Emily Grace Buck has joined us for the LAST keynote address of #ICGAN2025 for her talk “I’m Batman: Centering Player Agency in Beloved IP.”
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Check out the in-person crowd from Waterloo for Emily Grace Buck’s keynote address “I’m Batman: Centering Player Agency in Beloved IP”for #ICGAN2025! Including a very special visit from University of Waterloo’s own Charmaine Dean!
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Hanine El Mir is closing out as the final panelist of #ICGAN2025 with her presentation “Role-Played Identities: Adapting the Tools to Forge Our Narratives” and we’re happy she could join us!
For our very final presenter of #ICGAN2025 we have Hanine El Mir with her look into role playing with the presentation “Role-Played Identities: Adapting the Tools to Forge Our Narratives.”
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Next up in Session 31 “Role-Playing, Reminiscence, Representation, and Romance” is Morgan Pearce with “Writing History in Pentiment: Medieval Manuscripts, Historical Accuracy, and the Politics of Representation.”
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Starting out last panel of #ICGAN2025 is Christine Tomlinson for “Playing for Love: Experiences with Romance in Video Game Narrative Design.”
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Rounding out Session 30 on “Preservation and Transformation” are Aleksander Franiczek and Cristiano Politowski with their presentation “Adapting to a Generational Leap: Mixed-Methods Analysis of Dragon Quest’s Evolution from NEW to SNES.”
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if I had a penny for every time the panel I was on was the closing panel of the conference, I’d have two pennies which isn’t much but it’s cool that it happens every time, right? I was on the last panel of #CGSA2024 and now I’m about to be on the last panel of #ICGaN2025 😁
Next up for Session 30 is Liv Cadwallader for “Compilations of the Imagination: The Mock Compilation Form and Imagined development Histories in UFO 50 and Sonic Dreams Collection.”
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Up next in session 30 “Preservation and Transformation” is Andrew Bailey with his examination of the game Celeste in “Celeste 64: Open-Source Demaking as Self-Adaptive Design Practice.”
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For our penultimate session of #ICGAN2025, we have Alan Galey with his presentation “The Stories that (Digital) Artifacts Tell: Video Game Historiography and the Idea of the Edition.”
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Here to teach #ICGAN2025 all about data visualization is Arden Song with her presentation “Adapting the Worldbuilding Gameplay of Minecraft into Date Visualizations.”
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Next in Session #29 is Haoran Chang shares ideas through the work "Reconsidering Adapting Eastern Practices in Mindfulness and Meditation Games: Pursuing A New Game Design Framework in Chinese Daoist Practice and Philosophy"
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Jules Patalita is presenting all about roleplay and roleplaying games in his presentation “The Critical Role of Digital Media in Teching how to Roleplay.”
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Further in Session #29: Adapting the Classics, Abhik Maiti discusses exciting topic on "Ludic Shakespeare: Interactivity, Agency, and Adaptation in Shakespearean Gaming".
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Welcoming you to Session #29:Adapting the Classics with our first speaker Huajing Pan with her work "Game Adaptation of Allan Poe's Novels: from Literature to Video Game"
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Starting session 28 “Learning Through Play” are Christopher Jeansonne and Christopher Althoff with their look into gameful learning with the presentation “Gamefully Adapative Strategies in the Adaptations Classroom.”
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Curious to learn more about the demos that were exhibited at #ICGAN2025?
Wonder no more! We have their extended abstracts posted on our website AND available in the Gather.town space for conference participants to view and play with.
Closing out our morning session is Erick Verran with his presentation “The Detective in the Furnace: Belief and Fictional Illegibility” which focuses on such games like Disco Elysium and Freedom!
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Gregory Blomquist is up next with his presentation “Shadowing the Shadow Broker: Transmedia Detectives and Media Heterarchy in Mass Effect” which continues a trend in #ICGAN2025 by referencing media scholar Henry Jenkins!
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Continuing the morning session “Belief in the Empowered Player” is Ricardo Martins with “The Player is Dead, Long live the… What was that again? - memory and death in video game design.”
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Take a look at this peak of Alexander Hurezeanu’s presentation “Apocalypse and Utopia: Transculturalizing Eastern European Fallout Mods” from yesterday’s session “Cultural Heritage.”
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Check out this snapshot from yesterday’s presentation by Sid Heeg on “Recreating the Myth of the Family Farm: Stardew Valley’s Adaptation of the Idyllic Farm Landscape”!
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It’s the final day of #ICGAN2025! And kicking off our first session of the day is Imke Alenka Harbig and Keshia Harshina presenting “For Empowerment’s Sake: Rethinking Video Game Adapations for Real-Life Experiences.”
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Capping off the presentations in Melbourne for #ICGaN25 is Session 25, aptly named “Making Sense of It All”.
To learn more about these presentations and the people behind them, check out the extended abstracts on our website!
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We’re looking back on the presentations given on Day 3 of #ICGaN25 in Melbourne!
Day 3 kicked off with “Monstrous Narratives: Adapting Ghosts, Death, Myths and Animals in Game Storytelling”.
Interested in learning more? Check out the extended abstracts on our website!
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Geoffrey Bayldon as Catweazle answers the question “what is a hybrid boardgames?”, mixing boardgame with “electrickery”.
Double conference day! This morning I gave a keynote at #icgan2025; this evening, doing demos at #hri2025.
Joining us from Melbourne, where she is a Senior HCI Lecturer, we’re excited to sit down and listen to Dr. Melissa J. Rogerson talk to us about “The Boundaries of Hybridity” in our third keynote!
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For our final presentation in Session 22 "The Table-Top Power Hour," we have "Worlds of Waste - Magic: The Gathering’s Delocalization out of Brazilian Portuguese” by Guilherme Da Silva Braga.
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