SCMS Video Game Studies SIG

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I co-organized an event on "Race & Representation in Games: Our Chance to Play" with @bgstokes and @Dashiellsteven at @AUGameCenter on April 27. Please come (either virtually or ideally in person). RSVP: bit.ly/OurChanceToPlay @AUCollege @AUResearch Thanks to @AUSOC for funding!

Happy Sunday #scms24 team! We have one more day of games and play-related panels to hype. First, you can catch Oscar Moralde's presentation on "From Playtime to Primetime: The Last of Us and the Temporalities of the Prestige Video Game" in Kent at 10:15am.

Also in Session M, check out "Teaching Games at the End of the World," featuring Edmond Chang, Ashlee Bird, Tof Eklund, Dorothy Kim, Takeo Rivera, and Sam Tobin. Join them at 6pm in Boston Common!

At 6pm, head over to Tremont for a panel by Alex Chalk, Nicole T. Winchester, Aaron Trammell, and Evan Torner on "Undead Media: Platform Cultures and Analog Games" during Session M! Another VGSSIG sponsored panel :)

Also in Session L, catch Raz Greenberg's presentation on "Rotoscoping the Gamer, Playing the Body" in Stuart starting at 4pm!

At 4pm, head over to Tremont to see Douglas Eyman, Shasha Liu, Hongmei Sun, and Li Guo present their panel on "Games, Gaming, and Interactive Aesthetics in Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Cinema!"

Also at 2pm, check out "Ways of Gaming: Aesthetics and Subjectivity in Games," with Christine Prevas, John Roberts, Cameron Kunzelman, and respondent Michael Lutz in Tremont for a VGSSIG-sponsored panel!

At 2pm, join Kayla Yein, Bryan Sebok, Siheng Zhu, and Daniel Reynolds for a discussion on "Movement, Play, and Design" in Back Bay A!

Also at 11am, join Adriana de Souza e Silva, Christopher A. Paul, Donna Kim, and Logan Brown in their panel "(Re)Contextualizing Play: Time, Space, and Place in Mobile Game Design." Catch them in the Riverway!

In Tremont at 11am, join Samuel Santiago and Luke Hernandez as they present on "Playing with Power: Borders, Binaries, and Memory in Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3!"

Also at 9am today, check out Matt Knutson, Andrew Bailey, Mirek Stolee, and Ben Latini talk about "Playful Records: Video Game Histories" in Tremont.

Good morning #scms24! Check our Twitter all day for info on games and play-related panels today. First up, check out the VGSSIG-sponsored panel "Playing (With) Sexy Beasts" with Jean Ketterling, Adrianna Burton, Percival Hornak, and Maggie MacDonald at 9am in Back Bay B.

Also during Session H, join Ravi Krishnaswami for a presentation on "How AI Music Scoring Interfaces Combine Game Engines, Music Data, and Machine Listening" at 5:15 in the Arnold Arboretum.

At 5:15pm, catch Teddy Pozo, Whit Pow, Cael Keegan, and respondent mattie brice in a conversation on "Video Games and Trans Childhood." Join them for a VGSSIG sponsored panel H17 in Dalton!

In Session G, catch the VGSSIG sponsored panel "The Unplayable Past: Video Games and the Struggle over Historical Authenticity" in Dalton. Join Ryan Banfi, Soraya Murray, Matthew Payne, and Esther Wright at 3:15pm!

Also in Session F is a panel on "The World of Video Games: Archeology, Affect and Prestige," with Allison Ross, Evan Jules Maier-Zucchino, Justin Roberts, Ali-Usama Zreik, Mia Consalvo, A.P. Pettinelli, and Andrei Zanescu. Catch them in Dalton at 11am

Starting out Session F, James Fleury, Anne Major, Emmelle Israel, and Avi Santo discuss "Netflix Beyond Television: Video Games Virtual Reality, and Merchandising" in Back Bay A. Catch the conversation at 11am!

Session E features a VGSSIG sponsored panel too! Check out "New Topics in Video Game Studies" with Laura Broamn, Alexandar Petrus, Justin Keever, and Bryon Fond in Dalton, starting at 9am!

Also in Session E, check out the "Care-ful Encounters: Intimate Relations in and around Gaming" panel, featuring Amanda Phillips, Huan He, Hibby Thach, and Josef Nguyen. The panel starts in Kent at 9am!