Knowledge Commons | Game Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/ Activity feed for the group, Game Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:58:22 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 444d746c55f30c4641fcdce75e2478c2 Eric Stein deposited Dreams of Extraction: The Techno-Ecological Imaginary of Bethesda Game Studios' Starfield in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891337/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:00:12 -0400 This paper takes up Bethesda Game Studios' Starfield (2023) as an aesthetic artefact, carefully attending to the thematics of the game's narrative in their operation as structuring "thought patterns" for the player's experience of the game, thought patterns that give form to the "sensible fabric" of the game and so constitute an imaginary or…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ca71472b58f8f4f43e63db18a287611 Eric Stein deposited Dreams of Extraction: The Techno-Ecological Imaginary of Bethesda Game Studios' Starfield in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891336/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:00:10 -0400 This paper takes up Bethesda Game Studios' Starfield (2023) as an aesthetic artefact, carefully attending to the thematics of the game's narrative in their operation as structuring "thought patterns" for the player's experience of the game, thought patterns that give form to the "sensible fabric" of the game and so constitute an imaginary or…[Read more]

]]> 0 95b6bf3ce410c0862e59fd40183558b7 Jon Garrad deposited The evolving Gothic of White Wolf's Vampire games in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865034/ Fri, 17 Nov 2023 03:00:15 -0500 This chapter looks at the evolving Gothic of the Vampire role playing games created by Mark Rein-Hagen et al. It offers a brief explanation of role-playing games for the uninitiated, defining their textuality in Bakhtinian terms – as chronotopes. It will lay out the relationship that role playing enjoys with the Gothic, drawing on Spooner’s pos…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5c8c08534bb5052f7f45c2557059e0f Jonas Richter deposited Höllfahren: Ein Überblick (expanded, print version) in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850941/ Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:25:50 -0400 The little known German card game "Höllfahren" or "Hölle" has a forgotten history that stretches back into the 16th century, when it was called "Untreue", "untreuer Nachbar", "in die Hölle (fahren)" and similar names. Several images and textual references indicate the game's popularity in the 17th century. Unusual for a card game, Höllfahren emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 d255e9e125384ba0f0b31c30b335335e S. Harlin/Hayley Steele deposited The Maker Turn in Classroom Games: An Articulation of Gamemaking in Education in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839236/ Fri, 31 Mar 2023 02:24:29 -0400 This paper offers an articulation of a teaching methodology that I call Gamemaking in Education (GME). This educational approach emphasizes student gamemaking rather than gameplay. In this paper, I discuss what GME is, review some cases in which other educators have used what might be called GME in college classrooms, and situate GME as an…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa22b160e7283832dcf2704b6f598d92 Jonas Richter deposited German Names for Merels in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792734/ Mon, 05 Sep 2022 02:23:38 -0400 Merels (also called Nine Men‘s Morris) comprises a family of traditional board games with ancient roots. Between medieval and modern times, merels saw an interesting onomasiological shift : Several European languages took up a new name for the game. This new name is sometimes claimed to have originated in German, but the details surrounding this n…[Read more]

]]> 0 b108b1d840f709ea1dd2a193faca36d7 Dylan Altman replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/#post-61281 Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:12:42 -0400 Hi, Everyone:

 

I'm Dylan Altman. I'm a current English Instructor at California State University Northridge, Oxnard College, and LAVC. I am also the Associate Chair of the Council for Play and Game Studies. I used to own and operate Select Start Press, which was a small indpendent publishing company dedicated to publishing books about video…[Read more]

]]> c8fac7a8dbeeed116295e062921ca311 Dylan Altman started the topic Council for Play and Game Studies(CPGS) Elections in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/council-for-play-and-game-studiescpgs-elections/ Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:07:59 -0400 Hi, Everyone:

Please share!

