09:30 Registration
10:00-11:15 Inward
Discussions about the community of games criticism and issues pertaining to its existence on social media and blogs.
- Zoya Street
Reaching criticity by increasing the temperature - Mattie Brice
Games Criticism is a Selfie: How Being a Game Critic is a Radical Act - Ben Abraham
Oral history of the videogame criticism blogosphere 2007-now - Stacey Mason
Examining the phases of a scene - Samantha Allen
Communities or island nations? - Harry Lee
Fracturing monocultures with non-traditional community models
11:45-1.00 Outward
How games criticism relates to other fields surrounding games and play.
- Patrick Klepek
Pushing big sites to have a more critical eye - Alex Cox
My Grandma has no idea what Gone Home is - Liz Ryerson
Five Things That Give Me Hope About Videogames - Gaines Hubbell
Games writing and academic institutional authority - Cameron Kunzelman
Five Things I Learned That Help Me Think About Games But Have Nothing To Do With Games - Richard Terrell (KirbyKid)
Game.Play.Critique philosophy
2:30-3:45 Upward
Skillshares and proposals for how to sustain yourself as a game critic, and also how to sustain the critical community in general.
- Brendan Keogh
The emergence of book-length games criticism - Cara Ellison
This Is Not My Whole Experience Of Games - Kris Ligman
Signal-boosting counter-canonical works and writers - Kirk Hamilton
Writing Games Criticism For A Mainstream Audience - Joe Koller
The Future of Free - Alan Williamson
The Lost World of Magazines
4:15-5:30 Forward
Manifestos and new perspectives to push games criticism as a field of critical analysis.
- Zolani Stewart
Why weird games are important - Rachel Simone Weil
Video-game nostalgia and the academic and popular discourses that shape it - Darius Kazemi
Looking At Source Code - Alex Lifschitz
Cultural and experiential lenses in criticism - Raph Koster
A new formalism - Ian Bogost
What games need?
Critical Proximity 