CFP: Games Symposium for Oceania and the Asia Pacific

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Games Symposium for Oceania and the Asia Pacific

June 14th, 2023 — St Kilda Library

Exploring new perspectives of video game and tabletop roleplaying culture with game artists, makers, and researchers in Asia Pacific and Oceania.

The Asia Pacific is remarkably overlooked as the largest region of annual game production and consumption. This omission represents an opportunity to share games and games-adjacent research. Given the enormous diversity and variation in videogame production and engagement practices, this one-day symposium aims to spark emerging new perspectives.

This symposium is jointly organised by DiGRA Australia, Chinese DiGRA, and in partnership with Pride at Play. We especially encourage researchers working in Chinese sectors to submit their work on game culture to share and collaborate with the workshop attendees.

We invite short provocation submissions from game makers, scholars, artists, writers, and players exploring how games, and the cultures surrounding them play out in their local contexts within Oceania, Asia Pacific regions, including overseas Chinese and Asian perspectives around the world. Provocation submissions are jury-curated by the symposium organising committee.

Presentations must be contextualised in Oceania or the Asia Pacific and themes may include:

  • Defining Oceania and Asia Pacific games research
  • Exploring intersectional identities and influencers in overseas Chinese and Asian cultures
  • Navigating specific regional characteristics of making and playing games
  • Highlighting different or shared lived experiences within game culture
  • Contextualising gender, sexuality, race, and nationality in Oceanic and the Asia Pacific regions
  • Examining national/transnational game histories and futures
  • Recollecting post-mortems of game production in identity play
  • Platforming local and regional aesthetics and concerns in games
  • Critiquing gaming counterpublics, political advocacy and resistance
  • Celebrating and critiquing game fandoms/role-playing/cosplay

Submissions

Submit your provocation via this Google Form: https://forms.gle/piRXheqLAf7jxGds9

Provocation submissions should have a short title, be around 75-100 words, and clearly describe its context, main points, and the potential for further conversations at the workshop. As this is a curated symposium, submission should include author names and a brief 50 word biography.

Provocation Submissions: 1st May, 2023 (extended to 8th May, 2023).

Acceptance Notifications: 14th May, 2023.

Full-day Symposium: 14th June, 2023.

Organising Committee

Dr Mahli-Ann Butt, President of DiGRA Australia

Dr Hugh Davies, President of Chinese DiGRA

Dr Xavier Ho, Head Curator of Pride at Play
For all enquiries and questions about the symposium please contact Xavier Ho <xavier.ho@monash.edu>.

DiGRAA 2023 Conference Program

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DiGRAA 2023 will take place at the Australian Hearing Hub (AHH)
16 University Ave, Macquarie University (map)

Paid parking is available on campus in the South 2 and West 3 parking zones (map).

To attend online, use this Zoom link (password: 742273)

