{"id":254,"date":"2017-02-17T12:12:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T11:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/?p=254"},"modified":"2026-04-26T14:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:51:38","slug":"conference-sessions-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/updates\/conference-sessions-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference sessions so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ULF_199.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[254]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ULF_199-630x354.jpg\" alt=\"Audience at GGC 2016 sessions\" title=\"Audience at GGC 2016 sessions\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ULF_199-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ULF_199-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ULF_199-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ULF_199.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo far, we have a one-two punch of <a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/sessions\/violence-in-games\/\">Chris Franklin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/sessions\/from-porn-to-love-games-growing-up\/\">Doris Rusch<\/a>: Chris will lay the foundation of a platform study, arguing that computational devices funnels us towards spatial simulation and conflict &#8211; partially explaining the early decades of simplistic violence in our video games. <\/p>\n<p>Then Doris will follow up and show how we might resist this technological determinism, bringing metaphor and nuance into our digital systems. <\/p>\n<p>There have a big-picture talk from the father of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massively_multiplayer_online_game\">MMO&#8217;s<\/a> &#8211; Richard Bartle &#8211; about the surprising interweaving of <a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/sessions\/human-rights-and-virtual-worlds\/\">human rights and the virtual worlds<\/a> we create. <\/p>\n<p>We contrast Bartle&#8217;s massive scope with a deeply personal and intimate design lecture by <a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/sessions\/grief-based-game-design\/\">Sabine Harrer<\/a> &#8211; using lessons learned from developing Jocoi, <a href=\"https:\/\/enibolas.itch.io\/jocoi\">a game about pregnancy loss<\/a>, to teach us about the power of grief in games.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the first four in place! There&#8217;s four more slots to fill in the coming weeks &#8211; stay tuned. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 2017-04-12<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/updates\/the-votes-are-in-and-the-fifth-talk-is\/\">slot 5 is in place<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, we have a one-two punch of Chris Franklin and Doris Rusch: Chris will lay the foundation of a platform study, arguing that computational devices funnels us towards spatial simulation and conflict &#8211; partially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}