TY - GEN
T1 - Screenshots as Photography in Gamescapes
T2 - 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition, C and C 2023
AU - Gamboa, Mafalda
AU - Heron, Michael James
AU - Sturdee, Miriam
AU - Belford, Pauline H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Owner/Author.
PY - 2023/6/19
Y1 - 2023/6/19
N2 - Travel is an integral part of our lives, whether for work or leisure. Since the advent of photography, we have documented our journeys, often sharing the images with friends and family to reflect upon the experience, tell stories, or invite commentary. We often lose ourselves in digital media - film, documentary and games - particularly during times when physical travel is unavailable. In this pictorial, we explore the travels of a single player through hundreds of games, presenting annotated game screenshots as photo-documentary through gamescapes, and as a form of the New Games Journalism. We present a New Games Travelogue traversing and formulating the psychogeography of games as imaginary places, and through this process, we unveil transdisciplinary tensions in negotiating and perceiving the importance of visual knowledge in games research, encouraging other researchers to join us in this practice.
AB - Travel is an integral part of our lives, whether for work or leisure. Since the advent of photography, we have documented our journeys, often sharing the images with friends and family to reflect upon the experience, tell stories, or invite commentary. We often lose ourselves in digital media - film, documentary and games - particularly during times when physical travel is unavailable. In this pictorial, we explore the travels of a single player through hundreds of games, presenting annotated game screenshots as photo-documentary through gamescapes, and as a form of the New Games Journalism. We present a New Games Travelogue traversing and formulating the psychogeography of games as imaginary places, and through this process, we unveil transdisciplinary tensions in negotiating and perceiving the importance of visual knowledge in games research, encouraging other researchers to join us in this practice.
KW - games
KW - screenshots
KW - visual knowledge
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85163960319&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3591196.3593370
DO - 10.1145/3591196.3593370
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85163960319
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 506
EP - 518
BT - C and C 2023 - Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition
PB - ACM
Y2 - 19 June 2023 through 21 June 2023
ER -