Monday February 6th

8:45amPre-conference meetup
Perfect Brew, AHH Ground Floor
9:00amRegistration
AHH Level 1 Foyer
9:30amWelcome to DiGRAA
AHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre		Malcolm Ryan
Brendan Keogh
10am Session 1 – Gaming Cultures
AHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre		Chair: Malcolm Ryan
Videogame Activism: Contemporary examples and their effectivityHugh Davies
Yelling at clouds: Battlefield 2042 players’ encounters with the climate crisisLawrence May and Ben Hall
Beyond Subcultures. To study gaming communities through Bourdieu’s cultural capitalGiulio Pitroso
The role of community in the work of alternative Australian gamemakersErika Verkaaik
Q&A (20 min)
11amMorning tea
AHH Level 1 Foyer
11:30amSession 2 – Museums & Events
AHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre		Chair: Mahli-Ann Butt
Gaming After Dark: How Contemporary Institutions Can Support Gaming Industries and CommunitiesChloe Appleby
Gods and Greeks: a study of an
immersive RPG in a museum
setting		Nellie Seale
Transience of Place: Knowing, Forgetting, PlayingLee Cope
Capturing Cosplay: Analysing Steamkittens and the Digitisation of Cosplay Photography at Gaming ConventionsMadeleine Antonellos
Q&A (20 min)
12:30pmSession 3 – Narrative 1
AHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre		Chair: Cameron Edmond
Not Choices Matter, But I Matter! Multiple Endings as Quantified SelfAntranig Sarian
Vampires, Drama, and Romance: Examining the in-game interactive fiction tools in Episode and DorianStephanie Harkin
Worldbuilding and Capitalism in Disco ElysiumFinn Dawson
Conlangs as Speech Actions: Studying the pragmatics of Constructed Languages in Video GamesGargi Kowli
Q&A (20 min)
1:30pmLunch
2:30pm Session 4 – Industry & Education
AHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre		Chair: Abbie Hartman
Creative, Technical, Entrepreneurial: Locating Videogame Development in Australian Higher EducationBrendan Keogh and Taylor Hardwick
Marketing as black magic: perspectives from Victorian studiosJacqueline Burgess, Alexander Muscat, Anthony Grace and Christian Jones
A Necessary Evil: Creative and Commercial Tensions in Australian Game DevelopmentAlexander Muscat, Jacqueline Burgess, Anthony Grace and Christian Jones
Poetry Games as Tools for Inclusive Writing ClassroomsCameron Edmond
Q&A (20 min)
3:30pm Afternoon tea
AHH Level 1 Foyer
4pm Session 5 – Platform Studies
AHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre		Chair: Kayson Whitehouse
How do we talk about embodiment in VR?Kate Clark
Taking Motion Controls to the Next Level: Interactions in the MetaverseMitchell McEwan
Gotta Catch ‘Em All?: Pokémon GO and the Spatiality of RiskRowan Tulloch and Nicole Matthews
How Mobile Data Plans Shape Mobile Gaming ExperiencesKyle Moore
Q&A (20 min)
5pmSocial Event @ UBar
1 Central Courtyard

Tuesday February 7th

10am Announcements
AHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre		Malcolm Ryan
10:15amKeynote
AHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre		Chair: Malcolm Ryan
THE RULES WE BREAK – how to play with game designEric Zimmerman
11amMorning tea
AHH Level 1 Foyer
11:30amSession 6 – Gaming Identities
AHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre		Chair: Brendan Keogh
Motives behind trash talk in esports: A consumer perspective through self-determination theorySidney Irwin, Anjum Naweed and Michele Lastella
‘Sculling Shoeys’ at eSports: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Performative AssembliesMahli-Ann Butt
Understanding Avatar Customization Affordance in Gender ExpressionYisong Han and Xavier Ho
Gender-Identity-Play in Young Trans* and Gender Diverse PlayersKayson Whitehouse, Michael Hitchens and Nicole Matthews
Q&A (20 min)
12:30pmSession 7 – Podcasting / Streaming
AHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre		Chair: Cameron Edmod
Career, Hustle or Hobby? The Lives of Gaming Podcast CreatorsRyan Stanton
Building the Ultimate Battlestation: Producing and Consuming Gaming Setup Videos on YouTubeDahlia Jovic
Streaming Persona as a Toolkit for the Analysis of Performance in Videogame LivestreamingNathan J Jackson
Time and Temporality in Game Streaming on TwitchMark R Johnson
Q&A (20 min)
1:30pmLunch
2:30pmSession 8 – Design & Player Experience
AHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre		Chair: Vedant Sansare
Escaping the Laboratorium of Dr Moustache: Learning About Distanced Play Through Game DesignMelissa Rogerson
Press Play and Record: Poinpy, juice ‘em ups, and frame by frame analysisJames Manning
The missing Link: Demonstrating videogame formalism through an analysis of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.Jasper Van Vught and Alex Mitchell
Coping, Achieving, Repeating: The Pleasures of Videogame GrindingAndrea Andiloro
Q&A (20 min)
3:30pmAfternoon Tea
AHH Level 1 Foyer
4:00pmSession 9 – Narrative 2
AHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre		Chair: Mitchell McEwan
The Transgressive Technology of Horror Videogames: A Literary Undertaking of Monsters and MachinesChelsea Russell
The Great Fire: Experiments in Moral Decision-MakingMalcolm Ryan
Ethical Decision-making Through Systems-based GameplayVedant Sansare
All Players Are Equal: Playing With The Rules In An Animal Farm D&D AdaptationPremeet Sidhu
Q&A (20 min)
5pmClose

DiGRAA 2023 Registration

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The DiGRA Australia 2023 National Conference will take place at Macquarie University in Sydney on 6-7 February. The conference will also be able to be attended virtually. We would love to see you there!

