Abstract
This PhD research project (Autumn 2024– Spring 2027) explores interdisciplinary game development from within game development teams in Denmark. It will consist of three qualitative case studies in Danish game studios and education through which I apply ethnographic participation to develop grounded and context dependent results. Overall, I undertake research across game design praxeology, organizational science, and sociology of work to analyse the working and learning environment of game makers in its socio-economic context: How are interdisciplinary work forms and competences cultivated among newcomers for working in the Danish game industry? The primary objective, then, is to examine how newcomers to the Danish game industry are trained for interdisciplinary work and contextualize such expertise from within studio workplaces and Danish society. Like any case study, my project will provide rich contextual descriptions of challenges that newcomers face, and inform debates on game education curriculum and policy in Denmark
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | CHI PLAY Companion '24 : Companion Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play |
| Editors | Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk, Guo Freeman, Juho Hamari |
| Number of pages | 441 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Publication date | 14 Oct 2024 |
| Pages | 438 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9798400706929 |
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| Publication status | Published - 14 Oct 2024 |
Keywords
- Game development
- interdisciplinary collaboration
- game design
- game production studies
- studio studies
- situated learning
- case study
- ethnography