Methodology for Game Development and Research
Huang, Xiaoxuan	Playable Heritage: Wu Hua Mi Xin as an Interactive Museum within China’s Digital Culture and Museum Development
Huang, Yuchen	Poor Compliance with Loot Box Probability Disclosure and Warning Regulations in Taiwan
Huang, Yuchen	Physical Blind Boxes' Compliance with Information Disclosure Requirements: Exploring the Game-like Nature of Blind Box Consumption in the Chinese Regulatory Context
Huang, Zidong	The final frontier of space in video games. Spatio-narrative design in Judgment by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Hui, Yiheng	Devil, Mecha, Implant：A Media Archaeological Study of ‘Flesh Modification’
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Iantorno, Michael	That’s My Jam: Understanding the Value of Canadian Game Jams
Icarus, Sidney	Dungeons and Dissonance: Coherence in GLAM Games
Imbierowicz, Eleonora	On Eating Without a Face in Arctic Eggs (2024)
Ince, Ecem Berfin	From the Invisible to Glitch: Rethinking the Possibilities of Aesthetics, Bodies, and Connection in Virtual Parties
Israel, Sarita	Between Pleasure and Harm: Transcreating a Serious Game on Older Adult
Ivanescu, Andra	Beyond the Video Game Nasties: Censorship and the Online Safety Act
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Jahrmann, Margarete	LLM Roleplay Re-introduces Omissions to Collective Memory Analysing Historical Distortion in Large Language Model Roleplay A Ludic PSY AI-Game-Engine for Utopia: Exploring Pl[AI] for a Viable Future Pleasure in Play: Hyperscanning Shared Card Game Experience
James, Akhila	Navigating the Sacred Magic Circle: Ritual, Play, and the Urban Transformation of a City into a Magic Circle
Jankowitz, Amanda	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 Play in Context: Adapting Game-Based Learning for African Cultural Frameworks
Jankowski, Filip	Guilty (Un)pleasures: The Reception of Muriel Tramis’s Erotic Trilogy in France and the United Kingdom
Jansen, Dennis	Lifting the Fog of War: Militarism, Colonialism and Encyclopedic Pleasures in Digital Play Virtual Reality in the 2020s: Peace Machine or War Machine?
Jaramillo, Marco	Rethinking City Builders from Latin America: A Cultural Study of Urbek City Builder Competing Otherwise: Latin American Perspectives on Meritocratic Resistance in Competitive Gameplay
Jarrett, Joshua	The endemic intellectual property model of Riot Games Now Your Playing with Graphics Processing Power: Nvidia and the Discursive Pleasure of Artificial Intelligence The domesticating role of memes in esports cultures
Jayemanne, Darshana	The Assemblage of Peripheral Game Development: A Case Study of Dundee
Jedynak, Urszula	The Videogame Aesthetics: On the Interplay of Narrative and Ludic Elements
Jerrett, Adam	Stranger in a Strange Land: A South African Perspective on the Evolution of British Game Development Translating the Game Space Model from Analytic Framework to Practical Methodology for Game Development and Research
Jia, Mo	From Play to Idols: How Superfans Shape Esports Ecologies
Jia, Yizhen	The Infinite Game in the Engine of Control: Proletarianization, Platform Capitalism, and the Future of Playful Pleasure
Jiménez Torras, Dídac	Can independent curated video games teach critical media literacy?