The conference is entirely free but registration is required. Please use this Trybooking link to register for conference attendance. Registration is important so we know numbers and dietary requirements for in-person attendance, as well as which speakers will be presenting remotely. If your mode of attendance changes in the future, please update your registration accordingly (by cancelling and re-registering) so we know what numbers to expect.

Please note too that DiGRA Australia has now implemented a formal membership system, with details available here. Membership is free for students and casual academics, and $50 for full-time academics. There is also a $500 institutional membership that covers an unlimited number of individuals connected to a paying institution (e.g., a school or a research lab). If you think your employer might be willing to support our association, perhaps ask them! I’m happy to answer any questions about that process you might have.

Note that membership is not required to simply attend the conference, but is required for presenters. It is also required to attend the AGM, vote in our elections, or to stand for a position on that board.

 We look forward to seeing you at the conference in February!

DiGRAA 2023 Call for Papers

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We invite you to contribute to a two-day game studies conference to be held on the 6th and 7th of February, at Macquarie University. Registration is free. 

Important dates 

    1 November 2022 – Submission deadline 

    6 December 2022 – Notification of submission outcomes 

    6–7 February 2023 – Conference 

Details 

The DiGRA Australia 2023 National Conference is an opportunity for academic and non-academic games researchers, critics, designers, developers and artists to share their work. We aim to provide an inclusive forum that reflects the diversity and vibrancy of game studies in Australia, and that allows newcomers and veterans alike to meet other people who are critically engaged with games, players and the culture that surrounds them. 

There is no theme for this year’s conference—we want to hear about whatever you in the Australian game studies community have been working on. We welcome submissions describing research projects that are completed or still underway. We also welcome contributions from industry members. Tell us about that idea you’ve been turning over in your mind that you’d like to test out in front of an audience. 

DiGRAA 2023 will be hosted at Macquarie University’s Wallumattagal Campus in Sydney. It will run as a hybrid conference, allowing both online and in-person attendance (including online presentations).  

Submission process 

Submissions will be based on Extended Abstracts of 400-800 words. All submissions are to be made via EasyChair. 

All submissions will be reviewed by the organising committee. Submissions do not need to be anonymous. 

Extended Abstract submissions 

This is the standard format for submissions to the DiGRAA conference. Between 400 and 800 words (excluding references) onusing the DiGRAA template. Accepted Extended Abstracts will be presented at the conference as a 10-minute talk (live or pre-recorded video) followed by a live group question time. Accepted Extended Abstracts will be archived on the DiGRAA website. 

Submission rules 

To ensure as many people as possible have the opportunity to present their work, only one submission may be made per lead author, and individuals may present only one paper during the conference. There is no limit on secondary authorship. 

To present at DiGRAA 2023 you will need to be a member of DiGRA Australia. Membership is optional for non-presenting authors. You do not need to be a member at the time of submission, only at the time of the conference.  You do not need to be a member of DiGRA International.

Please note that as of July 2022, membership for those in full-time work with at least 12 months remaining on their contract will cost $50/year. Membership is free for all others (including students, sessional academics, etc.). Membership registration processes are currently being developed and will be available in time for conference registration. 

The DiGRA Australia conference has a ‘grey list’ policy for accepted submissions that are withdrawn with no reason provided, or for which the presenter simply does not attend. Please familiarise yourself with the specifics of this policy here. 

Publication 

Accepted Extended Abstracts will be archived on the DiGRAA website. Video presentations (subject to permission) will be published on a dedicated YouTube channel. Aligning with DiGRAA social media policy, you will have the option not to have your video archived. 

