Proceedings of the 2nd Annual U of Florida Game Studies Conference

These are the selected proceedings from the 2006 University of Florida Game Studies Conference: Video Games and the Alien Other, which took place on April 6th and 7th, 2006 in Gainesville, FL. The following selections are prepared from the full text of presenters' papers or video where available.

Keynote: Differences that Bind Us: The Alien in Media and Next Door

Lee Sheldon, Indiana University
[video 1] [video 2]

N_A & NrAged: When RPGs Go Fannish

Lyndsay Brown, University of Florida
[abstract] [full text]

Player Epsilon: Demoing a New Hermeneutic for Games

Phil Sandifer, University of Florida
[abstract] [full text]

AA: Artificial Alterity -- Toward an Ethics of Computer Games

James Campbell, University of Central Florida
[abstract] [full text]

Sid Meier’s Colonization

Rob Foreman, Ohio University
[abstract] [full text]

Time of the Twins: Video Games Presenting the Unrepresentable Through Haunting

Laurie N. Taylor, University of Florida
[abstract] [full text]

The Orientalist Perspective: Cultural Imperialism in Gaming

Elmer Tucker, University of Florida
[abstract] [full text]

The New Mediated (Em)Body Is My Others

Andrew Bucksbarg, Indiana University
[abstract] [video]

Navigating a new gaming environment: Learning as a process of negotiating the alien other

Meredith DiPietro, University of Florida
[abstract] [video]

IndigiMMOn: Indigenous Monsters and Game-Play Imbalances in MMORPGs

Mike Stanyer, University of Northern British Columbia
[abstract] [video]

Charnel Houses of Europe: The Limits of Play (Roundtable Discussion)

Participants: Tof Eklund, Phil Sandifer, Lyndsay Brown, James Campbell, Stephan Puff, Regina Martin, and Rachel Pax.
[overview] [video 1] [video 2]

New Cyborg Philosophy: Techno-Religious Hybridization in Marathon and Halo

Justin Laufer, University of Florida
[abstract] [video]

Sexuality and Sexual Orientation in Computer and Console Games

Evan Lauteria, University of Florida
[abstract] [video]

Playing with the Other: Alterity in the Work of Peter Molyneux

Chico Queiroz, Independent Scholar
[abstract] [video] [full text]

Invading the Past: Genre and Anachronism in Destroy All Humans!

Stephanie Tripp, Rhodes College
[abstract] [video]

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