John, Jophin	Graphonauts: Introducing a Hybrid Human–AI Pipeline for Text-to-Game Transformation via Knowledge Graphs
Joseph, Daniel	Moneyball, but for kids: Games as vehicles for predatory prediction markets
Jungman, Heikki	The Institutionalization of the Nokia N-Gage as a National Symbol: From Corporate and Fan Heritage to Public Cultural Heritage
Jura, Malwina	When Space Becomes Cardboard: Rethinking Escape Room Narratives in Tabletop Games
Justicia Villanueva, Jordi	Representation, Resistance, and Moderation: The Politics of Review Bombing in Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Jutkiewicz, Michał	Ecosystems and conflict in environmental themed analog wargames
Juvrud, Joshua	Gaming Across Cultures: Lessons from Sweden and Bhutan on Digital Education
Jørgensen, Kristine	Towards a New Paradigm for Understanding Men and Masculinity in Gaming
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Kabát, Michal	Arcades on Wheels: The Materiality and Logistics of Itinerant Gaming in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Kalantar Hormozi, Yekta	The Multidimensional Spectrum of Abstraction, Realism and Cultural Meaning in Serious Games
Kalmanlehto, Johan	Bodily Pleasures of Repetitive Labour and Rhythm in Finnish Cottage Simulator Intersectional Pleasures and Limits of Game Cultural Participation and Belonging
Kang, Xinyu	The Trustworthy Knowledge DLC: A Game-Design-Theory Expansion Pack for Public Services Haptic Dialects: Translating Pleasure Between Adaptive Controllers and Universal Design for Disabled Players When AI Promises to “Cure” You: Individual Experiences, Systemic Biases, and Community Action for Marginalized Players in Video Games Unruly Forces and Marginalized Pleasures: Exploring Glitch Aesthetics and Agency in Alternative Control Schemes
Karlsen, Faltin	Gameful disconnection: how digital detox and productivity apps blend play, work, and profit
Karwacki, Kacper	It is time to stop painting – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as a dilemma of pleasant fictionality
Kato, Hiloko	Cross-Species Affinities: Agency and the Pleasures of the Weird and Uncanny
Kato, Hiloko	The Pleasure(s) of Griefing: Tracing Multimodal Toxicity in League of Legends
Katz, Ofir	The Braiding Framework: A Semiotic Approach to Engaging and Meaningful Games
Kavaloski, Laini	Cruel Pleasure: Affective Security and Territoriality in Games
Kavanagh, William	Asymmetric Play in a Competitive Landscape: Attitudes and Fairness
Kaygusuz, Erdinç	Diablerie of a Lore: A Comparative Analysis of Gaming Pleasure in Bloodlines and Bloodlines 2
Kennedy, Vee	“My France Hurts:” Rethinking Cultural Odor in Pokémon Legends: Z-A
Keogh, Colin	Embodied Entrepreneurship: Exploring How an Analogue Role-Play Game Develops Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Master’s Engineering Students
Kerich, Chris	Landfill: Designing for Low-Carbon Pleasures
Khoo, Nicole	Misleading omissions of loot box presence disclosures: widespread unfair commercial practices in video game advertising on social media in Ireland and the EU 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?
Kneer, Julia	Games analysis, Transforming Pixels into Plates: Harnessing Game Strategies for Sustainable Food Practices.
Knight, Scott	“The FMV Interval”: The Long Dormant Period of Full Motion Video games 1998 – 2015
Kobenova, Amina	Designing Virtual Reality Games About Grief: Reflections from Psychology and Healthcare Professionals
Koenitz, Hartmut	Global Games Education Now: Regional Realities and Pedagogical Innovations
Koester, Henrike	Through Ruins, Dark Woodlands, White Cities: The Representation of Ancient Landscapes in Video Games
Koide, Chitoko	Towards a Strategy Using the "Intervention Level Framework" in Japanese Game Archives: Integrating Material and Functional Authenticity Based on Conservation Science
Koljonen, Johanna	How to Play Academia: Conceptual and methodological observations
Koppenhagen, Nick	Tarot, Money, and Mnemonics: Histories of Card Games Beyond Quantifiable-outcome Games
Kovalčík, Juraj	Arcades on Wheels: The Materiality and Logistics of Itinerant Gaming in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Kozyra, Magdalena	The Name of Janosik Will Never Perish: Górals Tradition in Game Culture
Kościewicz, Dawid	From Policy to Paradox: Diversity Washing, Policy Failures, and the Limits of Authentic Intersectional Pleasure in the European Video Game Industry
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Kreitler, Melanie	Absent Pleasures, or Pleasure in Absence? Player Engagement in Minimalist Digital Horror Games
Krepki, Daniela Denise	Producing Games, Reproducing Inequalities: gender and labour in the Argentine Video Game Market.
