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

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(dis)engagement	Recreational Rage Play: Exploring Frictious Player Engagement with Rage Physics Games
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18XX Games	18XX Forever: Railway Time and Fossil Play on the Tabletop
1980s	Arcade Soldiers: Early Japanese Shooters in Dialogue with Hollywood Militarism
1980s Japan	What (Meta)Games We Played: Famicon Fandoms and the Politics of Childhood in 1980s Japan
1990s	Ghost in the Dreamcast: Ludomusical Hauntology and Pleasures of a 90s Cross-Franchise Specter
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3-D documentation	9Night and Good Mourning: Game Mechanics towards Memory Work
3D graphics	Flesh, Plastic, Stone: The Pleasure of Recontextualised Character Models
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4E cognition	Environmental Storytelling as Embodied Experience: Take What Remains of Edith Finch (2017) as an Example
4x Games	The Sumerian Game: Study of the construction, use and reception of foreign past imaginaries in video games
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absence	Absent Pleasures, or Pleasure in Absence? Player Engagement in Minimalist Digital Horror Games
Abstraction	Docugame design for Conservation: Designing The Moose of Fiordland biopic game.
abstraction and realism	The Multidimensional Spectrum of Abstraction, Realism and Cultural Meaning in Serious Games
academic activism	How to Play Academia: Conceptual and methodological observations
Academic Context	Exploring Videogame Design in Academic Contexts: A Research-Creation Approach to Ideation
Academic gaming	How to Play Academia: Conceptual and methodological observations
accessibility	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games How Accessible QTE Inputs Reshape Suspense Trajectories in Survival Horror Rolling Together: Intergenerational Dungeons & Dragons, Onboarding, and Infrastructures of Care Haptic Dialects: Translating Pleasure Between Adaptive Controllers and Universal Design for Disabled Players Asymmetric Play in a Competitive Landscape: Attitudes and Fairness
ACG Game Communities	Label Offensive and Defensive in Interest-Based Battlefields: Identity Politics and Public Opinion Polarization in China’s ACG Communities
achievements	Achievement Unlocked: The Art of Localizing Minecraft’s Advancements
Acquired Brain Injury	Digital Gaming, Disability, and Social Capital: Understanding Intersectional Pleasures and Community Formation
action	Arcade Soldiers: Early Japanese Shooters in Dialogue with Hollywood Militarism
action combat design	Combat System Design for Action Games: Key Concepts and Styles
Action Research	Exploring Critical Utopian Gaming Pedagogy in a youth club in Barcelona
activism	Procedural Praxis: Making and Thinking Antifascism Through Games "Gotta kill 'em all!" – A Game about Billionaires and Climate Obstruction
Actual Play	Web-based Serial Narratives: Actual Plays in the Italian Context
adaptation	Failure to Franchise as Profane Comedy in Dante’s Inferno: The Poem: The Game: The Book
Adaptations	Exploring Experiential Fidelity in Board Game Adaptations of Video Games
addiction	From the Eudaimonic to the Demonic in Gameplay Narratives
ADHD	Playing with ADHD: Exploring Crip resonances between ADHD and game-making
Adventure	Player Enjoyment Through Mechanical Engagement with Text in “The Séance of Blake Manor”
advertising	Misleading omissions of loot box presence disclosures: widespread unfair commercial practices in video game advertising on social media in Ireland and the EU
aesthetic	Where are the Girls’ Games? Trends in Themes, Aesthetic, and Gameplay
aesthetic catharsis	Making and Playing for Catharsis
Aesthetic Experience	The Videogame Aesthetics: On the Interplay of Narrative and Ludic Elements
aesthetic pleasure	Aesthetics of Prohibition: Moral Transgression, Control, and Pleasure in Political Games
Aesthetics	Flesh, Plastic, Stone: The Pleasure of Recontextualised Character Models Intention, Interpretation, and the Sensory Life of Queerness: Reading Reception in Bioware’s Dragon Age Games The Transition from Choice to Mastery in Videogame Aesthetics Multilayered Queerness in Videogames: Mechanics, Aesthetics, Narrative, and Production 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? It is time to stop painting – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as a dilemma of pleasant fictionality Transparency Isn't Enough: How Ordinary Features of Games Contribute to Exploitative Monetization
affect	The Hamster Wheel of Terror - Gambling Ludemes and Game Loops from Hell in CloverPit Cruel Pleasure: Affective Security and Territoriality in Games Playing with my imaginary friends: Character art commissions as affective play Playing Home: Gaming Practices and Imagined Communities among Chinese Overseas Students Aesthetics of Prohibition: Moral Transgression, Control, and Pleasure in Political Games Recreational Rage Play: Exploring Frictious Player Engagement with Rage Physics Games Gacha Game Collaborations and the Production of Affective Legitimacy How Streaming Facilitates Affective Transformation: A Case Study of Horror Game Spectatorship Posthuman Cuteness: Affective and agentic tensions Hoarding, Looting, Consuming: Toward an Ecology of Care Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
affect theory	“Report any Violations”: Compliance Play, Procedural Rhetoric, and Affect in the Beholder Series The Evolution of Emotion Work in The Sims 1-4
Affective and Interpretative Pleasures	Graphonauts: Introducing a Hybrid Human–AI Pipeline for Text-to-Game Transformation via Knowledge Graphs
affective attachment	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
affective communities	Epistemic Disobedience in Digital Games: Mega Man X8 16-bit case
affective design	Diegetic Pleasure: Multimodal Immersion and Emotional Engagement in Escape Rooms
Affective Dissonance	“We are trapped in the mud of binary selections”: An Investigation into the Feminist Consciousness of Chinese Female Otome Game Players
affective economies	Make it Cuddle, Make it Fight, Market it Pink: Virtual Pets and Affective Economies of Gendered Play
affective economies of play	Selling the American Dream: U.S. Gold, Intersectional Pleasures, and the Ludoindustrial Complex
affective game mechanics	Cross-Species Affinities: Agency and the Pleasures of the Weird and Uncanny
Affective Infrastructure	How Can an Unfinished Multiplayer Networking Scheme Produce Pleasure? XBAND as an Affective Infrastructure
affective involvement	Diegetic Pleasure: Multimodal Immersion and Emotional Engagement in Escape Rooms
Affective learning	The Texture of Play: Feeling Your Way Through Teaching with Games
Affective play	Temporalised Hyperobjects and Affective Play in Outer Wilds Playing with my imaginary friends: Character art commissions as affective play From Restoration to Extinction: Intersectional Pleasures in Ecological Game Reception Feeling with, or Feeling like? Empathy, Identification, and the Pleasures of Self-Reflection in Story-Driven Games
Affective Rewards	Extended Abstract - Intersectional Pleasures: Reframing the Value of BIPOC Game Studies and Production
Affective Solidarity	“We are trapped in the mud of binary selections”: An Investigation into the Feminist Consciousness of Chinese Female Otome Game Players
affinity mechanism	Game-Mechanics Archaeological Method: The Case of Affinity-Mechanism Archaeology
Affordances	How do we afford gaming? a history of affordances and its ‘player’ Cursed Coziness: Cursed Mechanics in Dark Cozy Games
African Epistemologies	Algorithmic Imperialism in the Architecture of NLP Agents and Play
Agatha Christie	Killing them Softly: Exploring the Contradictory Pleasures of Cosy Detective Videogames
age	Experiences of Age and Gender in Early UK Tabletop Role-Playing Magazines
agency	Shan-shui Game: Worldbuilding for a Pluriverse Through Relational Game Assets Playing together: analysis of gaming and sociocultural practices in Cooperative Games Unplayable Encounters with the Anthropocene: Rethinking Scale and Agency in Game Studies From Player-Centered to Agent-Centered: A New Paradigm for Interactive Narrative in the Age of Large Language Models “Default” Leadership – Critiquing Normative Leader Identities in Single-Player Videogames Posthuman Cuteness: Affective and agentic tensions My Cozy Hero: How Cozy Games Challenge Conventional Hero Dynamics Tarot, Money, and Mnemonics: Histories of Card Games Beyond Quantifiable-outcome Games
AI	Player ‘superstitions’ or algorithmic literacy? Marvel Rivals players’ practices in the age of AI Matchmaking
AI Agents	Algorithmic Imperialism in the Architecture of NLP Agents and Play
AI games	Introducing The Comet Cock, a Murderous AI Dating Sim
AI Games Ethics	When AI Promises to “Cure” You: Individual Experiences, Systemic Biases, and Community Action for Marginalized Players in Video Games
AI Narrative	The Infinite Game in the Engine of Control: Proletarianization, Platform Capitalism, and the Future of Playful Pleasure
AI-Assisted Game Design	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
AI-gaming and Ecology	A Ludic PSY AI-Game-Engine for Utopia: Exploring Pl[AI] for a Viable Future
AI-Mediated Interaction	A Mechanism Model for AI-Driven Narrative Loops in Embodied Gamified Interaction
AI-native games	From Player-Centered to Agent-Centered: A New Paradigm for Interactive Narrative in the Age of Large Language Models
Ainu	Remediations of Japanese Cinema and History in Ghost of Yōtei
Aiōn	Aiōn and Digital Play: Toward a Cosmo-Phenomenological Approach
Algorithmic Imperialism	Algorithmic Imperialism in the Architecture of NLP Agents and Play
Algorithmic Stewardship	The Algorithmic Hostess: Social Mediation, Affective Discipline, and Sanitized Pleasures of Generative AI NPCs in Petit Planet
algorithmic systems	Sketch for a Phenomenology of Gameplay (as) Performance: Bodies, Systems, Worlds
algorithms	Designing Open Dialogue Systems for LLM-Based NPCs Player ‘superstitions’ or algorithmic literacy? Marvel Rivals players’ practices in the age of AI Matchmaking No Faces in the Flop Farm: Data Colonialism, Glitchfrastructure, and Affective Solidarity in Minds Beneath Us
Alternative Control	Unruly Forces and Marginalized Pleasures: Exploring Glitch Aesthetics and Agency in Alternative Control Schemes
alternative knowledge	Epistemic Disobedience in Digital Games: Mega Man X8 16-bit case
alternative masculinities	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
alterreality	Modernities of authenticity in recreated online digital games: A comparative case study
Alzheimer's care	Games and the Posthuman Condition: How game design represents memory and identity through embodied experience
amateur	Hobbyist Developers: Studying Notable Nintendo DS Homebrew Games
ambiguity	The Relationship Between Signs and Context: Semiotic Meaning-Making in Digital Games
ambivalent enjoyment	Cross-Species Affinities: Agency and the Pleasures of the Weird and Uncanny
American Dream	Selling the American Dream: U.S. Gold, Intersectional Pleasures, and the Ludoindustrial Complex
anachronisme	Playing anachronisme in Time: Towards the Ludobiography in the Context of Chinese Indie Games
Analog games	Ecosystems and conflict in environmental themed analog wargames Loyalty vs. Heresy: Kitbashing and Materiality Negotiation in Tabletop Games
Analog Play	18XX Forever: Railway Time and Fossil Play on the Tabletop A House Is Not a Home: Queergaming and Recuperative History in Molly House
analogue games	The Demographics and Motivations of Trading Card Game Players
Analytical Games	Missing in Action: Professional Wargaming in Game Studies
ancient imaginaries	The Sumerian Game: Study of the construction, use and reception of foreign past imaginaries in video games
Anger in game	Role and anger: investigations for live streamers, co-players and common players
Anglocentrism	Pleasure Not For Everyone: Epistemic Injustice Towards Ukrainian Game Studies
animal avatar	On Inhabiting Nonhuman Bodies: Review of Research Perspectives
Animal Crossing	Welcome to My Crib: Player Creativity in Animal Crossing
animal games	On Inhabiting Nonhuman Bodies: Review of Research Perspectives
Anomie	Intersectional Pleasures of Anomie: Helldivers and Democracy at Play
Anthropocene	‘Changing the Game Forever’: MapleStory’s Big Bang as a Climate Change Event Unplayable Encounters with the Anthropocene: Rethinking Scale and Agency in Game Studies
anti-games	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
Anti-Imperialism	Myth, Memory, and the Melting Pot: Anti-Imperialism in Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2
antifascism	Procedural Praxis: Making and Thinking Antifascism Through Games
Antifascist Gameplay	Hiking (Dis)Pleasure Island: Enjoyment & Critical Gameplay in Baby Steps
appalachia	Appalachian Necropolitics within Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Fallout 76
applied ethics	Applied ethics techniques for video game ethics
Applied Games	Exploring Videogame Design in Academic Contexts: A Research-Creation Approach to Ideation
apps	Gameful disconnection: how digital detox and productivity apps blend play, work, and profit
Arab-Israeli conflict	To Play (or Not to Play) the Nakba. Representing the First Arab-Israeli War in Historical Boardgames
Arboreal representation	Hauntecology: Arboreal Pleasures as represented in Elden Ring (2021)
arcade history	Arcades on Wheels: The Materiality and Logistics of Itinerant Gaming in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Arcade shooters	Arcade Soldiers: Early Japanese Shooters in Dialogue with Hollywood Militarism
archaeogaming	Making the Past Count: Developing quantitative measures for past-player experience
archaeological sites	Game Parlours or Incidental Etchings? Material Traces of Incised Boardgames in Ancient South Asian Communal Spaces.
Archaeology	Game-Mechanics Archaeological Method: The Case of Affinity-Mechanism Archaeology
Architectural ethnography	The final frontier of space in video games. Spatio-narrative design in Judgment by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Architecture	Videogame Spatial Cinematics: Towards an Interdisciplinary Framework for Analysing Spatial Cinematic Environments in Contemporary Games
archive	Mapping women’s legacy in video game: constellation of Japanese creators in the 2000s
archives	A Chronicle of Emulation: Proposed Eras for Video Game Emulators
Argentine Video Game Market	Producing Games, Reproducing Inequalities: gender and labour in the Argentine Video Game Market.
Argentinian Video Games	Argentine video games: work processes, production conditions and symbolic disputes from the Global South.
art	Perspectives of Critical Theory on Video Game Culture and Industry
art commissions	Playing with my imaginary friends: Character art commissions as affective play
Art Game Generator	A Ludic PSY AI-Game-Engine for Utopia: Exploring Pl[AI] for a Viable Future
artefact	Artificial Pleasures and Ideological Subjectivation in Video Games: The Function of Positive Artefact Emotions in the Naturalisation of Ideology
artificial intelligence	Designing Open Dialogue Systems for LLM-Based NPCs Analysing Historical Distortion in Large Language Model Roleplay LLM Roleplay Re-introduces Omissions to Collective Memory Now Your Playing with Graphics Processing Power: Nvidia and the Discursive Pleasure of Artificial Intelligence
artwork	Through Ruins, Dark Woodlands, White Cities: The Representation of Ancient Landscapes in Video Games
assemblage	The Assemblage of Peripheral Game Development: A Case Study of Dundee
assistive technology	Playing with ADHD: Exploring Crip resonances between ADHD and game-making
Assyriology	The Sumerian Game: Study of the construction, use and reception of foreign past imaginaries in video games
attire	Dressing Against Code: How Twitch Plays with/on Green Screen Shorts
attitudinal psychology	Asymmetric Play in a Competitive Landscape: Attitudes and Fairness
Audiovisual Ludonarrativity	The Videogame Aesthetics: On the Interplay of Narrative and Ludic Elements
Authentic Intersectional Pleasure	From Policy to Paradox: Diversity Washing, Policy Failures, and the Limits of Authentic Intersectional Pleasure in the European Video Game Industry
authenticity	Modernities of authenticity in recreated online digital games: A comparative case study Culture as (Extra)ordinary: Authentic Representation of Working-Class Experience in Still Wakes the Deep It is time to stop painting – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as a dilemma of pleasant fictionality
authorship	From Hopscotch to Digital Games: The Pleasure and Dilemma of Interactivity
auto/biography	From the Eudaimonic to the Demonic in Gameplay Narratives
autobiographical games	Reading queer autobiographical games through the lens of memory and identity studies
Autobiographical/autofictional game	Making and Playing for Catharsis
autoethnography	Walking the Psyche: Expanding the Poetics of Performative Virtual Architecture through Real-Time Game Engine Body and Game: Making and Playing a Game in Daoism Perspectives of Critical Theory on Video Game Culture and Industry Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games Pleasure and Intersectionality in Queer Dating-Sims: an Autoethnographic Research-Creation Perspective Stranger in a Strange Land: A South African Perspective on the Evolution of British Game Development Ghost in the Dreamcast: Ludomusical Hauntology and Pleasures of a 90s Cross-Franchise Specter
automated gameplay analysis	The Pleasure(s) of Griefing: Tracing Multimodal Toxicity in League of Legends
avatar	"Identifying with a character" but "embodying an avatar": Differentiating relationships between players and their on-screen representations in video games My Avatar Made Me Buy it: The Interaction of Avatar and User Gender in Shaping Consumer Behaviour
avatar customization	The Impact of Evolving Character Customization on Emotional Engagement and Player Behaviour in RPGs Tracing Gender Affordances in Avatar Customization: A Methodological Framework
avatar design	Making Monsters: Embodying Queerness in Game Development
Avatar Design Framework	Designing vulnerability: Framework, design, and evaluation of a serious game depicting victims of domestic abuse
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Baby Steps	Hiking (Dis)Pleasure Island: Enjoyment & Critical Gameplay in Baby Steps Thinking on Our Feet: Baby Steps (2025) Towards (Im)balancing the Somatic and the Stoney
backlog guilt	Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic
Baldur's Gate 3	Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic
Baldur’s Gate 3	“They managed to make lesbians unattractive”: anti-woke activism in No Alphabets mod in Baldur’s Gate 3
Balkans	The Social Production of Space Between Global Play and Local Production in Southern European Digital Games
BDSM larp	Queer Resistance Through Sexual Role-play: BDSM Larp, Arousal, and Communal Resistance
Beat Saber	The Pleasurable Stress of the VRAVG Beat Saber: A Mixed-Methods Study
Beat ’em Ups	Between Punches and Flying Attacks: Ludonarrative Imaginaries in 1980s Beat ’em Up Games
becoming	(Meta)identity: Renegotiating identity through metamodern design in Slay the Princess
Behavior	Player As Archivist - A Proposed Analysis of Player-centric Video Game Preservation Practice
Beholder games	“Report any Violations”: Compliance Play, Procedural Rhetoric, and Affect in the Beholder Series
belonging	Playing Home: Gaming Practices and Imagined Communities among Chinese Overseas Students
bereavement	Designing Virtual Reality Games About Grief: Reflections from Psychology and Healthcare Professionals
Bernard Stiegler	The Infinite Game in the Engine of Control: Proletarianization, Platform Capitalism, and the Future of Playful Pleasure
Bhutan	Intersectional complexity between players and non-players in Bhutan
bias	Can independent curated video games teach critical media literacy?
Big Bang	‘Changing the Game Forever’: MapleStory’s Big Bang as a Climate Change Event
Biometric Civic Imaginaries of Utopia	A Ludic PSY AI-Game-Engine for Utopia: Exploring Pl[AI] for a Viable Future
biopolitics	Mapping eco(politics) in ecogames Ecosystems and conflict in environmental themed analog wargames
BioShock	Racial Recursivity as Critical Race Game Studies Methodology
BIPOC Game Studies	Extended Abstract - Intersectional Pleasures: Reframing the Value of BIPOC Game Studies and Production
Bitsy	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
Blind Box Law and Regulation	Physical Blind Boxes' Compliance with Information Disclosure Requirements: Exploring the Game-like Nature of Blind Box Consumption in the Chinese Regulatory Context
Blue crabs	Investigating Stakeholder Conflict in Blue Crab Management Using Video Games
boardgames	Game Parlours or Incidental Etchings? Material Traces of Incised Boardgames in Ancient South Asian Communal Spaces.
bodily ideals	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
bodily presence	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
body/flesh	Devil, Mecha, Implant：A Media Archaeological Study of ‘Flesh Modification’
Botanical games	Cultivating History: Gender, Power, and Reflection in Cozy Botanical Games
boundary disruption	When a Game Is More Than 'Just a Game': Metanarrative Integration Tools in Video Games
Brazilian Video Game History	Counterfeit Circuits: Decolonial Practices and the Rise of Video Games in Brazil
bricolage	Arcades on Wheels: The Materiality and Logistics of Itinerant Gaming in Socialist Czechoslovakia
British	Stranger in a Strange Land: A South African Perspective on the Evolution of British Game Development
British gaming press	Guilty (Un)pleasures: The Reception of Muriel Tramis’s Erotic Trilogy in France and the United Kingdom
bullet heaven	Imbalanced Pleasures? System Design and Social Rules in the Survivors-like Game Megabonk
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call of duty	Appalachian Necropolitics within Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Fallout 76
camp	Tacky Games
Can I Play That?	From Checklists to Playability: A systematic mapping of player reviews to the Game Accessibility Guidelines
Canada	That’s My Jam: Understanding the Value of Canadian Game Jams
Capitalism	A World to Build: World-building and Capitalism in Games A glossary of haunted games Now Your Playing with Graphics Processing Power: Nvidia and the Discursive Pleasure of Artificial Intelligence
Capitalocene	‘Changing the Game Forever’: MapleStory’s Big Bang as a Climate Change Event A glossary of haunted games
card games	The Demographics and Motivations of Trading Card Game Players Tarot, Money, and Mnemonics: Histories of Card Games Beyond Quantifiable-outcome Games
care	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
care ethics	Artistic In-Game Photography as Media of Care
care work	A History of Non-Violence. Symbiosis and Care Work in L.O.L.: Lack of Love and Spiritfarer
Career trajectories	Beyond the Studio: Long-term Career Trajectories of Swedish Game Graduates
carnism	On Eating Without a Face in Arctic Eggs (2024)
case study	The Assemblage of Peripheral Game Development: A Case Study of Dundee
Casual Games	"Arctictopia" and its Cozy, Casual Climate Catastrophe The Evolution of Emotion Work in The Sims 1-4
Catechism	Play, Faith, and Inclusion: Community Games as Tools for Learning, Expression, and Intersectional Pleasure in Catechism Education among Catholic Students
Categorisation	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
censorship	From Restricted to Shared: The Intersectional Pleasure Mechanisms in Chinese Horror Games (2001-2024) Beyond the Video Game Nasties: Censorship and the Online Safety Act
character	"Identifying with a character" but "embodying an avatar": Differentiating relationships between players and their on-screen representations in video games
character art	Playing with my imaginary friends: Character art commissions as affective play
character customization	Queer Games Studies Material Turn: Centering Trans Bodies in Video Games
Charisma	Intersectional Pleasures of Anomie: Helldivers and Democracy at Play
chemistry	How time flies! A flow-driven design framework for educational games
Chesapeake Bay	Investigating Stakeholder Conflict in Blue Crab Management Using Video Games
child character	Who Deserves to Survive the Post-Apocalypse? Deaths of Child Characters in The Walking Dead
Child Safety	Child Safety in Platform Gaming: Balancing Protection and Freedom
Childhood	What (Meta)Games We Played: Famicon Fandoms and the Politics of Childhood in 1980s Japan
childhood play	Co-Producing Play of the Past in the Present: Intergenerational Community Connection through Historical Video Games
children	Moneyball, but for kids: Games as vehicles for predatory prediction markets Gaming Across Cultures: Lessons from Sweden and Bhutan on Digital Education
China	Unlocking Pleasure: The Material Politics of "Backdoors" in Chinese Console Gaming “We are trapped in the mud of binary selections”: An Investigation into the Feminist Consciousness of Chinese Female Otome Game Players I Play, Therefore I Identify: A Fan Study of Character Attachment in Honor of Kings Understanding Game Monetization in China from a Gameworker Perspective
Chinese female gamers	Playing on Her Terms: Otome Gamers’ Negotiations with Hegemonic Sexual Scripts in China
Chinese Game	Shan-shui Game: Worldbuilding for a Pluriverse Through Relational Game Assets Body and Game: Making and Playing a Game in Daoism 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?