Tips for authors 

We advise potential authors to review the papers from previous DiGRA Australia conferences as a guide to the expected tone and quality. Some further tips: 

  • We welcome submissions that explore both in-progress and complete works, but they should represent novel (unpublished) scholarship. If the submission resembles previously published work, we recommend the author explicitly identify the additional contribution of their DiGRA Australia submission. 
  • Papers can present any kind of research, analysis or commentary, but should be written so that the importance of the work can be understood by reviewers working in different disciplines or using different approaches. 
  • We recommend that submissions articulate the issue or research question to be discussed, the methodological or critical framework used, the findings or conclusions to be presented, and/or the relevance to the wider game studies discipline. 
  • Submissions from academics are typically expected to have references to reflect the author’s engagement with existing scholarship. 

Conference Organising Committee 

Malcolm Ryan, Macquarie University (Chair) 
Mitchell McEwan, Macquarie University 
Cameron Edmond, Macquarie University 
Kayson Whitehouse, Macquarie University 
Mark R Johnson, University of Sydney 
Mahli-Ann Butt, University of Sydney 

Any queries about the conference can be directed to Malcolm Ryan: malcolm.ryan@mq.edu.au. 

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DiGRA Australia 2022 Conference Program

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DiGRA Australia 2022 Conference Program

Register here

Registration is free. The conference will be held fully online. After registering, you will receive links to the Zoom room and Discord server.

Monday, 14th February

All times are in AEDT (Sydney/Melbourne/Hobart time).

Time EventPresenters
9.30amWelcome to DiGRAA 2022
10.00amSession 1Brendan Keogh (chair)
Omikuji: An Interactive Installation Exploring East Asian Games of DivinationHugh Davies
Safety and community at Freeplay Independent Games Festival in 2020Taylor Hardwick
There Ain’t Nobody Ever Whipped the T.B. Blues: Assessing the Relevance of Agency in Blockbuster Videogame DiscoursesAaron Williams
11.00amSession 2Erin Maclean (chair)
Play-filled Podcasting: Towards a Typology of Gaming PodcastsRyan Stanton
Telling scary stories: players, paratexts and the climate crisisLawrence May
How K/DA Reframes Gaming, Music and Celebrity IdolsTom Willma
12.00pmSocial event
12.30pmLunch
Open discussion: academic careers in game studies
1.00pmSession 3Fraser Allison (chair)
Exploring Comedy and Humour in Twitch.tv Game Live StreamingMark R. Johnson
Esport co-streaming and spectator motivationMichael Williamson
Performing (with) Games: videogame affordances and live content on Twitch.tvLachlan Howells
2.00pmSession 4Jane Mavoa (chair)
Is is toxic? Banter? Or just talking shit? Applying the AACTT framework to understand spectator perspectives of trash talk in esportsSidney Irwin, Anjum Naweed, Michele Lastella
The Digital Ensemble: Roleplaying large events in World of WarcraftDavid Harris, Josiah Lulham
What is Creative Transgressive Play? Exploring Creativity and Transgression in Dungeons & Dragons [D&D]Premeet Sidhu
3.00pmAfternoon break
3.30pmSession 5Lucy Sparrow (chair)
What are the odds? Lower compliance with Western loot box probability disclosure industry self-regulation than Chinese legal regulationLeon Y. Xiao, Laura L. Henderson, Philip W. S. Newall
Videogame Time LoopsChristopher Barkman
“You’re the lucky one, Dani”: NPC Empathy and Meaningful Play in Farcry 6Paul Scriven
4.30pmEnd of day 1

Tuesday, 15th February

All times are in AEDT (Sydney/Melbourne/Hobart time).

