Dom Ford

Dom Ford

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Bremen

About me

I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, part of the Media and Religion lab in the ZeMKI Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research. My postdoc project focuses on community formation in digital games. I’m also the managing editor for the academic journal gamevironments and an editor for Eludamos.

I wrote my PhD at the IT University of Copenhagen’s Center for Digital Play. My dissertation, Mytholudics, proposes a method for analysing games both as conduits of mythologies within society and as mythological structures in themselves.

This is my website where you’ll find links to all the other relevant internet places you can find me at, all of my publications, games and other projects, and the occasional blog post whenever I feel like writing something here.

Interests
  • Myth and games
  • Digital game communities
  • The past and nostalgia in games
  • Reality formation in digital society
Education
  • PhD Game Studies, 2022

    IT University of Copenhagen

  • MSc Game Design and Theory, 2019

    IT University of Copenhagen

  • MA English Literary Studies, 2016

    University of Exeter

  • BA (Hons) English, 2015

    University of Exeter

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral Researcher
April 2023 – Present Bremen, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Lecturer
September 2023 – December 2023 Copenhagen, Denmark
 
 
 
 
 
PhD Fellow
August 2019 – November 2022 Copenhagen, Denmark
 
 
 
 
 
Teaching Assistant
June 2018 – June 2019 Copenhagen, Denmark

Publications

(2020). Giantness and excess in Dark Souls. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG ‘20).

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(2020). Techno-giants: The giant, the machine and the human. Proceedings of the 2020 DiGRA International Conference: Play Everywhere.

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(2019). Beyond the wall: The boundaries of the neomedieval town in singleplayer roleplaying games. Proceedings of the 2019 DiGRA International Conference: Game, Play and the Emerging Ludo-Mix.

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Games

Harvest
Explore a mysterious hollow world from the inside.
Harvest
Too Many Crooks
Band together a ragtag team of criminals to start building your own crime syndicate. Start with humble raids on innocent hot dog stands and work your way up to well-organised casinos and banks in this crime management game.
Too Many Crooks
Wizards of the Hexagonal Table
An over-the-top card game about balancing your mana. Push it to the limit but be careful not to overcharge.
Wizards of the Hexagonal Table
Jump-o-lantern
A Halloween-themed endless musical vertical platformer.
Jump-o-lantern
Grappltar
A one-button game that mixes Spider-Man with the guitar guy in Mad Max.
Grappltar
Keeper
Bring light to a dark world through exploration and combat.
Keeper
Not Alone
A top-down two player co-op zombie shooter with a twist – one player has a flashlight and the other has a gun.
Not Alone
Unnatural Selection
Select the genes for the new generation as you respond to national crises. But every choice has consequences and side effects.
Unnatural Selection