The Council for Play and Game Studies(CPGS) currently has two officer positions (one Executive Council Position and one graduate student position) open for the 2022-23 year, and we'd love for you to join us! If you are interested in either, please email cpgs.cccc@gmail.com with your name, the position(s) you are…[Read more]

]]> ffdfb8ac6d9add50147df55dfc2ae7b4 Julia Kiernan started the topic CFP: Intersectional Approaches to Game Studies in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/cfp-intersectional-approaches-to-game-studies-2/ Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:07:43 -0400 Please see attached CFP; apologies for cross-posting.

]]> e118a55d332b03df1ae827180ca54928 Jonas Richter deposited Games of 21 Combinations (presentation text) in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781885/ Wed, 18 May 2022 02:24:06 -0400 Text for the conference talk on a group of games of chance with two dice and a game board/printed sheet with put & take instructions

]]> 0 85f15d792186cccff6c5ba8d8e97ecf7 Jonas Richter deposited Games of 21 Combinations (presentation slides) in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781883/ Wed, 18 May 2022 02:24:01 -0400 Slides for the presentation on a group of dice games with put & take mechanics

]]> 0 fc30d99a060f6fd7fb392624b8c229c7 Jonas Richter deposited Games of 21 Combinations in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781736/ Mon, 16 May 2022 02:23:38 -0400 Games of 21 Combinations are a group of games of chance, based on the combinations rolled with two six-sided dice. Never as popular as the Game of the Owl or the Game of Seven, with which it shares certain features, Games of 21 Combinations show an great variety of designs from the 16th to 19th century.
This is the English version of the paper…[Read more]

]]> 0 343f862a706a91360013534f04b09a58 Manfred Engel deposited Typologizing the Dream / Le rêve du point de vue typologique. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2022 (Cultural Dream Studies; 5) — Contents and Preface in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1779924/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 03:49:18 -0400 There is nothing like a firmly established typology of dreams – simply because the taxonomies on which existing typologies are based vary widely: They can be oneirocritical, thematic, or based on dreaming characters or their responses, on narratological functions, etc. The essays in this volume will discuss a broad range of dream types, with a s…[Read more]

]]> 0 756bccfee9f7dd88eed39d526c17da1c Jonas Richter deposited Höllfahren: Ein Überblick (expanded) in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773925/ Sat, 05 Mar 2022 02:23:38 -0500 The little known German card game "Höllfahren" or "Hölle" has a forgotten history that stretches back into the 16th century, when it was called "Untreue", "untreuer Nachbar", "in die Hölle (fahren)" and similar names. Several images and textual references indicate the game's popularity in the 17th century. Unusual for a card game, Höllfahren emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 7344d4af9fb91224085797b8a3057914 Jonas Richter deposited Höllfahren: Ein Überblick in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773683/ Thu, 03 Mar 2022 02:23:53 -0500 overview on the history of the card game "Höllfahren" or "in die Höll"

]]> 0 67ea40bc6485d9e6c1ee7a0b6d230114 Marco Fornaciari deposited Sobrevivendo a teste do tempo: interpretações da História em Sid Meier's Civilization / To stand the test of time: interpretations of History in Sid Meier's Civilization in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764491/ Mon, 03 Jan 2022 02:24:04 -0500 PT-BR:
Esta pesquisa se propõe a analisar as formas através das quais a franquia de videogames Sid Meier’s Civilization (1991-) lida com a História. Trabalhando com referenciais do campo dos game studies em perspectiva interdisciplinar, tentei construir uma compreensão da História encontrada nos jogos, concentrada, principalmente, em perman…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a3f4cfcab8607622dcd5d60885e73ea Karen Cook deposited Canon Anxiety? in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1746191/ Mon, 19 Jul 2021 02:23:53 -0400 Canons—of music, video games, or people—can provide a shared pool of resources for scholars, practitioners, and fans; but the formation of canons can also lead to an obscuring or devaluing of materials and people outside of a canon. The four authors in this colloquy interrogate issues of canons relating to video game music and sound from a var…[Read more]