TimeEvent Presenters
9.30amOpening of day 2
10.00amSession 6Gawain Lucian Lax (chair)
Feeling Friction: Emotion, Difficulty, and Space in Psychonauts 2Madeleine Mackenzie
The Ambient Poetics of Neoliberalism in The Long DarkAndrea Andiloro
Rapture to Republicans: American Individualism, anti-mask discourse and parallels in BioshockHarriet Flitcroft
11.00amSession 7Madeleine Antonellos (chair)
“Techno-femininity” and the World Wide Web: Locating Girls’ Early DIY Gaming CulturesStephanie Harkin
‘Lean In’ and ‘Lean Out’: On the Politics of Women’s Resilience and Gaming the Gender DivideMahli-Ann Butt
12.00pmSocial event
12.30pm
Lunch
Open discussion: publishing opportunities in game studies
1.00pmSession 8Harriet Flitcroft (chair)
Exploring Game Design Students Understanding of MarketingJacqueline Burgess
From Tinkerers to Software Archivists: Examining the Edges of World of Warcraft Private ServersGeoffrey Hill, Martin Gibbs, Melissa J. Rogerson
Why do video game developers play—or not play—video games during leisure time?Raman Voranau, Ruth Rentschler, Boram Lee, Sandra Barker
2.00pmSession 9Premeet Sidhu (chair)
Teachers’ Roles and Game Designers’ Perspectives in Educational Game Design ProcessMifrah Ahmad
Worlding through Speculative Digital Game PedagogiesAlexander Bacalja
Game design that creates the conditions for collaboration for neurodiverse playersMatthew Harrison, Jess Rowlings
3.00pmAfternoon break
3.30pmDiGRA Australia annual general meeting
4.30pmEnd of day 2

DiGRA Australia 2022 National Conference registration

DIGRAA2022 Call for Papers

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DiGRA Australia 2022 National Conference – Call For Papers

We invite you to contribute to a two-day game studies conference to be held on the 14th and 15th of February, fully online. Registration is free.

Important dates

  • 1 November 2021 – Submission deadline
  • 6 December 2021 – Notification of submission outcomes
  • 14–15 February 2022 – Online conference

Details

The DiGRA Australia 2022 National Conference is an opportunity for academic and non-academic games researchers, critics, designers, developers and artists to share their work. We aim to provide an inclusive forum that reflects the diversity and vibrancy of game studies in Australia, and that allows newcomers and veterans alike to meet other people who are critically engaged with games, players and the culture that surrounds them.

There is no theme for this year’s conference—we want to hear about whatever you in the Australian game studies community have been working on. We welcome submissions describing research projects that are completed or still underway. Tell us about that idea you’ve been turning over in your mind that you’d like to test out in front of an audience.

Following the success of 2021’s online conference, DiGRAA 2022 will once again be held fully online via Zoom and Discord, with a variety of playful social events and opportunities to chat with other attendees.

Submission process

There are two options for submitting to DiGRAA 2022: Extended Abstract or Short Abstract. All submissions are to be made via EasyChair at this link.

All submissions will be reviewed by the organising committee. Submissions do not need to be anonymous.

Extended Abstract submissions

This is the standard format for submissions to the DiGRAA conference. Between 400 and 800 words (excluding references) on the DiGRAA template. Accepted Extended Abstracts will be presented at the conference as a 10-minute pre-recorded video followed by a live group question time. Accepted Extended Abstracts will be archived on the DiGRAA website.

Short Abstract submissions

This is a format to tell us about your research in brief. What are you working on? What has you stumped? Between 100 and 200 words on the DiGRAA template or in plain text. Accepted Short Abstracts will be presented at the conference as a 5-minute pre-recorded video followed by a live group question time. Accepted Short Abstracts will not be archived on the DiGRAA website.

Submission rules

To ensure as many people as possible have the opportunity to present their work, only one submission may be made per lead author, and individuals may present only one paper during the conference. There is no limit on secondary authorship.

The DiGRA Australia conference has a ‘grey list’ policy for accepted submissions that are withdrawn with no reason provided, or for which the presenter simply does not attend. Please familiarise yourself with the specifics of this policy here.

Publication

Accepted Extended Abstracts will be archived on the DiGRAA website. Video presentations (subject to permission) will be published on a dedicated YouTube channel. Aligning with DiGRAA social media policy, you will have the option not to have your video archived.

Tips for authors

We advise potential authors to review the papers from previous DiGRA Australia conferences [see here] as a guide to the expected tone and quality. Some further tips:

  • We welcome submissions that explore both in-progress and complete works, but they should represent novel (unpublished) scholarship. If the submission resembles previously published work, we recommend the author explicitly identify the additional contribution of their DiGRA Australia submission.
  • Papers can present any kind of research, analysis or commentary, but should be written so that the importance of the work can be understood by reviewers working in different disciplines or using different approaches.
  • We recommend that submissions articulate the issue or research question to be discussed, the methodological or critical framework used, the findings or conclusions to be presented, and/or the relevance to the wider game studies discipline.
  • Submissions from academics are typically expected to have references to reflect the author’s engagement with existing scholarship.

