Meaningful Play 2022 Conference Proceedings

Overview

Meaningful Play 2022 took place October 12 - 14, 2022 in East Lansing, MI, USA. It was hosted by the Michigan State University.

Peer Review Process

All paper submissions were peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee (see below) specializing in the area of the paper topic.

Top Paper Awards

Paper submissions were considered for Top Paper awards by the program committee. Top Paper awardees were recognized at the conference and received an award at the conference closing.

Papers

Below are the papers included in the electronic proceedings. Follow the links to view the abstracts or complete papers when available.

Designing for Complex Interactions

A Technique to Create Weaker Abstract Board Game Agents via Reinforcement Learning (Top Paper Award)
By: Peter Jamieson and Indrima Upadhyay
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Interaction design in virtual reality and games: from a comparative social and psychological needs perspective
By: Li Zheng and Mei Si
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Rage Quitting: Exploring How Frustration and Anger Can Be Induced and Directed Through Video Games
By: Matthew Hlady, Austin Cantone, Bryan Kim, Sylvain Payen and Tianjian Xu
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Games Design Education

Teaching Research-Creation in game design: achievements and limitations of a still developing course
By: Sylvain Payen
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The Forms and Uses of Undergraduate Student Game Design Logs
By: Paul Gestwicki, Jennifer Coy and David Largent
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Games in the Classroom

A Pilot Study on Teacher-Facing Real-Time Classroom Game Dashboards (Top Paper Award)
By: Luke Swanson, David Gagnon and Jennifer Scianna
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Jo Wilder and the Capitol Case: A Taxonomy of Uses for a Historical Inquiry Game in 4th Grade Classrooms in Wisconsin.
By: Peter Wardrip, David Gagnon, Jim Mathews and Jennifer Scianna
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Let's Play with Academia: Parasocial-Interaction-Informed Pedagogy for the Zoom Classroom
By: Gabriel Elvery
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Gaming for Society 1

Falling Out of the Real-World and into Right Wing Inceldom: Redditors' (Mis)reads of Political Themes in Fallout 4
By: Dalton Bouzek and Andrew Wilson
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Meta-Gaming Real Life: Evaluating Offline Change with Online Theory
By: Oskar Milik
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Poor Not Guilty: An Experiential Street Law Education on the Criminalization of Poverty through Perspective-Taking (Top Paper Award)
By: Lien Tran, Tamar Ezer, Lily Fontenot and David Stuzin
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Gaming for Society 2

Roll For Democracy: Tabletop Role-playing Games as Essential Civic Formation in the Deweyan Tradition
By: Susan Haarman
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The Digital Gamer and the Loss of the Power Fantasy
By: Oskar Milik
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Inclusive Design

"That's just how it is": Discussions of toxicity and individual accountability in online video games on Reddit
By: Caitlin Geier
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Queering Game Environments
By: Cody Mejeur
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User-Centered Design for Gamified Voice and Communication App: Applying UCD to Gender-Affirming Communication Services
By: Maura Philippone, Adrienne B. Hancock, Lisa Kopf and Shelley B. Brundage
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Meaningful Analyses of Meaningful Games 1

Art, Play, and Winsor McCay The Critical Art of Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends
By: Christopher Totten
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Gamer Diaspora: Into the Nations of Teyvat
By: Hannah Ruth Sison
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Meaningful Death: A Qualitative Analysis Exploring Narrative Impact on Fail States
By: Courteney Smith and James M. Rush
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Meaningful Analyses of Meaningful Games 2

Can we interpret games separately from their makers? Making meaningful games in unsafe spaces
By: Ahu Yolac and Jenna Perkin
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Entering Valhalla: Trans-Realism in Mobile MMORPGS
By: Hannah Ruth Sison
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Virtual world Expansion: Bringing the world of Runeterra into the Philippines
By: Hannah Ruth Sison
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Narrative Design and Theory