]]> 0 2bc1125aa0912285cd3a4b871ce5f594 Cody Mejeur deposited Drawing Queer Intersections Through Video Game Archives in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738221/ Fri, 14 May 2021 02:24:13 -0400 This presentation brings together and builds on previous studies of queer representation using the LGBTQ Video Game Archive and the Represent Me games database (Cole et al. 2017) in order to investigate unexplored trends and invisible queer intersections in video games. Specifically, we draw on Queer Intersections in Video Games (Mejeur 2018), a…[Read more]

]]> 0 9691683a8a391911299ef425a5a5fc8e Justin Wigard deposited Now THIS is Podracing! Ludic and Narrative Friction in Star Wars Episode 1: Racer in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1737981/ Wed, 12 May 2021 02:23:50 -0400 Abstract: In Star Wars Episode I: Racer (1999), players choose between several different podracers (including Anakin Skywalker and Sebulba), and compete in racing tournaments on several planets. While the game currently holds the Guinness record as the best-selling sci-fi racing game of all time and was re-released for Nintendo Switch in 2020,…[Read more]

]]> 0 65abd1c394a0b83698bee570c2065867 Matthew Barr deposited Playing Video Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Effects on Players’ Well-Being in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1737820/ Tue, 11 May 2021 02:26:23 -0400 The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our lives in many ways, including how we choose to spend our time and deal with unprecedented circumstances. Anecdotal reports suggest that many have turned to playing video games during the pandemic. To better understand how games are being used during the lockdown, we conducted an online survey (N = 781) that…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c18911db87ccc7bb7f374214f0d1ee5 Matthew Barr deposited The Force Is Strong with This One (but Not That One): What Makes a Successful Star Wars Video Game Adaptation? in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1737819/ Tue, 11 May 2021 02:26:19 -0400 The Star Wars films have probably spawned more video game adaptations than any other franchise. From the 1982 release of The Empire Strikes Back on the Atari 2600 to 2019’s Jedi: Fallen Order, around one hundred officially licensed Star Wars games have been published to date. Inevitably, the quality of these adaptations has varied, ranging from t…[Read more]

]]> 0 08a677641367ee99ce683cfc7283bd2c Justin Wigard deposited ENG 342, Spring 2020, Reflection Zine in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733374/ Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:29:19 -0400 This is a reflection zine from a course I taught in Spring 2020, ENG 342: "Studies in Popular Culture," which had a course topic of "Playful Literature and Literary Games." My goal with this course was to teach students about the ways in which games and literature overlap, particularly through the frame of the zine -- DIY print publications that…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e2ea2106d70f0e3ea4d858a8d8ad935 Justin Wigard deposited ENG 342, Spring 2020, Syllabus Zine in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733372/ Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:29:14 -0400 This is the zine-version of my syllabus from a course I taught in Spring 2020, ENG 342: "Studies in Popular Culture," which had a course topic of "Playful Literature and Literary Games." My goal with this course was to teach students about the ways in which games and literature overlap, particularly through the frame of the zine -- DIY print…[Read more]

]]> 0 836e048565118c94ee66ec53cfe2e9e5 Marco Fornaciari deposited Progredir ou perecer: modernidade, aceleração da história e etnocentrismo em Sid Meier's Civilization / Progress or perish: modernity, historical acceleration and ethnocentrism in Sid Meier's Civilization in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1730028/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 02:24:45 -0500 O presente artigo propõe-se a analisar o primeiro jogo da franquia de videogames Sid Meier’s Civilization, concentrando-se em demonstrar a fundamentação de sua representação do tempo histórico em concepções sobre a “aceleração da história” que Reinhart Koselleck considera terem surgido apenas com a modernidade, mas que no jogo são universaliza…[Read more]

]]> 0 45cfe516beb1d2bf9299089674c17a88 Matthew Barr deposited Video games can develop graduate skills in higher education students: A randomised trial in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1715795/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 02:23:38 -0500 This study measured the effects of playing commercial video games on the development of the desirable skills and competences sometimes referred to as ‘graduate attributes’. Undergraduate students in the Arts and Humanities were randomly assigned to either an intervention or a control group. Previously validated, self-report instruments to mea…[Read more]

