Gameology 2.0

1st Annual Workshop on Integrated Design in Games - 2011 Theme: Horror

Laurie — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:02:34 +0000

Type:

Conference

Location:

Madison, South Dakota

Submission Deadline:

Wed, 06/15/2011

URL:

http://www.dreamdawn.com/sh/post_view.php?index=8061

Contact:

Jeffrey Howard

jeffrey.howard@dsu.edu

Event Dates:

Thu, 11/03/2011 - Sun, 11/06/2011

The Workshop on Integrated Design in Games is offered in conjunction with Nanocon IX, the ninth installment of the game convention sponsored by Dakota State University’s Gaming Club. The Workshop will be an annual event, and every year’s workshop will feature a different theme. This year, the theme is horror. Integrated design means that all aspects of design come together to create a single experience, unified by a common theme.

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Ring in my Pocket

Tof Eklund — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:46:05 +0000

This little essay is about cultural privilege and, eventually, video games. It just takes a little while to get to the games, so bear with me.

When I decided that being a "sensitive guy" wasn't good enough, and that I wanted to better understand who I was in terms of what the experience of others was like, I made a horrid discovery. I had a ring in my pocket - no, not just a ring, but THE ring, the "one ring to rule them all." Worse, I'd been slipping it on and off heedlessly, nearly unconsciously.

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Sex, Games and Fatherhood

Tof Eklund — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:15:08 +0000

As I'm writing this, my 2-month-old son is sleeping on my chest (in a wrap-type sling). I said that my comments on Gameology (regarding sex, relationships and romance in gaming) would be a combination of the academic and the personal. This post is going to be more toward the personal end of the spectrum.

My review of the Void went live on Play This Thing! last night, and I'm thinking about how that review turned in part into a discourse on Eastern Philosophy - and the review partially into an analysis of how I played that game.

I've been thinking about process a lot lately - the processes of human growth and development, the process of becoming a parent (a much longer and more complicated thing than reproducing, though human sexual reproduction is a wonder in itself). This has also brought my thoughts back to philosophies that are about process and becoming, rather than telos (ends, goals).

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Sexual and Romantic Content in Games

Tof Eklund — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:22:42 +0000

Having recently become a father, the issue of graphic and gratuitous violence in games has been in my thoughts lately. It probably says a lot about me that this leads me to wonder where all the games with sexual and romantic content are.

So, no, this isn't an anti-violence screed, though I am thoroughly bored with bodies that explode and splatter in viscerally rendered 3d. It's more of a pro-sex, or specifically sex-positive screed.

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Close Playing: Literary Methods and Videogame Studies (MLA 2012, Seattle)

zach — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:55:27 +0000

Type:

Conference

Location:

Seattle, WA

Submission Deadline:

Tue, 03/15/2011

URL:

http://www.samplereality.com/2011/02/28/close-playing-mla-2012/

Contact:

Mark Sample

samplereality@gmail.com

Event Dates:

Thu, 01/05/2012 - Sun, 01/08/2012

A roundtable discussion of specific approaches and close playings that explore the methodological contribution of literary studies toward videogame studies. 300-word abstract and 1-page bio to Mark Sample (samplereality@gmail.com) by March 15.

All participants must be MLA members by April 7. Also note that this is a proposed special session; the MLA Program Committee will have the final say on the roundtable’s acceptance.

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Where Horror Dwells: Locating Horror across Media Landscapes

zach — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:24:05 +0000

Type:

Edited Collection

Submission Deadline:

Fri, 03/04/2011

Contact:

Patricia Oman

poman@uoregon.edu

Contact:

Drew Beard

abeard3@uoregon.edu

Psychoanalysis and gender have dominated scholarship on the horror film for several decades, but they are by no means the only lenses through which horror can be viewed. The fields of ecocriticism, urban studies, transnationalism, and globalization provide exciting new opportunities for exploring the horror genre. At the same time, horror has manifested across media platforms, including television and video games.

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Digital Project Pipeline

Laurie — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:51:26 +0000

Many institutions have and are creating digital humanities centers to support the growing needs related to digital humanities research. For local researchers, additional support is always great news. In terms of the larger academic landscape, this is also great news because it means a stronger overall infrastructure for support for research that's interdisciplinary and technically demanding (e.g.; demanding of older computers and machinery, high level computing resources, community critical knowledge mass, etc.).

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The Philosophy of Computer Games Conference 2011

zach — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:34:03 +0000

Type:

Conference

Location:

Athens, Greece

Submission Deadline:

Tue, 02/01/2011

URL:

http://2011.gamephilosophy.org/

Contact:

submissions@gamephilosophy.org

Event Dates:

Wed, 04/06/2011

THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTER GAMES

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ATHENS 2011

April 6th-9th, 2011

We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the phenomenon of computer games to submit papers to the international conference "The Philosophy of Computer Games 2011", to be held in Athens, Greece, on April 6th-9th 2011.

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Monstrous Cultures: Embracing and Resisting Change in the 21st Century (Edited Collection)

zach — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:13:58 +0000

Type:

Edited Collection

Submission Deadline:

Tue, 03/01/2011

Contact:

Marina Levina

monsterculture2011@gmail.com

Contact:

Diem-My T. Bui

Book Description: In her famous book, Our Vampires, Ourselves (1997), Nina Auerbach writes that each age embraces the vampire it needs. This statement speaks to the essential role that monster narratives play in culture. They offer a space where society can safely represent and address anxieties of its time. In the past decade, our changing world faced fears of terrorism, global epidemics, economic and social strife, new communication technologies, immigration, and climate change to name a few.

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