Give and Take: Transactional Experiences in Gaming

Our second annual conference centers on give and take—ideas of exchange and transaction in gameplay, in discourse about play, and in communication between gamers, gaming media, and game creators. We are interested in gaming as a co-creative experience between many entities, one that imparts responsibility, poses questions, and provokes responses. This experience is malleable; the boundaries along which entities encounter each other are sites of shifting transactions that define and redefine ideas such as agency, creation, embodiment, and immersion. How do games invite, enable, restrict, or disallow co-creation? What responsibilities do games have toward players, and what responsibilities do players, reviewers, or the public have toward games and game creators? 

Keynote Address: Cole Wehrle

Founder of Buried Giant Studios and Wehrlegig Games

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