Chinese game industry	Pleasures Under Pressure: Misogyny, Moral Outrage, and Creative Contraction in Contemporary Chinese Game Culture
Chinese Guofeng Games	Playable Heritage: Wu Hua Mi Xin as an Interactive Museum within China’s Digital Culture and Museum Development
Chinese history	Ambivalent Alliance: How History, Memory, and Gameplay Reshape Women’s Political Legacy
Chinese horror games	From Restricted to Shared: The Intersectional Pleasure Mechanisms in Chinese Horror Games (2001-2024)
Chinese identities	“Writing Back” To Which Empire?: Constructing Chinese Identities in Tabletop Roleplaying Games in Singapore
Chinese identity	The "Chinese" Non-city: Thematic (in)coherence and level design in Sifu
Chinese indie games	Playing anachronisme in Time: Towards the Ludobiography in the Context of Chinese Indie Games
Chinese Players	Playing Across the Strait: Chinese WoW Diasporas on Taiwanese Servers
Chineseness	The "Chinese" Non-city: Thematic (in)coherence and level design in Sifu
Choice	The Transition from Choice to Mastery in Videogame Aesthetics
Chris Crawford	Fun on the Eastern Front: Chris Crawford and the Pleasure of Early Digital Wargames
Christopher Vogler	The Hero with a Thousand Misattributions: Scrutinizing the Hero's Journey in Videogame Discourse
chronopolitics	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
cinema	Remediations of Japanese Cinema and History in Ghost of Yōtei
Cinematography	Videogame Spatial Cinematics: Towards an Interdisciplinary Framework for Analysing Spatial Cinematic Environments in Contemporary Games
Circuit of Culture	Rethinking City Builders from Latin America: A Cultural Study of Urbek City Builder
citation errors	The Hero with a Thousand Misattributions: Scrutinizing the Hero's Journey in Videogame Discourse
City Builders	Rethinking City Builders from Latin America: A Cultural Study of Urbek City Builder
city design	Buy, build, live: The Sims’ American Dream, neoliberal utopia and its impact on city design
city-builder	The Sumerian Game: Study of the construction, use and reception of foreign past imaginaries in video games
civic participation	Learning to E-sport: A study of learning opportunities around competitive games
Civilization VI: Gathering Storm	“It’s Just a Hoax”: Climate Change Denial in Civilization VI’s Reddit Communities
Clair Obscur	No Good Endings: The Tragic Pleasure of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33	It is time to stop painting – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as a dilemma of pleasant fictionality
Class	The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2
classical Roman reception	The Classical Roman Reception in Genshin Impact: Within the region of the Sea of Bygone Eras
classics	Through Ruins, Dark Woodlands, White Cities: The Representation of Ancient Landscapes in Video Games
Climate	Playing with Existence: Values in Post-Apocalyptic Gameworlds
climate catastrophe	Ecosystems and conflict in environmental themed analog wargames
climate change	What Now? Ecogames after Missed Climate Targets
Climate change denial	“It’s Just a Hoax”: Climate Change Denial in Civilization VI’s Reddit Communities
Climate Crisis	"Arctictopia" and its Cozy, Casual Climate Catastrophe
Cloning and Piracy	Counterfeit Circuits: Decolonial Practices and the Rise of Video Games in Brazil
close playing	Representations of Suicide in Computer Games Presentation of age(ing) and elderly people in digital games: The Pokémon game series Bodily Pleasures of Repetitive Labour and Rhythm in Finnish Cottage Simulator
Close Reading	The Civilization of Sid Meier’s Civilization: Player Reception of Change in A Long-Running Game Series A glossary of haunted games It is time to stop painting – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as a dilemma of pleasant fictionality No Good Endings: The Tragic Pleasure of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
cluster	The Assemblage of Peripheral Game Development: A Case Study of Dundee
co-production	Co-Producing Play of the Past in the Present: Intergenerational Community Connection through Historical Video Games
cognitive accessibility	Neurodivergent Pleasures in Game Environmental Design
coherence	Dungeons and Dissonance: Coherence in GLAM Games
Collaborative Play	For the Trees: Envisioning Sustainable Futures Through Ecomodded Minecraft The Trustworthy Knowledge DLC: A Game-Design-Theory Expansion Pack for Public Services
collections	Collections Educator or Game Designer? Why not both?
collective autoethnography	Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic
collective memory	Analysing Historical Distortion in Large Language Model Roleplay LLM Roleplay Re-introduces Omissions to Collective Memory
Collective Play	Intersectional Pleasures of Anomie: Helldivers and Democracy at Play
colonialism	You’re Just an NPC: The Colonial Poetics of Play in Late Modernity
coloniality	You’re Just an NPC: The Colonial Poetics of Play in Late Modernity Epistemic Disobedience in Digital Games: Mega Man X8 16-bit case
combat	Combat System Design for Action Games: Key Concepts and Styles Them’s Fighting Words: The Unlikely Marriage of Language Games and Simulated Hand-to-Hand Combat
comedy	Flesh, Plastic, Stone: The Pleasure of Recontextualised Character Models Veggie Vigilantes: Queering Crime Tropes in Cosy Comedy Games
communal meaning-making	Why Do We Suffer for Fun? Ordeal Pleasure in Souls-like Games
communal spaces	Game Parlours or Incidental Etchings? Material Traces of Incised Boardgames in Ancient South Asian Communal Spaces.
communication	Designing Open Dialogue Systems for LLM-Based NPCs
Community	Not Just Competition: Building Inclusive Communities through Grassroots Esports in Norway Digital Gaming, Disability, and Social Capital: Understanding Intersectional Pleasures and Community Formation Neighborhood Making of Story Games: Accessible Joy in Low-Tech Design
Community Games	Play, Faith, and Inclusion: Community Games as Tools for Learning, Expression, and Intersectional Pleasure in Catechism Education among Catholic Students
comparative analysis	Diablerie of a Lore: A Comparative Analysis of Gaming Pleasure in Bloodlines and Bloodlines 2
compassionate play	Let’s play the ‘refugee crisis’: a postcolonial deconstruction of the refugee in post-2015 European videogames
competitive games	Asymmetric Play in a Competitive Landscape: Attitudes and Fairness
competitive gaming	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
Competitive play	Competing Otherwise: Latin American Perspectives on Meritocratic Resistance in Competitive Gameplay
Compliance play	“Report any Violations”: Compliance Play, Procedural Rhetoric, and Affect in the Beholder Series
computer games	Representations of Suicide in Computer Games
Conceit	Are Themes Really Conceit? A Semiotic Proposal
Conservation Games	Docugame design for Conservation: Designing The Moose of Fiordland biopic game.
Constitutive Rules	Rules as Ontological Structures: A Three-Layer Framework for Understanding Freedom and Constraint in Digital Games
consumer behavior	My Avatar Made Me Buy it: The Interaction of Avatar and User Gender in Shaping Consumer Behaviour
Consumer Protection	Misleading omissions of loot box presence disclosures: widespread unfair commercial practices in video game advertising on social media in Ireland and the EU Far from Complete Compliance: Loot Box Prevalence, Probability Disclosure, and Kompu Gacha Policy in Japanese Mobile Games Poor Compliance with Loot Box Probability Disclosure and Warning Regulations in Taiwan Physical Blind Boxes' Compliance with Information Disclosure Requirements: Exploring the Game-like Nature of Blind Box Consumption in the Chinese Regulatory Context
Consumerism	Hoarding, Looting, Consuming: Toward an Ecology of Care The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2
content analysis	Presentation of age(ing) and elderly people in digital games: The Pokémon game series
Content Moderation	Child Safety in Platform Gaming: Balancing Protection and Freedom Representation, Resistance, and Moderation: The Politics of Review Bombing in Assassin’s Creed Shadows
content regulation	From Restricted to Shared: The Intersectional Pleasure Mechanisms in Chinese Horror Games (2001-2024)
context	The Relationship Between Signs and Context: Semiotic Meaning-Making in Digital Games
conventions	Tacky Games
convergence	Perceptions among the youth on the use (or abuse) of dark patterns
Conversation Analysis	Pleasure Under Pressure: Laughter, Learning, and Competitive Play in Professional Wargaming
cooperation	Pleasure in Play: Hyperscanning Shared Card Game Experience
Cooperative Games	Playing together: analysis of gaming and sociocultural practices in Cooperative Games
Coping Mechanism	An Exploration of Cozy Games as Coping Mechanism to Manage Mental Well-being
core loop	It’s all a skinner box? Typical core loop and Operant Conditioning
corpus-based media analysis	Rendering Romania. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Othering in Video Games
cosiness	Tacky Games
Cosmo-Phenomenological framework	Aiōn and Digital Play: Toward a Cosmo-Phenomenological Approach
Cosmotechnics	Shan-shui Game: Worldbuilding for a Pluriverse Through Relational Game Assets
cosplay commission	Making Virtual Romance Real: Intimacy and Relational Labor in Otome Games Cosplay Commission
Cosy Crime	Killing them Softly: Exploring the Contradictory Pleasures of Cosy Detective Videogames
cosy games	Killing them Softly: Exploring the Contradictory Pleasures of Cosy Detective Videogames Veggie Vigilantes: Queering Crime Tropes in Cosy Comedy Games
cosy gaming	Winter is gaming: study of gamers' habits throughout the year
counter-hegemony	Mythic Alternatives: Mythological Mechanics Beyond Violence
coziness	Slow Gaming: Applying Slow Movement to Post-anthropocentric Play
cozy games	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games An Exploration of Cozy Games as Coping Mechanism to Manage Mental Well-being "Arctictopia" and its Cozy, Casual Climate Catastrophe Soft Worlds, Sonic Seams: How Cozy Games Stitch Sound Design into Musical Score Cursed Coziness: Cursed Mechanics in Dark Cozy Games My Cozy Hero: How Cozy Games Challenge Conventional Hero Dynamics Cultivating History: Gender, Power, and Reflection in Cozy Botanical Games
Cracow	Flanki: Drinking Games and Traditions of Students at AGH University of Kraków
creative artefact	Collections Educator or Game Designer? Why not both?
Creative digital labour and work organisation	Argentine video games: work processes, production conditions and symbolic disputes from the Global South.
creative industries	Engine Workers: Scalability and Frictions in Game Engine Culture
Creative Play	Rules as Ontological Structures: A Three-Layer Framework for Understanding Freedom and Constraint in Digital Games
creative practice	From Play to Poetics: Reconfiguring Pleasure through Defamiliarisation in Game Poems
creative thinking	Embodied Entrepreneurship: Exploring How an Analogue Role-Play Game Develops Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Master’s Engineering Students
Creativity	Welcome to My Crib: Player Creativity in Animal Crossing Let’s Play The Sims: The Un(der)studied Women’s Origins of a Media Format
creatorship	Aesthetics of Holarchic Narrative Design: Participatory and Intersectional Pleasures of Game Storyworlds
crip theory	Queercrip Mythmaking in Contemporary Role-Playing Games Playing with ADHD: Exploring Crip resonances between ADHD and game-making
crip time	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
Crisis	Disco Elysium: Existential Reflection within Crisis
crisis time	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
critical analysis	From the Invisible to Glitch: Rethinking the Possibilities of Aesthetics, Bodies, and Connection in Virtual Parties
critical approaches	Descent Into Video Games
Critical Code Studies	The Liminal Capacity of Code - Connecting Developer Intentions and Player Experience in Early Video Games
critical disability studies	Playing with ADHD: Exploring Crip resonances between ADHD and game-making
Critical Discourse Analysis	The domesticating role of memes in esports cultures Constructing Civilizations: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Fictional Languages in Chants of Sennaar
critical game design	And the Crops Withered: Designing TTRPGs To Enliven Myths Critical Game Design in Tabletop Roleplaying Games: Applying Two Methods
Critical Pedagogy	Exploring Critical Utopian Gaming Pedagogy in a youth club in Barcelona
Critical Plant Studies	Monstera pocketii: The Botanical Vitality of Pokémon
critical play	LLM Roleplay Re-introduces Omissions to Collective Memory The Institutionalization of the Nokia N-Gage as a National Symbol: From Corporate and Fan Heritage to Public Cultural Heritage
Critical Race Studies	Racial Recursivity as Critical Race Game Studies Methodology
critical reflection	What strategies for enabling flow-critical play can be derived from the game design of Taskmaster?
Critical Theory	The Infinite Game in the Engine of Control: Proletarianization, Platform Capitalism, and the Future of Playful Pleasure Perspectives of Critical Theory on Video Game Culture and Industry
cross-media collaboration	Gacha Game Collaborations and the Production of Affective Legitimacy
cross-platform performance	Sketch for a Phenomenology of Gameplay (as) Performance: Bodies, Systems, Worlds
crunch	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games Beyond necessity and passion: Crunch as a habitus in the field of video game production Working Conditions and Mental Health among Professionals with Disabilities in Brazilian Video Game Production
crypto	Moneyball, but for kids: Games as vehicles for predatory prediction markets
Cults	Cursed Coziness: Cursed Mechanics in Dark Cozy Games
cultural appropriation	The Name of Janosik Will Never Perish: Górals Tradition in Game Culture
cultural capital	China’s Game on Ancient Japan: Pleasure, Identity, and Poetry from “Man’yōshū” in “Genshin Impact”
Cultural Contra-flow	Genshin Impact: Cultural hybridisation, localisation and contra-flow of cultural production in China's open-world role-playing game
cultural game jams	Games with Culture: Using Cultural Heritage as Game-Making Material
cultural heritage	Playable folklore - Digital games and the representation of folklore and CH
Cultural Hybridisation	Genshin Impact: Cultural hybridisation, localisation and contra-flow of cultural production in China's open-world role-playing game
cultural intermediaries	Balancing In/formality within the Brno Video Game Industry Ecosystem
Cultural Memory	The Social Production of Space Between Global Play and Local Production in Southern European Digital Games Sacred Places: Designing 360° Narrative VR Games for Hybrid Use in CAVE and Mobile HMD Setups
cultural narrative	From Restricted to Shared: The Intersectional Pleasure Mechanisms in Chinese Horror Games (2001-2024)
cultural presence	Playable folklore - Digital games and the representation of folklore and CH
Cultural Preservation	Play as Preservation: Folklore and Mythology in The Mooseman
cultural probes	Co-Producing Play of the Past in the Present: Intergenerational Community Connection through Historical Video Games
Cultural Representation	Rethinking City Builders from Latin America: A Cultural Study of Urbek City Builder Distorting Culture: Memetic Play and Pleasures in Analogue Game Remediation
cultural studies	The Sumerian Game: Study of the construction, use and reception of foreign past imaginaries in video games When Localization Meets Game Design: Strengthening Collaboration Achievement Unlocked: The Art of Localizing Minecraft’s Advancements
cultural turns	The Influence of Historical Theory on Historical Game’s Design
cultural value	From the Eudaimonic to the Demonic in Gameplay Narratives
Culturally Responsive Design	Play in Context: Adapting Game-Based Learning for African Cultural Frameworks
culture	“Default” Leadership – Critiquing Normative Leader Identities in Single-Player Videogames Gaming Across Cultures: Lessons from Sweden and Bhutan on Digital Education The Multidimensional Spectrum of Abstraction, Realism and Cultural Meaning in Serious Games
culture & identity	Intersectional Pleasures: An Empirical Study of Embodied Emotions in Video Games
Culture as ordinary	Culture as (Extra)ordinary: Authentic Representation of Working-Class Experience in Still Wakes the Deep
culture industry	Perspectives of Critical Theory on Video Game Culture and Industry
curation	Can independent curated video games teach critical media literacy?
Curriculum Design	Global Games Education Now: Regional Realities and Pedagogical Innovations
cuteness	Posthuman Cuteness: Affective and agentic tensions
cyberpunk game	No Faces in the Flop Farm: Data Colonialism, Glitchfrastructure, and Affective Solidarity in Minds Beneath Us
cyborg	Devil, Mecha, Implant：A Media Archaeological Study of ‘Flesh Modification’
Czechoslovakia	Arcades on Wheels: The Materiality and Logistics of Itinerant Gaming in Socialist Czechoslovakia
D
D&D	Queering the Third Place: Dungeons & Dragons at Your Friendly Local Game Store
Dante	Failure to Franchise as Profane Comedy in Dante’s Inferno: The Poem: The Game: The Book
Daoism	Shan-shui Game: Worldbuilding for a Pluriverse Through Relational Game Assets Body and Game: Making and Playing a Game in Daoism
Dark Cozy Games	Cursed Coziness: Cursed Mechanics in Dark Cozy Games
Dark Heritage	The Institutionalization of the Nokia N-Gage as a National Symbol: From Corporate and Fan Heritage to Public Cultural Heritage
Dark Patterns	PHARMACOLOGICAL PRAXIS: A LUDONARRATIVE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE INTERSECTIONAL IMPASSE Perceptions among the youth on the use (or abuse) of dark patterns Transparency Isn't Enough: How Ordinary Features of Games Contribute to Exploitative Monetization The Prevalence and Co-occurrences of Dark Patterns in Mobile Free-to-Play Games
dark play	Football Without Fans: Are Matches Just for Gambling?
Data	Producing Games, Reproducing Inequalities: gender and labour in the Argentine Video Game Market.
data colonialism	No Faces in the Flop Farm: Data Colonialism, Glitchfrastructure, and Affective Solidarity in Minds Beneath Us
Dating Sims	Schrödinger’s Feminist Cat: The Positional Feminism of Five Hearts Under One Roof
dating-sim	Pleasure and Intersectionality in Queer Dating-Sims: an Autoethnographic Research-Creation Perspective
dead platforms	Powered by GameSpy: Theorizing and Analyzing the GameSpy Network As Platform Infrastructure
death	Who Deserves to Survive the Post-Apocalypse? Deaths of Child Characters in The Walking Dead Games Against Death
Death studies	Death-Themed Games and Playing the "Good Death"
Death-themed video games	Death-Themed Games and Playing the "Good Death"
Deceptive Design	Deceptive Design in VR Games: Lies that invite Surprise and Pleasure
Deceptive Design Patterns	The Prevalence and Co-occurrences of Dark Patterns in Mobile Free-to-Play Games
decision-tree analysis	Predicting Trolling Behaviors Using In-Game Timeline Data: Uncovering Divergent Mechanisms Behind AFK and Item Tier-Dropping in MOBA Games
Decolonial Game Studies	Play in Context: Adapting Game-Based Learning for African Cultural Frameworks Counterfeit Circuits: Decolonial Practices and the Rise of Video Games in Brazil
Decolonial perspectives	Argentine video games: work processes, production conditions and symbolic disputes from the Global South.
Decolonial Play	Algorithmic Imperialism in the Architecture of NLP Agents and Play
Decolonial studies	Nostalgia-play in Chilean tabletop role-playing communities: Reflections to analyse game practices in a global north-global south dialogue. FINAL BOSS: Videogame as a Technology of Geopolitical Cultural Power
Decoloniality	From Resource to Kin: Designing for Environmental Resilience in the Okanagan Brazilian Indie games and hyperlocal identity: analyzing culture, design choices, and Steam reception in Gaucho and the Grasslands
Decolonization	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 Global Games Education Now: Regional Realities and Pedagogical Innovations
defamiliarisation	From Play to Poetics: Reconfiguring Pleasure through Defamiliarisation in Game Poems
DEI	Game as Inquiry: An Diffractive and Experimental Approach to Designing and Evaluating Games with a Message
demakes	Playable Returns: Seriality and Medium-Specific Aesthetics in Videogame Remakes and Demakes
dementia	Speculative Sentiment: The Dementia Narrative in Digital Games
dementia in video games	Killjoy Play: Illness, Disability, and No-Fun Pleasures in Video Games
dementia narrative	Speculative Sentiment: The Dementia Narrative in Digital Games
democratization	Democratizing Interactive Filmmaking: A No-Code Solution for Arts Students
Design	Them’s Fighting Words: The Unlikely Marriage of Language Games and Simulated Hand-to-Hand Combat Examining Jank as Design Through Casual Gameplay
Design Framework	What strategies for enabling flow-critical play can be derived from the game design of Taskmaster? The Trustworthy Knowledge DLC: A Game-Design-Theory Expansion Pack for Public Services
design patterns	Twenty Years of Design Patterns in Games
design research	Critical Game Design in Tabletop Roleplaying Games: Applying Two Methods Twenty Years of Design Patterns in Games
design taxonomy	Swinging Through History: Rope Mechanics in 2D games
Design Theory	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
desire	Monstrous Desires in Pornographic Videogames
Detective Boards	The Playful Pleasures of the Videogame Detective Board
Detective Fiction	The Playful Pleasures of the Videogame Detective Board Killing them Softly: Exploring the Contradictory Pleasures of Cosy Detective Videogames
developer intentionality	Why We Can’t Rely on GDC Talks: Accountability in Developer Intent
developer interviews	Why We Can’t Rely on GDC Talks: Accountability in Developer Intent
diaspora	Playing Home: Gaming Practices and Imagined Communities among Chinese Overseas Students Playing Across the Strait: Chinese WoW Diasporas on Taiwanese Servers “Writing Back” To Which Empire?: Constructing Chinese Identities in Tabletop Roleplaying Games in Singapore
diegesis	Diegetic Pleasure: Multimodal Immersion and Emotional Engagement in Escape Rooms
Difficult Games	Hiking (Dis)Pleasure Island: Enjoyment & Critical Gameplay in Baby Steps
difficulty	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
diffraction	Game as Inquiry: An Diffractive and Experimental Approach to Designing and Evaluating Games with a Message
digital archaeology	Transfiguring In and Out of Worlds: Archaeological Knowledge as Narrative Video Games
digital art	Playing with my imaginary friends: Character art commissions as affective play
digital capitalism	Gacha Game Collaborations and the Production of Affective Legitimacy
Digital Card Games	Digital Cardboard Crack: The Gamblification of Digital Card Games
digital competence	Learning to E-sport: A study of learning opportunities around competitive games
digital culture	You’re Just an NPC: The Colonial Poetics of Play in Late Modernity Hoarding, Looting, Consuming: Toward an Ecology of Care
digital detox	Gameful disconnection: how digital detox and productivity apps blend play, work, and profit
Digital discourse	From Restoration to Extinction: Intersectional Pleasures in Ecological Game Reception
Digital Ethics	Platformization of Virtual Morality: Mediation, Emotion, and Power in Embedded Philanthropy of Chinese Mobile Games -- An empirical analysis based on SEM and fsQCA
Digital ethnography	Defining Single-player Video Games NPC Societies: An Ethnographic Approach Welcome to My Crib: Player Creativity in Animal Crossing Hoarding, Looting, Consuming: Toward an Ecology of Care
Digital Fairness Act	Child Safety in Platform Gaming: Balancing Protection and Freedom
Digital Game Preservation	Towards a Strategy Using the "Intervention Level Framework" in Japanese Game Archives: Integrating Material and Functional Authenticity Based on Conservation Science
Digital Game-Based Learning	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
Digital games	Playing with Existence: Values in Post-Apocalyptic Gameworlds Playing As More Than Just a Continent: Representation of Southeast Asia in Video Games Playing Home: Gaming Practices and Imagined Communities among Chinese Overseas Students “It’s Just a Hoax”: Climate Change Denial in Civilization VI’s Reddit Communities Disco Elysium: Existential Reflection within Crisis Games analysis, Transforming Pixels into Plates: Harnessing Game Strategies for Sustainable Food Practices. Gaming Across Cultures: Lessons from Sweden and Bhutan on Digital Education
digital games and sexism	Guilty (Un)pleasures: The Reception of Muriel Tramis’s Erotic Trilogy in France and the United Kingdom
Digital Heritage	Player As Archivist - A Proposed Analysis of Player-centric Video Game Preservation Practice The Convergence of Historical Game Design and Digital Heritage
Digital Humanities	Videogame Spatial Cinematics: Towards an Interdisciplinary Framework for Analysing Spatial Cinematic Environments in Contemporary Games
digital intimacy	Playing on Her Terms: Otome Gamers’ Negotiations with Hegemonic Sexual Scripts in China
digital labor	Quiet Play: How Desktop Moyu Games Carve Out Enjoyment Inside Workplace
Digital Media	Web-based Serial Narratives: Actual Plays in the Italian Context
Digital Omnibus	Child Safety in Platform Gaming: Balancing Protection and Freedom
digital platforms	“This industry has ruined me”: categorizing the experiences of Brazilian feminist gaming streamers through an intersectional approach Powered by GameSpy: Theorizing and Analyzing the GameSpy Network As Platform Infrastructure
Digital Play	Aiōn and Digital Play: Toward a Cosmo-Phenomenological Approach
Digital pleasure	Fun on the Eastern Front: Chris Crawford and the Pleasure of Early Digital Wargames
digital role play	LLM Roleplay Re-introduces Omissions to Collective Memory
Digital Storytelling	Sacred Places: Designing 360° Narrative VR Games for Hybrid Use in CAVE and Mobile HMD Setups
digital-games semiotics	The Braiding Framework: A Semiotic Approach to Engaging and Meaningful Games
digitalization	Gaming Across Cultures: Lessons from Sweden and Bhutan on Digital Education
Diorama	Docugame design for Conservation: Designing The Moose of Fiordland biopic game.
Disability	From Checklists to Playability: A systematic mapping of player reviews to the Game Accessibility Guidelines
disability studies	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games Queercrip Mythmaking in Contemporary Role-Playing Games Killjoy Play: Illness, Disability, and No-Fun Pleasures in Video Games
disciplinarity	Six Positive Words for Talking about Theory in Games Research (in Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity)
disco elysium	Disclosure and the “Secret Underground Movement” - Analysing Queerness in Disco Elysium and its Place in the Quotidian
discomfort	Make Games No One Wants to Play
Discord	Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic
Discourse	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
discourse analysis	Playing (with) Toxicity and Irony on Twitch: The ambiguous case of the “Court of the Bans” Now Your Playing with Graphics Processing Power: Nvidia and the Discursive Pleasure of Artificial Intelligence
Distant Reading	The Civilization of Sid Meier’s Civilization: Player Reception of Change in A Long-Running Game Series
Diversity	WoW gets Trumped: Politics and Play in Azeroth during the Trump Era Localized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Solutions in Game Culture Environments Between Diverse Industry and Game Characters - An Analysis of Tool-based Representation Design
Diversity Washing	From Policy to Paradox: Diversity Washing, Policy Failures, and the Limits of Authentic Intersectional Pleasure in the European Video Game Industry
Docugame	Docugame design for Conservation: Designing The Moose of Fiordland biopic game.
Domestic Violence	Designing vulnerability: Framework, design, and evaluation of a serious game depicting victims of domestic abuse
Dreams	Oneiric Timespaces: History and Image-Affects in Benign Land and The Séance of Blake Manor
dress-up game	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?
drifting	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
drinking games	Flanki: Drinking Games and Traditions of Students at AGH University of Kraków
Dual Consciousness	Navigating the Sacred Magic Circle: Ritual, Play, and the Urban Transformation of a City into a Magic Circle
Dungeons & Dragons	Rolling Together: Intergenerational Dungeons & Dragons, Onboarding, and Infrastructures of Care “Writing Back” To Which Empire?: Constructing Chinese Identities in Tabletop Roleplaying Games in Singapore
Dungeons and Dragons	Dungeons and Dissonance: Coherence in GLAM Games
DVD	“The FMV Interval”: The Long Dormant Period of Full Motion Video games 1998 – 2015
dynamic customization	The Impact of Evolving Character Customization on Emotional Engagement and Player Behaviour in RPGs
dystopia	On Eating Without a Face in Arctic Eggs (2024)
E
ease	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
Eco-conscious design	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?