]]> 0 399287e4f21376dd768fe4aca0f1d60f Matthew Barr deposited Student attitudes to games-based skills development: Learning from video games in higher education in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1714663/ Tue, 27 Oct 2020 02:24:20 -0400 Qualitative interview data is presented in support of previously-published quantitative evidence that suggests commercial video games may be used to develop useful skills and competencies in undergraduate students. The purpose of the work described here was to document the attitudes of those students involved in the quantitative study and to…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad254cbf77764210e176aae5e6e27a8a Nancy Roth deposited A Photographer on Mars in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702575/ Fri, 24 Jul 2020 02:29:36 -0400 Focussing the Nasa's Opportunity Rover, the essay claims the field of creativity as definitively human, supported by Vilém Flusser's understanding the the "apparatus".

]]> 0 2605966223b6e3728e1d239e4efb6336 Jonas Richter deposited Drahndl, Glückszirkel, Tourniquet, Zeiger-Roulette: Glücksspiele mit Drehnadel in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693653/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 16:25:37 -0400 Zusammenfassung
In diesem Beitrag beschreibe ich einen Typus von Glücksspielen, der über mehrere Jahrhunderte in Mittel- und Westeuropa verbreitet war. Meines Wissens gibt es weder für das Spielgerät noch für das damit gespielte Glücksspiel eine einheitliche Bezeichnung. Nach einer einleitenden Beschreibung (1) und einem Vergleich mit ähnli…[Read more]

]]> 0 f32ffd5cf200839cad590e95be1da1b3 Cody Mejeur deposited Neuroqueer: Contextualizing Narrative through Embodied Experience in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674957/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 16:26:55 -0500 As Sue Kim noted at the Narrative 2018 conference, the field of narrative theory is long overdue for a reckoning with its lack of diversity and its frequent silence on issues of race, gender, and sexuality in favor of supposedly neutral, universal qualities of narrative (Hogan 2010). To be sure, the recent works by scholars such as Warhol, Lanser,…[Read more]

]]> 0 988e19574b47a908eef8b0d9a72a5418 Cody Mejeur deposited Ludonarrative: Queer Experiences, Embodied Stories, and Playful Realities in Video Games in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1671439/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:25:43 -0500 Narrative has been a central topic in game studies since the beginnings of the field, particularly in the foundational debates between narratology and ludology over whether or not games are narrative. Yet in the aftermath of those debates narrative has remained significantly limited to being a linear or at best multilinear form, and studies of…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd45366dd9df39109ce81e3cb79f3f46 Jonas Richter deposited The Game of Seven: Glückshaus and Related Dice Games in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670289/ Sun, 17 Nov 2019 16:27:39 -0500 Glückshaus is a relatively modern version of the larger family of Games of Seven (games played with two six-sided dice and a stake board with felds usually numbered 2-12, often with an emphasized 7.). This paper looks at various historical versions of the game and shows how the modern Glückshaus version and its pecularities (e.g. a missing feld f…[Read more]

]]> 0 793509be153ec26e0f1d86d3f8cf13b0 Jonas Richter replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/page/2/#post-26336 Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:24:50 -0400 Hi everybody,

since "game studies" often just refers to the study of digital games, and I'm particularly interested in analog games, I'm actually not sure if I'm in the right place. (Maybe making the group description explicit in this regard is an option?)

My academic background is the study of religion, and German language and literature…[Read more]

]]> 082c0a63da57108b1458ba6b9aeca575 Jon Garrad deposited Fluff Ain't Rules: absence, presence and haunting in RPG design in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643735/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:29:45 -0400 Fluff means fiction, framing and flavour; it’s the material around a game’s actual rules, that illustrates and indicates but has no substantive impact on how the game is played.

