The Game Studies journal and the Making Sense of Games (MSG) project invite research contributions to a double-blind peer-review, single-track conference on the theories, methods and practices of game analysis. The conference is hosted by the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen in April, 2022. We invite full papers and extended abstracts.

In the study of games, hermeneutics has long been recognized as an important theoretical perspective through which to understand the interpretation of games. That said, there is no consensus on the role of hermeneutic interpretation in playing games, and game scholars (e.g., Aarseth 2003, Aarseth and Möring 2020, Arjoranta 2011, Arsenault and Perron 2008, Karhulahti

This talk will present the results of an ongoing research on video game tutorials, studied from a narratological and rhetorical perspective. Although being a widespread feature of video games, tutorials have been little studied in the field of game studies so far. The few research works on that topic address it indirectly, either as a