Eco-game	Docugame design for Conservation: Designing The Moose of Fiordland biopic game.
eco-games	From Resource to Kin: Designing for Environmental Resilience in the Okanagan Unplayable Encounters with the Anthropocene: Rethinking Scale and Agency in Game Studies Landfill: Designing for Low-Carbon Pleasures
ecocriticism	Lifting the Fog of War: Militarism, Colonialism and Encyclopedic Pleasures in Digital Play ‘Changing the Game Forever’: MapleStory’s Big Bang as a Climate Change Event "Arctictopia" and its Cozy, Casual Climate Catastrophe Monstera pocketii: The Botanical Vitality of Pokémon Ecosystems and conflict in environmental themed analog wargames
Ecofeminism	From Restoration to Extinction: Intersectional Pleasures in Ecological Game Reception
ecogame	Glitching Objects as Temporal Mediators: Hyperobject Temporality in NORCO
Ecogames	From Restoration to Extinction: Intersectional Pleasures in Ecological Game Reception “It’s Just a Hoax”: Climate Change Denial in Civilization VI’s Reddit Communities For the Trees: Envisioning Sustainable Futures Through Ecomodded Minecraft Mapping eco(politics) in ecogames On Inhabiting Nonhuman Bodies: Review of Research Perspectives From Pixels to Planet: How Game Makers Strive for Planetary Impact Beyond the Magic Circle The Absent Teacher in Eco-Games: A Theoretical Framework for Teacher Integration in Eco-Games What Now? Ecogames after Missed Climate Targets
Ecological game studies	Temporalised Hyperobjects and Affective Play in Outer Wilds Entropic Temporality & Care-Based Agency in Ecological Survival Games
ecology	Hauntecology: Arboreal Pleasures as represented in Elden Ring (2021) Hoarding, Looting, Consuming: Toward an Ecology of Care What Now? Ecogames after Missed Climate Targets
Ecomodding	For the Trees: Envisioning Sustainable Futures Through Ecomodded Minecraft
ecopolitics	Mapping eco(politics) in ecogames
ecosystems	Ecosystems and conflict in environmental themed analog wargames
EDI	Game as Inquiry: An Diffractive and Experimental Approach to Designing and Evaluating Games with a Message
Education	Can independent curated video games teach critical media literacy? Learning to E-sport: A study of learning opportunities around competitive games Collections Educator or Game Designer? Why not both? Gaming Across Cultures: Lessons from Sweden and Bhutan on Digital Education
Educational competitiveness	Competing Otherwise: Latin American Perspectives on Meritocratic Resistance in Competitive Gameplay
Educator Development	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
Egalitarian competitiveness	Competing Otherwise: Latin American Perspectives on Meritocratic Resistance in Competitive Gameplay
elderly gamers	Bridging Generations Through Play: Elderly Gamers and Identity Formation
electroencephalography	Pleasure in Play: Hyperscanning Shared Card Game Experience
Embedded-Gaming-Philanthropy	Platformization of Virtual Morality: Mediation, Emotion, and Power in Embedded Philanthropy of Chinese Mobile Games -- An empirical analysis based on SEM and fsQCA
embodied cognition	Interactivity as Embodied Pleasure: A Media-Phenomenological Reframing through “Interactive” Short Videos Intersectional Pleasures: An Empirical Study of Embodied Emotions in Video Games
embodied experience	Games and the Posthuman Condition: How game design represents memory and identity through embodied experience
embodied experiences	Against seamlessness and hedonistic loops: The cases of pause, reflect, resist, and reform, from Interaction Design into games
Embodied Interaction	A Mechanism Model for AI-Driven Narrative Loops in Embodied Gamified Interaction How to be Non-Human : A Thematic Analysis of Animal Embodiment in VR Games
Embodied play	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?
embodied relatability	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
embodied theory	Intersectional Pleasures: An Empirical Study of Embodied Emotions in Video Games
embodiment	"Identifying with a character" but "embodying an avatar": Differentiating relationships between players and their on-screen representations in video games Sketch for a Phenomenology of Gameplay (as) Performance: Bodies, Systems, Worlds Queercrip Mythmaking in Contemporary Role-Playing Games Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity Environmental Storytelling as Embodied Experience: Take What Remains of Edith Finch (2017) as an Example Queer Games Studies Material Turn: Centering Trans Bodies in Video Games Bodily Pleasures of Repetitive Labour and Rhythm in Finnish Cottage Simulator From the Invisible to Glitch: Rethinking the Possibilities of Aesthetics, Bodies, and Connection in Virtual Parties Re-evaluating the Pursuit of Hyper-Realism in Virtual Reality Game Design through the Lens of Ludo proprioceptive Dissonance Queer Resistance Through Sexual Role-play: BDSM Larp, Arousal, and Communal Resistance
emergence	Duet for Flute and Video Game: A Dynamic System for Co-Op Musical Play
emergent narratives	Let’s Play The Sims: The Un(der)studied Women’s Origins of a Media Format
emergent properties	The Assemblage of Peripheral Game Development: A Case Study of Dundee
eminist game studies	Affective Economies: Gendered play, Monetisation, and Precarity in Otome Gacha Games
emotional engagement	Diegetic Pleasure: Multimodal Immersion and Emotional Engagement in Escape Rooms
emotional geography	Walking the Psyche: Expanding the Poetics of Performative Virtual Architecture through Real-Time Game Engine
Emotional Labor	The Evolution of Emotion Work in The Sims 1-4
emotions	Artificial Pleasures and Ideological Subjectivation in Video Games: The Function of Positive Artefact Emotions in the Naturalisation of Ideology
empathetic horror	How Streaming Facilitates Affective Transformation: A Case Study of Horror Game Spectatorship
empathy	Virtual Reality in the 2020s: Peace Machine or War Machine? The Good VR Machine – postcolonial interventions in empathy, peace and justice Speculative Sentiment: The Dementia Narrative in Digital Games Reading queer autobiographical games through the lens of memory and identity studies Feeling with, or Feeling like? Empathy, Identification, and the Pleasures of Self-Reflection in Story-Driven Games
Empathy Design	The Absent Teacher in Eco-Games: A Theoretical Framework for Teacher Integration in Eco-Games
empathy games	Speculative Sentiment: The Dementia Narrative in Digital Games
empathy machine	Let’s play the ‘refugee crisis’: a postcolonial deconstruction of the refugee in post-2015 European videogames
Empire	Myth, Memory, and the Melting Pot: Anti-Imperialism in Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2
emulation	A Chronicle of Emulation: Proposed Eras for Video Game Emulators
endling	On Inhabiting Nonhuman Bodies: Review of Research Perspectives
Energy Humanities	18XX Forever: Railway Time and Fossil Play on the Tabletop
engagement	The endemic intellectual property model of Riot Games
enjoyment	How General Game Expertise Shapes Player Experience and Problem-Solving Across Different Onboarding Approaches in a Puzzle Video Game Hiking (Dis)Pleasure Island: Enjoyment & Critical Gameplay in Baby Steps
entrepreneurship education	Embodied Entrepreneurship: Exploring How an Analogue Role-Play Game Develops Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Master’s Engineering Students
Entropic temporality	Temporalised Hyperobjects and Affective Play in Outer Wilds Entropic Temporality & Care-Based Agency in Ecological Survival Games
environment	What Now? Ecogames after Missed Climate Targets Ecosystems and conflict in environmental themed analog wargames
Environmental Humanities	Cultivating History: Gender, Power, and Reflection in Cozy Botanical Games
environmental storytelling	Pixelated Ideology: Hegemonic Intermediality in Video Games Environmental Storytelling as Embodied Experience: Take What Remains of Edith Finch (2017) as an Example Neurodivergent Pleasures in Game Environmental Design
environmentalism	Unplayable Encounters with the Anthropocene: Rethinking Scale and Agency in Game Studies Landfill: Designing for Low-Carbon Pleasures
environments	Through Ruins, Dark Woodlands, White Cities: The Representation of Ancient Landscapes in Video Games
Epistemic disobedience	Epistemic Disobedience in Digital Games: Mega Man X8 16-bit case
epistemic injustice	Pleasure Not For Everyone: Epistemic Injustice Towards Ukrainian Game Studies
Epistemology	“We found another Swiss Game !” Reflexive Epistemology of Enthusiasm and Methodological Nationalism in Local Game Histories
equity	Localized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Solutions in Game Culture Environments
ergodic narrative	When Space Becomes Cardboard: Rethinking Escape Room Narratives in Tabletop Games
Ergonomics	Re-evaluating the Pursuit of Hyper-Realism in Virtual Reality Game Design through the Lens of Ludo proprioceptive Dissonance
escape room board games	When Space Becomes Cardboard: Rethinking Escape Room Narratives in Tabletop Games
escape room formats	When Space Becomes Cardboard: Rethinking Escape Room Narratives in Tabletop Games
escape rooms	The Conjurative Voice of the Player in Escape Rooms: A Framework When Space Becomes Cardboard: Rethinking Escape Room Narratives in Tabletop Games Diegetic Pleasure: Multimodal Immersion and Emotional Engagement in Escape Rooms
Esports	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity Why Do They Stay Home? The Dual Structure of Identity and Constraints in Offline Esports Consumption The domesticating role of memes in esports cultures Digital Cardboard Crack: The Gamblification of Digital Card Games
esports audience	From Play to Idols: How Superfans Shape Esports Ecologies
esports culture	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
etched	Game Parlours or Incidental Etchings? Material Traces of Incised Boardgames in Ancient South Asian Communal Spaces.
ethical design	Playable folklore - Digital games and the representation of folklore and CH
ethical gameplay	Aesthetics of Prohibition: Moral Transgression, Control, and Pleasure in Political Games Post-Heroic Play in Social Work Education: Structural Constraint and Impossible Care
Ethical play	Entropic Temporality & Care-Based Agency in Ecological Survival Games
ethics	Disco Elysium: Existential Reflection within Crisis Fun on the Eastern Front: Chris Crawford and the Pleasure of Early Digital Wargames Moneyball, but for kids: Games as vehicles for predatory prediction markets
Ethics and Citizen Participation	A Ludic PSY AI-Game-Engine for Utopia: Exploring Pl[AI] for a Viable Future
ethnicity	“Writing Back” To Which Empire?: Constructing Chinese Identities in Tabletop Roleplaying Games in Singapore
Ethnographic philosophy	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?
ethnography	From Pixels to Planet: How Game Makers Strive for Planetary Impact Beyond the Magic Circle Queering the Third Place: Dungeons & Dragons at Your Friendly Local Game Store
EU values	Games with Culture: Using Cultural Heritage as Game-Making Material
eudaimonia	From the Eudaimonic to the Demonic in Gameplay Narratives
European identity	Let’s play the ‘refugee crisis’: a postcolonial deconstruction of the refugee in post-2015 European videogames
EVGI	From Policy to Paradox: Diversity Washing, Policy Failures, and the Limits of Authentic Intersectional Pleasure in the European Video Game Industry
Existential Ethics	Existential Ethics and Tactical Realism: Sartrean Moral Frameworks in Ready or Not
Existentialism	Playing with Existence: Values in Post-Apocalyptic Gameworlds Disco Elysium: Existential Reflection within Crisis
Experiential Hermeneutics	Graphonauts: Introducing a Hybrid Human–AI Pipeline for Text-to-Game Transformation via Knowledge Graphs
experiential learning	Embodied Entrepreneurship: Exploring How an Analogue Role-Play Game Develops Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Master’s Engineering Students
experimental games	Game as Inquiry: An Diffractive and Experimental Approach to Designing and Evaluating Games with a Message
experimental play	Post-Heroic Play in Social Work Education: Structural Constraint and Impossible Care
explication	"Identifying with a character" but "embodying an avatar": Differentiating relationships between players and their on-screen representations in video games
Exploitation	Transparency Isn't Enough: How Ordinary Features of Games Contribute to Exploitative Monetization
exploration nostalgia	The Joy of Exploration: A Qualitative Study of Temporal Changes in Player Experiences
Expression	Duet for Flute and Video Game: A Dynamic System for Co-Op Musical Play Play, Faith, and Inclusion: Community Games as Tools for Learning, Expression, and Intersectional Pleasure in Catechism Education among Catholic Students
expressive games	The Braiding Framework: A Semiotic Approach to Engaging and Meaningful Games
extended reality (XR)	Exploring VR Shinrin-Yoku Stress Relief: A Comparative Study of Virtual and Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Environments
extreme wealth	"Gotta kill 'em all!" – A Game about Billionaires and Climate Obstruction
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face	On Eating Without a Face in Arctic Eggs (2024)
Failure	Disco Elysium: Existential Reflection within Crisis Hiking (Dis)Pleasure Island: Enjoyment & Critical Gameplay in Baby Steps Failure to Franchise as Profane Comedy in Dante’s Inferno: The Poem: The Game: The Book
failure condition	Reshaping Failure: The Design of Hospites Teatro’s Theatre Games
fairness	Three rights to play: Liberal, Fascist, and Compositionist Asymmetric Play in a Competitive Landscape: Attitudes and Fairness
fairy-tale	(Meta)identity: Renegotiating identity through metamodern design in Slay the Princess
Faith	Play, Faith, and Inclusion: Community Games as Tools for Learning, Expression, and Intersectional Pleasure in Catechism Education among Catholic Students
Fallout	Identity in Gaming: A Study of Player and Non-Player Character Names and Usernames in Single- and Multiplayer Modes Appalachian Necropolitics within Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Fallout 76
fan culture	Let’s Play The Sims: The Un(der)studied Women’s Origins of a Media Format
fan identity	Why Do They Stay Home? The Dual Structure of Identity and Constraints in Offline Esports Consumption
Fan resistance	The domesticating role of memes in esports cultures
fandom	I Play, Therefore I Identify: A Fan Study of Character Attachment in Honor of Kings Arcade Soldiers: Early Japanese Shooters in Dialogue with Hollywood Militarism
Fandoms	What (Meta)Games We Played: Famicon Fandoms and the Politics of Childhood in 1980s Japan Hussars of Might and Magic: The Influence of Gaming Media on Polish Gaming Canons
fantasy consoles	Nostalgic Development Practices: Fantasy Consoles and DIY Game Engines
Fantasy games	A Spellbook of Pleasures: Game Informer and the Review Discourse of the Modern Magic System
far-right	You’re Just an NPC: The Colonial Poetics of Play in Late Modernity
Fashion	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?
Feelings	Cruel Pleasure: Affective Security and Territoriality in Games
Female Game Players	“We are trapped in the mud of binary selections”: An Investigation into the Feminist Consciousness of Chinese Female Otome Game Players
Female-oriented Mobile Games	Gender Representations and Gender Dynamics: A Feminist Analysis of “Female-oriented Mobile Games” in China
feminism	Mapping women’s legacy in video game: constellation of Japanese creators in the 2000s Making Virtual Romance Real: Intimacy and Relational Labor in Otome Games Cosplay Commission “This industry has ruined me”: categorizing the experiences of Brazilian feminist gaming streamers through an intersectional approach Schrödinger’s Feminist Cat: The Positional Feminism of Five Hearts Under One Roof The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2
Feminist Consciousness	“We are trapped in the mud of binary selections”: An Investigation into the Feminist Consciousness of Chinese Female Otome Game Players
Feminist Media Studies	Gender Representations and Gender Dynamics: A Feminist Analysis of “Female-oriented Mobile Games” in China
Feminized Gameplay	The Evolution of Emotion Work in The Sims 1-4
Fictional languages	Constructing Civilizations: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Fictional Languages in Chants of Sennaar
Fictional societies	Defining Single-player Video Games NPC Societies: An Ethnographic Approach
field of video game production	Beyond necessity and passion: Crunch as a habitus in the field of video game production
fighting games	Them’s Fighting Words: The Unlikely Marriage of Language Games and Simulated Hand-to-Hand Combat
film	Feel the Force Around You: Haptic Narratology and the Problem of Focalization
Final Fantasy XIV	Old Pleasures, Dying Flames: Final Fantasy XIV and the Evolution of the MMO Genre
Finland	Towards a New Paradigm for Understanding Men and Masculinity in Gaming Desired but Also Undesired: Immigrant Game Workers in Between the Discourse of Labour Shortage and Anti-Immigration in Finland
first-person shooters	Right click to de-escalate – Call of Duty & turning propaganda into pleasure
flow	Recreational Rage Play: Exploring Frictious Player Engagement with Rage Physics Games
flow theory	What strategies for enabling flow-critical play can be derived from the game design of Taskmaster?
flow-theory	How time flies! A flow-driven design framework for educational games
Flunkyball	Flanki: Drinking Games and Traditions of Students at AGH University of Kraków
FMV	“The FMV Interval”: The Long Dormant Period of Full Motion Video games 1998 – 2015
FMV Games	Schrödinger’s Feminist Cat: The Positional Feminism of Five Hearts Under One Roof
focalization	Feel the Force Around You: Haptic Narratology and the Problem of Focalization
Foley	Soft Worlds, Sonic Seams: How Cozy Games Stitch Sound Design into Musical Score
Folk	Player Enjoyment Through Mechanical Engagement with Text in “The Séance of Blake Manor”
folk mechanics	Playable folklore - Digital games and the representation of folklore and CH
Folk theories	Player ‘superstitions’ or algorithmic literacy? Marvel Rivals players’ practices in the age of AI Matchmaking
folklore	Play as Preservation: Folklore and Mythology in The Mooseman Oneiric Timespaces: History and Image-Affects in Benign Land and The Séance of Blake Manor The Name of Janosik Will Never Perish: Górals Tradition in Game Culture Playable folklore - Digital games and the representation of folklore and CH
football	Football Without Fans: Are Matches Just for Gambling?
forensic fandom	Absent Pleasures, or Pleasure in Absence? Player Engagement in Minimalist Digital Horror Games
formalist analysis	Close-Playing War Trauma: The Tension Between Agency and Inevitability in My Child Lebensborn and Bury Me, My Love
Fortnite	Perspectives of Critical Theory on Video Game Culture and Industry
foss	Democratizing Interactive Filmmaking: A No-Code Solution for Arts Students
Fossil Capital	18XX Forever: Railway Time and Fossil Play on the Tabletop
found phone games	Absent Pleasures, or Pleasure in Absence? Player Engagement in Minimalist Digital Horror Games
Fourth-wave Feminism	Gender Representations and Gender Dynamics: A Feminist Analysis of “Female-oriented Mobile Games” in China
Frame Analysis	Making Games Sustainable – One Short Story at the Time
franchise	Failure to Franchise as Profane Comedy in Dante’s Inferno: The Poem: The Game: The Book
free software	Democratizing Interactive Filmmaking: A No-Code Solution for Arts Students
free-to-play	The Husbando Super-App: Troubling “Player Investment” with Love and Deepspace
French gaming press	Guilty (Un)pleasures: The Reception of Muriel Tramis’s Erotic Trilogy in France and the United Kingdom
friction	Recreational Rage Play: Exploring Frictious Player Engagement with Rage Physics Games Against seamlessness and hedonistic loops: The cases of pause, reflect, resist, and reform, from Interaction Design into games
Full Motion Video	“The FMV Interval”: The Long Dormant Period of Full Motion Video games 1998 – 2015
fun	Make Games No One Wants to Play
Functional Authenticity	Towards a Strategy Using the "Intervention Level Framework" in Japanese Game Archives: Integrating Material and Functional Authenticity Based on Conservation Science
furry	Playing with my imaginary friends: Character art commissions as affective play
furry fandom	Playing with my imaginary friends: Character art commissions as affective play
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gacha	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? The Husbando Super-App: Troubling “Player Investment” with Love and Deepspace Misleading omissions of loot box presence disclosures: widespread unfair commercial practices in video game advertising on social media in Ireland and the EU
gacha games	Gacha Game Collaborations and the Production of Affective Legitimacy Affective Economies: Gendered play, Monetisation, and Precarity in Otome Gacha Games
gamblification	Digital Cardboard Crack: The Gamblification of Digital Card Games Moneyball, but for kids: Games as vehicles for predatory prediction markets
Gambling	Football Without Fans: Are Matches Just for Gambling? Far from Complete Compliance: Loot Box Prevalence, Probability Disclosure, and Kompu Gacha Policy in Japanese Mobile Games Poor Compliance with Loot Box Probability Disclosure and Warning Regulations in Taiwan
Gambling-like Products	Physical Blind Boxes' Compliance with Information Disclosure Requirements: Exploring the Game-like Nature of Blind Box Consumption in the Chinese Regulatory Context
Game Accessibility Guidelines	From Checklists to Playability: A systematic mapping of player reviews to the Game Accessibility Guidelines
Game affects	Valuable Childhoods: Nostalgia, Intersectionalities, and Vintage Game Fairs
game AI	Designing Hybrid Agency: AI–Mech Collaboration in Contemporary Mecha Games
game analysis	Tracing Gender Affordances in Avatar Customization: A Methodological Framework No Good Endings: The Tragic Pleasure of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 My Cozy Hero: How Cozy Games Challenge Conventional Hero Dynamics
game analytics	Predicting Trolling Behaviors Using In-Game Timeline Data: Uncovering Divergent Mechanisms Behind AFK and Item Tier-Dropping in MOBA Games
Game Archaeology	Old Pleasures, Dying Flames: Final Fantasy XIV and the Evolution of the MMO Genre
game balance	Imbalanced Pleasures? System Design and Social Rules in the Survivors-like Game Megabonk
Game character	I Play, Therefore I Identify: A Fan Study of Character Attachment in Honor of Kings
Game characters	Between Diverse Industry and Game Characters - An Analysis of Tool-based Representation Design
Game Communities	In Mem(e)ory of Uuugggg: Mod-Users’ use of RimWorld’s Steam Workshop as a Memorial Site
game community	The Right to Play, The Right to Pleasure
game controllers	Shaping Interactions and Experiences: Investigating the Effects of a Game-Specific Custom Controller on Player Experience in a Digital Game Environment
Game Criticism	Representation, Resistance, and Moderation: The Politics of Review Bombing in Assassin’s Creed Shadows
game cultural belonging	Intersectional Pleasures and Limits of Game Cultural Participation and Belonging
game cultural participation	Intersectional Pleasures and Limits of Game Cultural Participation and Belonging
Game Cultural practices	“Remembering Play” Beyond Retro: An Analysis of YouTube Videos and Comment Data on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in South Korea
game culture	Douchebag Games: White Grievance and Reactionary Identity Formation in the Xbox Era
game design	Can independent curated video games teach critical media literacy? The Influence of Historical Theory on Historical Game’s Design Body and Game: Making and Playing a Game in Daoism Collections Educator or Game Designer? Why not both? Temporal Features and Player Values: A Means-Ends Account of Time in Digital Play Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games The Right to Play, The Right to Pleasure Shaping Interactions and Experiences: Investigating the Effects of a Game-Specific Custom Controller on Player Experience in a Digital Game Environment Combat System Design for Action Games: Key Concepts and Styles It’s all a skinner box? Typical core loop and Operant Conditioning The Impact of Evolving Character Customization on Emotional Engagement and Player Behaviour in RPGs How to be Non-Human : A Thematic Analysis of Animal Embodiment in VR Games On the Mathematics hidden behind games Landfill: Designing for Low-Carbon Pleasures When Localization Meets Game Design: Strengthening Collaboration From Pixels to Planet: How Game Makers Strive for Planetary Impact Beyond the Magic Circle Re-evaluating the Pursuit of Hyper-Realism in Virtual Reality Game Design through the Lens of Ludo proprioceptive Dissonance Docugame design for Conservation: Designing The Moose of Fiordland biopic game. Introducing The Comet Cock, a Murderous AI Dating Sim The Convergence of Historical Game Design and Digital Heritage Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies Why We Can’t Rely on GDC Talks: Accountability in Developer Intent Brazilian Indie games and hyperlocal identity: analyzing culture, design choices, and Steam reception in Gaucho and the Grasslands Twenty Years of Design Patterns in Games Against seamlessness and hedonistic loops: The cases of pause, reflect, resist, and reform, from Interaction Design into games The Multidimensional Spectrum of Abstraction, Realism and Cultural Meaning in Serious Games
Game design education	Beyond the Studio: Long-term Career Trajectories of Swedish Game Graduates
game design history	Lifting the Fog of War: Militarism, Colonialism and Encyclopedic Pleasures in Digital Play
Game Design Theory	The Trustworthy Knowledge DLC: A Game-Design-Theory Expansion Pack for Public Services
game development	Temporal Features and Player Values: A Means-Ends Account of Time in Digital Play Nostalgic Development Practices: Fantasy Consoles and DIY Game Engines Hobbyist Developers: Studying Notable Nintendo DS Homebrew Games Stranger in a Strange Land: A South African Perspective on the Evolution of British Game Development Playing with the Past: The Pleasures of Nostalgic Design with Playdate Translating the Game Space Model from Analytic Framework to Practical Methodology for Game Development and Research Working Conditions and Mental Health among Professionals with Disabilities in Brazilian Video Game Production
game development culture	The Foreigner, The Joker: Dual Identity of Migrant Game Industry Workers in South Korea
Game diaspora	Playing Across the Strait: Chinese WoW Diasporas on Taiwanese Servers
Game Education	Global Games Education Now: Regional Realities and Pedagogical Innovations
Game engines	Nostalgic Development Practices: Fantasy Consoles and DIY Game Engines
Game Environment	Shan-shui Game: Worldbuilding for a Pluriverse Through Relational Game Assets
game ethics pedagogy	Applied ethics techniques for video game ethics
game ethics research	Applied ethics techniques for video game ethics
game experience	Pleasure in Play: Hyperscanning Shared Card Game Experience
game expertise	How General Game Expertise Shapes Player Experience and Problem-Solving Across Different Onboarding Approaches in a Puzzle Video Game
game exploration	The Joy of Exploration: A Qualitative Study of Temporal Changes in Player Experiences
Game fairs	Valuable Childhoods: Nostalgia, Intersectionalities, and Vintage Game Fairs
game historiography	Tarot, Money, and Mnemonics: Histories of Card Games Beyond Quantifiable-outcome Games
game history	Experiences of Age and Gender in Early UK Tabletop Role-Playing Magazines Old Pleasures, Dying Flames: Final Fantasy XIV and the Evolution of the MMO Genre Swinging Through History: Rope Mechanics in 2D games
Game Industry	Making Games Sustainable – One Short Story at the Time
Game industry attrition	Beyond the Studio: Long-term Career Trajectories of Swedish Game Graduates
Game Informer	A Spellbook of Pleasures: Game Informer and the Review Discourse of the Modern Magic System
game jam	That’s My Jam: Understanding the Value of Canadian Game Jams
Game Jams	Co-Producing Play of the Past in the Present: Intergenerational Community Connection through Historical Video Games Extended Abstract - Intersectional Pleasures: Reframing the Value of BIPOC Game Studies and Production
Game journalism	A Spellbook of Pleasures: Game Informer and the Review Discourse of the Modern Magic System Hussars of Might and Magic: The Influence of Gaming Media on Polish Gaming Canons
Game Literacies	Exploring Critical Utopian Gaming Pedagogy in a youth club in Barcelona
game live-streaming	“No Way, Did You See That Move?”: Constructing the Entertaining Spectacle in Game Live Streaming
Game Localisation	Genshin Impact: Cultural hybridisation, localisation and contra-flow of cultural production in China's open-world role-playing game
game localization	On the World Videogame: Language, Nation, and Reality Across Borders
game making	Playing with ADHD: Exploring Crip resonances between ADHD and game-making Extended Abstract - Intersectional Pleasures: Reframing the Value of BIPOC Game Studies and Production
Game mechanics	Playing together: analysis of gaming and sociocultural practices in Cooperative Games Bodily Pleasures of Repetitive Labour and Rhythm in Finnish Cottage Simulator Games analysis, Transforming Pixels into Plates: Harnessing Game Strategies for Sustainable Food Practices. The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2 Swinging Through History: Rope Mechanics in 2D games
game mods	Epistemic Disobedience in Digital Games: Mega Man X8 16-bit case
game narration	The Classical Roman Reception in Genshin Impact: Within the region of the Sea of Bygone Eras
Game narrative	From Hopscotch to Digital Games: The Pleasure and Dilemma of Interactivity Have Generative AIs Made Games More Fun? The Past and Present of Text-Based Generative AI in Games
game organizations	Localized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Solutions in Game Culture Environments
Game Philosophy	No Good Endings: The Tragic Pleasure of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
game poems	From Play to Poetics: Reconfiguring Pleasure through Defamiliarisation in Game Poems
Game practices	Playing together: analysis of gaming and sociocultural practices in Cooperative Games
game production	The Infinite Game in the Engine of Control: Proletarianization, Platform Capitalism, and the Future of Playful Pleasure The Social Production of Space Between Global Play and Local Production in Southern European Digital Games Playing with ADHD: Exploring Crip resonances between ADHD and game-making Making Games Sustainable – One Short Story at the Time 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 From Pixels to Planet: How Game Makers Strive for Planetary Impact Beyond the Magic Circle Between Diverse Industry and Game Characters - An Analysis of Tool-based Representation Design
game programming	Nostalgic Ludopopulism and Neoreactionary Movements in Game Development
game replays	The Joy of Exploration: A Qualitative Study of Temporal Changes in Player Experiences
game retelling	Towards a New Player Discourse: A Close Reading of Let’s Play Videos as Retellings
Game reviews	A Spellbook of Pleasures: Game Informer and the Review Discourse of the Modern Magic System
Game Rules	Rules as Ontological Structures: A Three-Layer Framework for Understanding Freedom and Constraint in Digital Games
game sketching	Making and Playing for Catharsis
Game sound	Soft Worlds, Sonic Seams: How Cozy Games Stitch Sound Design into Musical Score
game space	Translating the Game Space Model from Analytic Framework to Practical Methodology for Game Development and Research
game streaming	How Streaming Facilitates Affective Transformation: A Case Study of Horror Game Spectatorship
game studies	Descent Into Video Games Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games From Play to Poetics: Reconfiguring Pleasure through Defamiliarisation in Game Poems The Invisibility of Women Streamers in Game Studies Artistic In-Game Photography as Media of Care Disclosure and the “Secret Underground Movement” - Analysing Queerness in Disco Elysium and its Place in the Quotidian On the Mathematics hidden behind games How to Play Academia: Conceptual and methodological observations Pleasure Not For Everyone: Epistemic Injustice Towards Ukrainian Game Studies
game studies history	How do we afford gaming? a history of affordances and its ‘player’
game temporality	Time in Digital Games: A Comparative Map of Temporal Constructs
game text analysis	Looping Across Genres: How Time Loops, Roguelikes, and Cyclical Levels Shape Narrative Structure
game theory	Time in Digital Games: A Comparative Map of Temporal Constructs On the Mathematics hidden behind games
game time	Temporalised Hyperobjects and Affective Play in Outer Wilds Time in Digital Games: A Comparative Map of Temporal Constructs Temporal Features and Player Values: A Means-Ends Account of Time in Digital Play
game work	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
game-based learning	Play in Context: Adapting Game-Based Learning for African Cultural Frameworks How time flies! A flow-driven design framework for educational games Exploring Critical Utopian Gaming Pedagogy in a youth club in Barcelona Embodied Entrepreneurship: Exploring How an Analogue Role-Play Game Develops Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Master’s Engineering Students
game-studies methodology	Game-Mechanics Archaeological Method: The Case of Affinity-Mechanism Archaeology
Gameanalysis	Games analysis, Transforming Pixels into Plates: Harnessing Game Strategies for Sustainable Food Practices.