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Kukshinov, Eugene	"Identifying with a character" but "embodying an avatar": Differentiating relationships between players and their on-screen representations in video games
Kurniawan, Sri	Designing Virtual Reality Games About Grief: Reflections from Psychology and Healthcare Professionals
Kuzmenko, Oleksandra	Identity in Gaming: A Study of Player and Non-Player Character Names and Usernames in Single- and Multiplayer Modes
Kuznetsov, Evgeny	Playing with ADHD: Exploring Crip resonances between ADHD and game-making
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Kyster, Lukas	Exploring VR Shinrin-Yoku Stress Relief: A Comparative Study of Virtual and Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Environments
Kämäräinen, Markus	How to Play Academia: Conceptual and methodological observations
Kühnis, Benjamin	The Pleasure(s) of Griefing: Tracing Multimodal Toxicity in League of Legends
Kłosiński, Michał	Mapping eco(politics) in ecogames
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Laakso, Kalle	Game Streaming and Motives of Play Localized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Solutions in Game Culture Environments
Lafontaine, Constance	Between Pleasure and Harm: Transcreating a Serious Game on Older Adult
Laitila, Sebastian	Playing with my imaginary friends: Character art commissions as affective play
Lammes, Sybille	The Civilization of Sid Meier’s Civilization: Player Reception of Change in A Long-Running Game Series
Lankoski, Petri	Monstrous Desires in Pornographic Videogames
Larkin, Rebecca	Duet for Flute and Video Game: A Dynamic System for Co-Op Musical Play
Larsen, Anita	Exploring VR Shinrin-Yoku Stress Relief: A Comparative Study of Virtual and Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Environments
Lasserre, Patricia	The Absent Teacher in Eco-Games: A Theoretical Framework for Teacher Integration in Eco-Games From Resource to Kin: Designing for Environmental Resilience in the Okanagan Re-evaluating the Pursuit of Hyper-Realism in Virtual Reality Game Design through the Lens of Ludo proprioceptive Dissonance
Lattanzio, Val	The Right to Play, The Right to Pleasure
Law, Ying-Ying	Digital Cardboard Crack: The Gamblification of Digital Card Games
Lee, Kyunghyuk	The Reinvention of Hardcore: Authenticity and Identity Among Korean “Real” Gamers
Lee, Sanghyuk	Predicting Trolling Behaviors Using In-Game Timeline Data: Uncovering Divergent Mechanisms Behind AFK and Item Tier-Dropping in MOBA Games
Leino, Olli	Sketch for a Phenomenology of Gameplay (as) Performance: Bodies, Systems, Worlds
Lejoly, Manon	Achievement Unlocked: The Art of Localizing Minecraft’s Advancements
Lepouras, George	Sacred Places: Designing 360° Narrative VR Games for Hybrid Use in CAVE and Mobile HMD Setups
Levy, Caleb	Play as Preservation: Folklore and Mythology in The Mooseman
Li, Jiaqi	Existential Ethics and Tactical Realism: Sartrean Moral Frameworks in Ready or Not
Liang, Boyang	Pleasures Under Pressure: Misogyny, Moral Outrage, and Creative Contraction in Contemporary Chinese Game Culture Playing anachronisme in Time: Towards the Ludobiography in the Context of Chinese Indie Games
Lima, Luciana	The Invisibility of Women Streamers in Game Studies
Lin, Yin-Shan	The Absent Teacher in Eco-Games: A Theoretical Framework for Teacher Integration in Eco-Games Re-evaluating the Pursuit of Hyper-Realism in Virtual Reality Game Design through the Lens of Ludo proprioceptive Dissonance
Linares, Laura	Video Games and Minoritized Language Revitalization: The Galician Case
Liu, Eva	Forms of self-reflexivity in team hero shooters and beyond
Liu, Shuai	How to be Non-Human : A Thematic Analysis of Animal Embodiment in VR Games
Liu, Wenzi	Lightweight Rituals and Player Belonging in Video Games: The "Sacrifice Flow" in Stardew Valley Community Center Reconstruction
Liu, Xingyan	Close-Playing War Trauma: The Tension Between Agency and Inevitability in My Child Lebensborn and Bury Me, My Love
Liu, Yi	Playing anachronisme in Time: Towards the Ludobiography in the Context of Chinese Indie Games
Livesey-Stephens, Beatrix	The Assemblage of Peripheral Game Development: A Case Study of Dundee
Lo, Ching Yiu	Physical Blind Boxes' Compliance with Information Disclosure Requirements: Exploring the Game-like Nature of Blind Box Consumption in the Chinese Regulatory Context
Loganayagam, Luna	The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2
Long, Chen	Unlocking Pleasure: The Material Politics of "Backdoors" in Chinese Console Gaming
Lopes, Paula	Games with Culture: Using Cultural Heritage as Game-Making Material
Love, Lynn	The Assemblage of Peripheral Game Development: A Case Study of Dundee
Lovell, P. George	Asymmetric Play in a Competitive Landscape: Attitudes and Fairness
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Lu, Yiying	Constructing Civilizations: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Fictional Languages in Chants of Sennaar
