Action in Games
Friday May 19
10.30 Introduction
Chair: Pawel Grabarczyk
10.45 There are no Virtual Actions abstract
Zuzanna Aleksandra Rucinska
Commentators: Anita Leirfall and John R. Sageng
11.30 The Constitution of Agential Properties in Games abstract
John R. Sageng
Commentators: Zuzanna Aleksandra Rucinska and Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt
Break
12.30 – Videogames as Fiction: Expansion Pack abstract
Margarita Khusainova
Commentators: Zoheb Mashiur and Roxanne Chartrand
13.15 Graphic Virtuality and Agential Twofoldness abstract
Rune Klevjer
Commentators: Anita Leirfall and Martin Pleiß
14.00 Lunch
Chair: Anita Leirfall
15.00 Freedom and Thrownness in Role-Playing Games abstract
Tim Miechels
Commetators: Zoheb Mashiur and Rune Klevjer
Break
16.00 Empathy and In-game Actions: How Design Practices Shape the Relationship Between Self and Other abstract
Robin Longobardi Zingarelli
Commentators: Tim Miechels and Rune Klevjer
16.45 Break
17.00 Agential Art and Creative Responsibility (video)
C. Thi Nguyen
19.00 Dinner at Ong Chu, Skalitzer Str. 95A
Saturday May 20
Chair: Tarjei Mandt Larsen
10.00 Revisiting Fictional Actions and Affordances (video) abstract
Jussi Holopainen
10.45 Complex Actions and Confrontation in the18xx Train Games Series abstract
Arne Kjell Vikhagen and Pontus Nilsson
Commentators: Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt and Micaela Cederlund
Break
11.45 The Affective Cycle of ‘Affording’ in Unfamiliar Contexts Within a Playful Virtual Reality Environment abstract
Martin Pleiß
Commentators: Roxanne Chartrand and Arne Kjell Vikhagen
12.30 Trance, Hypnosis and Flow in Games abstract
Micaela Cederlund
Commentators: Tarjei Mandt Larsen and Margarita Khusainova
13.15 Lunch
Chair: Anita Leirfall
14.15 Games, Make-Believe, and the Value of Achievement abstract
Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt
Commentators: Pawel Grabarczyk and Alfred Archer
15.00 Press A to Enter: Playful Actions and Possible Worlds abstract
Roxanne Chartrand
Commentators: Pawel Grabarczyk and Zuzanna Aleksandra Rucinska
15.45 Common Discussion
19.00 Dinner at Restaurant Panther, Waldemarstraße 119
10997 Berlin