GameHearts Project	From Policy to Paradox: Diversity Washing, Policy Failures, and the Limits of Authentic Intersectional Pleasure in the European Video Game Industry
gameplay	Aiōn and Digital Play: Toward a Cosmo-Phenomenological Approach Duet for Flute and Video Game: A Dynamic System for Co-Op Musical Play Is gameplay fun after all? Queer Indigenous resistances through gameplay It’s all a skinner box? Typical core loop and Operant Conditioning Where are the Girls’ Games? Trends in Themes, Aesthetic, and Gameplay
gameplay performance	Sketch for a Phenomenology of Gameplay (as) Performance: Bodies, Systems, Worlds
gameplay phenomenology	Sketch for a Phenomenology of Gameplay (as) Performance: Bodies, Systems, Worlds
gamer identity	The Reinvention of Hardcore: Authenticity and Identity Among Korean “Real” Gamers Bridging Generations Through Play: Elderly Gamers and Identity Formation
Gamer masculinity	Towards a New Paradigm for Understanding Men and Masculinity in Gaming Visual Representation of Alternative Masculinities in a Mexican Gaymer Group’s Instagram Presence
Gamergate	Towards a Political Economy of Gamergate
games	Feel the Force Around You: Haptic Narratology and the Problem of Focalization Gameful disconnection: how digital detox and productivity apps blend play, work, and profit Player Enjoyment Through Mechanical Engagement with Text in “The Séance of Blake Manor” Designing Virtual Reality Games About Grief: Reflections from Psychology and Healthcare Professionals
Games against death	Games Against Death
Games analysis	Death-Themed Games and Playing the "Good Death"
games culture	Towards a Political Economy of Gamergate
games development	An exploration of methods for preserving live-service videogames: the role and responsibility of the developer-curator
games for culture	Games with Culture: Using Cultural Heritage as Game-Making Material
games history	An exploration of methods for preserving live-service videogames: the role and responsibility of the developer-curator Powered by GameSpy: Theorizing and Analyzing the GameSpy Network As Platform Infrastructure “Shut up and let us make the game” Game developers, preserving games, and the dynamics of corporate governance
games preservation	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
games through culture	Games with Culture: Using Cultural Heritage as Game-Making Material
gameworkers	Understanding Game Monetization in China from a Gameworker Perspective
Gamification	Platformization of Virtual Morality: Mediation, Emotion, and Power in Embedded Philanthropy of Chinese Mobile Games -- An empirical analysis based on SEM and fsQCA Exploring Videogame Design in Academic Contexts: A Research-Creation Approach to Ideation Games analysis, Transforming Pixels into Plates: Harnessing Game Strategies for Sustainable Food Practices. Gameful disconnection: how digital detox and productivity apps blend play, work, and profit
Gamification Structure	A Mechanism Model for AI-Driven Narrative Loops in Embodied Gamified Interaction
Gaming	“Remembering Play” Beyond Retro: An Analysis of YouTube Videos and Comment Data on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in South Korea
gaming behaviour	Gaming Behaviours as Windows into Implicit Psychological Needs and Motivations
gaming canons	Hussars of Might and Magic: The Influence of Gaming Media on Polish Gaming Canons
gaming capital	Bridging Generations Through Play: Elderly Gamers and Identity Formation
Gaming Community	Community Resilience and Nostalgia: the case of the Metal Slug saga
gaming culture	Intersectional complexity between players and non-players in Bhutan
gaming events	Winter is gaming: study of gamers' habits throughout the year
gaming habbits	Winter is gaming: study of gamers' habits throughout the year
Gaming Law	Child Safety in Platform Gaming: Balancing Protection and Freedom
Gaming literacy	When Localization Meets Game Design: Strengthening Collaboration
Gaming men	Towards a New Paradigm for Understanding Men and Masculinity in Gaming
gaming platforms	Child Safety in Platform Gaming: Balancing Protection and Freedom Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic
gaming pleasure	Diablerie of a Lore: A Comparative Analysis of Gaming Pleasure in Bloodlines and Bloodlines 2
gastronomic crimes	“My France Hurts:” Rethinking Cultural Odor in Pokémon Legends: Z-A
gaymer	Visual Representation of Alternative Masculinities in a Mexican Gaymer Group’s Instagram Presence
GDC talks	Why We Can’t Rely on GDC Talks: Accountability in Developer Intent
Geek masculinity	Towards a New Paradigm for Understanding Men and Masculinity in Gaming
gender	Dressing Against Code: How Twitch Plays with/on Green Screen Shorts Game Streaming and Motives of Play Making Virtual Romance Real: Intimacy and Relational Labor in Otome Games Cosplay Commission “This industry has ruined me”: categorizing the experiences of Brazilian feminist gaming streamers through an intersectional approach The Invisibility of Women Streamers in Game Studies Female Machamp, Male Lopunny, and Bearded Dragon Gym Leaders Who May Like it Rough: Identarian Openness in Pokémon “Default” Leadership – Critiquing Normative Leader Identities in Single-Player Videogames The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2 Experiences of Age and Gender in Early UK Tabletop Role-Playing Magazines Cultivating History: Gender, Power, and Reflection in Cozy Botanical Games Make it Cuddle, Make it Fight, Market it Pink: Virtual Pets and Affective Economies of Gendered Play Producing Games, Reproducing Inequalities: gender and labour in the Argentine Video Game Market. Affective Economies: Gendered play, Monetisation, and Precarity in Otome Gacha Games Queering the Third Place: Dungeons & Dragons at Your Friendly Local Game Store
gender affordance	Tracing Gender Affordances in Avatar Customization: A Methodological Framework
gender and political agency	Ambivalent Alliance: How History, Memory, and Gameplay Reshape Women’s Political Legacy
Gender and video games	Argentine video games: work processes, production conditions and symbolic disputes from the Global South.
gender expression	Tracing Gender Affordances in Avatar Customization: A Methodological Framework
gender representation	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
Gender Representations and Dynamics	Gender Representations and Gender Dynamics: A Feminist Analysis of “Female-oriented Mobile Games” in China
gender studies	Playing on Her Terms: Otome Gamers’ Negotiations with Hegemonic Sexual Scripts in China
gendered game culture	Pleasures Under Pressure: Misogyny, Moral Outrage, and Creative Contraction in Contemporary Chinese Game Culture
generative agents	The Algorithmic Hostess: Social Mediation, Affective Discipline, and Sanitized Pleasures of Generative AI NPCs in Petit Planet From Player-Centered to Agent-Centered: A New Paradigm for Interactive Narrative in the Age of Large Language Models
Generative AI	Have Generative AIs Made Games More Fun? The Past and Present of Text-Based Generative AI in Games Global Games Education Now: Regional Realities and Pedagogical Innovations
genius loci	The Place of the Marginalized: Witchers and Dwelling in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Genre	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 Tracing the political economy of the "microgame"
Genshin Impact	China’s Game on Ancient Japan: Pleasure, Identity, and Poetry from “Man’yōshū” in “Genshin Impact” Genshin Impact: Cultural hybridisation, localisation and contra-flow of cultural production in China's open-world role-playing game The Classical Roman Reception in Genshin Impact: Within the region of the Sea of Bygone Eras
Getting Over It	Recreational Rage Play: Exploring Frictious Player Engagement with Rage Physics Games
Ghosts	A glossary of haunted games
Girl games	The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2
girls’ games	Where are the Girls’ Games? Trends in Themes, Aesthetic, and Gameplay
GLAM	Collections Educator or Game Designer? Why not both?
GLAMs	Dungeons and Dissonance: Coherence in GLAM Games
glitch	From the Invisible to Glitch: Rethinking the Possibilities of Aesthetics, Bodies, and Connection in Virtual Parties No Faces in the Flop Farm: Data Colonialism, Glitchfrastructure, and Affective Solidarity in Minds Beneath Us Examining Jank as Design Through Casual Gameplay
Glitch Aesthetics	Unruly Forces and Marginalized Pleasures: Exploring Glitch Aesthetics and Agency in Alternative Control Schemes
Global north-global south	Nostalgia-play in Chilean tabletop role-playing communities: Reflections to analyse game practices in a global north-global south dialogue.
Global Perspectives	Global Games Education Now: Regional Realities and Pedagogical Innovations
Global South	Rethinking City Builders from Latin America: A Cultural Study of Urbek City Builder
globalisation	Stranger in a Strange Land: A South African Perspective on the Evolution of British Game Development
Good death	Death-Themed Games and Playing the "Good Death"
governance	Dressing Against Code: How Twitch Plays with/on Green Screen Shorts The domesticating role of memes in esports cultures
graffiti	Game Parlours or Incidental Etchings? Material Traces of Incised Boardgames in Ancient South Asian Communal Spaces.
Gramsci	Pixelated Ideology: Hegemonic Intermediality in Video Games
Grand Theft Auto	Grand Theft Auto: National Identity, Transnational Production, and the Ambivalent Politics of Play
graphics processing units	Now Your Playing with Graphics Processing Power: Nvidia and the Discursive Pleasure of Artificial Intelligence
grassroot esports	Not Just Competition: Building Inclusive Communities through Grassroots Esports in Norway
green screens	Dressing Against Code: How Twitch Plays with/on Green Screen Shorts
grief	Designing Virtual Reality Games About Grief: Reflections from Psychology and Healthcare Professionals
grief and mourning	Games Against Death
Górals	The Name of Janosik Will Never Perish: Górals Tradition in Game Culture
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habitus	Forms of self-reflexivity in team hero shooters and beyond Beyond necessity and passion: Crunch as a habitus in the field of video game production
Hallyu Culture	Schrödinger’s Feminist Cat: The Positional Feminism of Five Hearts Under One Roof
Handheld Games	Playing with the Past: The Pleasures of Nostalgic Design with Playdate
Happiness Scripts	The Evolution of Emotion Work in The Sims 1-4
Haptics	Haptic Dialects: Translating Pleasure Between Adaptive Controllers and Universal Design for Disabled Players Feel the Force Around You: Haptic Narratology and the Problem of Focalization
hardcore gamers	The Reinvention of Hardcore: Authenticity and Identity Among Korean “Real” Gamers
Haunting	A glossary of haunted games
hauntology	Hauntecology: Arboreal Pleasures as represented in Elden Ring (2021) Ghost in the Dreamcast: Ludomusical Hauntology and Pleasures of a 90s Cross-Franchise Specter
Health Science Education	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
hegemonic masculinity	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
hegemony	Pixelated Ideology: Hegemonic Intermediality in Video Games Mythic Alternatives: Mythological Mechanics Beyond Violence
hell	“Perhaps, this is Hell”: Descent Narratives in Video Games
Helldivers 2	Intersectional Pleasures of Anomie: Helldivers and Democracy at Play
heritage	Mapping women’s legacy in video game: constellation of Japanese creators in the 2000s China’s Game on Ancient Japan: Pleasure, Identity, and Poetry from “Man’yōshū” in “Genshin Impact”
Heritage and Diaspora	Sacred Places: Designing 360° Narrative VR Games for Hybrid Use in CAVE and Mobile HMD Setups
Heritage Studies	Play as Preservation: Folklore and Mythology in The Mooseman
heritage-based games	Playable folklore - Digital games and the representation of folklore and CH
hero's journey	The Hero with a Thousand Misattributions: Scrutinizing the Hero's Journey in Videogame Discourse
heroes	My Cozy Hero: How Cozy Games Challenge Conventional Hero Dynamics
Heroes of Might and Magic	Hussars of Might and Magic: The Influence of Gaming Media on Polish Gaming Canons
Hidden transcript	A House Is Not a Home: Queergaming and Recuperative History in Molly House
hierarchy	Posthuman Cuteness: Affective and agentic tensions
higher education pedagogy	Embodied Entrepreneurship: Exploring How an Analogue Role-Play Game Develops Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Master’s Engineering Students
higher education research	How to Play Academia: Conceptual and methodological observations
highwaymen	The Name of Janosik Will Never Perish: Górals Tradition in Game Culture
historical analysis	Hobbyist Developers: Studying Notable Nintendo DS Homebrew Games A Chronicle of Emulation: Proposed Eras for Video Game Emulators Beyond the Video Game Nasties: Censorship and the Online Safety Act
historical fictions	Fun on the Eastern Front: Chris Crawford and the Pleasure of Early Digital Wargames
Historical Game	Docugame design for Conservation: Designing The Moose of Fiordland biopic game.
historical game studies	Making the Past Count: Developing quantitative measures for past-player experience Time vs. History in JRPGs Spectating the Samurai: Performing and Preserving History through Twitch Oneiric Timespaces: History and Image-Affects in Benign Land and The Séance of Blake Manor
historical games	Ambivalent Alliance: How History, Memory, and Gameplay Reshape Women’s Political Legacy Fun on the Eastern Front: Chris Crawford and the Pleasure of Early Digital Wargames Myth, Memory, and the Melting Pot: Anti-Imperialism in Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 The Convergence of Historical Game Design and Digital Heritage
Historical simulation games	To Play (or Not to Play) the Nakba. Representing the First Arab-Israeli War in Historical Boardgames
historical theory	The Influence of Historical Theory on Historical Game’s Design
Historical video games	Co-Producing Play of the Past in the Present: Intergenerational Community Connection through Historical Video Games
historiographical games	The Convergence of Historical Game Design and Digital Heritage
historism	The Influence of Historical Theory on Historical Game’s Design
History	“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 Intersectional complexity between players and non-players in Bhutan Time vs. History in JRPGs Spectating the Samurai: Performing and Preserving History through Twitch Player Enjoyment Through Mechanical Engagement with Text in “The Séance of Blake Manor” Cultivating History: Gender, Power, and Reflection in Cozy Botanical Games
history of games	The Sumerian Game: Study of the construction, use and reception of foreign past imaginaries in video games Fun on the Eastern Front: Chris Crawford and the Pleasure of Early Digital Wargames
hobby	Hobbyist Developers: Studying Notable Nintendo DS Homebrew Games
holarchic narrative design	Aesthetics of Holarchic Narrative Design: Participatory and Intersectional Pleasures of Game Storyworlds
holarchic storytelling	Aesthetics of Holarchic Narrative Design: Participatory and Intersectional Pleasures of Game Storyworlds
Hollywood	Arcade Soldiers: Early Japanese Shooters in Dialogue with Hollywood Militarism
home-brew	Dungeons and Dissonance: Coherence in GLAM Games
Home-console-based multiplayer gaming	How Can an Unfinished Multiplayer Networking Scheme Produce Pleasure? XBAND as an Affective Infrastructure
Honor of Kings	I Play, Therefore I Identify: A Fan Study of Character Attachment in Honor of Kings
Horror	Player Enjoyment Through Mechanical Engagement with Text in “The Séance of Blake Manor”
Human-AI Co-creation	A Ludic PSY AI-Game-Engine for Utopia: Exploring Pl[AI] for a Viable Future
Human-AI Cooperation	Graphonauts: Introducing a Hybrid Human–AI Pipeline for Text-to-Game Transformation via Knowledge Graphs
human-computer interaction	Shaping Interactions and Experiences: Investigating the Effects of a Game-Specific Custom Controller on Player Experience in a Digital Game Environment
humanities game analysis	Killjoy Play: Illness, Disability, and No-Fun Pleasures in Video Games
Humanities teaching	The Texture of Play: Feeling Your Way Through Teaching with Games
human–machine collaboration	Designing Hybrid Agency: AI–Mech Collaboration in Contemporary Mecha Games
humour	Flesh, Plastic, Stone: The Pleasure of Recontextualised Character Models Playing (with) Toxicity and Irony on Twitch: The ambiguous case of the “Court of the Bans” How Streaming Facilitates Affective Transformation: A Case Study of Horror Game Spectatorship Veggie Vigilantes: Queering Crime Tropes in Cosy Comedy Games Failure to Franchise as Profane Comedy in Dante’s Inferno: The Poem: The Game: The Book
hybrid agency	Designing Hybrid Agency: AI–Mech Collaboration in Contemporary Mecha Games
Hybrid boardgames	Player Experience of Hybridity in a Narrative Boardgame
hybrid media	From Play to Poetics: Reconfiguring Pleasure through Defamiliarisation in Game Poems Parasocial Incidental Politics: How Twitch Users Navigate Political Content and Misinformation in Livestreaming Environments
Hyperlocal games	Brazilian Indie games and hyperlocal identity: analyzing culture, design choices, and Steam reception in Gaucho and the Grasslands
Hyperobject	Glitching Objects as Temporal Mediators: Hyperobject Temporality in NORCO
Hyperobjects	Temporalised Hyperobjects and Affective Play in Outer Wilds
hyperscanning	Pleasure in Play: Hyperscanning Shared Card Game Experience
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Ideation	Exploring Videogame Design in Academic Contexts: A Research-Creation Approach to Ideation
identification	"Identifying with a character" but "embodying an avatar": Differentiating relationships between players and their on-screen representations in video games I Play, Therefore I Identify: A Fan Study of Character Attachment in Honor of Kings
identitarian gaps	Female Machamp, Male Lopunny, and Bearded Dragon Gym Leaders Who May Like it Rough: Identarian Openness in Pokémon
identity	Identity in Gaming: A Study of Player and Non-Player Character Names and Usernames in Single- and Multiplayer Modes Multilayered Queerness in Videogames: Mechanics, Aesthetics, Narrative, and Production Identity Play as Identity Work: Representation, Identity Integration, and Possible Selves in Digital Games “Default” Leadership – Critiquing Normative Leader Identities in Single-Player Videogames Reading queer autobiographical games through the lens of memory and identity studies Stranger in a Strange Land: A South African Perspective on the Evolution of British Game Development
identity and belonging	The Place of the Marginalized: Witchers and Dwelling in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Identity Politics	Label Offensive and Defensive in Interest-Based Battlefields: Identity Politics and Public Opinion Polarization in China’s ACG Communities
identity transformation	Making Virtual Romance Real: Intimacy and Relational Labor in Otome Games Cosplay Commission
ideological game design	When a Game Is More Than 'Just a Game': Metanarrative Integration Tools in Video Games
ideology	Artificial Pleasures and Ideological Subjectivation in Video Games: The Function of Positive Artefact Emotions in the Naturalisation of Ideology Right click to de-escalate – Call of Duty & turning propaganda into pleasure
ideology critique	Game-Mechanics Archaeological Method: The Case of Affinity-Mechanism Archaeology
idle games	Quiet Play: How Desktop Moyu Games Carve Out Enjoyment Inside Workplace
idleness	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
idol culture	From Play to Idols: How Superfans Shape Esports Ecologies
illness	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
illness in video games	Killjoy Play: Illness, Disability, and No-Fun Pleasures in Video Games
imagined community	Playing Home: Gaming Practices and Imagined Communities among Chinese Overseas Students
immersion	The Joy of Exploration: A Qualitative Study of Temporal Changes in Player Experiences Diegetic Pleasure: Multimodal Immersion and Emotional Engagement in Escape Rooms
immigration	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
impact games	From Pixels to Planet: How Game Makers Strive for Planetary Impact Beyond the Magic Circle
Implicit motivation	Gaming Behaviours as Windows into Implicit Psychological Needs and Motivations
implied player(s)	How do we afford gaming? a history of affordances and its ‘player’
improvisation	Duet for Flute and Video Game: A Dynamic System for Co-Op Musical Play
in-game photography	Artistic In-Game Photography as Media of Care
in-game purchases	My Avatar Made Me Buy it: The Interaction of Avatar and User Gender in Shaping Consumer Behaviour
inaction	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
incised	Game Parlours or Incidental Etchings? Material Traces of Incised Boardgames in Ancient South Asian Communal Spaces.
inclusion	Not Just Competition: Building Inclusive Communities through Grassroots Esports in Norway Intersectional Pleasures and Limits of Game Cultural Participation and Belonging WoW gets Trumped: Politics and Play in Azeroth during the Trump Era Localized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Solutions in Game Culture Environments Play, Faith, and Inclusion: Community Games as Tools for Learning, Expression, and Intersectional Pleasure in Catechism Education among Catholic Students
Inclusive Design	When AI Promises to “Cure” You: Individual Experiences, Systemic Biases, and Community Action for Marginalized Players in Video Games Between Diverse Industry and Game Characters - An Analysis of Tool-based Representation Design
inclusivity	Where are the Girls’ Games? Trends in Themes, Aesthetic, and Gameplay
Independent game development	Argentine video games: work processes, production conditions and symbolic disputes from the Global South.
independent games	The Name of Janosik Will Never Perish: Górals Tradition in Game Culture
indie game	Can independent curated video games teach critical media literacy?
indie games	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
Indigenous game adaptation	Between Pleasure and Harm: Transcreating a Serious Game on Older Adult
Indigenous Knowledge	From Resource to Kin: Designing for Environmental Resilience in the Okanagan
Indigenous players	Is gameplay fun after all? Queer Indigenous resistances through gameplay
Industry	Multilayered Queerness in Videogames: Mechanics, Aesthetics, Narrative, and Production The Assemblage of Peripheral Game Development: A Case Study of Dundee
Infinite Play	The Infinite Game in the Engine of Control: Proletarianization, Platform Capitalism, and the Future of Playful Pleasure
Infinity Nikki	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?