Luif, Georg	A Ludic PSY AI-Game-Engine for Utopia: Exploring Pl[AI] for a Viable Future Pleasure in Play: Hyperscanning Shared Card Game Experience
Luz, Filipe	When a Game Is More Than 'Just a Game': Metanarrative Integration Tools in Video Games
Lynagh, Martin	The Assemblage of Peripheral Game Development: A Case Study of Dundee
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Macedo, Tarcízio	Brazilian Indie games and hyperlocal identity: analyzing culture, design choices, and Steam reception in Gaucho and the Grasslands
Maglio, Nicholas	Examining Jank as Design Through Casual Gameplay
Magnuson, Jordan	From Play to Poetics: Reconfiguring Pleasure through Defamiliarisation in Game Poems
Maier-Zucchino, E. Jules	“Default” Leadership – Critiquing Normative Leader Identities in Single-Player Videogames
Majcherek, Karolina	Winter is gaming: study of gamers' habits throughout the year
Majewski, Jakub	“The FMV Interval”: The Long Dormant Period of Full Motion Video games 1998 – 2015
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Maletska, Mark	Pleasure Not For Everyone: Epistemic Injustice Towards Ukrainian Game Studies Intersectional Pleasures and Limits of Game Cultural Participation and Belonging Queer Games Studies Material Turn: Centering Trans Bodies in Video Games
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Manning Graham, Rory	Tracing the political economy of the "microgame"
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Marriott, Tanya	Docugame design for Conservation: Designing The Moose of Fiordland biopic game.
Marín-Rubio, Kevin	Exploring Critical Utopian Gaming Pedagogy in a youth club in Barcelona
Masek, Leland	The Pleasurable Stress of the VRAVG Beat Saber: A Mixed-Methods Study
Masetto Lima, Thiago	FINAL BOSS: Videogame as a Technology of Geopolitical Cultural Power
Matencio Duran, David	Portraying Unfavorable Sociocultural Circumstances Through the Videoludic Picaresque Female Machamp, Male Lopunny, and Bearded Dragon Gym Leaders Who May Like it Rough: Identarian Openness in Pokémon
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Matovinovic, Nikolas	Monstera pocketii: The Botanical Vitality of Pokémon
Maycock, Heather	Death-Themed Games and Playing the "Good Death"
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Mc Donald, Lynda	How Accessible QTE Inputs Reshape Suspense Trajectories in Survival Horror
McCready, Samuel	WoW gets Trumped: Politics and Play in Azeroth during the Trump Era
McDonald, Rosemary	For the Trees: Envisioning Sustainable Futures Through Ecomodded Minecraft
McGuinness, Greg	Disclosure and the “Secret Underground Movement” - Analysing Queerness in Disco Elysium and its Place in the Quotidian
McKee, Kieran	Designing Open Dialogue Systems for LLM-Based NPCs
McKeown, Conor	What Now? Ecogames after Missed Climate Targets Democratizing Interactive Filmmaking: A No-Code Solution for Arts Students
McKeown, Will	Hauntecology: Arboreal Pleasures as represented in Elden Ring (2021)
McLean, James	Killing them Softly: Exploring the Contradictory Pleasures of Cosy Detective Videogames
Meades, Alan	Selling the American Dream: U.S. Gold, Intersectional Pleasures, and the Ludoindustrial Complex
Mehrpouya, Hadi	Hoarding, Looting, Consuming: Toward an Ecology of Care
Mejía-Alandia, Diego A	The Post-Socialist Road Trip: Nostalgia, Labor, and Migration in 'Jalopy'
Mekler, Elisa	Six Positive Words for Talking about Theory in Games Research (in Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity)
Melcer, Edward	Game as Inquiry: An Diffractive and Experimental Approach to Designing and Evaluating Games with a Message
Meriläinen, Mikko	Game Streaming and Motives of Play Towards a New Paradigm for Understanding Men and Masculinity in Gaming
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Michalski, Franciszek	Winter is gaming: study of gamers' habits throughout the year
Mitchell, Alex	Close-Playing War Trauma: The Tension Between Agency and Inevitability in My Child Lebensborn and Bury Me, My Love
Moccia, Valerio	Distorting Culture: Memetic Play and Pleasures in Analogue Game Remediation
Mochocki, Michal	The Convergence of Historical Game Design and Digital Heritage
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Moldes-Rivas, Violeta	Exploring Critical Utopian Gaming Pedagogy in a youth club in Barcelona
Monaco, Daniele	The Place of the Marginalized: Witchers and Dwelling in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Moore, Keita	What (Meta)Games We Played: Famicon Fandoms and the Politics of Childhood in 1980s Japan
Moran, Jacqueline	The Hero with a Thousand Misattributions: Scrutinizing the Hero's Journey in Videogame Discourse
Mroczek, Krzysztof	Hussars of Might and Magic: The Influence of Gaming Media on Polish Gaming Canons
Mukherjee, Adrija	Game Parlours or Incidental Etchings? Material Traces of Incised Boardgames in Ancient South Asian Communal Spaces.
