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Kone Foundation awards funding to two Gamelab researchers
Kone Foundation has granted funding for two doctoral research projects in Game Research Lab from early 2025! Julián Gutiérrez Carrera: Representations of Suicide in Videogames This doctoral dissertation is the first long-term, long-form research project on representations of suicide in videogames. In it, I research how videogames depict, simulate, and represent suicide, since videogames offer…
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New research project: Larpocracy
We are excited to announce that Game Research Lab is partnering with larp practitioners and academics in a new EU-funded project in Horizon Europe, Larpocracy: Developing Spaces for Deliberation and Democratic Skills through Role-playing. Larpocracy aims to promote democratic engagement and political expression through live-action role-playing (larp). The project, which runs from January 2025 to…
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Spring Seminar 2024 Report
By Antonio Pomposini, Daphne Bachmann, Joonas Palsio, Juan Belío, & Niilo Kajala This is a post sharing experiences of student volunteers for the Game Research Lab’s Spring Seminar 2024, a conference in Tampere where researchers in the field of Game Studies can present their ongoing projects to a select audience, following a chosen topic. Meta…
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A Connoisseur’s Guide to the Etiquette and Enjoyment of Finnish Doctoral Defences
Written by Jaakko Stenros The Finnish doctoral defence is a wonderful academic show. In these public examinations two people, the candidate and the opponent, who are both leading experts on the topic at hand, discuss the matter for as long and in as much detail as is needed. The audience listens in silence as no…
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New research utilisation project: Pegasus
We are excited to announce that the Research Council of Finland has granted funding for our new research utilisation project PEGASUS: Promoting equity and game cultural sustainability in Finland for 2024–2025. PEGASUS will build on the significant research results and societal impact achieved within the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies on different aspects…
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Game Research Lab Fall 2023 Writing Retreat Report
There is a joke going around online pointing out that when academics use the word ‘retreat’, what they mean is an off-campus all-day meeting. On some level the Tampere University Game Research Lab Fall 2023 Writing Retreat fits that description. This two day event at the picturesque lakeside sauna at Varala brought together 21 game…
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Registration for Spring Seminar ‘Party!’ and Finnish Day of Game Studies
The registration for Tampere University Game Research Lab’s Spring Seminar ‘Party!’ is now open! The seminar is organized on Thursday and Friday 4–5 May and includes 20 research presentations, as well as keynotes from Mia Consalvo (Concordia University) and Olli Sotamaa (Tampere University). Read more and register at: https://springseminar.org. A day before the seminar on…
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Spring Seminar 2023: Party!
The theme of 19th Spring Seminar of Game Studies is ”Party!” You can find the call for papers link below – the deadline for extended abstracts is 20th January 2023: https://springseminar.org/2023-call-for-papers-party/.
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Celebrating Gamelab’s 20th anniversary!
As Tampere University Game Research Lab turns 20 this year, we wish to celebrate the past two decades of great research, education, and collaborations through a series of anniversary events! The events can be seen on our anniversary page: Game Research Lab’s 20th Anniversary. Mark them down in in your calendar and follow the page…
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Game Project 2022 games are available!
On our Game Project course, students have been working hard and creating new games. All of the games are now available for anyone to play! During the course, the students familiarized themselves with game creation processes through lectures and workshops, and most importantly, by creating games. During the spring, the students engaged in three game…