Faculty and graduate students from Media Study will be attending the 2022 Meaningful Play conference (https://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/) in East Lansing, Michigan, where they will present work, in multiple forms, from the Game Studies program and Amatryx Gaming Lab.
Assistant Professor Cody Mejeur will present their paper “Queering Game Environments”, which argues that closer attention to game environments and their connections to ecocriticism and environmental studies would yield new possibilities for finding and cultivating queerness in games.
Mejeur and collaborators Famous Clark, Austin Wilson, Wes Turner, and Madison Ford will demo their game “Trans Folks Walking”. “Trans Folks Walking” is a 3D, first-person narrative game that explores experiences of trans embodiment, being, and mobility.
PhD student Tim Georger will present a paper “Controller as an Even More Literal Term: Looking at Controller Design as Territorialization”, analyzing odd and unique controls to discuss problems that arise when controllers are used as their own tools of expression.
Associate Professor Dave Pape and Tim Georger will present a poster on the “CAVE Art History Database”, a new, in-progress project documenting the history of interactive artworks created for the CAVE virtual reality system.
Finally, Pape and Mejeur will give a “microtalk” about UB’s Game Studies program as a whole.
