The presentations from the DiGRA Australia 2022 Conference are now on YouTube.

Browse all the videos here, or click the embedded video below to view the playlist from the first presentation.

For a full list of the papers presented at DiGRAA2022, see the conference program. Note that some presenters elected not to share their video to YouTube.

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).

Tuesday, 15th February

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

Register now to attend the DIGRA Australia 2022 National Conference on 14–15 February 2022

Registration for this online conference is free. After registering, you will receive links to the conference Zoom room and Discord server.

The conference program is available here.

Link to register: https://www.trybooking.com/BXBWJ

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).

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.

2. 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.

3. 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 27^th 2020, 5pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time. We will close Easychair after midnight on Sunday November 29^th 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 16^th December 2020.

Video presentations due:           Monday, 1^st 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

DiGRA Australia 2020 Conference Program

Queensland University of Technology

Day One Program – February 10th
Gardens Point campus, Building Z, Room 406 (GP-Z-406)

Day Two Program – February 11th
Gardens Point campus, Building Z, Room 406 (GP-Z-406)

Acknowledgements

The DiGRA Australia 2020 National Conference has been made possible due to financial support from QUT’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the QUT Digital Media Research Centre.

Frequently Asked Questions and Other Information

Lunch at the conference will be provided. Refreshments will be provided for the morning and afternoon tea breaks.

Registration is required. Please register via this TryBooking link before Friday, January 24 2020.

The national conference for DiGRA Australia will be held at Queensland University of Technology’s Gardens Point campus, Brisbane, On 10-11 February, 2020.

As with all previous DiGRA Australia events, the 2020 conference has free registration, and we encourage game studies researchers and students, and industry representatives to attend and participate in the conversation.

Please register via this link if you intend to attend.

More details, including the program, will be published in the new year.

DiGRA Australia 2020 National Conference

We invite you to contribute to a two-day game studies conference to be held on the 10th and 11th of February at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Registration for DiGRA Australia conferences is free.

The DiGRA Australia 2020 National Conference has been made possible due to financial support from QUT’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the QUT Digital Media Research Centre.

Key Dates

October 18th – Submission deadline *Submission deadline extended until Friday 1 November*
November 15th – Notification of submission outcomes
February 10th and 11th – Conference dates

Details

The academic field of game studies is alive and well in Australia. Previous DiGRA Australia events have brought together a vast range of junior and senior scholars, embedded in different disciplines, approaching game research from a variety of perspectives.

In recognition of this diversity, the DiGRA Australia 2020 National Conference will not impose a theme on submissions. Instead, you are invited to make a submission relevant to your own ongoing research. Our intent is to acknowledge the vibrancy of game studies in Australia, and to ensure DiGRA Australia continues to be a space that facilitates community, conversation, and collaboration.

Following on from the success of previous DiGRA Australia events, DiGRA Australia will remain a single track conference.

DiGRA Australia is actively concerned with cultivating an inclusive research community. As such, and consistent with previous DiGRA Australia events, registration for the 2020 National Conference will be free. We welcome and encourage submissions from graduate students, researchers located ‘outside’ game studies who approach games from different perspectives, and researchers without an institutional affiliation. Game developers, too, are encouraged to make submissions they feel are relevant to critical discussions of games research.

Further, up to ten travel bursaries of up to $500 each will be available for students and non-salaried early-career researchers (no more than five years out from the end of their PhD) from Australia, New Zealand, or South-East Asia to help cover travel and accommodation costs. Further information can be found below.

Submission Format

We invite interested authors or makers to submit either a 400–800 word abstract (not including references) or a full paper no longer than 5000 words (not including references), anonymously for peer review.

We have decided to include the option for full paper submissions to better acknowledge that some researchers may require an accepted full paper to access institutional funding options. Please note that full paper and extended abstract submissions will receive the same amount of presentation time, and will be reviewed to the same standard.

Accepted abstracts will be available on the DiGRA Australia website. Accepted full papers will be published on the open-access DiGRA Digital Library. After the conference, the possibility of a special issue of the Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association journal for select submissions (both full papers and abstracts) will be explored.

We advise potential authors to review abstracts accepted for publication at previous DiGRA Australia conferences [see here] as a guide to the expected tone and quality. Some further tips:

• Submissions from academics are typically expected to have references to reflect the author’s engagement with existing scholarship.
• We welcome submissions that explore both in-progress and complete works, but 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.
• We recommend that submissions articulate the issue or research question to be discussed, the methodological or critical framework used, and indicate the findings or conclusions to be presented and/or the relevance to the wider game studies discipline.
• 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.

Accepted abstracts and papers will be published on the DiGRA Australia website as part of the conference program.

Submission Process

Submissions are to made online via EasyChair at this link.

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

We ask authors not to submit more than one submission to the conference as lead author (see below).

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.

Travel Bursary

DiGRA Australia will offer up to ten travel bursaries of no more than $500 to students or sessionally-employed early-career researchers based in Australia, New Zealand, or South-East Asia.

Applications for a travel bursary can be made through this form. Please submit your extended abstract or full paper to EasyChair before you apply.

Conference Committee

• Dr Brendan Keogh, Queensland University of Technology
• April Tyack, Queensland University of Technology
• Dr Benjamin Nicoll, Queensland University of Technology
• Dr Dan Padua, Queensland University of Technology
• Erin Maclean, Griffith University
• Ori Diskett, University of Queensland

Registration is required for DiGRA A 19. Please register at the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/digra-australia-2019-whats-next-tickets-51994263241