ANNUAL OF GAME CONFERENCE
Chinese DiGRA Conference 2021
December 4 2021 , 9am - 5pm
Physical Conference (*Limited capacity)
TriAngle Space, 306, David C Lam Building,
Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong
Virtual Conference
The Zoom link will be sent via email two days
before the event.
Welcome to our conference website! We have uploaded all of the videos in English and Mandarin.
Watch them before the conference so you can join in our discussion with the authors on 4 Dec!
Chinese DiGRA
Chinese DiGRA (中华电子游戏研究协会 / 中華 數位遊戲研究協會) is a regional chapter of DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association). We are a network of academic and non-academic game researchers committed to developing Chinese game research and connecting it with the wider community.
Chinese DiGRA aims to:
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establish games as a legitimate form of scholarly research in the Chinese context,
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develop a network of game scholars and researchers working in the Chinese-speaking world and/or on aspects of Chinese games and gaming cultures,
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forge links between academic and professional researchers on games,
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support teaching and PhD development in the region, and
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disseminate and promote Chinese game scholarship around the world.
About the Conference
Given the current restrictions on travel, we are planning this year’s Chinese DiGRA as a hybrid online and in-person event. Accepted papers will be pre-recorded as videos and live panels and paper discussions held in person and on Zoom.
We invite submissions on any aspect of Chinese games, game industries, game design and gaming cultures. We also invite submissions from people located in the Chinese-speaking region who are researching any aspect of games. The conference encourages papers from students and early career researchers as well as game industry workers. In addition to encouraging general submissions, our keynotes and themed panels will engage the converging trajectories of user-generated content and cryptocurrencies.
Moderator & Speakers
Peter Nelson
Vice President of Chinese DiGRA
Assistant Professor of Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr Peter AC Nelson is an art historian, game scholar and visual artist working at the intersection of computer game and landscape studies. He is engaged in a prolonged consideration of the history of landscape images, how they are remediated by technological shifts, and how these shifts absorb and reflect changes in our relationships with the physical environment. His current research projects span player-generated content, landscape encoding using Generative Adversarial Networks and the ontology of the digital image.
Stephanie Boluk
Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media University of California, Davis
Dr Stephanie Boluk plays, makes, and writes about games at the University of California, Davis. She co-authored Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames as well as a series of small games like Footnotes and Triforce with Patrick LeMieux. She is also a cast member of Every Game in this City, a podcast on the Idle Thumbs Network about playing well together.
Patrick LeMieux
Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media University of California, Davis
Dr Patrick LeMieux is a media artist, game designer, and associate professor in the Cinema and Digital Media Department at the University of California, Davis. He is the co-author of Metagaming with Stephanie Boluk, cast member of Every Game in This City, and a creator of small games like Footnotes, Triforce and the Octopad, an eight-player controller for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Schedule
9:00
Welcome and opening remarks
Peter Nelson
9:15
Keynote & Discussion
Stephanie Boluk & Patrick LeMieux
"Golden Ticket: Money Games at the International Dota 2 Championships in 2019"
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Paper Session 1 (Moderated by Jonathan Frome)
Leon Xiao, Tullia C. Fraser and Philip W. S. Newall
"Opening Pandora's loot box: Weak links with gambling and player opinions on probability disclosures in China"
Gejun Huang
"Platformizing creativity in the Chinese digital game industry: A case study of Tencent’s gaming entrepreneurship scheme"
ZHANG Shangmingzhu
"The Impact of E-Sports on Communication in Interpersonal Communication in the 5G Era --Taking the MOBA class League of Legends mobile game (China) as a text"
12:00
Coffee Break
12:15
Paper Session 2 (Moderated by Morgan Hao)
Sijing Song
"隐形游荡者的双重“战争”：王者荣耀中女性玩家的日常实践与抵抗策略"
Luo Haoxi
"休閒遊戲與現實主義——《人生重開模擬器》的啟示"
惠一蘅,方洁
"身份认同、叙事接受与具身认知:乙女游戏玩家的“代入感”研究"
13:15
Lunch Break
14:00
Paper Session 3 (Moderated by Hugh Davies)
Benjamin Horn
"Deathloop as a Reflection on Ambiguity as a Meaning-Making Tool"
Mateusz Felczak
"Cyberpunk 2077 and the Accelerationist Aesthetics"
Sam, Li Mengq, Hans, Zhang Hanxue
“Media is message”: Technological determinism in and out of Bandersnatch"
15:00
Coffee Break
15:15
Paper Session 4 (Moderated by Olli Leino)
Nansong ZHOU
"Online Intimacy: The Construction of Chinese In-game Couple"
Lai Zishan
"Avoid ‘bankrupting’ yourself in free-to-play otome games while enjoying virtual romance: understanding the ludonarrative (ir)relevance in Mr Love: Dream Date"
Yue Yongjie
视障者网络游戏行为、动机与心理健康——基于游戏社群的数字民族 志研究
16:15
Coffee Break
16:30
Paper Session 5 (Moderated by Ben Horn)
Felania Mengfei Liu, Congcong Kang, Kairan Liu
"Preserving Chinese Game Heritage and Its Challenges"
Tianxiao Peng, Sam, Li Mengqi
"Board game as a narrative form of history:a case study of Twilight Struggle"
付砾乐 Fu Lile
"涵化理论再思考:逃杀式游戏对玩家认知现实暴力场景的影响——基于和平精英手游玩家的实证研究"
胡康 Laurence Grey
"逃离 or 深陷:《摩尔庄园》的“魅力”展现与“邪魅”所在 —— 基于网络民族志的一项研究"
17:30
Closing remark
Peter Nelson
Video Playlist
YouTube video playlist
Bilibili video playlist
Supporters
Hong Kong Baptist University
Academy of Visual Arts
MetaCreativity Lab
Venue
ABOUT
TriAngle is located at the heart of the Shaw Campus. It provides a platform for the gathering of creative minds who believe in the synergy of collaborations. It is more than a physical place for meetings and projects but a co-working space for you to gather, network and make impact through creativity, interactivity and collaborations.
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TriAngle Space, 306
David C Lam Building
Hong Kong Baptist University Kowloon Tong
