Conference Talks

Presentations at conferences, including extended abstracts.

Dom Ford (2024). How players talk about disastrous game launches: What went wrong with Cities: Skylines II?.

Dom Ford (2024). What went wrong with Cities: Skylines II, according to players: A qualitative analysis of player perceptions of a poor digital game launch.

Dom Ford (2024). Community, alienation and the experience of networks: Maybe the real gamevironment was the friends we didn’t make along the way.

Dom Ford (2024). A world to escape to? Digital gameworlds as otherworlds.

Dom Ford (2023). The city, according to city builders: The mythology of city-builder games.

Dom Ford, Sophie Thorkildsen (2023). The magic prison: Game rules as a tool for dread in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Inscryption. Extended Abstract Proceedings of the 2023 DiGRA International Conference: Limits and Margins of Games.

Dom Ford (2020). That old school feeling: Processes of mythmaking in Old School RuneScape.

Dom Ford (2018). Lost futures: In the presence of long-lost civilisations in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Dom Ford (2018). Speedrunning: Transgressive play in digital space.