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The workshops and Doctoral Consortium are parallel, choose one.
It’s time for a coffee and snacks break!
Take the time to get to know each other, exchange knowledge and refuel before we continue with the workshops and Doctoral Consortium.
It’s time for a lunch break!
You can shop for food in the mall right across the street, or eat in the many diverse restaurants close to the campus.
Coffee break and snacks!
It’s time for a second break before we continue with the parallel sessions.
The last coffee break for this day!
Keynote by Jana Stadeler (Playground Games)
The Un-Reality of Video Game Cultures
Talk description will follow shortly!
Keynote by Víctor Navarro Remesal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Video Games as Animation: Inquiries into the Animatic Nature of Playable Images
Video games are a hybrid media that can be studied from many fronts. They have ludic, machinic, and narrative sides (Mukherjee, 2015) that can sometimes seem at odds in game analysis. However, there is another side that is often overlooked: video games are also animatic works. Our first contact with them is as playable images, a reality that places firmly within visual culture, and by not studying them as such we are cutting some much-needed ties. This makes games belong within the animatic apparatus explored by Cholodenko (2007) and Levitt (2018), an apparatus with its own formal structure, (an)ontology, and impact on our relationship with media. It also has further impacts on different levels, from design to semiotics. This presentation unpacks them in five fronts:
It’s time for the first coffee and snacks break for the day.
The sessions are parallel, choose one for each time slot.
Lunch break time!
You can shop for food in the mall right across the street, or eat in the many diverse restaurants close to the campus.
The last coffee break for this day!
Keynote by Charlene Putney (Writer & Experimenter & Co-Founder of writewithlaika.com)
Seeds: 23 ideas for bringing your best work into the world
In this talk, I will offer 23 lessons I’ve learned in my own working life over 20 years as project manager (at Google and Facebook), game writer (at Larian Studios, Die Gute Fabrik, and freelance), and AI startup founder (Write With LAIKA). We’ll look at the practical, the intangible, and the esoteric. Warning: there will be interactive elements, invitations to participate, and a few challenges to bring home too!
It’s time for a coffee and snacks break!
Some more time to snack, have coffee and talk to each other in real life!
Lunch break time!
You can shop for food in the mall right across the street, or eat in the many diverse restaurants close to the campus.
The last coffee break for this day!