For two days this week RMIT hosted the Interactive Entertainment academic conference with the theme ‘Matters of Life and Death’.
The presentations at this conference were summaries of numerous PhD research degrees, either completed, nearing completion or a brief report of developments to date. The presentations were either by the research candidates themselves or their supervisors.
Instead of a write-up from day two, below are tweets from attendees that include links to papers.
V. Cool! RT@marcusdcarter here is a copy of the paper I presented earlier today on death and dying in #dayz http://t.co/HT5PV1D1tR #ieconf13
— theEvolvedGamer (@theevolvedgamer) October 1, 2013
here is a copy of the paper I presented earlier today on death and dying in #dayz http://t.co/KzcNl3LjhA #ieconf13
— Marcus Carter (@marcusdcarter) October 1, 2013
Sometimes I think game studies is the only group persuaded by Sony and MS's motion-sensing marketing the other year #ieconf13
— Brendan Keogh (@BRKeogh) October 1, 2013
True or false? Feel free to comment
The introduction of an R18+ category was due to a long running community campaign but ultimately politicians were uninterested. #ieconf13
— IE2013 Conference (@IEconference) October 1, 2013
Daniel Haynes (the StarCraft II gamer) has been quite vocal about the R18+ rating for games for YEARS. He’s pleased it’s finally been legislated.
Oh hey I also wrote about game jams and crunch culture once :3 http://t.co/6Jjsd5DnhI #ieconf13
— Brendan Keogh (@BRKeogh) October 1, 2013
Oh, also, the fiction book I plugged during my Q&A was Ghosts in the Machine: http://t.co/xUADii0Npl #ieconf13
— Brendan Keogh (@BRKeogh) October 1, 2013
Now truna talking about the Brisbane game jam and data collecting. I wrote about that jam once :3 http://t.co/RtxQYLwAgi #ieconf13
— Brendan Keogh (@BRKeogh) October 1, 2013
Now truna is talking about the Brisbane game jam which is super rad and I wrote about once :3 http://t.co/swbNzWkOtE #ieconf13
— Brendan Keogh (@BRKeogh) October 1, 2013
Here is my Minecraft permadeath blog: http://t.co/nW2mr1X73h The video I showed is there as well #ieconf13
— Brendan Keogh (@BRKeogh) October 1, 2013
If any of the participants in Matters of Life and Death would like to correct or add to what has been recorded here, feel free to email or dm me on twitter.
I attended day 1, a rich and diverse conference with everything from a children’s book app to discussion of eSports and the evolution of tournament rules in Eve Online. My write-up of day one will be up within the next few days.
Unfortunately circumstances and Murphy conspired against me attending day two: the trains weren’t running so my partner drove me to the nearest functioning train station. Walking into the train station I was blinded by the wind and rain; the guy walking out was blinded by HIS MOBILE PHONE. After our collision, my GP recommended rest and ice. The lump over my eyebrow has started going down, to be replaced by pretty colours.
