Program for the game studies seminar: Johanna Blom Tracing Game Characters Arseniy Deriglazov The ludic and the narrative: oil and water or water and ice? Videogames as ludo-narrative texts.

The Center for Computer Games Research is proud to present an open Game Lecture Series Talk by Dr. Adrienne Shaw. Description: Although we have seen increased popular attention to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) game content, designers, and players, significantly less attention has been paid to the decades leading up to this contemporary

Today, Tuesday 03.04.2018, at 4 pm in Auditorium 4, the Center for Computer Games Research is proud to present two talks: Jan-Noël Thon - Analyzing Indie Aesthetics: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Narrative Complexity in Independent Video Games Peter Nelson - Production and Consumption: The Significance of Garry's Mod as a Contemporary Landscape

Event Description Workshop on the ontology of the virtual hosted by ITU Copenhagen under the ERC Making Sense of Games research project. Organized by professors Espen Aarseth and Paweł Grabarczyk. Program Day one (Sunday, 24th June)   0930-1030. David Chalmers – The Virtual and the Real.   1030-1130 – Jesper Juul, (commentators: Mark Silcox and

David Chalmers is one of the most recognizable philosophers and cognitive scientists of our times. He is renowned for developing the hypothesis of extended mind, his study on the hard problem of consciousness and conceptualization of virtual reality. Upcoming Monday he will deliver an open lecture entitled "The meta-problem of consciousness"

The IT University of Copenhagen and its Center For Computer Games Research will host three game studies conferences in semi-parallel: Philosophy of Computer Games (13th-15th), Games And Literary Theory (15th-17th) and History of Games (16th-17th). These three conferences, sponsored by the ERC through the AdG project MSG – Making Sense of Games and supported by

Computer Games Research Center presents: Ex Nihilo - Playing And Designing With Zero Knowledge a talk by Mike Cook - https://twitter.com/mtrc Artificial intelligence techniques rely a lot on humans, whether explicitly, through labelled training data and feedback, or implicitly, through the small design decisions made while creating them. But for certain kinds of problem, especially

Are video games addictive? Theoretical considerations and empirical findings With the recent introduction of Gaming Disorder as a category in the World Health Organizations’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD), the excessive and uncontrolled use of console and computer games has been officially defined as a form of addictive behavior. However, the normative establishment of such

The Center for Computer Games Research invites you to a talk by John Sharp on Thursday, 21st of March. John is a game designer, graphic designer, art historian, educator and Associate Professor of Games and Learning at the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design. The talk 'Games, Game Art, Artgames

The Center for Computer Games Research invites you to a talk by Tanja Sihvonen on Tuesday, April 2nd. Who are the people who have influence on social media, and how can we question their assumptions? Meet Tanja Sihvonen for a talk about the problems of identifying and researching user groups in online cultures, focusing on