David O'Grady from University of California-Los Angeles presents ""Relic-ing" Video Games: Imaginary Media Archeology and the Construction of Game Reception" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Rolf F. Nohr from University of Arts Braunschweig presents "The Expulsion of the Subject from Decision Making: A (Short, Completely Incomplete) Discourse History of Game-Based Decision Support Systems" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Laijana Braun from Braunschweig University of Art presents "Press Rewind: The Influence of VHS and DVD Board Games on Hybrid Board Game Practices" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Mirek Stolee (@mirekstolee.bsky.social ) from University of Central Florida and The Strong National Museum of Play presents "Toward an Escape Room Archive" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Matthew Payne (@ludology.bsky.social) from University of Notre Dame presents "Pinball Poetics: Interpreting a World under Glass" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Bill Carroll from Abilene Christian University presents "Good Game!: Gestures towards Virtue in Sports and Games" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Yanchen Zhang from University of Arizona presents "The Sin of Play: The Citicisms against the Act of Play in China" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Marc Ouellette (@burnedprof.bsky.social) from Old Dominion University presents "Protect Me from What I Want: The LARP of “Kayfabe” as a Hermeneutic for Right-Wing (Social) Media Games" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

We kicked off this morning with a provocative roundtable with: Carly Kocurek & Bo Rodda, Illinois Institute of Technology Karen Stewart, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Hana Hanifah and Jennifer Dewinter, Illinois Institute of Technology #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Rafael Fajardo (@rafaelfajardo.bsky.social) from University of Denver presents "Code-X: Chicanx Games as Contemporary Codices" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Jes Klass (@jesklash.bsky.social) from DePaul University presents "Building and Scaling an In-House Educational Game Studio at a University" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Michael DeAnda (@playfulmike.bsky.social) from DePaul University presents "Learning Design by Making Games from Trash, Found Objects, and Random Shit in Backpacks" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Catherine Pearce from Simon Fraser University presents "Artistic Response as Collaborative Design Methodology: Creating Video Game Artifacts from Personal Stories" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Tweeting our last panel yesterday #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Chris McCutcheon from Torrens University Australia presents "The Exploitation Ecosystem and Roblox: A Case Study" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Yasheng She from University of Idaho presents "What Makes Anime Game "Amime”?" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Keita Moore from Ohio State University presents "Space Invasion: Public Places, Play Machines, and the Birth of the Japanese Arcade" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Brandon Richards presents "How Video Games Influence Local Communities" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Posting yesterday's talks

Need to update some posts, XD

#gscpp and #swpaca2025 presenters from USU jump for joy at having most of their presentations in their recent past!

David Prihoda from Old Dominion University presents ""The Neighbor of the Beast:" Spatiotemporality and Identity Slippage in “Remedy's Control”" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

For the Tiny Frog Mystery zine adventure: Cipher 3 is a "Playfair cipher" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

"Christopher Hanson" from Syracuse University presents The Thick Present of Play: Adventures in Teletype and Time-Sharing #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Dylan Miller from Bowling Green State University presents "Cripping Play Time" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Delores Phillips from James Madison University presents "Between Loxen and Loddles: Waste, Assets, and Environments in Digital Games" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Devin Hickey from Old Dominion University (student) and Incheon National University (educator) presents "When Is the Game Not the Game?: Dissecting the Commodity Fetishism of Gacha Games and How Late-Capitalist Systems of Exploitation Guide Player Behavior" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Kevin Moberly from Old Dominion University presents "King’s Scab: Economic Chivalry and Immaterial Labor in “King’s Quest: A Knight to Remember”" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Autumn Koors-Foltz of Colorado State University presents ""Great Idea, Mayor!": Nintendo's Digital Escape through Employment" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Bradley Markle from Penn State University presents "Metalepsis through Player Agency: Coding, File Alterations, and Achievements in Video Game Narratives" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Samuel Rowles from Utah State University presents "Weighted Dice: How Video Games Handle Perceived Probability" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Kanak Gupta from California State University-Fullerton presents "Consuming Creation: A Paradox of Individualism on Collectivist Narratives in Contemporary Gaming" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Kevin Cosby from University of California-Berkeley presents ""Would You Kindly?": The Denial of Agency in Interactive Storytelling" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Time for the last session for today! #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA #GSCPP

Raegan Harvey from Texas Woman's University presents "Ways of Journeying: Embodiment and Disability Justice in “Wanderhome”" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Stephen Park and Wendi Sierra from Texas Christian University present "Representations of Psychosis in Gaming: An Analysis of “Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice”" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Saramanda Swigart from University of California Santa Cruz presents Bargaining with Foreign Gods: Embodying and Reframing Mental Illness in “Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice” #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

We are back after lunch for another panel! #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Aaunterria Bollinger-Deters from Colorado State University presents "Global Justice Gaming: Teaching Sustainable Social Justice Practitionership through Games" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Christopher Morrow of University of Texas Permian Basin presents "The Compleat Gamer; or the Contemplative Person’s Recreation: Ecology, Self, and Society in Modern Fishing Games" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Nina Kirkegaard from University of Texas at Austin presents "Democratizing the Museological Visitor Experience: The Digital Reproduction of a French House Museum by Way of “The Sims 4”" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Jeremy Johnson of St. Edward's University presents "Leaning into the Limitations of Physical Gamebooks" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Jared Mabaquiao from University of Texas at Arlington presents "Ludo-musicology and Ludo-orientalism" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Coady Spaeth from University of Texas at Arlington presents '“Flat Butt Gaming Has Taken Over”: Affective Publics and Discursive Patterns of the Manosphere within Gaming”" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Penelope Ingram from University of Texas at Arlington presents "Walkers and Watchers: Affective Horror and the Politics of Cross-Racial Identification in Telltale’s “The Walking Dead”" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Doug Stark from University of Texas at Arlington presents "Playing at White Supremacy: Memes, Humor, and History in Paradox Interactive’s Gaming Community" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Marco Rodriguez from Old Dominion University presents "The Evolution of Gendered Avatars in “Final Fantasy XIV”" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

The calm before the storm... Be sure to visit the #SWPACA25 Exhibitors and Vendor Room, located in Pecos/Sandia, open today until 5, and reopening at 9am tomorrow morning! 📚📚🖼️

Kile Lowery from University of Arizona presents "The Wild Wasteland: Robert Frank's "Hoover Dam" (1955) and “Fallout: New Vegas” (2010)" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA

Hunter Bishop from Northern Michigan University presents "“UFO 50” and Nostalgia for a Fictional Past" #GSCPP #SWPACA2025 #SWPACA25 #SWPACA