"It Just Felt More Like a Pyramid" - Narrative and Concept in Game-based Learning Puzzles
By: Anthony Pellicone, Ekta Shokeen, Peter Moon, David Weintrop, Diane Ketelhut, Jandelyn Plane and Michel Cukier
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Aligning Game Narrative and Learning Outcomes (Top Paper Award)
By: Jeff Brenneman
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Post-Mortems

Exploring How a Simulation Game Connects Concrete and Abstract Learning
By: Yilang Zhao
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The Legend of the Lost Emerald: Designing a narrative for increased engagement within a historical practices video game
By: Sarah Gagnon and David Gagnon
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Unlocking COVID-19 Play Options: Adapting Serious Design to Pandemic Friendly Game Mediums
By: Scott DeJong, Constance Lafontaine and Kimberly Sawchuk
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Quantitative Games Studies

How are Female Gamers' Experiences of General and Sexual Harassment Related to Coping Strategies and Mental Health Outcomes?
By: Senya Wong and Rabindra Ratan
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Learning through gaming: Examining the learning outcomes of EEK! game
By: Chawannuch Chaikulngamdee, Janaki Riji Nair, Yanbo Li, Yanling Zhao, Cathleen Cusachs, Danilo Martinez, Yangyang Duan, Zige Chen, Xuanqi Ye and Kelsey Prena
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When Melody and Graphics Converge: Background Music Congruency as Predictor of Game Enjoyment
By: Yihan Jia
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Theoretical Frameworks for Design

A Framework for Meaningful LGBTQ Representation in Video Games
By: Jackson McLaren
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All Together Now, Using Multiple Frameworks to Inform Serious Game Design and Development
By: Declan McClintock
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Controller as an Even More Literal Term: Looking at Controller Design as Territorialization
By: Timothy Georger
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Organizers

Conference Chairs

Robby Ratan, Michigan State University
Brian Winn, Michigan State University

Organizing Committee

Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz, Michigan State University
Jeremy Bond, Michigan State University
Andrew Dennis, Michigan State University
Ricardo Guimares, Michigan State University
Carrie Heeter, Michigan State University
Elizabeth Lapensée, Michigan State University
Casey O'Donnell, Michigan State University
Wei Peng, Michigan State University
Valeta Wensloff, Michigan State University

2022 Program Committee

David Beyea, Michigan State University
Douglas Clark, University of Calgary
Drew Davidson, Carnegie Mellon University
Scott Dejong, Concordia University
Claire Dormann, University of Ottawa
Sean Duncan, University of Virginia
Travis Faas, Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis
Matthew Farber, University of Northern Colorado
Ivete Ferraz, Clínica Dra Ivete Contieri Ferraz
Maxwell Foxman, University of Oregon
Lauren Freda, University of Notre Dame
Peter Jamieson, Miami University
Barbara Johnson, University of Minnesota
Mike Katchabaw, University of Western Ontario
Lisa Kopf, George Washington University
Rachel Kowert, University of York
Bruce Maxim, University of Michigan
Declan Mcclintock, Michigan State University
Jackson Mclaren, Temple University
Kevin Mercer, Southern Illinois University
Christi Merrill, University of Michigan
Oskar Milik, Michigan State University
Josh Miller, Northeastern University
Maria Oulton
Sylvain Payen, TAG lab
Robert Pennock, Michigan State University
Andrew Peterson, Ferris State University
Maura Philippone, George Washington University
Frederick Poole, Michigan State University
Kelsey Prena, Boston University
Caleb Probst, University of Wisconsin - Madison
John Quick, DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore
Patrick Shaw, Michigan State University
Courtney Smith, Purdue University
Alexandra To, Northeastern University
Lien Tran, DePaul University, Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
Anna Vvedenskaya, University of Amsterdam
Olya Vvedenskaya, Dragonfly Mental Health
Ahu Yolac, Lawrence Technological University
Jose Zagal, University of Utah
Yilang Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Madison