Munker, Ines	Queercrip Mythmaking in Contemporary Role-Playing Games
Murphy, David	Now Your Playing with Graphics Processing Power: Nvidia and the Discursive Pleasure of Artificial Intelligence
Murphy, Dooley	Six Positive Words for Talking about Theory in Games Research (in Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity)
Murányi, Zoltán	How time flies! A flow-driven design framework for educational games
Myöhänen, Taina	Localized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Solutions in Game Culture Environments
Möring, Sebastian	Artistic In-Game Photography as Media of Care
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Nae, Andrei	Artificial Pleasures and Ideological Subjectivation in Video Games: The Function of Positive Artefact Emotions in the Naturalisation of Ideology
Nagarajan, Ashwin	Designing Virtual Reality Games About Grief: Reflections from Psychology and Healthcare Professionals
Nansen, Bjørn	Time in Digital Games: A Comparative Map of Temporal Constructs
Navarro-Remesal, Victor	Between Punches and Flying Attacks: Ludonarrative Imaginaries in 1980s Beat ’em Up Games
Nawrocki, Maciej	The Ludic Narrator: Towards a New Typology
Newman, Michele	Loyalty vs. Heresy: Kitbashing and Materiality Negotiation in Tabletop Games
Nguyen, Anh-Thu	Far from Complete Compliance: Loot Box Prevalence, Probability Disclosure, and Kompu Gacha Policy in Japanese Mobile Games
Nikolov, Ivan	Exploring VR Shinrin-Yoku Stress Relief: A Comparative Study of Virtual and Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Environments
Nilsson, Jonas	My Avatar Made Me Buy it: The Interaction of Avatar and User Gender in Shaping Consumer Behaviour
Nixon, Michael	Rolling Together: Intergenerational Dungeons & Dragons, Onboarding, and Infrastructures of Care
Nolan, Kieran	Selling the American Dream: U.S. Gold, Intersectional Pleasures, and the Ludoindustrial Complex
Nygaard Petersen, Anton	Exploring VR Shinrin-Yoku Stress Relief: A Comparative Study of Virtual and Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Environments
Nylund, Niklas	The Institutionalization of the Nokia N-Gage as a National Symbol: From Corporate and Fan Heritage to Public Cultural Heritage
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O'Regan, Wren	The Assemblage of Peripheral Game Development: A Case Study of Dundee
Obana, Takashi	Towards a Strategy Using the "Intervention Level Framework" in Japanese Game Archives: Integrating Material and Functional Authenticity Based on Conservation Science
Oliva Rota, Mercè	Representation, Resistance, and Moderation: The Politics of Review Bombing in Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Olszamowski, Krzysztof	Hussars of Might and Magic: The Influence of Gaming Media on Polish Gaming Canons
Onampally, Jerry Joseph	Play, Faith, and Inclusion: Community Games as Tools for Learning, Expression, and Intersectional Pleasure in Catechism Education among Catholic Students
Orchard, Ane	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 Play in Context: Adapting Game-Based Learning for African Cultural Frameworks
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Pan, Gang	Videogame Spatial Cinematics: Towards an Interdisciplinary Framework for Analysing Spatial Cinematic Environments in Contemporary Games
Pan, Huajing	Games and the Posthuman Condition: How game design represents memory and identity through embodied experience From Hopscotch to Digital Games: The Pleasure and Dilemma of Interactivity
Pan, Xin	How Streaming Facilitates Affective Transformation: A Case Study of Horror Game Spectatorship Rethinking Ludic Pleasure from an Object-oriented Perspective
Park, Solip	Desired but Also Undesired: Immigrant Game Workers in Between the Discourse of Labour Shortage and Anti-Immigration in Finland The Foreigner, The Joker: Dual Identity of Migrant Game Industry Workers in South Korea
Park, Sujin	“Remembering Play” Beyond Retro: An Analysis of YouTube Videos and Comment Data on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in South Korea
Paschke, Adrian	Graphonauts: Introducing a Hybrid Human–AI Pipeline for Text-to-Game Transformation via Knowledge Graphs
Paul, Anil T	Play, Faith, and Inclusion: Community Games as Tools for Learning, Expression, and Intersectional Pleasure in Catechism Education among Catholic Students
Paul, Christopher	Football Without Fans: Are Matches Just for Gambling?