Informal Game Economies	Counterfeit Circuits: Decolonial Practices and the Rise of Video Games in Brazil
information disclosure	Misleading omissions of loot box presence disclosures: widespread unfair commercial practices in video game advertising on social media in Ireland and the EU
Informing	Player Experience of Hybridity in a Narrative Boardgame
Instructor experience	The Texture of Play: Feeling Your Way Through Teaching with Games
instrumental play	Football Without Fans: Are Matches Just for Gambling?
intangible heritage	Games with Culture: Using Cultural Heritage as Game-Making Material
intellectual property	A World to Build: World-building and Capitalism in Games The endemic intellectual property model of Riot Games
Intention	Intention, Interpretation, and the Sensory Life of Queerness: Reading Reception in Bioware’s Dragon Age Games
Intentionality	The Liminal Capacity of Code - Connecting Developer Intentions and Player Experience in Early Video Games
Interaction	Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies Pleasure Under Pressure: Laughter, Learning, and Competitive Play in Professional Wargaming
interaction design	Against seamlessness and hedonistic loops: The cases of pause, reflect, resist, and reform, from Interaction Design into games
Interactive	Player Enjoyment Through Mechanical Engagement with Text in “The Séance of Blake Manor”
interactive art	From Play to Poetics: Reconfiguring Pleasure through Defamiliarisation in Game Poems
interactive film	Democratizing Interactive Filmmaking: A No-Code Solution for Arts Students
interactive historiography	Ambivalent Alliance: How History, Memory, and Gameplay Reshape Women’s Political Legacy
interactive movies	“The FMV Interval”: The Long Dormant Period of Full Motion Video games 1998 – 2015
Interactive Museum	Playable Heritage: Wu Hua Mi Xin as an Interactive Museum within China’s Digital Culture and Museum Development
interactive narrative	From Player-Centered to Agent-Centered: A New Paradigm for Interactive Narrative in the Age of Large Language Models
interactive ritual	“No Way, Did You See That Move?”: Constructing the Entertaining Spectacle in Game Live Streaming
interactive storytelling	Looping Across Genres: How Time Loops, Roguelikes, and Cyclical Levels Shape Narrative Structure
interactivity	Interactivity as Embodied Pleasure: A Media-Phenomenological Reframing through “Interactive” Short Videos From Hopscotch to Digital Games: The Pleasure and Dilemma of Interactivity Duet for Flute and Video Game: A Dynamic System for Co-Op Musical Play “No Way, Did You See That Move?”: Constructing the Entertaining Spectacle in Game Live Streaming
interdisciplinarity	Six Positive Words for Talking about Theory in Games Research (in Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity)
Interdisciplinary studies	Videogame Spatial Cinematics: Towards an Interdisciplinary Framework for Analysing Spatial Cinematic Environments in Contemporary Games
interfaces	Nostalgic Development Practices: Fantasy Consoles and DIY Game Engines
intergenerational connection	Co-Producing Play of the Past in the Present: Intergenerational Community Connection through Historical Video Games
intergenerational play	Bridging Generations Through Play: Elderly Gamers and Identity Formation Rolling Together: Intergenerational Dungeons & Dragons, Onboarding, and Infrastructures of Care
intermedial performance	Walking the Psyche: Expanding the Poetics of Performative Virtual Architecture through Real-Time Game Engine
intermediality	Pixelated Ideology: Hegemonic Intermediality in Video Games Between Punches and Flying Attacks: Ludonarrative Imaginaries in 1980s Beat ’em Up Games When Space Becomes Cardboard: Rethinking Escape Room Narratives in Tabletop Games
interpassivity	Quiet Play: How Desktop Moyu Games Carve Out Enjoyment Inside Workplace
interpretation	The Relationship Between Signs and Context: Semiotic Meaning-Making in Digital Games
intersectional aesthetic	Aesthetics of Holarchic Narrative Design: Participatory and Intersectional Pleasures of Game Storyworlds
intersectional games	Post-Heroic Play in Social Work Education: Structural Constraint and Impossible Care
Intersectional identities	Valuable Childhoods: Nostalgia, Intersectionalities, and Vintage Game Fairs
Intersectional Impasse	PHARMACOLOGICAL PRAXIS: A LUDONARRATIVE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE INTERSECTIONAL IMPASSE
Intersectional Pleasure	Intersectional Pleasures: An Empirical Study of Embodied Emotions in Video Games Unlocking Pleasure: The Material Politics of "Backdoors" in Chinese Console Gaming Extended Abstract - Intersectional Pleasures: Reframing the Value of BIPOC Game Studies and Production Play, Faith, and Inclusion: Community Games as Tools for Learning, Expression, and Intersectional Pleasure in Catechism Education among Catholic Students
Intersectional Pleasures	The Trustworthy Knowledge DLC: A Game-Design-Theory Expansion Pack for Public Services
Intersectionality	From Checklists to Playability: A systematic mapping of player reviews to the Game Accessibility Guidelines Rolling Together: Intergenerational Dungeons & Dragons, Onboarding, and Infrastructures of Care Haptic Dialects: Translating Pleasure Between Adaptive Controllers and Universal Design for Disabled Players Disco Elysium: Existential Reflection within Crisis Portraying Unfavorable Sociocultural Circumstances Through the Videoludic Picaresque From Player-Centered to Agent-Centered: A New Paradigm for Interactive Narrative in the Age of Large Language Models “Default” Leadership – Critiquing Normative Leader Identities in Single-Player Videogames Pleasure and Intersectionality in Queer Dating-Sims: an Autoethnographic Research-Creation Perspective Queer Resistance Through Sexual Role-play: BDSM Larp, Arousal, and Communal Resistance
intersubjectivity	Devil, Mecha, Implant：A Media Archaeological Study of ‘Flesh Modification’
intertextuality	The Braiding Framework: A Semiotic Approach to Engaging and Meaningful Games "Cuz She is My Daughter": How Players Navigate Ludo-Narrative Dissonance “Perhaps, this is Hell”: Descent Narratives in Video Games Distorting Culture: Memetic Play and Pleasures in Analogue Game Remediation
Intervention Level Framework	Towards a Strategy Using the "Intervention Level Framework" in Japanese Game Archives: Integrating Material and Functional Authenticity Based on Conservation Science
interviews	Stranger in a Strange Land: A South African Perspective on the Evolution of British Game Development Playing with the Past: The Pleasures of Nostalgic Design with Playdate
Intimacy	A History of Non-Violence. Symbiosis and Care Work in L.O.L.: Lack of Love and Spiritfarer Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
investment	The Husbando Super-App: Troubling “Player Investment” with Love and Deepspace
Ireland	Misleading omissions of loot box presence disclosures: widespread unfair commercial practices in video game advertising on social media in Ireland and the EU
Irish	Player Enjoyment Through Mechanical Engagement with Text in “The Séance of Blake Manor”
Irish studies	Oneiric Timespaces: History and Image-Affects in Benign Land and The Séance of Blake Manor
Irony	Playing (with) Toxicity and Irony on Twitch: The ambiguous case of the “Court of the Bans”
Israel-Palestine	Cruel Pleasure: Affective Security and Territoriality in Games
Italy	The Social Production of Space Between Global Play and Local Production in Southern European Digital Games Web-based Serial Narratives: Actual Plays in the Italian Context
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James P. Carse	The Infinite Game in the Engine of Control: Proletarianization, Platform Capitalism, and the Future of Playful Pleasure
Jank	Examining Jank as Design Through Casual Gameplay
Janosik	The Name of Janosik Will Never Perish: Górals Tradition in Game Culture
Japan	Arcade Soldiers: Early Japanese Shooters in Dialogue with Hollywood Militarism Far from Complete Compliance: Loot Box Prevalence, Probability Disclosure, and Kompu Gacha Policy in Japanese Mobile Games
Japanese Games Studies	“My France Hurts:” Rethinking Cultural Odor in Pokémon Legends: Z-A
Japanese gaming culture	What (Meta)Games We Played: Famicon Fandoms and the Politics of Childhood in 1980s Japan
Japanese history	Remediations of Japanese Cinema and History in Ghost of Yōtei
Joseph Campbell	The Hero with a Thousand Misattributions: Scrutinizing the Hero's Journey in Videogame Discourse
JRPGs	Time vs. History in JRPGs
juridical play	Aesthetics of Prohibition: Moral Transgression, Control, and Pleasure in Political Games
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Karen Barad	Game as Inquiry: An Diffractive and Experimental Approach to Designing and Evaluating Games with a Message
katabasis	Descent Into Video Games “Perhaps, this is Hell”: Descent Narratives in Video Games
Kitbashing	Loyalty vs. Heresy: Kitbashing and Materiality Negotiation in Tabletop Games
kitsch	Tacky Games
Kompu Gacha	Far from Complete Compliance: Loot Box Prevalence, Probability Disclosure, and Kompu Gacha Policy in Japanese Mobile Games
Kurosawa	Remediations of Japanese Cinema and History in Ghost of Yōtei
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L.O.L.: Lack of Love	A History of Non-Violence. Symbiosis and Care Work in L.O.L.: Lack of Love and Spiritfarer
labor	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games “This industry has ruined me”: categorizing the experiences of Brazilian feminist gaming streamers through an intersectional approach Nostalgic Ludopopulism and Neoreactionary Movements in Game Development
labor conditions	Balancing In/formality within the Brno Video Game Industry Ecosystem
labour	Bodily Pleasures of Repetitive Labour and Rhythm in Finnish Cottage Simulator That’s My Jam: Understanding the Value of Canadian Game Jams “Shut up and let us make the game” Game developers, preserving games, and the dynamics of corporate governance Engine Workers: Scalability and Frictions in Game Engine Culture
landscape	Digital forests, meadows, towns: Representation of landscape in Czech digital games
landscapes	Through Ruins, Dark Woodlands, White Cities: The Representation of Ancient Landscapes in Video Games
language	On the World Videogame: Language, Nation, and Reality Across Borders
Large Language Model	Analysing Historical Distortion in Large Language Model Roleplay
Large Language Models	From Player-Centered to Agent-Centered: A New Paradigm for Interactive Narrative in the Age of Large Language Models LLM Roleplay Re-introduces Omissions to Collective Memory Graphonauts: Introducing a Hybrid Human–AI Pipeline for Text-to-Game Transformation via Knowledge Graphs
late-modernity	You’re Just an NPC: The Colonial Poetics of Play in Late Modernity
Latin America	Nostalgia-play in Chilean tabletop role-playing communities: Reflections to analyse game practices in a global north-global south dialogue. Brazilian Indie games and hyperlocal identity: analyzing culture, design choices, and Steam reception in Gaucho and the Grasslands
Latin American Game Studies	Competing Otherwise: Latin American Perspectives on Meritocratic Resistance in Competitive Gameplay
Latin American masculinities	Visual Representation of Alternative Masculinities in a Mexican Gaymer Group’s Instagram Presence
Latin American Videogames	Rethinking City Builders from Latin America: A Cultural Study of Urbek City Builder
Laughter	Pleasure Under Pressure: Laughter, Learning, and Competitive Play in Professional Wargaming
Law	Poor Compliance with Loot Box Probability Disclosure and Warning Regulations in Taiwan
Law and Regulation	Far from Complete Compliance: Loot Box Prevalence, Probability Disclosure, and Kompu Gacha Policy in Japanese Mobile Games
leadership	“Default” Leadership – Critiquing Normative Leader Identities in Single-Player Videogames
League of Legends	From Play to Idols: How Superfans Shape Esports Ecologies The Pleasure(s) of Griefing: Tracing Multimodal Toxicity in League of Legends The endemic intellectual property model of Riot Games
Learning	Play, Faith, and Inclusion: Community Games as Tools for Learning, Expression, and Intersectional Pleasure in Catechism Education among Catholic Students
learning games	Collections Educator or Game Designer? Why not both?
Leather Dyke+	Queer Resistance Through Sexual Role-play: BDSM Larp, Arousal, and Communal Resistance
leisure	Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic Bodily Pleasures of Repetitive Labour and Rhythm in Finnish Cottage Simulator
Let's Play Videos	Towards a New Player Discourse: A Close Reading of Let’s Play Videos as Retellings
Let’s Play	Let’s Play The Sims: The Un(der)studied Women’s Origins of a Media Format
level design	Through Ruins, Dark Woodlands, White Cities: The Representation of Ancient Landscapes in Video Games
LGBT+	Introducing The Comet Cock, a Murderous AI Dating Sim
library sound	Soft Worlds, Sonic Seams: How Cozy Games Stitch Sound Design into Musical Score
life simulators	Buy, build, live: The Sims’ American Dream, neoliberal utopia and its impact on city design
Lightweight Ritual	Lightweight Rituals and Player Belonging in Video Games: The "Sacrifice Flow" in Stardew Valley Community Center Reconstruction
liminal space	The Place of the Marginalized: Witchers and Dwelling in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
linguistics	The Conjurative Voice of the Player in Escape Rooms: A Framework
literary studies	“Perhaps, this is Hell”: Descent Narratives in Video Games
Literature	Portraying Unfavorable Sociocultural Circumstances Through the Videoludic Picaresque Them’s Fighting Words: The Unlikely Marriage of Language Games and Simulated Hand-to-Hand Combat
lithic	Thinking on Our Feet: Baby Steps (2025) Towards (Im)balancing the Somatic and the Stoney
Live streaming	The Invisibility of Women Streamers in Game Studies Spectating the Samurai: Performing and Preserving History through Twitch
live-action games	The Conjurative Voice of the Player in Escape Rooms: A Framework
livestreaming	Dressing Against Code: How Twitch Plays with/on Green Screen Shorts Nostalgic Ludopopulism and Neoreactionary Movements in Game Development
Local	“We found another Swiss Game !” Reflexive Epistemology of Enthusiasm and Methodological Nationalism in Local Game Histories
local games	Digital forests, meadows, towns: Representation of landscape in Czech digital games
localization	“My France Hurts:” Rethinking Cultural Odor in Pokémon Legends: Z-A
Location-Based Gaming	Neighborhood Making of Story Games: Accessible Joy in Low-Tech Design
Loot boxes	Digital Cardboard Crack: The Gamblification of Digital Card Games Misleading omissions of loot box presence disclosures: widespread unfair commercial practices in video game advertising on social media in Ireland and the EU Far from Complete Compliance: Loot Box Prevalence, Probability Disclosure, and Kompu Gacha Policy in Japanese Mobile Games Poor Compliance with Loot Box Probability Disclosure and Warning Regulations in Taiwan Moneyball, but for kids: Games as vehicles for predatory prediction markets
Looting	Hoarding, Looting, Consuming: Toward an Ecology of Care
losers	Douchebag Games: White Grievance and Reactionary Identity Formation in the Xbox Era
Love and Deepspace	The Husbando Super-App: Troubling “Player Investment” with Love and Deepspace
ludemes	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 Tarot, Money, and Mnemonics: Histories of Card Games Beyond Quantifiable-outcome Games
Ludic linguistics	Constructing Civilizations: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Fictional Languages in Chants of Sennaar
Ludic pedagogy	The Texture of Play: Feeling Your Way Through Teaching with Games
Ludic pleasure	Rethinking Ludic Pleasure from an Object-oriented Perspective
Ludo-narrative dissonance	"Cuz She is My Daughter": How Players Navigate Ludo-Narrative Dissonance
ludobiography	Playing anachronisme in Time: Towards the Ludobiography in the Context of Chinese Indie Games
Ludoforming	The final frontier of space in video games. Spatio-narrative design in Judgment by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
ludoindustrial complex	Selling the American Dream: U.S. Gold, Intersectional Pleasures, and the Ludoindustrial Complex
Ludology	Playing As More Than Just a Continent: Representation of Southeast Asia in Video Games
ludomusicology	Ghost in the Dreamcast: Ludomusical Hauntology and Pleasures of a 90s Cross-Franchise Specter
Ludonarrative Dissonance	Re-evaluating the Pursuit of Hyper-Realism in Virtual Reality Game Design through the Lens of Ludo proprioceptive Dissonance
Ludonarrative Imaginaries	Between Punches and Flying Attacks: Ludonarrative Imaginaries in 1980s Beat ’em Up Games
M
mafia	Veggie Vigilantes: Queering Crime Tropes in Cosy Comedy Games
magazines	Experiences of Age and Gender in Early UK Tabletop Role-Playing Magazines
Magic	A Spellbook of Pleasures: Game Informer and the Review Discourse of the Modern Magic System
Magic Circle	Navigating the Sacred Magic Circle: Ritual, Play, and the Urban Transformation of a City into a Magic Circle
Magic systems	A Spellbook of Pleasures: Game Informer and the Review Discourse of the Modern Magic System
Magical Girl Anime	The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2
Mainland China	Physical Blind Boxes' Compliance with Information Disclosure Requirements: Exploring the Game-like Nature of Blind Box Consumption in the Chinese Regulatory Context
mainstreaming of games	Powered by GameSpy: Theorizing and Analyzing the GameSpy Network As Platform Infrastructure
Malaysia	Playing As More Than Just a Continent: Representation of Southeast Asia in Video Games
Malicious Content	Child Safety in Platform Gaming: Balancing Protection and Freedom
Mancala Bao la Kiswahili	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?
Manyōshū	China’s Game on Ancient Japan: Pleasure, Identity, and Poetry from “Man’yōshū” in “Genshin Impact”
MapleStory	‘Changing the Game Forever’: MapleStory’s Big Bang as a Climate Change Event
mapping	Mapping eco(politics) in ecogames
marginalisation	Intersectional Pleasures and Limits of Game Cultural Participation and Belonging
marginalised identity	The Place of the Marginalized: Witchers and Dwelling in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Marginalized Pleasure	Unruly Forces and Marginalized Pleasures: Exploring Glitch Aesthetics and Agency in Alternative Control Schemes
Marvel Rivals	Player ‘superstitions’ or algorithmic literacy? Marvel Rivals players’ practices in the age of AI Matchmaking Forms of self-reflexivity in team hero shooters and beyond
Marxism	A World to Build: World-building and Capitalism in Games Artificial Pleasures and Ideological Subjectivation in Video Games: The Function of Positive Artefact Emotions in the Naturalisation of Ideology
masculine embodiment	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
masculinities	Douchebag Games: White Grievance and Reactionary Identity Formation in the Xbox Era
masculinity	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity More man vs nature mechanics? Exploring romanticized notions of solitude in r/SurvivalGaming 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? “Default” Leadership – Critiquing Normative Leader Identities in Single-Player Videogames A Spellbook of Pleasures: Game Informer and the Review Discourse of the Modern Magic System
Mastery	The Transition from Choice to Mastery in Videogame Aesthetics
matchmaking	Player ‘superstitions’ or algorithmic literacy? Marvel Rivals players’ practices in the age of AI Matchmaking
Material Authenticity	Towards a Strategy Using the "Intervention Level Framework" in Japanese Game Archives: Integrating Material and Functional Authenticity Based on Conservation Science
material culture	Arcades on Wheels: The Materiality and Logistics of Itinerant Gaming in Socialist Czechoslovakia 18XX Forever: Railway Time and Fossil Play on the Tabletop
Materialities of Play	Mod Choreography: Transforming the Contexts of Digital Play
Materiality	Loyalty vs. Heresy: Kitbashing and Materiality Negotiation in Tabletop Games
Materiality of Play	Distorting Culture: Memetic Play and Pleasures in Analogue Game Remediation
Mathematics	On the Mathematics hidden behind games
MDM	Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
meaning-making	The Relationship Between Signs and Context: Semiotic Meaning-Making in Digital Games The Braiding Framework: A Semiotic Approach to Engaging and Meaningful Games
Means-Ends theory	Temporal Features and Player Values: A Means-Ends Account of Time in Digital Play
mecha games	Designing Hybrid Agency: AI–Mech Collaboration in Contemporary Mecha Games
mechanics	Multilayered Queerness in Videogames: Mechanics, Aesthetics, Narrative, and Production It’s all a skinner box? Typical core loop and Operant Conditioning Mythic Alternatives: Mythological Mechanics Beyond Violence Cursed Coziness: Cursed Mechanics in Dark Cozy Games
media aesthetics	Artistic In-Game Photography as Media of Care
media archaeological	Devil, Mecha, Implant：A Media Archaeological Study of ‘Flesh Modification’
Media Archaeology	How Can an Unfinished Multiplayer Networking Scheme Produce Pleasure? XBAND as an Affective Infrastructure
media arts	Engine Workers: Scalability and Frictions in Game Engine Culture
media literacy	Can independent curated video games teach critical media literacy?
Media Materiality	Unlocking Pleasure: The Material Politics of "Backdoors" in Chinese Console Gaming
Media Phenomenology	Interactivity as Embodied Pleasure: A Media-Phenomenological Reframing through “Interactive” Short Videos
Media Technologies	Gender Representations and Gender Dynamics: A Feminist Analysis of “Female-oriented Mobile Games” in China
mediated memory	Pleased to play, paid to please: memory commodification within Roblox’s creator economy
medieval	Failure to Franchise as Profane Comedy in Dante’s Inferno: The Poem: The Game: The Book
Meditation Game	Body and Game: Making and Playing a Game in Daoism
Mega Drive	Valuable Childhoods: Nostalgia, Intersectionalities, and Vintage Game Fairs
Megabonk	Imbalanced Pleasures? System Design and Social Rules in the Survivors-like Game Megabonk
Memes	The domesticating role of memes in esports cultures In Mem(e)ory of Uuugggg: Mod-Users’ use of RimWorld’s Steam Workshop as a Memorial Site
Memetic Remediation	Distorting Culture: Memetic Play and Pleasures in Analogue Game Remediation
memory	Making and Playing for Catharsis Oneiric Timespaces: History and Image-Affects in Benign Land and The Séance of Blake Manor Reading queer autobiographical games through the lens of memory and identity studies
memory work	9Night and Good Mourning: Game Mechanics towards Memory Work
mental health	Working Conditions and Mental Health among Professionals with Disabilities in Brazilian Video Game Production
Mental Well-being	An Exploration of Cozy Games as Coping Mechanism to Manage Mental Well-being
meritocracy	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
Meritocracy discourse	Competing Otherwise: Latin American Perspectives on Meritocratic Resistance in Competitive Gameplay
Meta Shifts	Intersectional Pleasures of Anomie: Helldivers and Democracy at Play
Metagames	What (Meta)Games We Played: Famicon Fandoms and the Politics of Childhood in 1980s Japan
Metal Slug	Community Resilience and Nostalgia: the case of the Metal Slug saga
metamodernism	(Meta)identity: Renegotiating identity through metamodern design in Slay the Princess
metanarrative integration	When a Game Is More Than 'Just a Game': Metanarrative Integration Tools in Video Games
Metaphors in Games	Are Themes Really Conceit? A Semiotic Proposal
metatheory	Six Positive Words for Talking about Theory in Games Research (in Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity)
method development	Making the Past Count: Developing quantitative measures for past-player experience
Methodological Nationalism	“We found another Swiss Game !” Reflexive Epistemology of Enthusiasm and Methodological Nationalism in Local Game Histories
methodology	Tracing Gender Affordances in Avatar Customization: A Methodological Framework Racial Recursivity as Critical Race Game Studies Methodology
Methods	Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
microethology	How Streaming Facilitates Affective Transformation: A Case Study of Horror Game Spectatorship
microgames	Tracing the political economy of the "microgame"
Microtransactions	Transparency Isn't Enough: How Ordinary Features of Games Contribute to Exploitative Monetization
Migrant Narratives	The Post-Socialist Road Trip: Nostalgia, Labor, and Migration in 'Jalopy'
migration	Let’s play the ‘refugee crisis’: a postcolonial deconstruction of the refugee in post-2015 European videogames What Now? Ecogames after Missed Climate Targets
militarism	Virtual Reality in the 2020s: Peace Machine or War Machine?
