{"id":8,"date":"2022-09-09T20:47:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T20:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/amatryx\/?p=1"},"modified":"2022-09-09T20:47:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T20:47:22","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/amatryx\/2022\/09\/09\/hello-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Amatryx Members at Meaningful Play 2022!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty and graduate students from Media Study will be attending the 2022 Meaningful Play conference (<a href=\"https:\/\/meaningfulplay.msu.edu\/\">https:\/\/meaningfulplay.msu.edu\/<\/a>) in East Lansing, Michigan, where they will present work, in multiple forms, from the Game Studies program and Amatryx Gaming Lab.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor Cody Mejeur will present their paper &#8220;Queering Game Environments&#8221;, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Mejeur and collaborators Famous Clark, Austin Wilson, Wes Turner, and Madison Ford will demo their game &#8220;Trans Folks Walking&#8221;. &#8220;Trans Folks Walking&#8221; is a 3D, first-person narrative game that explores experiences of trans embodiment, being, and mobility.<\/p>\n<p>PhD student Tim Georger will present a paper &#8220;Controller as an Even More Literal Term: Looking at Controller Design as Territorialization&#8221;, analyzing odd and unique controls to discuss problems that arise when controllers are used as their own tools of expression.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Dave Pape and Tim Georger will present a poster on the &#8220;CAVE Art History Database&#8221;, a new, in-progress project documenting the history of interactive artworks created for the CAVE virtual reality system.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Pape and Mejeur will give a &#8220;microtalk&#8221; about UB&#8217;s Game Studies program as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/amatryx\/2022\/09\/09\/hello-world-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amatryx Members at Meaningful Play 2022!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/amatryx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/amatryx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/amatryx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/amatryx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/amatryx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/amatryx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/amatryx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/amatryx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/amatryx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}