Pelowski, Matthew	Pleasure in Play: Hyperscanning Shared Card Game Experience
Pelurson, Gaspard	The Texture of Play: Feeling Your Way Through Teaching with Games
Penedos-Santiago, Eliana	Against seamlessness and hedonistic loops: The cases of pause, reflect, resist, and reform, from Interaction Design into games
Peng, Jiamin	Intersectional Pleasures: An Empirical Study of Embodied Emotions in Video Games
Pennington, Michael	Remediations of Japanese Cinema and History in Ghost of Yōtei Spectating the Samurai: Performing and Preserving History through Twitch
Perse, Jack	Playing with the Past: The Pleasures of Nostalgic Design with Playdate
Pham, Van Thien	Presentation of age(ing) and elderly people in digital games: The Pokémon game series
Phelps, Andrew	Global Games Education Now: Regional Realities and Pedagogical Innovations My Cozy Hero: How Cozy Games Challenge Conventional Hero Dynamics
Piercy, Adeline	Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic
Pino, Zach	Identity Play as Identity Work: Representation, Identity Integration, and Possible Selves in Digital Games
Pinto, Filipe	When a Game Is More Than 'Just a Game': Metanarrative Integration Tools in Video Games
Pirker, Johanna	The Pleasure(s) of Griefing: Tracing Multimodal Toxicity in League of Legends
Pizelo, Samuel	The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2
Poirier-Poulin, Samuel	Introducing The Comet Cock, a Murderous AI Dating Sim
Pojoga, Vlad	Rendering Romania. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Othering in Video Games
Politopoulos, Aris	The Civilization of Sid Meier’s Civilization: Player Reception of Change in A Long-Running Game Series Making the Past Count: Developing quantitative measures for past-player experience
Poothullil, Mathew Martin	Play, Faith, and Inclusion: Community Games as Tools for Learning, Expression, and Intersectional Pleasure in Catechism Education among Catholic Students
Portos Minetti, Manon	Cursed Coziness: Cursed Mechanics in Dark Cozy Games
Prax, Patrick	Making Games Sustainable – One Short Story at the Time "Gotta kill 'em all!" – A Game about Billionaires and Climate Obstruction
Psaila, Paul	Deceptive Design in VR Games: Lies that invite Surprise and Pleasure
Pyke, Tegan	Let’s Play The Sims: The Un(der)studied Women’s Origins of a Media Format
Płachta, Michał	Neurodivergent Pleasures in Game Environmental Design
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Quan, Lihua	Why Do They Stay Home? The Dual Structure of Identity and Constraints in Offline Esports Consumption
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Raeiro, Inês	My Avatar Made Me Buy it: The Interaction of Avatar and User Gender in Shaping Consumer Behaviour
Ramos-Nolazco, Jesús Alejandro	Visual Representation of Alternative Masculinities in a Mexican Gaymer Group’s Instagram Presence
Randle, Oluwarotimi	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 Play in Context: Adapting Game-Based Learning for African Cultural Frameworks
Ratti, Brando	Community Resilience and Nostalgia: the case of the Metal Slug saga From the Invisible to Glitch: Rethinking the Possibilities of Aesthetics, Bodies, and Connection in Virtual Parties
Reardon, Lachlan	‘Perhapsing’ Through Collaborative Play: The Neighborhood that Once Was and Could Be.
