This exploratory talk will consider the role that fashion, and fashion photography has in including women in gaming cultures. This inclusion has often framed women in game cultures as objects to be looked at, yet fashion and clothes also provides people with intimate ways of expressing their sense of connection to, and feeling of belongingContinue reading “Fashioning Game Cultures: The Gendered Dynamics of Looking and Feeling Like a Gamer – Tom Apperley”
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“Ludographic Metafiction”, Metaverses, and the Ecocriticism of FFVII: Remake-Darshana Jayemanne and Ruth EJ Booth
This talk explores the concept of “ludographic metafiction” in a reading of the self-reflexive ecocritical themes in Final Fantasy VII: Remake (Square-Enix 2020). Ludographic metafiction modifies Hutcheon’s concept of Historiographic Metafiction’ with Fantasy, Fan and Game Studies perspectives. On the one hand, LM designates the ways that fantastic metafictional and adaptational devices, such as alternativeContinue reading ““Ludographic Metafiction”, Metaverses, and the Ecocriticism of FFVII: Remake-Darshana Jayemanne and Ruth EJ Booth”
Reimagining Board Games: Design Intervention for Indian Craft forms-H.S. Dharmendra
Traditional board games of India are quite simple in their construct. With an exception of few, most of them can be played by instantly conjuring the pattern on the floor with a piece of chalk or charcoal, while pebbles or twigs or colurful bangle slivers become the counters and split tamarind seeds serve as dice.Continue reading “Reimagining Board Games: Design Intervention for Indian Craft forms-H.S. Dharmendra”
Attentat 1942: Designing Serious Game on Contested Past – Vit Sisler
ABSTRACT The talk will critically discuss the possibilities and limitations of video games in dealing with contentious issues from contemporary history. It stems from the speaker’s experience of being a lead game designer of Attentat 1942, an award-winning video game about the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. The talk will revisit the challenges designers faced whenContinue reading “Attentat 1942: Designing Serious Game on Contested Past – Vit Sisler”
Learning through Pivotal Play – Talk by Premeet Sidhu
Meaningful moments in games can impact how people navigate, reflect on, and make sense of their real lives and worlds. However, current definitions limit meaningful play to actions and outcomes taking place within the game space. In this talk I propose and discuss an adjacent definition of pivotal play—appealing, memorable, and transformative play experiences thatContinue reading “Learning through Pivotal Play – Talk by Premeet Sidhu”
Are games good tools? The curious case of games in public policy – Bharath Palavalli
Abstract We often hear –– Games are ancient, an escape from reality, enjoyed by young and old alike, and are wonderful teachers. We have also seen games being used to prepare for wars, make learning fun, or to train for real-life scenarios. What we usually don’t associate games with is public policy. So, what makesContinue reading “Are games good tools? The curious case of games in public policy – Bharath Palavalli”
Remember localization! Game localization from an indie development perspective – Marcus Toftedahl
Abstract:The game industry is today a global industry, where digital storefronts are used to distribute the digital product you are developing. This presents a number of challenges for a small scale game developer and localization is one. The talk will focus on game localization from an indie game development perspective. The research is based onContinue reading “Remember localization! Game localization from an indie development perspective – Marcus Toftedahl”
Repairing Play: Toward A Black Phenomenology of Play – Aaron Trammell
Abstract:In this talk I offer the term “repairing play” or play that both repairs the damages wrought by colonialism, and is itself a form of reparations, in an effort to consider how we might advance an understanding of play that is inclusive of BIPOC people. I focus in on the Black American experience in orderContinue reading “Repairing Play: Toward A Black Phenomenology of Play – Aaron Trammell”
Counter-Hegemonic Representations of Japanese Cultural Icons in Sekiro: Geoffrey Fernandez
Through fictional or non-fictional narratives, media representations of the past communicate specific interpretations, which lets users negotiate the past’s prospective meanings. Additionally, these cultural constructions of the past are produced and disseminated in the present. Hence, the existing hegemonic power relations influence the depiction and recognition of cultural communities in the construction of the past.Continue reading “Counter-Hegemonic Representations of Japanese Cultural Icons in Sekiro: Geoffrey Fernandez”
Unreal City: Expressions of Tokyo in Video Games – Lakshmi Menon
Abstract:Games today, with advancements in graphic design and capability of the platforms on which they can be played, are almost akin to interactive films- in which the player not only consumes the movie-like storyline, but becomes an active participant in the narrative and its outcomes. Worldbuilding in video games has strong connections with the approachesContinue reading “Unreal City: Expressions of Tokyo in Video Games – Lakshmi Menon”
Digital Games Research Association, India 