Rules are crunch. They are - particularly if you’re a serious player or a traditional ludologist - the important bit.

“If your game doesn’t blend the two, it says o…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca9a6218ab280d551135cc9f63cfe86d Cody Mejeur started the topic Scholarship on effects of toxic gaming cultures in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/scholarship-on-effects-of-toxic-gaming-cultures/ Tue, 19 Mar 2019 20:11:07 -0400 Hi All,

Based on the cesspool of Islamophobia and silencing of feminist, queer, and critical race studies scholarship that the GamesNetwork listserv has been lately, I've been thinking about expanding the Zotero collections here to include ones that address these areas, and particularly the links between toxic gamer/gaming cultures and violences…[Read more]

]]> 18c5d12c177b8fc865b8d9b8a9dd56f3 Cody Mejeur replied to the topic CFP: Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival 2019 in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/cfp-electronic-literature-organization-conference-media-arts-festival-2019-4/#post-21347 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:54:53 -0400 This looks like such a fantastic conference, James! I've been meaning to make it to ELO for a long time. I know there's a contingent of game studies folks that attend regularly, are there specific parts of the conference that are geared toward game studies (events, tracks, etc.)?

]]> 29d7a84ba1ae62f4e341523a66c0f775 Cody Mejeur replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/page/2/#post-20888 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:11:45 -0500 Yay, so happy you're here, Liz! Liz has done fantastic work lately with walking sims and learning--if memory serves, it was Firewatch among others?

]]> 3a1626abbee04a135578762764d24bbe Liz Owens Boltz replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/page/2/#post-20887 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 15:58:53 -0500 Hi everyone! I'm new to this group (just joined Humanities Commons thanks to Cody's invitation).

I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Psychology & Educational Technology at Michigan State, and my work focuses on the ways games foster disciplinary reasoning and habits of mind (e.g., historical empathy, science and engineering practices). I'm also…[Read more]

]]> 86bc7edf06539f8a3d4c5e4fd419c468 Cody Mejeur replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/page/2/#post-20165 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:52:42 -0500 Hi Damian,

I think most folks have forgotten about this group, and I'm at least partly to blame for that--after making it last fall, I got distracted by a number of other projects and didn't keep up with this as much. I'm still very interested in developing it, particularly as a place to gather discussions, cfps, and resources for game studies…[Read more]

]]> 70f3cca2ac984cd292d8a3c662b918de Damian Stewart replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/page/2/#post-20162 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:33:09 -0500 Hi Cody, I'd also forgotten about this group. FWIW the best place I've found to talk about Game Studies stuff is the Game Studies Study Buddies channel in the Ranged Touch discord server - Game Studies Study Buddies is a monthly podcast that's worth looking into, as well!

]]> 821fc8da34dd324068955b6b14bc1527 Cody Mejeur started the topic Speedrunning Scholarship? in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/speedrunning-scholarship/ Wed, 06 Feb 2019 23:56:48 -0500 Hi All,

I'm working on an event for the Game Studies Guild at Michigan State, which does critical Let's Play events where we play games and discuss them together. Our speaker for the event is focusing on speedrunning, but I'm having difficulty finding scholarship to read and share on the topic beyond Rainforest Scully-Blaker's piece in Game…[Read more]

]]> 767aac6802b52a5ab80092a3763d7872 Cody Mejeur replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/#post-18305 Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:35:07 -0500 Hi Cristian, no worries at all! Still getting the group going as I'm able, and need to make a better habit of checking it myself! That makes total sense, and while there has definitely been work on this area since 2005, I think the sense I've gotten from Espen and others work on this is that building typologies and a systematized way to study and…[Read more]

]]> 3967fa336887a469c5385a05d28ccd6f Cristian Mancilla replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/#post-18099 Sat, 01 Dec 2018 23:38:44 -0500 Hi, Cody. Sorry for not replying before. I had forgotten about this.