Reinhold Schøler, Nicolai	Exploring VR Shinrin-Yoku Stress Relief: A Comparative Study of Virtual and Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Environments
Ren, Xiaoyao	Physical Blind Boxes' Compliance with Information Disclosure Requirements: Exploring the Game-like Nature of Blind Box Consumption in the Chinese Regulatory Context
Reshi, Amreen	How General Game Expertise Shapes Player Experience and Problem-Solving Across Different Onboarding Approaches in a Puzzle Video Game
Richtr, Radek	Swinging Through History: Rope Mechanics in 2D games
Ricketts, Jude	Algorithmic Imperialism in the Architecture of NLP Agents and Play
Rimaz, Loris	“Perhaps, this is Hell”: Descent Narratives in Video Games Descent Into Video Games
Risley, Kristina	The Multidimensional Spectrum of Abstraction, Realism and Cultural Meaning in Serious Games
Rochat, Yannick	On the Mathematics hidden behind games
Rockett, Stephen	Shaping Interactions and Experiences: Investigating the Effects of a Game-Specific Custom Controller on Player Experience in a Digital Game Environment
Rogerson, Melissa J.	Player Experience of Hybridity in a Narrative Boardgame
Rogstad, Egil Trasti	Not Just Competition: Building Inclusive Communities through Grassroots Esports in Norway
Roinioti, Elina	Sacred Places: Designing 360° Narrative VR Games for Hybrid Use in CAVE and Mobile HMD Setups
Romo Flores, Azul	Learning to E-sport: A study of learning opportunities around competitive games
Rong, Yi	Existential Ethics and Tactical Realism: Sartrean Moral Frameworks in Ready or Not
Ross, Alexander	Powered by GameSpy: Theorizing and Analyzing the GameSpy Network As Platform Infrastructure
Ruffino, Paolo	Unplayable Encounters with the Anthropocene: Rethinking Scale and Agency in Game Studies Engine Workers: Scalability and Frictions in Game Engine Culture
Ruotsalainen, Maria	Player ‘superstitions’ or algorithmic literacy? Marvel Rivals players’ practices in the age of AI Matchmaking The domesticating role of memes in esports cultures
Russell, Chelsea	Rolling Together: Intergenerational Dungeons & Dragons, Onboarding, and Infrastructures of Care
Réamonn, Dorcas	Embodied Entrepreneurship: Exploring How an Analogue Role-Play Game Develops Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Master’s Engineering Students
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Sachan, Tushya	The Joy of Exploration: A Qualitative Study of Temporal Changes in Player Experiences
Safyer, Paige	Identity Play as Identity Work: Representation, Identity Integration, and Possible Selves in Digital Games
Salinas, Daniel	Visual Representation of Alternative Masculinities in a Mexican Gaymer Group’s Instagram Presence
Salzano, Rachel	Player As Archivist - A Proposed Analysis of Player-centric Video Game Preservation Practice
Savage, Joshua D.	Designing Open Dialogue Systems for LLM-Based NPCs
Savic, Stefan	The Impact of Evolving Character Customization on Emotional Engagement and Player Behaviour in RPGs
Sawchuk, Kim	Between Pleasure and Harm: Transcreating a Serious Game on Older Adult
Scapolo, Virginia	Web-based Serial Narratives: Actual Plays in the Italian Context
Schlittler, Matheus Mendes	Working Conditions and Mental Health among Professionals with Disabilities in Brazilian Video Game Production
Schoenborn, Eric	Neighborhood Making of Story Games: Accessible Joy in Low-Tech Design
Schwencke, Lisa	Pleasure and Intersectionality in Queer Dating-Sims: an Autoethnographic Research-Creation Perspective
Scienza, Livia	Working Conditions and Mental Health among Professionals with Disabilities in Brazilian Video Game Production
Scully-Blaker, Rainforest	More man vs nature mechanics? Exploring romanticized notions of solitude in r/SurvivalGaming Douchebag Games: White Grievance and Reactionary Identity Formation in the Xbox Era The Husbando Super-App: Troubling “Player Investment” with Love and Deepspace
Seale, Nellie	Dungeons and Dissonance: Coherence in GLAM Games
Sebag, Mikael	A Spellbook of Pleasures: Game Informer and the Review Discourse of the Modern Magic System