militarization	Lifting the Fog of War: Militarism, Colonialism and Encyclopedic Pleasures in Digital Play
military	Arcade Soldiers: Early Japanese Shooters in Dialogue with Hollywood Militarism
military entertainment complex	Right click to de-escalate – Call of Duty & turning propaganda into pleasure
military games	Right click to de-escalate – Call of Duty & turning propaganda into pleasure
Minecraft	Mod Choreography: Transforming the Contexts of Digital Play For the Trees: Envisioning Sustainable Futures Through Ecomodded Minecraft
Minecraft Education	From Checklists to Playability: A systematic mapping of player reviews to the Game Accessibility Guidelines
minigames	Tracing the political economy of the "microgame"
minimal narrative	Absent Pleasures, or Pleasure in Absence? Player Engagement in Minimalist Digital Horror Games
Minor Platforms	How Can an Unfinished Multiplayer Networking Scheme Produce Pleasure? XBAND as an Affective Infrastructure
minoritized communities	Identity Play as Identity Work: Representation, Identity Integration, and Possible Selves in Digital Games
misattributions	The Hero with a Thousand Misattributions: Scrutinizing the Hero's Journey in Videogame Discourse
misconceptions	The Hero with a Thousand Misattributions: Scrutinizing the Hero's Journey in Videogame Discourse
misinformation	Parasocial Incidental Politics: How Twitch Users Navigate Political Content and Misinformation in Livestreaming Environments
misogyny	Pleasures Under Pressure: Misogyny, Moral Outrage, and Creative Contraction in Contemporary Chinese Game Culture
mixed-methods research	Intersectional Pleasures: An Empirical Study of Embodied Emotions in Video Games
MMO	Old Pleasures, Dying Flames: Final Fantasy XIV and the Evolution of the MMO Genre
MMORPG	‘Changing the Game Forever’: MapleStory’s Big Bang as a Climate Change Event
MMOs	WoW gets Trumped: Politics and Play in Azeroth during the Trump Era
MOBA games	Predicting Trolling Behaviors Using In-Game Timeline Data: Uncovering Divergent Mechanisms Behind AFK and Item Tier-Dropping in MOBA Games
mobile application	How time flies! A flow-driven design framework for educational games
Mobile Games	Gacha Game Collaborations and the Production of Affective Legitimacy The Prevalence and Co-occurrences of Dark Patterns in Mobile Free-to-Play Games
Mobile gaming	Neighborhood Making of Story Games: Accessible Joy in Low-Tech Design
Modalities of space	The final frontier of space in video games. Spatio-narrative design in Judgment by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Modding	Mod Choreography: Transforming the Contexts of Digital Play In Mem(e)ory of Uuugggg: Mod-Users’ use of RimWorld’s Steam Workshop as a Memorial Site “They managed to make lesbians unattractive”: anti-woke activism in No Alphabets mod in Baldur’s Gate 3
monetisation	Understanding Game Monetization in China from a Gameworker Perspective Affective Economies: Gendered play, Monetisation, and Precarity in Otome Gacha Games The endemic intellectual property model of Riot Games
monetization	Perceptions among the youth on the use (or abuse) of dark patterns Gameful disconnection: how digital detox and productivity apps blend play, work, and profit Transparency Isn't Enough: How Ordinary Features of Games Contribute to Exploitative Monetization Pleased to play, paid to please: memory commodification within Roblox’s creator economy The Prevalence and Co-occurrences of Dark Patterns in Mobile Free-to-Play Games
monster	Monstrous Desires in Pornographic Videogames
monster design	Making Monsters: Embodying Queerness in Game Development
Moral dilemma	Entropic Temporality & Care-Based Agency in Ecological Survival Games
Moral Gameplay Systems	Existential Ethics and Tactical Realism: Sartrean Moral Frameworks in Ready or Not
moral outrage	Pleasures Under Pressure: Misogyny, Moral Outrage, and Creative Contraction in Contemporary Chinese Game Culture
moral philosophy	Applied ethics techniques for video game ethics
motion capture	9Night and Good Mourning: Game Mechanics towards Memory Work
Motivation	Game Streaming and Motives of Play
motivations	Repeated pleasures: Motivations for replaying story-driven games
motor-control impairments	How Accessible QTE Inputs Reshape Suspense Trajectories in Survival Horror
mukokuseki	Arcade Soldiers: Early Japanese Shooters in Dialogue with Hollywood Militarism
multi-sensory	Exploring VR Shinrin-Yoku Stress Relief: A Comparative Study of Virtual and Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Environments
multidisciplinarity	Six Positive Words for Talking about Theory in Games Research (in Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity)
multimedia	Failure to Franchise as Profane Comedy in Dante’s Inferno: The Poem: The Game: The Book
Multimodal Discourse Analysis	Constructing Civilizations: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Fictional Languages in Chants of Sennaar
multimodal toxicity	The Pleasure(s) of Griefing: Tracing Multimodal Toxicity in League of Legends
multimodality	Diegetic Pleasure: Multimodal Immersion and Emotional Engagement in Escape Rooms
multiplayer gaming	Asymmetric Play in a Competitive Landscape: Attitudes and Fairness
Multiple Space	Intersectional Pleasures: An Empirical Study of Embodied Emotions in Video Games
Muriel Tramis	Guilty (Un)pleasures: The Reception of Muriel Tramis’s Erotic Trilogy in France and the United Kingdom
music	Duet for Flute and Video Game: A Dynamic System for Co-Op Musical Play
Mysteries	The Playful Pleasures of the Videogame Detective Board
Mystery	Player Enjoyment Through Mechanical Engagement with Text in “The Séance of Blake Manor”
mythology	Mythic Alternatives: Mythological Mechanics Beyond Violence Hauntecology: Arboreal Pleasures as represented in Elden Ring (2021) And the Crops Withered: Designing TTRPGs To Enliven Myths
mytholudics	Queercrip Mythmaking in Contemporary Role-Playing Games
N
N-Gage	The Institutionalization of the Nokia N-Gage as a National Symbol: From Corporate and Fan Heritage to Public Cultural Heritage
naming	Identity in Gaming: A Study of Player and Non-Player Character Names and Usernames in Single- and Multiplayer Modes
narcissistic spectatorship	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
Narrative	The Ludic Narrator: Towards a New Typology ‘Perhapsing’ Through Collaborative Play: The Neighborhood that Once Was and Could Be. Multilayered Queerness in Videogames: Mechanics, Aesthetics, Narrative, and Production Time vs. History in JRPGs Player Enjoyment Through Mechanical Engagement with Text in “The Séance of Blake Manor”
narrative design	The Impact of Evolving Character Customization on Emotional Engagement and Player Behaviour in RPGs Diablerie of a Lore: A Comparative Analysis of Gaming Pleasure in Bloodlines and Bloodlines 2
narrative devices in video games	Rendering Romania. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Othering in Video Games
narrative game design	Close-Playing War Trauma: The Tension Between Agency and Inevitability in My Child Lebensborn and Bury Me, My Love
Narrative Mechanisms	A Mechanism Model for AI-Driven Narrative Loops in Embodied Gamified Interaction
narrative systems	Designing Open Dialogue Systems for LLM-Based NPCs
narrative time	Time in Digital Games: A Comparative Map of Temporal Constructs Looping Across Genres: How Time Loops, Roguelikes, and Cyclical Levels Shape Narrative Structure
narratives	Intersectional complexity between players and non-players in Bhutan
narrativity	When Space Becomes Cardboard: Rethinking Escape Room Narratives in Tabletop Games
Narratology	Playing As More Than Just a Continent: Representation of Southeast Asia in Video Games Feel the Force Around You: Haptic Narratology and the Problem of Focalization
narrator	The Ludic Narrator: Towards a New Typology
nation	On the World Videogame: Language, Nation, and Reality Across Borders
national and regional games	On the World Videogame: Language, Nation, and Reality Across Borders
National Identity	Grand Theft Auto: National Identity, Transnational Production, and the Ambivalent Politics of Play
nationalism	The Name of Janosik Will Never Perish: Górals Tradition in Game Culture
natural language processing	Designing Open Dialogue Systems for LLM-Based NPCs Analysing Historical Distortion in Large Language Model Roleplay
naturalisation	Artificial Pleasures and Ideological Subjectivation in Video Games: The Function of Positive Artefact Emotions in the Naturalisation of Ideology
necropolitics	Appalachian Necropolitics within Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Fallout 76
Negotiation	Haptic Dialects: Translating Pleasure Between Adaptive Controllers and Universal Design for Disabled Players
neo-reaction	Nostalgic Ludopopulism and Neoreactionary Movements in Game Development
neoliberal utopia	Buy, build, live: The Sims’ American Dream, neoliberal utopia and its impact on city design
Networks	The Playful Pleasures of the Videogame Detective Board
neurodivergence	Playing with ADHD: Exploring Crip resonances between ADHD and game-making
neurodiversity	Neurodivergent Pleasures in Game Environmental Design
neurodiversity paradigm	Playing with ADHD: Exploring Crip resonances between ADHD and game-making
NLP	Algorithmic Imperialism in the Architecture of NLP Agents and Play
No Players Online	Absent Pleasures, or Pleasure in Absence? Player Engagement in Minimalist Digital Horror Games
no-fun in video games	Killjoy Play: Illness, Disability, and No-Fun Pleasures in Video Games
Nokia	The Institutionalization of the Nokia N-Gage as a National Symbol: From Corporate and Fan Heritage to Public Cultural Heritage
non-attendance	Why Do They Stay Home? The Dual Structure of Identity and Constraints in Offline Esports Consumption
Non-human Animal Embodiment	How to be Non-Human : A Thematic Analysis of Animal Embodiment in VR Games
non-human animals	On Eating Without a Face in Arctic Eggs (2024)
Non-monogamy	Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
non-normative play	What strategies for enabling flow-critical play can be derived from the game design of Taskmaster?
non-players	Intersectional complexity between players and non-players in Bhutan
non-violent gameplay	A History of Non-Violence. Symbiosis and Care Work in L.O.L.: Lack of Love and Spiritfarer
nonhuman	Rethinking Ludic Pleasure from an Object-oriented Perspective On Inhabiting Nonhuman Bodies: Review of Research Perspectives
NORCO	Glitching Objects as Temporal Mediators: Hyperobject Temporality in NORCO
Norway	Towards a New Paradigm for Understanding Men and Masculinity in Gaming
nostalgia	Modernities of authenticity in recreated online digital games: A comparative case study Nostalgia-play in Chilean tabletop role-playing communities: Reflections to analyse game practices in a global north-global south dialogue. Absent Pleasures, or Pleasure in Absence? Player Engagement in Minimalist Digital Horror Games Nostalgic Development Practices: Fantasy Consoles and DIY Game Engines Community Resilience and Nostalgia: the case of the Metal Slug saga Playing with the Past: The Pleasures of Nostalgic Design with Playdate Rise of the faux pixels “Remembering Play” Beyond Retro: An Analysis of YouTube Videos and Comment Data on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in South Korea Hussars of Might and Magic: The Influence of Gaming Media on Polish Gaming Canons Valuable Childhoods: Nostalgia, Intersectionalities, and Vintage Game Fairs 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 Playable Returns: Seriality and Medium-Specific Aesthetics in Videogame Remakes and Demakes
NPC	Defining Single-player Video Games NPC Societies: An Ethnographic Approach You’re Just an NPC: The Colonial Poetics of Play in Late Modernity
NPCs	Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
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object	Posthuman Cuteness: Affective and agentic tensions
objects	Glitching Objects as Temporal Mediators: Hyperobject Temporality in NORCO
offline esports consumption	Why Do They Stay Home? The Dual Structure of Identity and Constraints in Offline Esports Consumption
old age	Presentation of age(ing) and elderly people in digital games: The Pokémon game series
older adult mistreatment	Between Pleasure and Harm: Transcreating a Serious Game on Older Adult
onboarding	How General Game Expertise Shapes Player Experience and Problem-Solving Across Different Onboarding Approaches in a Puzzle Video Game Rolling Together: Intergenerational Dungeons & Dragons, Onboarding, and Infrastructures of Care
Online communities	“It’s Just a Hoax”: Climate Change Denial in Civilization VI’s Reddit Communities
Online Community	“We are trapped in the mud of binary selections”: An Investigation into the Feminist Consciousness of Chinese Female Otome Game Players
online games	Powered by GameSpy: Theorizing and Analyzing the GameSpy Network As Platform Infrastructure
online gaming community	The Reinvention of Hardcore: Authenticity and Identity Among Korean “Real” Gamers
online multiplayer games	The Pleasure(s) of Griefing: Tracing Multimodal Toxicity in League of Legends
Online Safety Act	Beyond the Video Game Nasties: Censorship and the Online Safety Act
Online_community	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 “is dondald trump woke?” and Other Trolling Questions: Rise and Fall of the Woke Content Detector Steam Group
onomastics	Identity in Gaming: A Study of Player and Non-Player Character Names and Usernames in Single- and Multiplayer Modes
ontology	Six Positive Words for Talking about Theory in Games Research (in Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity) Thinking on Our Feet: Baby Steps (2025) Towards (Im)balancing the Somatic and the Stoney
open source	Democratizing Interactive Filmmaking: A No-Code Solution for Arts Students
open-world	The Joy of Exploration: A Qualitative Study of Temporal Changes in Player Experiences
operant conditioning	It’s all a skinner box? Typical core loop and Operant Conditioning
oral history	Co-Producing Play of the Past in the Present: Intergenerational Community Connection through Historical Video Games
Ordeal pleasure	Why Do We Suffer for Fun? Ordeal Pleasure in Souls-like Games
Organised crime	Veggie Vigilantes: Queering Crime Tropes in Cosy Comedy Games
Organizational culture	Between Diverse Industry and Game Characters - An Analysis of Tool-based Representation Design
orientalism	Pleasure and Intersectionality in Queer Dating-Sims: an Autoethnographic Research-Creation Perspective
original characters	Playing with my imaginary friends: Character art commissions as affective play
orthogames	The Demographics and Motivations of Trading Card Game Players
Ostalgie	The Post-Socialist Road Trip: Nostalgia, Labor, and Migration in 'Jalopy'
othering in video games	Rendering Romania. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Othering in Video Games
otome	The Husbando Super-App: Troubling “Player Investment” with Love and Deepspace
Otome Game	“We are trapped in the mud of binary selections”: An Investigation into the Feminist Consciousness of Chinese Female Otome Game Players
otome games	Gender Representations and Gender Dynamics: A Feminist Analysis of “Female-oriented Mobile Games” in China Playing on Her Terms: Otome Gamers’ Negotiations with Hegemonic Sexual Scripts in China Making Virtual Romance Real: Intimacy and Relational Labor in Otome Games Cosplay Commission Affective Economies: Gendered play, Monetisation, and Precarity in Otome Gacha Games
outbound sales game	Designing Open Dialogue Systems for LLM-Based NPCs
Outer Wilds	Temporalised Hyperobjects and Affective Play in Outer Wilds
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Palmer Luckey	Virtual Reality in the 2020s: Peace Machine or War Machine?
PANAS	The Pleasurable Stress of the VRAVG Beat Saber: A Mixed-Methods Study
paper-based	How time flies! A flow-driven design framework for educational games
Parasocial Grief	In Mem(e)ory of Uuugggg: Mod-Users’ use of RimWorld’s Steam Workshop as a Memorial Site
Parasocial relationships	In Mem(e)ory of Uuugggg: Mod-Users’ use of RimWorld’s Steam Workshop as a Memorial Site
paratext	Failure to Franchise as Profane Comedy in Dante’s Inferno: The Poem: The Game: The Book
Paratexts	“It’s Just a Hoax”: Climate Change Denial in Civilization VI’s Reddit Communities
Participation Illusion	Interactivity as Embodied Pleasure: A Media-Phenomenological Reframing through “Interactive” Short Videos
Participatory Culture	Play in Context: Adapting Game-Based Learning for African Cultural Frameworks
Participatory Design	From Resource to Kin: Designing for Environmental Resilience in the Okanagan Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies Neighborhood Making of Story Games: Accessible Joy in Low-Tech Design
participatory game-making	Procedural Praxis: Making and Thinking Antifascism Through Games
Participatory methods	Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
participatory practices	From Play to Idols: How Superfans Shape Esports Ecologies
participatory storytelling	Aesthetics of Holarchic Narrative Design: Participatory and Intersectional Pleasures of Game Storyworlds
passion	Beyond necessity and passion: Crunch as a habitus in the field of video game production
Patriarchy	The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2
Pedagogy	When Localization Meets Game Design: Strengthening Collaboration Global Games Education Now: Regional Realities and Pedagogical Innovations
people with disabilities	Working Conditions and Mental Health among Professionals with Disabilities in Brazilian Video Game Production
performance	Duet for Flute and Video Game: A Dynamic System for Co-Op Musical Play Soft Worlds, Sonic Seams: How Cozy Games Stitch Sound Design into Musical Score “No Way, Did You See That Move?”: Constructing the Entertaining Spectacle in Game Live Streaming "Cuz She is My Daughter": How Players Navigate Ludo-Narrative Dissonance The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2 Queering the Third Place: Dungeons & Dragons at Your Friendly Local Game Store
performative virtual architecture	Walking the Psyche: Expanding the Poetics of Performative Virtual Architecture through Real-Time Game Engine
Peripheral game production	Brazilian Indie games and hyperlocal identity: analyzing culture, design choices, and Steam reception in Gaucho and the Grasslands
Permian animal style	Play as Preservation: Folklore and Mythology in The Mooseman
personal games	Making and Playing for Catharsis
persuasive design	Make Games No One Wants to Play
persuasive games	Game as Inquiry: An Diffractive and Experimental Approach to Designing and Evaluating Games with a Message
Pharmacological Praxis	PHARMACOLOGICAL PRAXIS: A LUDONARRATIVE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE INTERSECTIONAL IMPASSE
phenomenology	Intention, Interpretation, and the Sensory Life of Queerness: Reading Reception in Bioware’s Dragon Age Games Transfiguring In and Out of Worlds: Archaeological Knowledge as Narrative Video Games Thinking on Our Feet: Baby Steps (2025) Towards (Im)balancing the Somatic and the Stoney Re-evaluating the Pursuit of Hyper-Realism in Virtual Reality Game Design through the Lens of Ludo proprioceptive Dissonance
philosophy of computer games	Sketch for a Phenomenology of Gameplay (as) Performance: Bodies, Systems, Worlds
Philosophy of Games	Transparency Isn't Enough: How Ordinary Features of Games Contribute to Exploitative Monetization
Philosophy of History	Oneiric Timespaces: History and Image-Affects in Benign Land and The Séance of Blake Manor
Physical Blind Box	Physical Blind Boxes' Compliance with Information Disclosure Requirements: Exploring the Game-like Nature of Blind Box Consumption in the Chinese Regulatory Context
Picaresque	Portraying Unfavorable Sociocultural Circumstances Through the Videoludic Picaresque
pink game	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?
pixel art	Rise of the faux pixels
pixel concept	Rise of the faux pixels
plants	Hauntecology: Arboreal Pleasures as represented in Elden Ring (2021)
platform	From Restricted to Shared: The Intersectional Pleasure Mechanisms in Chinese Horror Games (2001-2024)
Platform Analysis	Playing with the Past: The Pleasures of Nostalgic Design with Playdate
Platform Capitalism	The Infinite Game in the Engine of Control: Proletarianization, Platform Capitalism, and the Future of Playful Pleasure
platform games	Swinging Through History: Rope Mechanics in 2D games
platform infrastructure	Powered by GameSpy: Theorizing and Analyzing the GameSpy Network As Platform Infrastructure
Platform Liability	Child Safety in Platform Gaming: Balancing Protection and Freedom
platform power	Powered by GameSpy: Theorizing and Analyzing the GameSpy Network As Platform Infrastructure
Platform Studies	Unlocking Pleasure: The Material Politics of "Backdoors" in Chinese Console Gaming Engine Workers: Scalability and Frictions in Game Engine Culture
platform vernacular	Games Against Death
platforms	Dressing Against Code: How Twitch Plays with/on Green Screen Shorts
play	Three rights to play: Liberal, Fascist, and Compositionist Navigating the Sacred Magic Circle: Ritual, Play, and the Urban Transformation of a City into a Magic Circle Playing with my imaginary friends: Character art commissions as affective play Local Times And Temporalities In The Social History Of Play Gaming Behaviours as Windows into Implicit Psychological Needs and Motivations WoW gets Trumped: Politics and Play in Azeroth during the Trump Era Play, Faith, and Inclusion: Community Games as Tools for Learning, Expression, and Intersectional Pleasure in Catechism Education among Catholic Students Queering the Third Place: Dungeons & Dragons at Your Friendly Local Game Store
play time	Time in Digital Games: A Comparative Map of Temporal Constructs Temporal Features and Player Values: A Means-Ends Account of Time in Digital Play
Playable Heritage	Playable Heritage: Wu Hua Mi Xin as an Interactive Museum within China’s Digital Culture and Museum Development
Playable Knowledge Graphs	Graphonauts: Introducing a Hybrid Human–AI Pipeline for Text-to-Game Transformation via Knowledge Graphs
playable memory	Ambivalent Alliance: How History, Memory, and Gameplay Reshape Women’s Political Legacy
playbour	Perspectives of Critical Theory on Video Game Culture and Industry Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic
Playdate	Playing with the Past: The Pleasures of Nostalgic Design with Playdate
Player	Playing with Existence: Values in Post-Apocalyptic Gameworlds I Play, Therefore I Identify: A Fan Study of Character Attachment in Honor of Kings
Player Accessibility	When AI Promises to “Cure” You: Individual Experiences, Systemic Biases, and Community Action for Marginalized Players in Video Games
player agency	Entropic Temporality & Care-Based Agency in Ecological Survival Games Temporal Features and Player Values: A Means-Ends Account of Time in Digital Play Pixelated Ideology: Hegemonic Intermediality in Video Games Unruly Forces and Marginalized Pleasures: Exploring Glitch Aesthetics and Agency in Alternative Control Schemes Close-Playing War Trauma: The Tension Between Agency and Inevitability in My Child Lebensborn and Bury Me, My Love
player communities	From Checklists to Playability: A systematic mapping of player reviews to the Game Accessibility Guidelines Making the Past Count: Developing quantitative measures for past-player experience
player engagement	The Impact of Evolving Character Customization on Emotional Engagement and Player Behaviour in RPGs
player experience	"Identifying with a character" but "embodying an avatar": Differentiating relationships between players and their on-screen representations in video games Environmental Storytelling as Embodied Experience: Take What Remains of Edith Finch (2017) as an Example Predicting Trolling Behaviors Using In-Game Timeline Data: Uncovering Divergent Mechanisms Behind AFK and Item Tier-Dropping in MOBA Games How Accessible QTE Inputs Reshape Suspense Trajectories in Survival Horror Making the Past Count: Developing quantitative measures for past-player experience Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic Shaping Interactions and Experiences: Investigating the Effects of a Game-Specific Custom Controller on Player Experience in a Digital Game Environment From Player-Centered to Agent-Centered: A New Paradigm for Interactive Narrative in the Age of Large Language Models Make Games No One Wants to Play Exploring Experiential Fidelity in Board Game Adaptations of Video Games
Player Generated Content	Mod Choreography: Transforming the Contexts of Digital Play
Player identification	Feeling with, or Feeling like? Empathy, Identification, and the Pleasures of Self-Reflection in Story-Driven Games
Player identity	Intersectional Pleasures of Anomie: Helldivers and Democracy at Play Playing Across the Strait: Chinese WoW Diasporas on Taiwanese Servers
Player interpretation	Constructing Civilizations: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Fictional Languages in Chants of Sennaar
player motivation	Why Do We Suffer for Fun? Ordeal Pleasure in Souls-like Games The Demographics and Motivations of Trading Card Game Players
player narrative	Towards a New Player Discourse: A Close Reading of Let’s Play Videos as Retellings
player positioning	When a Game Is More Than 'Just a Game': Metanarrative Integration Tools in Video Games
Player psychology	Role and anger: investigations for live streamers, co-players and common players
Player Reception	From Restoration to Extinction: Intersectional Pleasures in Ecological Game Reception The Civilization of Sid Meier’s Civilization: Player Reception of Change in A Long-Running Game Series
player research	From the Eudaimonic to the Demonic in Gameplay Narratives
Player Sense of Belonging	Lightweight Rituals and Player Belonging in Video Games: The "Sacrifice Flow" in Stardew Valley Community Center Reconstruction
player studies	The Demographics and Motivations of Trading Card Game Players Queer Games Studies Material Turn: Centering Trans Bodies in Video Games
player time	Time in Digital Games: A Comparative Map of Temporal Constructs Temporal Features and Player Values: A Means-Ends Account of Time in Digital Play
players	Intersectional complexity between players and non-players in Bhutan Experiences of Age and Gender in Early UK Tabletop Role-Playing Magazines
player–creature bonding	Cross-Species Affinities: Agency and the Pleasures of the Weird and Uncanny
Playfulness	Reshaping Failure: The Design of Hospites Teatro’s Theatre Games The Pleasurable Stress of the VRAVG Beat Saber: A Mixed-Methods Study
playthings	Rethinking Ludic Pleasure from an Object-oriented Perspective
playtime	Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic
playtime anxiety	Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic
Pleasure	Interactivity as Embodied Pleasure: A Media-Phenomenological Reframing through “Interactive” Short Videos Cruel Pleasure: Affective Security and Territoriality in Games Rolling Together: Intergenerational Dungeons & Dragons, Onboarding, and Infrastructures of Care Haptic Dialects: Translating Pleasure Between Adaptive Controllers and Universal Design for Disabled Players Pleasure and Intersectionality in Queer Dating-Sims: an Autoethnographic Research-Creation Perspective
Pleasure as political	Queer Resistance Through Sexual Role-play: BDSM Larp, Arousal, and Communal Resistance
poetry	From Play to Poetics: Reconfiguring Pleasure through Defamiliarisation in Game Poems Them’s Fighting Words: The Unlikely Marriage of Language Games and Simulated Hand-to-Hand Combat
Pokémon	Female Machamp, Male Lopunny, and Bearded Dragon Gym Leaders Who May Like it Rough: Identarian Openness in Pokémon Monstera pocketii: The Botanical Vitality of Pokémon
Police training	Designing vulnerability: Framework, design, and evaluation of a serious game depicting victims of domestic abuse
policy	Desired but Also Undesired: Immigrant Game Workers in Between the Discourse of Labour Shortage and Anti-Immigration in Finland Moneyball, but for kids: Games as vehicles for predatory prediction markets
Policy Failures	From Policy to Paradox: Diversity Washing, Policy Failures, and the Limits of Authentic Intersectional Pleasure in the European Video Game Industry
Polish Culture	The Name of Janosik Will Never Perish: Górals Tradition in Game Culture
political communication	Parasocial Incidental Politics: How Twitch Users Navigate Political Content and Misinformation in Livestreaming Environments
political economy	Three rights to play: Liberal, Fascist, and Compositionist Tracing the political economy of the "microgame" Towards a Political Economy of Gamergate