I haven't read about the topic in a while (since 2005 maybe). Back then, there wasn't something as I'm intending to propose. Right now, I must read all what has been written on the inner structure of video games, but a quick scan of titles led me to the research published by…[Read more]

]]> c446cbc5e2e74d28053dc1fef2ee9f73 Cody Mejeur replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/#post-17893 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:39:54 -0500 Hi Cristian! I'm really interested in your project, and particularly how you see it fitting into/relating to other game studies projects that look at form and structures in games. The ludology camp of game studies in particular has long focused on game structures, forms, and ontologies (almost to the exclusion of anything else), and the two…[Read more]

]]> fd30217f94ee9247f8e2d7f753318545 Cristian Mancilla replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/#post-17892 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:58:11 -0500 Hi, everyone.

I used to write a blog (in Spanish) on the study of video games while completing both my undergradute and graduate programs. I thought of undertaking a PhD during the 2nd half of 2017 and the 1st half of this year, but couldn't find a professor who accepted to supervise my project. So, decided to develop this project independently,…[Read more]

]]> 638417a914f28d181d22dca655a35815 Kristopher Purzycki replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/#post-17634 Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:36:09 -0500 Hello all,

My name is Kris Purzycki, a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. My overarching research focus is media studies but that branches out into publication production and editing, broadcasting, computer games and philosophy, and multimodal writing.

Though my background is English, my dissertation pulls from…[Read more]

]]> b83dbecbde772ddb0c993142b82048ae Cody Mejeur deposited “‘Look At Me, Boy!’: Carnivalesque, Masks, and Queer Performativity in BioShock” in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623255/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:29:16 -0500 Book chapter exploring the queering of identity in Bioshock, including analysis of masks and carnivalesque culture in the game. The chapter argues that Bioshock presents an opportunity to queer identity and cultural systems, but forecloses on that possibility and instead reinscribes violence. Finally, the chapter uses its close analysis of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 45abce7411d3de4e3f824829edbd0ea6 Cody Mejeur deposited Chasing Wild Space: Narrative Outsides and World-Building Frontiers in Knights of the Old Republic and The Old Republic in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623254/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:29:15 -0500 As introduced in the iconic line that precedes the first film’s opening crawl, Star Wars’s galaxy far, far away is the foundation for the franchise’s worldbuilding efforts. It is the backdrop and context for the story told by any Star Wars film, novel, game, or other text,1 and as such it functions as a narrative world or storyworld. David Herma…[Read more]

]]> 0 d931a0bc4c0d3777bf8b182c3135d073 Cody Mejeur deposited Gamers, gender, and cruel optimism: the limits of social identity constructs in The Guild in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623251/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:29:10 -0500 Video game culture has a long, ongoing history of problems with representation and inclusivity, as a wide variety of forces have constructed video games and gaming as masculine. Against this
background, the popular gamer-oriented web series The Guild (2007–2013) appears to offer a unique counterperspective, presenting a gender-diverse cast and f…[Read more]

]]> 0 d63b492e3daf6b8d304fa74b0217e447 Ea Christina Willumsen replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/#post-17632 Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:16:06 -0500 Hi all,

Found this group thanks to Cody's post on the DiGRA Students Group. Great initiative! I personally like to keep my academic engagements off social media as much as possible.

My name is Ea and I'm a PhD student at the University of Bergen in Norway. I'm a part of the Media Aesthetics Research Group and the Institute for Information…[Read more]

]]> e966748f7393c883706b7d5a7c3cdff6 Cody Mejeur started the topic CFP: Geographies of Digital Games in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/cfp-geographies-of-digital-games/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 21:31:15 -0500 “Geographies of Digital Games”
Organisers: Nick Rush-Cooper (Newcastle University, UK) and Emma Fraser (Manchester University, UK) Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
April 3-7 2019, Washington DC
https://annualmeeting.aag.org/AAGAnnualMeeting Computer, video, mobile and digital games are fundamentally geographical: They are sit…[Read more]

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