Attend talks on game studies by international speakers and students from Uppsala University!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 20-minute talks will cover topics such as gender presentation, nostalgia in games, choice blindness, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Time: 8th of June, 10 am – 4 pm
Location: Rosa Huset, Donnersgatan 3, 621 57 Visby, Sweden<\/p>\n\n\n\n
10:00 – 11:00 11:00 – 12:00 12:00 – 13:00 Break 13:00 – 14:00 Virtual Nostalgia: Exploring Players\u2019 Sentimental Attachment to Game Worlds 14:00 – 15:00 The Hamster in the Machine \u2014 A Critical VR Simulation of Chinese “996” Workplace Oppression through Procedural Rhetoric 15:00 – 16:00 Attend talks on game studies by international speakers and students from Uppsala University! The 20-minute talks will cover topics such as gender presentation, nostalgia in games, choice blindness, and much more. Time: 8th of June, 10 am – 4 pmLocation: Rosa Huset, Donnersgatan 3, 621 57 Visby, Sweden Preliminary schedule: 10:00 – 11:00Conversational Agents for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-hero","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-114","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Preliminary schedule:<\/strong>
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Conversational Agents for Mental Wellbeing
Ruoyu Wen<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cExcuse Me, That\u2019s My Face!\u201d Exploring Lived Experience of Biometric Dispossession in AI Systems Through an Interactive Game
Maddy Rafy
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The Blind Gamer: Examining Ethical Agency Through Choice Blindness in Game Design
Kamyab Ghorbanpour<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indirect psychological characterisation through focalisation
Vivien Birk\u00e1s, Thuy Tien Tina Ha & Nela Niemirska
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Two Approaches of Nostalgic Elements Functioning in IDN
Zheng Wang
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Clara Bohnsack, Oriol Viu i Duran
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Close Reading of Clair Obscur: the Dessendre women\u2019s narrative agency
Litsu Schneider
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Bowen Yu, Zheren Wang
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First Play Experience in mechanically complex PVP action games: A look at improving the user experience for Recitallion
Dani-Alys Rizal<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dampened Borders, Permanent Damage: The Daoist Perspective on \u201cGentle\u201d Colonialism via Paper-Based Iterative Design
Xueyu Luo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"