political game	Aesthetics of Prohibition: Moral Transgression, Control, and Pleasure in Political Games
Politics	WoW gets Trumped: Politics and Play in Azeroth during the Trump Era Towards a Political Economy of Gamergate
Polyamory	Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
Popular Feminism	“We are trapped in the mud of binary selections”: An Investigation into the Feminist Consciousness of Chinese Female Otome Game Players
populism	Nostalgic Ludopopulism and Neoreactionary Movements in Game Development
pornography	Monstrous Desires in Pornographic Videogames
portrayal	Presentation of age(ing) and elderly people in digital games: The Pokémon game series
Positive Psychology Intervention	The Pleasurable Stress of the VRAVG Beat Saber: A Mixed-Methods Study
possible selves	Identity Play as Identity Work: Representation, Identity Integration, and Possible Selves in Digital Games
post-apocalypse	Playing with Existence: Values in Post-Apocalyptic Gameworlds Who Deserves to Survive the Post-Apocalypse? Deaths of Child Characters in The Walking Dead
post-apocalyptic	Identity in Gaming: A Study of Player and Non-Player Character Names and Usernames in Single- and Multiplayer Modes Hauntecology: Arboreal Pleasures as represented in Elden Ring (2021)
Post-Brexit Regulation	PHARMACOLOGICAL PRAXIS: A LUDONARRATIVE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE INTERSECTIONAL IMPASSE
Post-Communist Nostalgia and Materiality	The Post-Socialist Road Trip: Nostalgia, Labor, and Migration in 'Jalopy'
post-pandemic	Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic
post-pandemic Korean game culture	The Reinvention of Hardcore: Authenticity and Identity Among Korean “Real” Gamers
post-phenomenology	Thinking on Our Feet: Baby Steps (2025) Towards (Im)balancing the Somatic and the Stoney
Post-postmodernism	Modernities of authenticity in recreated online digital games: A comparative case study
Post-Socialist Memory	The Post-Socialist Road Trip: Nostalgia, Labor, and Migration in 'Jalopy'
post-structuralism	From Hopscotch to Digital Games: The Pleasure and Dilemma of Interactivity
Postcolonial Game Studies	"Arctictopia" and its Cozy, Casual Climate Catastrophe
postcolonialism	Lifting the Fog of War: Militarism, Colonialism and Encyclopedic Pleasures in Digital Play Playing As More Than Just a Continent: Representation of Southeast Asia in Video Games The Good VR Machine – postcolonial interventions in empathy, peace and justice Let’s play the ‘refugee crisis’: a postcolonial deconstruction of the refugee in post-2015 European videogames Pleasure Not For Everyone: Epistemic Injustice Towards Ukrainian Game Studies “Writing Back” To Which Empire?: Constructing Chinese Identities in Tabletop Roleplaying Games in Singapore
Posthuman	Posthuman Cuteness: Affective and agentic tensions
Posthuman game studies	Temporalised Hyperobjects and Affective Play in Outer Wilds
posthumanism	From the Eudaimonic to the Demonic in Gameplay Narratives Designing Hybrid Agency: AI–Mech Collaboration in Contemporary Mecha Games On Eating Without a Face in Arctic Eggs (2024) Games and the Posthuman Condition: How game design represents memory and identity through embodied experience
posthumanitarianism	The Good VR Machine – postcolonial interventions in empathy, peace and justice
poststructuralism	The Influence of Historical Theory on Historical Game’s Design
power	Posthuman Cuteness: Affective and agentic tensions
Practice	Local Times And Temporalities In The Social History Of Play
practice research	Translating the Game Space Model from Analytic Framework to Practical Methodology for Game Development and Research
practice-based research	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
Pragmatism	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
praxis	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
Prediction markets	Moneyball, but for kids: Games as vehicles for predatory prediction markets
Preventive Conservation	Towards a Strategy Using the "Intervention Level Framework" in Japanese Game Archives: Integrating Material and Functional Authenticity Based on Conservation Science
privilege	Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic
Probability Disclosure	Far from Complete Compliance: Loot Box Prevalence, Probability Disclosure, and Kompu Gacha Policy in Japanese Mobile Games Poor Compliance with Loot Box Probability Disclosure and Warning Regulations in Taiwan
problem-solving	How General Game Expertise Shapes Player Experience and Problem-Solving Across Different Onboarding Approaches in a Puzzle Video Game
Procedural Content Generation	When AI Promises to “Cure” You: Individual Experiences, Systemic Biases, and Community Action for Marginalized Players in Video Games
Procedural Moral Ambiguity	Existential Ethics and Tactical Realism: Sartrean Moral Frameworks in Ready or Not
procedural representation	Ambivalent Alliance: How History, Memory, and Gameplay Reshape Women’s Political Legacy
procedural rhetoric	Procedural Praxis: Making and Thinking Antifascism Through Games “Report any Violations”: Compliance Play, Procedural Rhetoric, and Affect in the Beholder Series "Cuz She is My Daughter": How Players Navigate Ludo-Narrative Dissonance Right click to de-escalate – Call of Duty & turning propaganda into pleasure Game-Mechanics Archaeological Method: The Case of Affinity-Mechanism Archaeology To Play (or Not to Play) the Nakba. Representing the First Arab-Israeli War in Historical Boardgames
production culture	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
production studies	Balancing In/formality within the Brno Video Game Industry Ecosystem
productivity	Gameful disconnection: how digital detox and productivity apps blend play, work, and profit
professional gamers	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
Professional Wargaming	Missing in Action: Professional Wargaming in Game Studies
professionalization	Balancing In/formality within the Brno Video Game Industry Ecosystem
promotional pleasure	Selling the American Dream: U.S. Gold, Intersectional Pleasures, and the Ludoindustrial Complex
psychological needs	Gaming Behaviours as Windows into Implicit Psychological Needs and Motivations
psychological traits	Repeated pleasures: Motivations for replaying story-driven games
psychosocial constraints	Why Do They Stay Home? The Dual Structure of Identity and Constraints in Offline Esports Consumption
Public Knowledge Ecosystems	The Trustworthy Knowledge DLC: A Game-Design-Theory Expansion Pack for Public Services
Public Opinion Polarization	Label Offensive and Defensive in Interest-Based Battlefields: Identity Politics and Public Opinion Polarization in China’s ACG Communities
publication game	How to Play Academia: Conceptual and methodological observations
puzzle games	How General Game Expertise Shapes Player Experience and Problem-Solving Across Different Onboarding Approaches in a Puzzle Video Game "Arctictopia" and its Cozy, Casual Climate Catastrophe
Puzzles	The Playful Pleasures of the Videogame Detective Board
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qualitative	A Chronicle of Emulation: Proposed Eras for Video Game Emulators
qualitative game analysis	When a Game Is More Than 'Just a Game': Metanarrative Integration Tools in Video Games
qualitative research	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
queer	Intention, Interpretation, and the Sensory Life of Queerness: Reading Reception in Bioware’s Dragon Age Games Is gameplay fun after all? Queer Indigenous resistances through gameplay 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? Pleasure and Intersectionality in Queer Dating-Sims: an Autoethnographic Research-Creation Perspective Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
Queer community	Queer Resistance Through Sexual Role-play: BDSM Larp, Arousal, and Communal Resistance
queer culture and history	Decentralising Queer Game Studies: The British Situation
queer game development	Making Monsters: Embodying Queerness in Game Development
queer game studies	Multilayered Queerness in Videogames: Mechanics, Aesthetics, Narrative, and Production Queercrip Mythmaking in Contemporary Role-Playing Games Making Monsters: Embodying Queerness in Game Development Queer Games Studies Material Turn: Centering Trans Bodies in Video Games Unruly Forces and Marginalized Pleasures: Exploring Glitch Aesthetics and Agency in Alternative Control Schemes A History of Non-Violence. Symbiosis and Care Work in L.O.L.: Lack of Love and Spiritfarer Decentralising Queer Game Studies: The British Situation
Queer games	Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
queer gaming	Visual Representation of Alternative Masculinities in a Mexican Gaymer Group’s Instagram Presence The Right to Play, The Right to Pleasure
Queer Heterotopia	Queer Resistance Through Sexual Role-play: BDSM Larp, Arousal, and Communal Resistance
Queer Phenomenology	A House Is Not a Home: Queergaming and Recuperative History in Molly House
Queer play	Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
queer reading	Disclosure and the “Secret Underground Movement” - Analysing Queerness in Disco Elysium and its Place in the Quotidian
Queer representation	“They managed to make lesbians unattractive”: anti-woke activism in No Alphabets mod in Baldur’s Gate 3
queer studies	Reading queer autobiographical games through the lens of memory and identity studies Beyond the Video Game Nasties: Censorship and the Online Safety Act
queer temporality	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
Queergaming	A House Is Not a Home: Queergaming and Recuperative History in Molly House
queering	Veggie Vigilantes: Queering Crime Tropes in Cosy Comedy Games
quick-time events	How Accessible QTE Inputs Reshape Suspense Trajectories in Survival Horror
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Race	Racial Recursivity as Critical Race Game Studies Methodology
race-ethnicity	“Default” Leadership – Critiquing Normative Leader Identities in Single-Player Videogames
rage quit	Recreational Rage Play: Exploring Frictious Player Engagement with Rage Physics Games
Rationalism	A Spellbook of Pleasures: Game Informer and the Review Discourse of the Modern Magic System
real gamers	The Reinvention of Hardcore: Authenticity and Identity Among Korean “Real” Gamers
Realistic Tactical Shooters	Existential Ethics and Tactical Realism: Sartrean Moral Frameworks in Ready or Not
reality	On the World Videogame: Language, Nation, and Reality Across Borders
RealityCapture	9Night and Good Mourning: Game Mechanics towards Memory Work
Reception	Intention, Interpretation, and the Sensory Life of Queerness: Reading Reception in Bioware’s Dragon Age Games 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 Through Ruins, Dark Woodlands, White Cities: The Representation of Ancient Landscapes in Video Games Local Times And Temporalities In The Social History Of Play
Recognition and Deviation Pleasure	Distorting Culture: Memetic Play and Pleasures in Analogue Game Remediation
Recreational rage	Recreational Rage Play: Exploring Frictious Player Engagement with Rage Physics Games
Recuperative historiography	A House Is Not a Home: Queergaming and Recuperative History in Molly House
Red Dead Redemption 2	Myth, Memory, and the Melting Pot: Anti-Imperialism in Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2
Reddit	“It’s Just a Hoax”: Climate Change Denial in Civilization VI’s Reddit Communities More man vs nature mechanics? Exploring romanticized notions of solitude in r/SurvivalGaming
Referentiality	The final frontier of space in video games. Spatio-narrative design in Judgment by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Reflexive Curation	The Institutionalization of the Nokia N-Gage as a National Symbol: From Corporate and Fan Heritage to Public Cultural Heritage
Reflexive Thematic Analysis	How to be Non-Human : A Thematic Analysis of Animal Embodiment in VR Games
reflexivity	Forms of self-reflexivity in team hero shooters and beyond
refugee crisis	Let’s play the ‘refugee crisis’: a postcolonial deconstruction of the refugee in post-2015 European videogames
Regional Locking	Unlocking Pleasure: The Material Politics of "Backdoors" in Chinese Console Gaming
regionality	Grand Theft Auto: National Identity, Transnational Production, and the Ambivalent Politics of Play Decentralising Queer Game Studies: The British Situation
Regulation and policy	Poor Compliance with Loot Box Probability Disclosure and Warning Regulations in Taiwan
Regulative Rules	Rules as Ontological Structures: A Three-Layer Framework for Understanding Freedom and Constraint in Digital Games
relational labor	Making Virtual Romance Real: Intimacy and Relational Labor in Otome Games Cosplay Commission
relational masculinity	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
relaxing	Min-Maxxing Relaxing: Playtime and Privilege in the Post-Pandemic
remakes	Playable Returns: Seriality and Medium-Specific Aesthetics in Videogame Remakes and Demakes
remediation	Killing them Softly: Exploring the Contradictory Pleasures of Cosy Detective Videogames Remediations of Japanese Cinema and History in Ghost of Yōtei Nostalgic Development Practices: Fantasy Consoles and DIY Game Engines
Remembering Play	“Remembering Play” Beyond Retro: An Analysis of YouTube Videos and Comment Data on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in South Korea
Reparative Game Design	Making and Playing for Catharsis Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
repetition	Racial Recursivity as Critical Race Game Studies Methodology Bodily Pleasures of Repetitive Labour and Rhythm in Finnish Cottage Simulator Playable Returns: Seriality and Medium-Specific Aesthetics in Videogame Remakes and Demakes
replaying	Repeated pleasures: Motivations for replaying story-driven games
representation	Digital forests, meadows, towns: Representation of landscape in Czech digital games Playing As More Than Just a Continent: Representation of Southeast Asia in Video Games Multilayered Queerness in Videogames: Mechanics, Aesthetics, Narrative, and Production Identity Play as Identity Work: Representation, Identity Integration, and Possible Selves in Digital Games Who Deserves to Survive the Post-Apocalypse? Deaths of Child Characters in The Walking Dead Culture as (Extra)ordinary: Authentic Representation of Working-Class Experience in Still Wakes the Deep Remediations of Japanese Cinema and History in Ghost of Yōtei
Representationalism	The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2
representations	Representations of Suicide in Computer Games
Reproducibility	Player As Archivist - A Proposed Analysis of Player-centric Video Game Preservation Practice
Research Agenda	Missing in Action: Professional Wargaming in Game Studies
Research collaboration	Between Diverse Industry and Game Characters - An Analysis of Tool-based Representation Design
Research creation	Body and Game: Making and Playing a Game in Daoism Playing with ADHD: Exploring Crip resonances between ADHD and game-making Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
research methods	Translating the Game Space Model from Analytic Framework to Practical Methodology for Game Development and Research
Research through Design	PHARMACOLOGICAL PRAXIS: A LUDONARRATIVE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE INTERSECTIONAL IMPASSE From Resource to Kin: Designing for Environmental Resilience in the Okanagan "Gotta kill 'em all!" – A Game about Billionaires and Climate Obstruction Games and the Posthuman Condition: How game design represents memory and identity through embodied experience
research-creation	Pleasure and Intersectionality in Queer Dating-Sims: an Autoethnographic Research-Creation Perspective
Resident_Evil	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
resistance	Procedural Praxis: Making and Thinking Antifascism Through Games
resistances	Is gameplay fun after all? Queer Indigenous resistances through gameplay
resonance	The Hamster Wheel of Terror - Gambling Ludemes and Game Loops from Hell in CloverPit
Retro gaming	Valuable Childhoods: Nostalgia, Intersectionalities, and Vintage Game Fairs
retrogaming	Rise of the faux pixels
Review Bombing	Representation, Resistance, and Moderation: The Politics of Review Bombing in Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Rhetoric	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 “is dondald trump woke?” and Other Trolling Questions: Rise and Fall of the Woke Content Detector Steam Group
rhythm	Bodily Pleasures of Repetitive Labour and Rhythm in Finnish Cottage Simulator
right-wing extremism	“They managed to make lesbians unattractive”: anti-woke activism in No Alphabets mod in Baldur’s Gate 3
rights	Three rights to play: Liberal, Fascist, and Compositionist
ritual	Games Against Death
Rituals	Navigating the Sacred Magic Circle: Ritual, Play, and the Urban Transformation of a City into a Magic Circle
Roblox	Child Safety in Platform Gaming: Balancing Protection and Freedom Moneyball, but for kids: Games as vehicles for predatory prediction markets Pleased to play, paid to please: memory commodification within Roblox’s creator economy
Rockstar Games	Grand Theft Auto: National Identity, Transnational Production, and the Ambivalent Politics of Play
Rogue	Portraying Unfavorable Sociocultural Circumstances Through the Videoludic Picaresque
roguelikes	Looping Across Genres: How Time Loops, Roguelikes, and Cyclical Levels Shape Narrative Structure
roguelite	Veggie Vigilantes: Queering Crime Tropes in Cosy Comedy Games
Role of Playing	Role and anger: investigations for live streamers, co-players and common players
role play	Playing with my imaginary friends: Character art commissions as affective play Analysing Historical Distortion in Large Language Model Roleplay
role-play	Embodied Entrepreneurship: Exploring How an Analogue Role-Play Game Develops Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Master’s Engineering Students
role-playing games	Queercrip Mythmaking in Contemporary Role-Playing Games
roman mosaics	Transfiguring In and Out of Worlds: Archaeological Knowledge as Narrative Video Games
Romania/Romanianness in video games	Rendering Romania. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Othering in Video Games
rope mechanics	Swinging Through History: Rope Mechanics in 2D games
rpg mechanics	Diablerie of a Lore: A Comparative Analysis of Gaming Pleasure in Bloodlines and Bloodlines 2
Rule Ontology	Rules as Ontological Structures: A Three-Layer Framework for Understanding Freedom and Constraint in Digital Games
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Sacrifice Flow	Lightweight Rituals and Player Belonging in Video Games: The "Sacrifice Flow" in Stardew Valley Community Center Reconstruction
safety tools	Rolling Together: Intergenerational Dungeons & Dragons, Onboarding, and Infrastructures of Care
Sanitized Pleasure	The Algorithmic Hostess: Social Mediation, Affective Discipline, and Sanitized Pleasures of Generative AI NPCs in Petit Planet
Sankey Analysis	The Absent Teacher in Eco-Games: A Theoretical Framework for Teacher Integration in Eco-Games
Sartrean Game Analysis	Existential Ethics and Tactical Realism: Sartrean Moral Frameworks in Ready or Not
satire	Veggie Vigilantes: Queering Crime Tropes in Cosy Comedy Games
Satire and Politics	Distorting Culture: Memetic Play and Pleasures in Analogue Game Remediation
scalability	Unplayable Encounters with the Anthropocene: Rethinking Scale and Agency in Game Studies
scale	Tracing the political economy of the "microgame"
science fiction	Intersectional Pleasures of Imagining non-Western Futures for Tabletop Role Playing Games
Scientific Serious Games	Exploring Videogame Design in Academic Contexts: A Research-Creation Approach to Ideation
Scoping review	The Invisibility of Women Streamers in Game Studies
Screen Studies	Monstera pocketii: The Botanical Vitality of Pokémon
Security	Cruel Pleasure: Affective Security and Territoriality in Games
sega	Ghost in the Dreamcast: Ludomusical Hauntology and Pleasures of a 90s Cross-Franchise Specter
selective exposure	Repeated pleasures: Motivations for replaying story-driven games
Self-determination theory	Game Streaming and Motives of Play
Self-reflexivity	Forms of self-reflexivity in team hero shooters and beyond
self-visualization	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
semantic openness	Female Machamp, Male Lopunny, and Bearded Dragon Gym Leaders Who May Like it Rough: Identarian Openness in Pokémon
semi-stuctured interview	Winter is gaming: study of gamers' habits throughout the year
Semiotics	The Relationship Between Signs and Context: Semiotic Meaning-Making in Digital Games 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 “is dondald trump woke?” and Other Trolling Questions: Rise and Fall of the Woke Content Detector Steam Group When Localization Meets Game Design: Strengthening Collaboration
sense of belonging	More man vs nature mechanics? Exploring romanticized notions of solitude in r/SurvivalGaming
Sensory	Intention, Interpretation, and the Sensory Life of Queerness: Reading Reception in Bioware’s Dragon Age Games
seriality	Playable Returns: Seriality and Medium-Specific Aesthetics in Videogame Remakes and Demakes
serious games	Let’s play the ‘refugee crisis’: a postcolonial deconstruction of the refugee in post-2015 European videogames Tracing the political economy of the "microgame" Docugame design for Conservation: Designing The Moose of Fiordland biopic game. The Convergence of Historical Game Design and Digital Heritage Designing vulnerability: Framework, design, and evaluation of a serious game depicting victims of domestic abuse Make Games No One Wants to Play The Multidimensional Spectrum of Abstraction, Realism and Cultural Meaning in Serious Games Between Pleasure and Harm: Transcreating a Serious Game on Older Adult Embodied Entrepreneurship: Exploring How an Analogue Role-Play Game Develops Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Master’s Engineering Students Neighborhood Making of Story Games: Accessible Joy in Low-Tech Design Pleasure Under Pressure: Laughter, Learning, and Competitive Play in Professional Wargaming Missing in Action: Professional Wargaming in Game Studies
Sexual role-play	Queer Resistance Through Sexual Role-play: BDSM Larp, Arousal, and Communal Resistance
sexual script theory	Playing on Her Terms: Otome Gamers’ Negotiations with Hegemonic Sexual Scripts in China
sexuality	Female Machamp, Male Lopunny, and Bearded Dragon Gym Leaders Who May Like it Rough: Identarian Openness in Pokémon
sexuality studies	Introducing The Comet Cock, a Murderous AI Dating Sim
Shanshui Game	Shan-shui Game: Worldbuilding for a Pluriverse Through Relational Game Assets
shinrin-yoku	Exploring VR Shinrin-Yoku Stress Relief: A Comparative Study of Virtual and Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Environments
Short Stories	Making Games Sustainable – One Short Story at the Time
Sid Meier’s Civilization	The Civilization of Sid Meier’s Civilization: Player Reception of Change in A Long-Running Game Series
signs	The Relationship Between Signs and Context: Semiotic Meaning-Making in Digital Games
simulacra	Right click to de-escalate – Call of Duty & turning propaganda into pleasure
simulated environments	From the Invisible to Glitch: Rethinking the Possibilities of Aesthetics, Bodies, and Connection in Virtual Parties
Simulation	Them’s Fighting Words: The Unlikely Marriage of Language Games and Simulated Hand-to-Hand Combat Docugame design for Conservation: Designing The Moose of Fiordland biopic game.
simulations	Representations of Suicide in Computer Games
Singapore	Playing As More Than Just a Continent: Representation of Southeast Asia in Video Games “Writing Back” To Which Empire?: Constructing Chinese Identities in Tabletop Roleplaying Games in Singapore
Single-player	Defining Single-player Video Games NPC Societies: An Ethnographic Approach
single-player videogames	Monstrous Desires in Pornographic Videogames
Sinological orientalism	The "Chinese" Non-city: Thematic (in)coherence and level design in Sifu
Sips and Sonnets	My Cozy Hero: How Cozy Games Challenge Conventional Hero Dynamics
situated play	The Social Production of Space Between Global Play and Local Production in Southern European Digital Games Distorting Culture: Memetic Play and Pleasures in Analogue Game Remediation
Skill transferability	Beyond the Studio: Long-term Career Trajectories of Swedish Game Graduates
Slay the Princess	(Meta)identity: Renegotiating identity through metamodern design in Slay the Princess
Slovak Culture	The Name of Janosik Will Never Perish: Górals Tradition in Game Culture
slow games	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
slow gaming	Slow Gaming: Applying Slow Movement to Post-anthropocentric Play
slow movement	Slow Gaming: Applying Slow Movement to Post-anthropocentric Play
slow violence	Slow Gaming: Applying Slow Movement to Post-anthropocentric Play Glitching Objects as Temporal Mediators: Hyperobject Temporality in NORCO
slowness	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
soccer	Football Without Fans: Are Matches Just for Gambling?
Social capital	Digital Gaming, Disability, and Social Capital: Understanding Intersectional Pleasures and Community Formation
Social competitiveness	Competing Otherwise: Latin American Perspectives on Meritocratic Resistance in Competitive Gameplay
Social connectedness	Digital Gaming, Disability, and Social Capital: Understanding Intersectional Pleasures and Community Formation
Social Gaming	Game Streaming and Motives of Play
Social Imaginaries	Between Punches and Flying Attacks: Ludonarrative Imaginaries in 1980s Beat ’em Up Games
social justice	"Gotta kill 'em all!" – A Game about Billionaires and Climate Obstruction
social media	Visual Representation of Alternative Masculinities in a Mexican Gaymer Group’s Instagram Presence Misleading omissions of loot box presence disclosures: widespread unfair commercial practices in video game advertising on social media in Ireland and the EU
social media analysis	Identity Play as Identity Work: Representation, Identity Integration, and Possible Selves in Digital Games
Social Prosthesis	The Algorithmic Hostess: Social Mediation, Affective Discipline, and Sanitized Pleasures of Generative AI NPCs in Petit Planet
social rules	Imbalanced Pleasures? System Design and Social Rules in the Survivors-like Game Megabonk
social sustainability	Localized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Solutions in Game Culture Environments
social work	Post-Heroic Play in Social Work Education: Structural Constraint and Impossible Care
social worth	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
Society	Portraying Unfavorable Sociocultural Circumstances Through the Videoludic Picaresque
Socio-technical	Neighborhood Making of Story Games: Accessible Joy in Low-Tech Design
Socioeconomic	Neighborhood Making of Story Games: Accessible Joy in Low-Tech Design
sociology of sports	Learning to E-sport: A study of learning opportunities around competitive games
sociotechnical imaginaries	Virtual Reality in the 2020s: Peace Machine or War Machine?
software	Descent Into Video Games
software toys	Make it Cuddle, Make it Fight, Market it Pink: Virtual Pets and Affective Economies of Gendered Play
Solar Energy	For the Trees: Envisioning Sustainable Futures Through Ecomodded Minecraft
solitude	More man vs nature mechanics? Exploring romanticized notions of solitude in r/SurvivalGaming
Somatic design	Body and Game: Making and Playing a Game in Daoism
sonic atmospheres	Soft Worlds, Sonic Seams: How Cozy Games Stitch Sound Design into Musical Score
sonic ecology	Soft Worlds, Sonic Seams: How Cozy Games Stitch Sound Design into Musical Score
sonic environments	Soft Worlds, Sonic Seams: How Cozy Games Stitch Sound Design into Musical Score
souls-like games	Why Do We Suffer for Fun? Ordeal Pleasure in Souls-like Games
South Africa	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
South Korea	Schrödinger’s Feminist Cat: The Positional Feminism of Five Hearts Under One Roof The Foreigner, The Joker: Dual Identity of Migrant Game Industry Workers in South Korea
Southeast Asia	Playing As More Than Just a Continent: Representation of Southeast Asia in Video Games
Spain	The Social Production of Space Between Global Play and Local Production in Southern European Digital Games
Spanish-American War	Myth, Memory, and the Melting Pot: Anti-Imperialism in Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2
spatial clustering	Game Parlours or Incidental Etchings? Material Traces of Incised Boardgames in Ancient South Asian Communal Spaces.
