Mirjam's Game Research Blog

Nordic Digra Conference 2023, Collected notes

2023-05-12T00:11:00.000+02:00

INCOR - We got banned by FB for talking about automated discovery techniques for conspiracy theories

2021-03-10T20:44:00.004+01:00

An interesting day in the INDCOR project. - we got banned by Facebook - we had an online gathering where - we announced that the IDN Encyclopaedia is happening due to positive reception of our work - we announced how to evaluate artefacts of last years complexity jam - announcing Trinity as the next host for complexity jam - were treated by amazingly interesting talks about how

Research Design Tool in May 2020, making for own use

2020-05-18T02:29:00.002+02:00

I’m working on a research design tool for my own use. I often feel overwhelmed and almost lost when planning new research: there is so much I want to do, and I feel I am all over the place. Over the years, I have drawn research maps, with colored fields and arrows between them in order to have an overview. But they have become overwhelming, too. I

Narrative Design Think Tank in Utrecht September 2019

2019-10-04T20:10:00.001+02:00

The area of interactive narrative design research has, in my perception, got an upswing lately, and after spending a week in the Netherlands I think I know why :). On Sunday the 26th of September I was invited to give a talk at the Interactive Narrative Design Think Tank at the Nederlands Film Festival in Utrecht. The other speakers were Michael Bas (

DiGRA 2019 Watercolor Notes from Kyoto

2019-08-29T19:24:00.000+02:00

It was a treat to get to go to the DiGRA 2019 Conference! I'm so grateful to all the organisers, who did an amazing job. The conference happened in Kyoto, Japan, 6 - 10 August 2019, at the Ritsumeikan University. I had the opportunity to present some of my own thoughts at the conference (4 pieces, one co-written with Petri Lankoski, and two with Hartmut Koenitz). I also had the

TGPA: HEVGA workshop on Teaching Games: Pedagogical Approaches at DiGRA 2019

2019-08-22T19:13:00.002+02:00

The HEVGA workshop we organised on Teaching Games: Pedagogical Approaches at DiGRA 2019 Conference was a success! Date: 6 August 2019 Place: Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto In the morning, we had paper presentations, and the in afternoon we divided into discussion groups. Me, Mia Consalvo of Concordia, Jonathan Elmergreen of HEVGA, Clara Fernandez-Vara of New York University, William Huber of

NECS Game Theory Session

2019-06-14T22:23:00.000+02:00

A watercolour note made at the game theory session of the NECS conference in Gdansk, Poland, in June 2019. I gave a speech in the same session (but obviously not taking notes then, as I was speaking :) ).

AMAZE in Berlin - Game Gardening

2019-04-14T22:28:00.000+02:00

A watercolour note from the the AMAZE Festival in Berlin, a session that revolved around how game development can seen by a lense/metaphor of gardening.

Shonan Seminar 130: AGAIG

2019-04-03T17:25:00.000+02:00

Watercolour notes from Shonan Seminar 130: Artificial General Intelligence in Games: Where Play Meets Design and User Experience. Day 1: Day 2: Day 3: Day 4: Link to more information:http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/shonan/blog/2017/10/20/artificial-general-intelligence-in-games-where-play-meets-design-and-user-experience/

SGC18: Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari - Bleed in, Bleed out: A design case in...

2018-11-26T17:03:00.001+01:00

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Changing Climates, Living Lab at Skövde University 23 – 25 November 2018

2018-11-26T15:49:00.000+01:00

I attended an important and inspiring a symposium at the University of Skövde on November 23-24 focused on Environmental Humanities issues through interdisciplinary digital art and storytelling practices, invited by Lissa Holloway-Attaway. The symposium was funded by The Seed Box, a large Environmental Humanities consortium project centered at Linköping University, and it combines two

Peter Zackariasson: Is Visual Etnography Possible?

2018-10-31T03:40:00.000+01:00

Higher Seminar at the department of Media technology at Södertörn University with Peter Zackariasson.