Conference Organising Committee

Jane Mavoa, University of Melbourne
Fraser Allison, University of Melbourne
Madeleine Antonellos, University of Melbourne
Premeet Sidhu, University of Sydney
Harriet Flitcroft, University of Sydney
Brendan Keogh, Queensland University of Technology
Erin Maclean, Griffith University
Gawain Lucian Lax, Monash University

DiGRA Australia 2021 Conference Program

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DiGRA Australia 2021 Conference Program

University of Melbourne (online)

Registration link

After you register, we will send you a link to the conference Zoom sessions.

**NOTE: All times in Melbourne time (AEDT) **

(see this in your local time: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/7wei).

Tuesday 9 February
9.30 am Conference welcome
10.00 am Session 1 – Gaming Media

Where is all the good writing about videogames? A decade of data and the critical games writing sphere
(Dan Golding)

Understanding the Paratextual Practices of “Let’s Plays” (Abstract)
(Brian McKitrick)

The Audiences of The Adventure Zone: Analysing Actual Play as Inclusive Gaming Media
(Ryan Stanton & Mark Johnson)
11.00 am Session 2 – Making Meaning from Games

Considering Complexity in Emergent Narratives
(Christopher Barkman)

Comparing Player Preferences for Historical Accuracy and Authenticity (Jacqueline Burgess & Christian Jones)

Performing within the Threshold: Girlhood Themed Games as Transformative Spaces
(Stephanie Harkin)
12.00 pm Lunch break
12.30 pm Party Zoom
1.00 pm Session 3 – Navigating Gender and Politics

Fast Paced and Action Packed: The Temporality of Masculinity in Shooter Videogames
(Erin Maclean)

How We Are (Not)Coping Under The New Gaming Public: An Existential-Materialist Approach to Feminist Games and Cultural Research
(Mahli-Ann Butt)

Beyond the Bodyfucked: Mapping a Politics of “Trans Game Studies”
(Gawain Lucian Lax)
2.00 pm Session 4 – Game Design Analysis

Capturing hybridity: a comparative analysis of three hybrid digital boardgames
(Melissa J. Rogerson, Lucy A. Sparrow, Martin R. Gibbs)

Gaming the system: Legally-required loot box probability disclosures in China are implemented sub-optimally
(Leon Y. Xiao, Laura L. Henderson, Yuhan Yang, Philip W.S. Newall)

Indie Creatorship: Rendering the ‘Indie-ness’ of Indie Games
(Christian Hayes, Karen Le Rossignol, Stefan Greuter)
3.00 pm Afternoon break
3.30 pm Session 5 – Tabletop RPGs

Unlearning in Games: Deconstructing Failure in Dungeons & Dragons
(Premeet Sidhu, Marcus Carter, Jen Scott Curwood)

Critical Fail – Addressing problematic designs in table-top role-playing games for narrative therapy and community wellbeing
(Adric Polkinghorne, Jane Turner, Manuela Taboada, Jeremy Kerr)

The Potential for Facial Biometrics in Role-Playing Games
(Niels Wouters, Melissa J. Rogerson, Yian Hu)
6.00 pm Some in-person social events
Wednesday 10 February
9.45 am Opening of Day 2
10.00 am Session 6 – Esports and Streaming

“You gotta understand the context of this though”: Preliminary insights on perceptions of trash talk across esport communities
(Sidney Irwin, Anjum Naweed, Michele Lastella)

Behind the Streams: The Hidden Labour of Game Live Streaming
(Mark R. Johnson)

Laborious Spectatorship of Esports Fans
(David Cumming, Martin Gibbs, Wally Smith)
11.00 am Session 7 – Community, Ethics, and JusticeIs There Room for Community Ethics in Game Design Education?
(Lucy Sparrow, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold)Gamechanger: Digital Games as Simulative Models for Human Services
(Prithi Yadav & Manuela Taboada)