Seiwald, Regina	Selling the American Dream: U.S. Gold, Intersectional Pleasures, and the Ludoindustrial Complex Aesthetics of Prohibition: Moral Transgression, Control, and Pleasure in Political Games
Seller, Merlyn	Thinking on Our Feet: Baby Steps (2025) Towards (Im)balancing the Somatic and the Stoney
Seo, Dowon	The Reinvention of Hardcore: Authenticity and Identity Among Korean “Real” Gamers
Sezen, Digdem	Intersectional Pleasures of Imagining non-Western Futures for Tabletop Role Playing Games
Sezen, Tonguc Ibrahim	Intersectional Pleasures of Imagining non-Western Futures for Tabletop Role Playing Games
Shaffer, Bryn	Recreational Rage Play: Exploring Frictious Player Engagement with Rage Physics Games
Shepherd, Lynsay A.	Asymmetric Play in a Competitive Landscape: Attitudes and Fairness
Sherriff, Richard	The Conjurative Voice of the Player in Escape Rooms: A Framework
Shi, Hanjun	The Classical Roman Reception in Genshin Impact: Within the region of the Sea of Bygone Eras
Shuo, Wang	Label Offensive and Defensive in Interest-Based Battlefields: Identity Politics and Public Opinion Polarization in China’s ACG Communities
Simon, Bart	For the Trees: Envisioning Sustainable Futures Through Ecomodded Minecraft Mod Choreography: Transforming the Contexts of Digital Play
Simpson, Seamus	Feeling with, or Feeling like? Empathy, Identification, and the Pleasures of Self-Reflection in Story-Driven Games
Sjöblom, Björn	Missing in Action: Professional Wargaming in Game Studies Pleasure Under Pressure: Laughter, Learning, and Competitive Play in Professional Wargaming
Sloan, Robin	Hoarding, Looting, Consuming: Toward an Ecology of Care Culture as (Extra)ordinary: Authentic Representation of Working-Class Experience in Still Wakes the Deep
Smith, Caighlan	The Evolution of Emotion Work in The Sims 1-4
Smith, Edward	Intersectional Pleasures of Anomie: Helldivers and Democracy at Play
Smith, Megan	Re-evaluating the Pursuit of Hyper-Realism in Virtual Reality Game Design through the Lens of Ludo proprioceptive Dissonance
Soares de Lima, Edirlei	The Impact of Evolving Character Customization on Emotional Engagement and Player Behaviour in RPGs
Sola, Mar Canet	How to be Non-Human : A Thematic Analysis of Animal Embodiment in VR Games
Soraine, Sasha	Exploring Experiential Fidelity in Board Game Adaptations of Video Games Player Experience of Hybridity in a Narrative Boardgame
Sotamaa, Olli	The Institutionalization of the Nokia N-Gage as a National Symbol: From Corporate and Fan Heritage to Public Cultural Heritage Localized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Solutions in Game Culture Environments Football Without Fans: Are Matches Just for Gambling? How to Play Academia: Conceptual and methodological observations
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Stasieńko, Jan	Designing vulnerability: Framework, design, and evaluation of a serious game depicting victims of domestic abuse
Statham, Wilhelmina	Beyond the Studio: Long-term Career Trajectories of Swedish Game Graduates
Steil, Andrea Valéria	Working Conditions and Mental Health among Professionals with Disabilities in Brazilian Video Game Production
Stevens, E. Charlotte	Experiences of Age and Gender in Early UK Tabletop Role-Playing Magazines
Stickler, Piper	Designing Virtual Reality Games About Grief: Reflections from Psychology and Healthcare Professionals
Stimson, Christina	Disclosure and the “Secret Underground Movement” - Analysing Queerness in Disco Elysium and its Place in the Quotidian
Stokes, Benjamin	Neighborhood Making of Story Games: Accessible Joy in Low-Tech Design
Stone, Jon	Them’s Fighting Words: The Unlikely Marriage of Language Games and Simulated Hand-to-Hand Combat
Stone, Kara	Landfill: Designing for Low-Carbon Pleasures
Straka, Vojtěch	Arcades on Wheels: The Materiality and Logistics of Itinerant Gaming in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Strzelec, Gabriela	From Policy to Paradox: Diversity Washing, Policy Failures, and the Limits of Authentic Intersectional Pleasure in the European Video Game Industry
Stukoff, Maria	Feeling with, or Feeling like? Empathy, Identification, and the Pleasures of Self-Reflection in Story-Driven Games
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