Dom Ford

Dom Ford

PhD Student (submitted, awaiting defence)

Center for Digital Play, IT University of Copenhagen

Biography

I’m a game researcher and designer. I’ve recently submitted my PhD dissertation at the IT University of Copenhagen’s Center for Digital Play. My dissertation, titled Mytholudics: Understanding Games As/Through Myth, proposes a method for analysing games both as conduits of mythologies within society and as mythological structures in themselves.

This helps us to see how a gameworld constructs its world and the rules by which it operates, and how that world becomes so easy and intuitive for players to inhabit. The same method could be used in the construction of a gameworld, allowing for harmony and resonances between themes and motifs without there having to be a strict or explicit narrative coherence.

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 there.

All of my publications here have a link or download where you can read it for free. If that is ever not the case, please contact me and I will happily send you a copy directly and make one available online.

Interests
  • Game design
  • Play
  • Myth
  • Narrative
  • Monsters
  • Spatiality
  • Neomedievalism
Education
  • PhD, 2022 (expected)

    IT University of Copenhagen

  • MSc in Games, 2019

    IT University of Copenhagen

  • MA in English Literary Studies, 2016

    University of Exeter

  • BA (Hons) in English, 2015

    University of Exeter

Games

Harvest

Harvest

Explore a mysterious hollow world from the inside.

Too Many Crooks

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.

Wizards of the Hexagonal Table

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.

Jump-o-lantern

Jump-o-lantern

A Halloween-themed endless musical vertical platformer.

Grappltar

Grappltar

A one-button game that mixes Spider-Man with the guitar guy in Mad Max.

Keeper

Keeper

Bring light to a dark world through exploration and combat.

Not Alone

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.

Unnatural Selection

Unnatural Selection

Select the genes for the new generation as you respond to national crises. But every choice has consequences and side effects.

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