Dom Ford
Dom Ford

Postdoctoral Researcher

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 and I teach media studies, games and design in the ZeMKI’s study programmes. I’m also the managing editor for 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. I’ve rewritten this from scratch into a book, Mytholudics: Games and Myth, coming out with De Gruyter in 2025.

Here 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.

Last update: 3 December 2024.

Interests
  • Myth and games
  • Digital game communities
  • Representations of the past
  • Reality formation in digital society
Education
  • PhD Game Studies

    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

Publications
(2024). Approaching FromSoftware's Souls series as myth. Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association, 6(3).

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(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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Conference talks
Blog
Games