SGC18 Post Card

2018-10-27T00:57:00.002+02:00

SwedenGame Conference (SGC18) in Skövde was packed with interesting talks - overall great conference. What to me stood out most was the sense of community, warmth and inclusion. This feeling struck me hard on the final official party when we were doing Marioke - singing rewritten texts to well-known songs. Standing there together, singing with one voice, -

HEVGA @ Sweden Game Conference 2018

2018-10-25T14:28:00.000+02:00

Summary by Björn Berg Marklund and Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari During the Sweden Game Conference in Skövde in October 2018, HEVGA hosted 3 separate events: 1 roundtable, and 2 “Fika” events co-organized by the DONNA Café. (Roughly translated, Fika means sitting around talking over a cup of coffee.) We were thrilled to see people showing up to an academic roundtable at the

Jenny Brusk: Inclusive Transmedia Storytelling

2018-10-03T19:20:00.000+02:00

Jenny Brusk was invited to our higher seminar at the Media Technology Department at Södertörn University and gave a excellent talk: "Marvinter: A Casestudy of an Inclusive Transmedia Storytelling Production". Especially interesting was how the authors needed to work with the different affordances for the different modalities of the narrative; to use either only images, or only sound, but still

FDG 2018 in Malmö

2018-08-10T19:06:00.000+02:00

The Foundations of Digital Games Conference 2018 (FDG 2018) happened in Malmö, so it was great fun to introduce friends to Sweden. Some of them I dragged with me back to Stockholm so we could hang out some more :). Anne Sullivan presented our paper "Tarot Based Narrative Generation" at the PCG Workshop that we wrote jointly with Mike Cook. On the thursday I was part of panel " Methods, History

HEVGA @ GGC18

2018-07-28T15:35:00.000+02:00

2 Day Symposium: HEVGA European Symposium at Gotland Game Conference 2018, 5-6 June, Gotland, Sweden Here’s a quick write-up on the HEVGA Symposium we had a few weeks ago in Visby! We were around thirty game scholars who gathered in Visby, in junction to the Gotland Game Conference, to discuss higher education in Video Games during a two day symposium arranged by the fabulous Ulf Benjaminsson

DiGRA 2018 in Turin

2018-07-27T18:17:00.000+02:00

The 2018 Conference of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA18) was in Turin, Italy. It was wonderful to get to meet old friends and hear about their latest work- it's a few years since I went to the DiGRA conference last. I gave a talk about how board games can be designed as safe-spaces, showing the MindShadows games, and presenting some of the design principles I have been

Digra18 Workshop on Fun

2018-07-24T17:51:00.000+02:00

Workshop: On Trial: FUN, by John Sharp and David Tomas, at DiGRA 2018 in Turin, Italy. Thomas and Sharp gave a refreshing take on the games-as-art today. “Fun” has in games a similar stigma as “beauty” has in visual arts. The made a Kantian roll-back - staring over, really examining how the notion of fun could inform an aesthetic agenda.

Watercolour notes from HEVGA @ GGC18

2018-06-07T16:29:00.000+02:00

HEVGA Symposium at Gotland Game Conference 2018 in Visby, Sweden, at Uppsala University Campus Gotland. Here are some of my notes: I posted a write-up of the HEVGA Symposion in the FB Group HEVGA Europe

Gotland Game Conference 2018

2018-06-05T13:08:00.000+02:00

Gotland Game Conference 2018. The best of the best! 💗💗💗 Here are the notes I made:

Making Games - Tampere Spring Seminar 2018

2018-04-25T11:32:00.000+02:00

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Dagstuhl seminar on AI-Driven Game Design 17471

2017-11-24T16:28:00.000+01:00

Watercolor notes from Dagstuhl: Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: AI-Driven Game DesignSeminar No. 17471, 20-24 November 2017

Dr Dahlskog: Design Patterns and Content Generation in Games

2016-06-10T22:11:00.000+02:00

I had the honor of being part of Steve Dahlskogs committee (betygsnämnd) when he defended his PhD Thesis at Malmö University in June 2016. The thesis was a pleasure to read, and Steve passed with flying colors! I took some notes during the process:

Computational modelling in games at BIRS, Banff, Canada, May 2016

2016-05-26T11:48:00.000+02:00

I spent last week in Canada, at the beautiful Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery up in the mountains, together with a group of very smart people. We gathered to have workshops about computational modeling in games, and it was amazing. It was organised so that we, during the 5 day workshop each partook in three workshop groups with 4 - 6 people in each,