spatial media	9Night and Good Mourning: Game Mechanics towards Memory Work
spatial poetics	Walking the Psyche: Expanding the Poetics of Performative Virtual Architecture through Real-Time Game Engine
spatial rhetorics	(Meta)identity: Renegotiating identity through metamodern design in Slay the Princess
spatialization	The Social Production of Space Between Global Play and Local Production in Southern European Digital Games
spectacle	“No Way, Did You See That Move?”: Constructing the Entertaining Spectacle in Game Live Streaming
spectatorship	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity How Streaming Facilitates Affective Transformation: A Case Study of Horror Game Spectatorship Spectating the Samurai: Performing and Preserving History through Twitch
spectatorship and pleasure	Sketch for a Phenomenology of Gameplay (as) Performance: Bodies, Systems, Worlds
speculation	From the Invisible to Glitch: Rethinking the Possibilities of Aesthetics, Bodies, and Connection in Virtual Parties
Speculative design	Making Non-Monogamy: A Design-Oriented Approach for Studying Digital Game Intimacies
speculative games	Intersectional Pleasures of Imagining non-Western Futures for Tabletop Role Playing Games
speculative sentiment	Speculative Sentiment: The Dementia Narrative in Digital Games
speech act theory	Tarot, Money, and Mnemonics: Histories of Card Games Beyond Quantifiable-outcome Games
speech-act theory	The Conjurative Voice of the Player in Escape Rooms: A Framework
Spiritfarer	A History of Non-Violence. Symbiosis and Care Work in L.O.L.: Lack of Love and Spiritfarer My Cozy Hero: How Cozy Games Challenge Conventional Hero Dynamics
Stage design	The "Chinese" Non-city: Thematic (in)coherence and level design in Sifu
stakeholder conflict	Investigating Stakeholder Conflict in Blue Crab Management Using Video Games
Stakeholder Power Positions	The Institutionalization of the Nokia N-Gage as a National Symbol: From Corporate and Fan Heritage to Public Cultural Heritage
Star Wars	Feel the Force Around You: Haptic Narratology and the Problem of Focalization
Stardew Valley	Lightweight Rituals and Player Belonging in Video Games: The "Sacrifice Flow" in Stardew Valley Community Center Reconstruction
Steam	“is dondald trump woke?” and Other Trolling Questions: Rise and Fall of the Woke Content Detector Steam Group
Steam Reviews	The Civilization of Sid Meier’s Civilization: Player Reception of Change in A Long-Running Game Series
STEM	Game as Inquiry: An Diffractive and Experimental Approach to Designing and Evaluating Games with a Message
stereotype	Where are the Girls’ Games? Trends in Themes, Aesthetic, and Gameplay
stillness	Slow Gaming: Applying Slow Movement to Post-anthropocentric Play
stone	Thinking on Our Feet: Baby Steps (2025) Towards (Im)balancing the Somatic and the Stoney
Stories	Player Enjoyment Through Mechanical Engagement with Text in “The Séance of Blake Manor”
Story	‘Perhapsing’ Through Collaborative Play: The Neighborhood that Once Was and Could Be.
story holons	Aesthetics of Holarchic Narrative Design: Participatory and Intersectional Pleasures of Game Storyworlds
Story-driven boardgames	Player Experience of Hybridity in a Narrative Boardgame
storytelling	The Ludic Narrator: Towards a New Typology Player Experience of Hybridity in a Narrative Boardgame
streamer	Parasocial Incidental Politics: How Twitch Users Navigate Political Content and Misinformation in Livestreaming Environments
Streamers	“This industry has ruined me”: categorizing the experiences of Brazilian feminist gaming streamers through an intersectional approach
Streaming	Playing (with) Toxicity and Irony on Twitch: The ambiguous case of the “Court of the Bans” Game Streaming and Motives of Play
stress relief	Exploring VR Shinrin-Yoku Stress Relief: A Comparative Study of Virtual and Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Environments
structuralism	The Influence of Historical Theory on Historical Game’s Design
students	Flanki: Drinking Games and Traditions of Students at AGH University of Kraków
studio studies	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
studios	That’s My Jam: Understanding the Value of Canadian Game Jams
style	Tacky Games
subject	Posthuman Cuteness: Affective and agentic tensions
subjectivity	Playing anachronisme in Time: Towards the Ludobiography in the Context of Chinese Indie Games
suburbia	Buy, build, live: The Sims’ American Dream, neoliberal utopia and its impact on city design
suicide	Representations of Suicide in Computer Games Introducing The Comet Cock, a Murderous AI Dating Sim
superfans	From Play to Idols: How Superfans Shape Esports Ecologies
survey research	Temporal Features and Player Values: A Means-Ends Account of Time in Digital Play
Survival games	Entropic Temporality & Care-Based Agency in Ecological Survival Games More man vs nature mechanics? Exploring romanticized notions of solitude in r/SurvivalGaming
Survival horror	Culture as (Extra)ordinary: Authentic Representation of Working-Class Experience in Still Wakes the Deep
survivors-like	Imbalanced Pleasures? System Design and Social Rules in the Survivors-like Game Megabonk
Sustainability	Games analysis, Transforming Pixels into Plates: Harnessing Game Strategies for Sustainable Food Practices. Making Games Sustainable – One Short Story at the Time "Gotta kill 'em all!" – A Game about Billionaires and Climate Obstruction
sustainability development	Localized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Solutions in Game Culture Environments
Sustainable food habits	Games analysis, Transforming Pixels into Plates: Harnessing Game Strategies for Sustainable Food Practices.
Switzerland	“We found another Swiss Game !” Reflexive Epistemology of Enthusiasm and Methodological Nationalism in Local Game Histories
symbolic power	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
Symbolic story generation	Have Generative AIs Made Games More Fun? The Past and Present of Text-Based Generative AI in Games
symbols	The Relationship Between Signs and Context: Semiotic Meaning-Making in Digital Games
Synthetic Sociality	The Algorithmic Hostess: Social Mediation, Affective Discipline, and Sanitized Pleasures of Generative AI NPCs in Petit Planet
system design	Imbalanced Pleasures? System Design and Social Rules in the Survivors-like Game Megabonk Combat System Design for Action Games: Key Concepts and Styles
Systematic Literature Review	The Absent Teacher in Eco-Games: A Theoretical Framework for Teacher Integration in Eco-Games
Systemic Change	Making Games Sustainable – One Short Story at the Time
Systems	Tracing the political economy of the "microgame" Examining Jank as Design Through Casual Gameplay
Systems Thinking	The Absent Teacher in Eco-Games: A Theoretical Framework for Teacher Integration in Eco-Games
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Table-Top Roleplaying Games	Web-based Serial Narratives: Actual Plays in the Italian Context
Tabletop	Player Experience of Hybridity in a Narrative Boardgame
Tabletop Game	‘Perhapsing’ Through Collaborative Play: The Neighborhood that Once Was and Could Be.
tabletop games	Exploring Experiential Fidelity in Board Game Adaptations of Video Games When Space Becomes Cardboard: Rethinking Escape Room Narratives in Tabletop Games Are Themes Really Conceit? A Semiotic Proposal
tabletop role-playing games	Rolling Together: Intergenerational Dungeons & Dragons, Onboarding, and Infrastructures of Care Intersectional Pleasures of Imagining non-Western Futures for Tabletop Role Playing Games
Tabletop role-playing games (TRPG)	Nostalgia-play in Chilean tabletop role-playing communities: Reflections to analyse game practices in a global north-global south dialogue.
tabletop roleplaying games	Critical Game Design in Tabletop Roleplaying Games: Applying Two Methods “Writing Back” To Which Empire?: Constructing Chinese Identities in Tabletop Roleplaying Games in Singapore
tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs)	And the Crops Withered: Designing TTRPGs To Enliven Myths
tackiness	Tacky Games
Tactility	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?
tamagotchi	Make it Cuddle, Make it Fight, Market it Pink: Virtual Pets and Affective Economies of Gendered Play
tangible heritage	Games with Culture: Using Cultural Heritage as Game-Making Material
Tarot	Tarot, Money, and Mnemonics: Histories of Card Games Beyond Quantifiable-outcome Games
taskmaster	What strategies for enabling flow-critical play can be derived from the game design of Taskmaster?
Teacher Support	The Absent Teacher in Eco-Games: A Theoretical Framework for Teacher Integration in Eco-Games
Team Fortress 2	Modernities of authenticity in recreated online digital games: A comparative case study
team hero shooters	Forms of self-reflexivity in team hero shooters and beyond
Teasing Labels	Label Offensive and Defensive in Interest-Based Battlefields: Identity Politics and Public Opinion Polarization in China’s ACG Communities
tech ideology	Nostalgic Ludopopulism and Neoreactionary Movements in Game Development
technicity	Now Your Playing with Graphics Processing Power: Nvidia and the Discursive Pleasure of Artificial Intelligence
Technocoloniality	FINAL BOSS: Videogame as a Technology of Geopolitical Cultural Power
Technological Adaptation	Counterfeit Circuits: Decolonial Practices and the Rise of Video Games in Brazil
Technology	FINAL BOSS: Videogame as a Technology of Geopolitical Cultural Power
technology of the self	Forms of self-reflexivity in team hero shooters and beyond
technopolitics	Virtual Reality in the 2020s: Peace Machine or War Machine?
Temporal Care	Entropic Temporality & Care-Based Agency in Ecological Survival Games
Temporal Mechanics	18XX Forever: Railway Time and Fossil Play on the Tabletop
temporal mediator	Glitching Objects as Temporal Mediators: Hyperobject Temporality in NORCO
temporality	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games Playing anachronisme in Time: Towards the Ludobiography in the Context of Chinese Indie Games
Territory	Cruel Pleasure: Affective Security and Territoriality in Games
The Legend of Zelda	Rethinking Ludic Pleasure from an Object-oriented Perspective
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom	“Remembering Play” Beyond Retro: An Analysis of YouTube Videos and Comment Data on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in South Korea
The Mooseman	Play as Preservation: Folklore and Mythology in The Mooseman
The Sims	Let’s Play The Sims: The Un(der)studied Women’s Origins of a Media Format
The Sims series	Buy, build, live: The Sims’ American Dream, neoliberal utopia and its impact on city design
the walking dead	Who Deserves to Survive the Post-Apocalypse? Deaths of Child Characters in The Walking Dead
theatre games	Reshaping Failure: The Design of Hospites Teatro’s Theatre Games
theatre pedagogy	Reshaping Failure: The Design of Hospites Teatro’s Theatre Games
Themes	Are Themes Really Conceit? A Semiotic Proposal
Themes as Design Element	Are Themes Really Conceit? A Semiotic Proposal
theory	Three rights to play: Liberal, Fascist, and Compositionist Flesh, Plastic, Stone: The Pleasure of Recontextualised Character Models Six Positive Words for Talking about Theory in Games Research (in Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity)
thing theory	Glitching Objects as Temporal Mediators: Hyperobject Temporality in NORCO
thing-power	Rethinking Ludic Pleasure from an Object-oriented Perspective
third-wave HCI	Game as Inquiry: An Diffractive and Experimental Approach to Designing and Evaluating Games with a Message
Thirdspace	A House Is Not a Home: Queergaming and Recuperative History in Molly House
Thrissur Pooram	Navigating the Sacred Magic Circle: Ritual, Play, and the Urban Transformation of a City into a Magic Circle
Time	Local Times And Temporalities In The Social History Of Play Time vs. History in JRPGs
time in video games	Time in Digital Games: A Comparative Map of Temporal Constructs
time loops	Looping Across Genres: How Time Loops, Roguelikes, and Cyclical Levels Shape Narrative Structure
time perception	Time in Digital Games: A Comparative Map of Temporal Constructs
time studies	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
time travel	Time vs. History in JRPGs
Tools	Between Diverse Industry and Game Characters - An Analysis of Tool-based Representation Design
toxic masculinity	Introducing The Comet Cock, a Murderous AI Dating Sim
toxicity	Playing (with) Toxicity and Irony on Twitch: The ambiguous case of the “Court of the Bans” Douchebag Games: White Grievance and Reactionary Identity Formation in the Xbox Era
trading card games	The Demographics and Motivations of Trading Card Game Players
Tragedy	No Good Endings: The Tragic Pleasure of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
trans game studies	Queer Games Studies Material Turn: Centering Trans Bodies in Video Games
Transcreation	Between Pleasure and Harm: Transcreating a Serious Game on Older Adult
transfeminist game design	The Right to Play, The Right to Pleasure
Transformation	Mod Choreography: Transforming the Contexts of Digital Play The Revolution Dances: The Pleasures of Transformation in Final Fantasy X-2
transgender body	Queer Games Studies Material Turn: Centering Trans Bodies in Video Games
transgender players	Queer Games Studies Material Turn: Centering Trans Bodies in Video Games
Transgressive Design	Deceptive Design in VR Games: Lies that invite Surprise and Pleasure
transgressivity	Queercrip Mythmaking in Contemporary Role-Playing Games
transhumanism	On Eating Without a Face in Arctic Eggs (2024)
Translation	The Liminal Capacity of Code - Connecting Developer Intentions and Player Experience in Early Video Games “My France Hurts:” Rethinking Cultural Odor in Pokémon Legends: Z-A
translation studies	Achievement Unlocked: The Art of Localizing Minecraft’s Advancements
transmedia	Failure to Franchise as Profane Comedy in Dante’s Inferno: The Poem: The Game: The Book The endemic intellectual property model of Riot Games
Transmedia Narratives	Web-based Serial Narratives: Actual Plays in the Italian Context
transnational	China’s Game on Ancient Japan: Pleasure, Identity, and Poetry from “Man’yōshū” in “Genshin Impact” Arcade Soldiers: Early Japanese Shooters in Dialogue with Hollywood Militarism Grand Theft Auto: National Identity, Transnational Production, and the Ambivalent Politics of Play
transnational youth	Playing Home: Gaming Practices and Imagined Communities among Chinese Overseas Students
Transparency	Player As Archivist - A Proposed Analysis of Player-centric Video Game Preservation Practice Transparency Isn't Enough: How Ordinary Features of Games Contribute to Exploitative Monetization
traveling showmen	Arcades on Wheels: The Materiality and Logistics of Itinerant Gaming in Socialist Czechoslovakia
trick-taking card game	Pleasure in Play: Hyperscanning Shared Card Game Experience
trolling behavior	Predicting Trolling Behaviors Using In-Game Timeline Data: Uncovering Divergent Mechanisms Behind AFK and Item Tier-Dropping in MOBA Games
troubling pleasures	Flanki: Drinking Games and Traditions of Students at AGH University of Kraków
TTRPG	‘Perhapsing’ Through Collaborative Play: The Neighborhood that Once Was and Could Be. Critical Game Design in Tabletop Roleplaying Games: Applying Two Methods
TTRPGs	Experiences of Age and Gender in Early UK Tabletop Role-Playing Magazines
tutorials	How General Game Expertise Shapes Player Experience and Problem-Solving Across Different Onboarding Approaches in a Puzzle Video Game
Twine	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games Democratizing Interactive Filmmaking: A No-Code Solution for Arts Students
Twitch	Playing together: analysis of gaming and sociocultural practices in Cooperative Games Dressing Against Code: How Twitch Plays with/on Green Screen Shorts Playing (with) Toxicity and Irony on Twitch: The ambiguous case of the “Court of the Bans” Parasocial Incidental Politics: How Twitch Users Navigate Political Content and Misinformation in Livestreaming Environments Spectating the Samurai: Performing and Preserving History through Twitch
typology	Time in Digital Games: A Comparative Map of Temporal Constructs The Ludic Narrator: Towards a New Typology
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Ubuntu Pedagogy	Play in Context: Adapting Game-Based Learning for African Cultural Frameworks
Ukraine	Pleasure Not For Everyone: Epistemic Injustice Towards Ukrainian Game Studies
underground	Descent Into Video Games
underground imaginaries	“Perhaps, this is Hell”: Descent Narratives in Video Games
undernarration	Absent Pleasures, or Pleasure in Absence? Player Engagement in Minimalist Digital Horror Games
unexpected player	Is gameplay fun after all? Queer Indigenous resistances through gameplay
Unity	9Night and Good Mourning: Game Mechanics towards Memory Work
Unity Engine	The Infinite Game in the Engine of Control: Proletarianization, Platform Capitalism, and the Future of Playful Pleasure
unreal engine	Neurodivergent Pleasures in Game Environmental Design
Urban Violence	Between Punches and Flying Attacks: Ludonarrative Imaginaries in 1980s Beat ’em Up Games
Urbek City Builder	Rethinking City Builders from Latin America: A Cultural Study of Urbek City Builder
user analysis	“They managed to make lesbians unattractive”: anti-woke activism in No Alphabets mod in Baldur’s Gate 3
user experience	Shaping Interactions and Experiences: Investigating the Effects of a Game-Specific Custom Controller on Player Experience in a Digital Game Environment
User-Generated Content Platforms	Web-based Serial Narratives: Actual Plays in the Italian Context
User-generated online games	Pleased to play, paid to please: memory commodification within Roblox’s creator economy
Uses & Gratifications	An Exploration of Cozy Games as Coping Mechanism to Manage Mental Well-being
Utopianism	Exploring Critical Utopian Gaming Pedagogy in a youth club in Barcelona
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value	The endemic intellectual property model of Riot Games
Values	Playing with Existence: Values in Post-Apocalyptic Gameworlds
values-conscious design	Translating the Game Space Model from Analytic Framework to Practical Methodology for Game Development and Research
Valve	Modernities of authenticity in recreated online digital games: A comparative case study
Vampire: the masquerade	Diablerie of a Lore: A Comparative Analysis of Gaming Pleasure in Bloodlines and Bloodlines 2
Variable Media Network / VMN	Towards a Strategy Using the "Intervention Level Framework" in Japanese Game Archives: Integrating Material and Functional Authenticity Based on Conservation Science
video game	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
Video game analysis	Playing As More Than Just a Continent: Representation of Southeast Asia in Video Games
Video Game Development	The Liminal Capacity of Code - Connecting Developer Intentions and Player Experience in Early Video Games
video game genres	Have Generative AIs Made Games More Fun? The Past and Present of Text-Based Generative AI in Games
Video game history	Hobbyist Developers: Studying Notable Nintendo DS Homebrew Games A Chronicle of Emulation: Proposed Eras for Video Game Emulators
video game industries	Understanding Game Monetization in China from a Gameworker Perspective
video game industry	Balancing In/formality within the Brno Video Game Industry Ecosystem
video game law and regulation	Misleading omissions of loot box presence disclosures: widespread unfair commercial practices in video game advertising on social media in Ireland and the EU
Video game localization	When Localization Meets Game Design: Strengthening Collaboration Achievement Unlocked: The Art of Localizing Minecraft’s Advancements
video game museums	Video Games and Minoritized Language Revitalization: The Galician Case
Video Game Preservation	Player As Archivist - A Proposed Analysis of Player-centric Video Game Preservation Practice
video game production	Balancing In/formality within the Brno Video Game Industry Ecosystem
video game regulation	Beyond the Video Game Nasties: Censorship and the Online Safety Act
video game regulations	Understanding Game Monetization in China from a Gameworker Perspective
Video game representation	The "Chinese" Non-city: Thematic (in)coherence and level design in Sifu
Video games	Investigating Stakeholder Conflict in Blue Crab Management Using Video Games Through Ruins, Dark Woodlands, White Cities: The Representation of Ancient Landscapes in Video Games Temporal Features and Player Values: A Means-Ends Account of Time in Digital Play Perceptions among the youth on the use (or abuse) of dark patterns Portraying Unfavorable Sociocultural Circumstances Through the Videoludic Picaresque FINAL BOSS: Videogame as a Technology of Geopolitical Cultural Power Far from Complete Compliance: Loot Box Prevalence, Probability Disclosure, and Kompu Gacha Policy in Japanese Mobile Games The Texture of Play: Feeling Your Way Through Teaching with Games Exploring Experiential Fidelity in Board Game Adaptations of Video Games
video games and cultures	Video Games and Minoritized Language Revitalization: The Galician Case
video games and language revitalization	Video Games and Minoritized Language Revitalization: The Galician Case
video games and minoritized languages	Video Games and Minoritized Language Revitalization: The Galician Case
Video gaming	Poor Compliance with Loot Box Probability Disclosure and Warning Regulations in Taiwan
Video_games	“is dondald trump woke?” and Other Trolling Questions: Rise and Fall of the Woke Content Detector Steam Group
Videogame	Videogame Spatial Cinematics: Towards an Interdisciplinary Framework for Analysing Spatial Cinematic Environments in Contemporary Games Mapping women’s legacy in video game: constellation of Japanese creators in the 2000s
Videogame Aesthetics	The Videogame Aesthetics: On the Interplay of Narrative and Ludic Elements
Videogame characters	Flesh, Plastic, Stone: The Pleasure of Recontextualised Character Models
Videogame Curation	The Institutionalization of the Nokia N-Gage as a National Symbol: From Corporate and Fan Heritage to Public Cultural Heritage
videogame distribution	Selling the American Dream: U.S. Gold, Intersectional Pleasures, and the Ludoindustrial Complex
Videogame engines	Engine Workers: Scalability and Frictions in Game Engine Culture
Videogame Exhibition	The Institutionalization of the Nokia N-Gage as a National Symbol: From Corporate and Fan Heritage to Public Cultural Heritage
videogame history	Let’s Play The Sims: The Un(der)studied Women’s Origins of a Media Format Rise of the faux pixels “The FMV Interval”: The Long Dormant Period of Full Motion Video games 1998 – 2015
videogames	A World to Build: World-building and Capitalism in Games The Hero with a Thousand Misattributions: Scrutinizing the Hero's Journey in Videogame Discourse Let’s play the ‘refugee crisis’: a postcolonial deconstruction of the refugee in post-2015 European videogames That’s My Jam: Understanding the Value of Canadian Game Jams
violence	Mythic Alternatives: Mythological Mechanics Beyond Violence
virtual agency	Cross-Species Affinities: Agency and the Pleasures of the Weird and Uncanny
Virtual dwelling	The Place of the Marginalized: Witchers and Dwelling in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
virtual heritage	The Convergence of Historical Game Design and Digital Heritage
Virtual Hoarding	Hoarding, Looting, Consuming: Toward an Ecology of Care
Virtual Mobility	The Post-Socialist Road Trip: Nostalgia, Labor, and Migration in 'Jalopy'
Virtual Morality	Platformization of Virtual Morality: Mediation, Emotion, and Power in Embedded Philanthropy of Chinese Mobile Games -- An empirical analysis based on SEM and fsQCA
virtual party	From the Invisible to Glitch: Rethinking the Possibilities of Aesthetics, Bodies, and Connection in Virtual Parties
virtual pets	Make it Cuddle, Make it Fight, Market it Pink: Virtual Pets and Affective Economies of Gendered Play
virtual photography	Artistic In-Game Photography as Media of Care
Virtual Reality	The Good VR Machine – postcolonial interventions in empathy, peace and justice Feel the Force Around You: Haptic Narratology and the Problem of Focalization How to be Non-Human : A Thematic Analysis of Animal Embodiment in VR Games Sacred Places: Designing 360° Narrative VR Games for Hybrid Use in CAVE and Mobile HMD Setups Deceptive Design in VR Games: Lies that invite Surprise and Pleasure Re-evaluating the Pursuit of Hyper-Realism in Virtual Reality Game Design through the Lens of Ludo proprioceptive Dissonance Designing Virtual Reality Games About Grief: Reflections from Psychology and Healthcare Professionals
Virtual reality (VR)	Exploring VR Shinrin-Yoku Stress Relief: A Comparative Study of Virtual and Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Environments
Virtual urbanism	The final frontier of space in video games. Spatio-narrative design in Judgment by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Virtuality	Monstera pocketii: The Botanical Vitality of Pokémon
visual culture	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
visual identity	The Impact of Evolving Character Customization on Emotional Engagement and Player Behaviour in RPGs
visual novel	Introducing The Comet Cock, a Murderous AI Dating Sim
visual pleasure	Spectatorship of Professional Gamers: Embodied Relatability and the Pleasures of Non-Hegemonic Masculinity
visual studies	Digital forests, meadows, towns: Representation of landscape in Czech digital games
vitality	Rethinking Ludic Pleasure from an Object-oriented Perspective
vocational passion	Balancing In/formality within the Brno Video Game Industry Ecosystem
voice	The Conjurative Voice of the Player in Escape Rooms: A Framework
volunteering	Not Just Competition: Building Inclusive Communities through Grassroots Esports in Norway
VR for good	The Good VR Machine – postcolonial interventions in empathy, peace and justice
Vulnerable Avatars	Designing vulnerability: Framework, design, and evaluation of a serious game depicting victims of domestic abuse
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waiting	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games
walking simulators	Play More, Do Less: Time, Action, and Access in Slow Games Thinking on Our Feet: Baby Steps (2025) Towards (Im)balancing the Somatic and the Stoney
Wanderstop	My Cozy Hero: How Cozy Games Challenge Conventional Hero Dynamics
War	Cruel Pleasure: Affective Security and Territoriality in Games
war trauma	Close-Playing War Trauma: The Tension Between Agency and Inevitability in My Child Lebensborn and Bury Me, My Love
wargames	Fun on the Eastern Front: Chris Crawford and the Pleasure of Early Digital Wargames Ecosystems and conflict in environmental themed analog wargames
Wargaming	Lifting the Fog of War: Militarism, Colonialism and Encyclopedic Pleasures in Digital Play Pleasure Under Pressure: Laughter, Learning, and Competitive Play in Professional Wargaming
Warhammer	Loyalty vs. Heresy: Kitbashing and Materiality Negotiation in Tabletop Games
Water Governance	From Resource to Kin: Designing for Environmental Resilience in the Okanagan
watermen	Investigating Stakeholder Conflict in Blue Crab Management Using Video Games
webGL	Transfiguring In and Out of Worlds: Archaeological Knowledge as Narrative Video Games
wellbeing	Designing Virtual Reality Games About Grief: Reflections from Psychology and Healthcare Professionals
What Remains of Edith Finch	Environmental Storytelling as Embodied Experience: Take What Remains of Edith Finch (2017) as an Example
white supremacy	Douchebag Games: White Grievance and Reactionary Identity Formation in the Xbox Era
whiteness	“Default” Leadership – Critiquing Normative Leader Identities in Single-Player Videogames
wicked choice	It is time to stop painting – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as a dilemma of pleasant fictionality
Wokism	“is dondald trump woke?” and Other Trolling Questions: Rise and Fall of the Woke Content Detector Steam Group
women	Mapping women’s legacy in video game: constellation of Japanese creators in the 2000s
women in gaming	Let’s Play The Sims: The Un(der)studied Women’s Origins of a Media Format
Women streaming	The Invisibility of Women Streamers in Game Studies
Work	Producing Games, Reproducing Inequalities: gender and labour in the Argentine Video Game Market.
Working-class	Culture as (Extra)ordinary: Authentic Representation of Working-Class Experience in Still Wakes the Deep
workplace inclusion	Working Conditions and Mental Health among Professionals with Disabilities in Brazilian Video Game Production
workplace play	Quiet Play: How Desktop Moyu Games Carve Out Enjoyment Inside Workplace
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