Boundary making practices in Virtual Reality
(Kate Euphemia Clark)
12.00 pm Lunch break
12.30 pm Party Zoom
1.00 pm Session 8 – Player Practices and Experiences

Networking roulette, babies, and playing !hitball: An ethnographic study of online games events in 2020
(Taylor Hardwick)

Player problem-solving strategies in co-located play of a single-player video game
(Megan Pusey, Kevin Wong, Natasha Rappa)

Interactive Spatial Disorder in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
(Madeleine Mackenzie)

Atmospheres in the Affective Arrangement of Play
(Andrea Andiloro)
2.00 pm  DiGRA Australia AGM and Elections
3.00 pm (or after close of DiGRAA AGM) Party Zoom – Dinosaur Racing

Call For Papers – DiGRA Australia 2021 National Conference

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DiGRA Australia National Conference 2021: How’s it going?

February 9-10, 2021 – Zooming to you from Melbourne, Australia

In 2021, the DiGRAA conference will be fully online – and of course it’s also free. We’ll still have a mix of academic presentations as well as opportunities to meet other games researchers – plus plenty of informal, playful social events as well as panels on some of the big questions that we are all facing. There’s no theme, but we do want to know how you’re getting on.

We know that for many people, 2020 has been stressful. For many of us, the DiGRAA conference in February was the last time we attended an academic conference in person, the last time we saw friends and colleagues (especially from interstate) other than over Zoom. Maybe the last thing that you want to do is write another paper or extended abstract about research that didn’t happen quite as fast or as successfully as you’d hoped. But we don’t want you to go missing! We’re making DiGRAA even more accessible this year.

Submission

There are three ways to submit to DiGRAA this year.

  1. Abstracts

Tell us about your research. What are you working on, what has you stumped? 100-200 words, plain text. Abstract submissions will be reviewed by the organising committee. They will not be archived on the DiGRAA website.

Accepted Abstracts will be presented as a 5-minute pre-recorded video and a subsequent live group discussion time.

 

  1. Extended Abstracts

This is the way that most of us submit to DiGRAA. Up to 800 words on the DiGRAA template. Submissions should be anonymised. These will be reviewed by the organising committee and will be archived on the DiGRAA website.

Accepted Extended Abstracts will be presented as a 10-minute pre-recorded video and a subsequent live group question time.

 

  1. Full Papers

We don’t get a lot of full paper submissions to DiGRAA. We don’t encourage them either – but we know that sometimes you need to submit somewhere. Usually it’s about travel funding, but this year it might be about meeting a milestone for your PhD. If you need to submit a full paper, please submit an anonymised paper to the “full papers” track. It will be blind peer reviewed by at least two reviewers.

 

Accepted Full Papers will be presented as a 10-minute pre-recorded video and a subsequent live group question time.

Submission rules

To ensure as many people as possible have the opportunity to present their work at the conference, only one submission may be made per lead author, and individuals may only present one paper during the conference. There is no limit on secondary authorship.

From 2020, DiGRA Australia is implementing a ‘grey list’ policy for accepted submissions that are withdrawn with no reason provided, or for which the presenter simply does not attend. Please familiarise yourself with the specifics of this policy here.

Submissions should be formatted according to the extended abstract and full paper templates.

Please submit via Easychair here.

Important dates

All submissions due:      Friday November 27th 2020, 5pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time. We will close Easychair after midnight on Sunday November 29th but please do not work through the weekend to prepare a submission! We have already pushed this as late as we can; there will not be an extension of this deadline.

Paper and abstract decisions:     Wednesday 16th December 2020.

Video presentations due:           Monday, 1st February 2021

Publication

Full Papers and Extended Abstracts will be archived on the DiGRAA website. Videos (subject to permissions) will be published in a dedicated YouTube channel. Aligning with DiGRAA social media policy, you will have the option to NOT have your video archived.

Conference Organising Committee

Chairs: Dr Melissa Rogerson & Associate Professor Martin Gibbs

melissa.rogerson@unimelb.edu.au / martin.gibbs@unimelb.edu.au