Abstract
With the advent of the retro-gaming movement there is an in-creasing interest in rediscovering games once played. ‘Tip of my Joystick’ is a Reddit community dedicated to the re-finding of for-gotten games. In this subreddit, users describe games they wish to re-find so that other users may help them identify the game’s title. This community thus offers a unique opportunity for studying how players recall and describe games and play experiences of the past. This paper presents the results of an analysis of a random sample of 250 posts from this subreddit. The posts were analyzed in terms of what aspects of games they describe. For the purpose of this analysis we developed a coding scheme consisting of 38 individual codes belonging to 9 different main categories. Our findings may contribute to research on game archiving and collection as they may help inform the design of better game search engines.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | FDG '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games |
| Editors | Georgios N. Yannakakis, Antonios Liapis, Penny Kyburz |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Publication date | 2020 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Article number | 40 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450388078 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
| Event | Foundations of Digital Games 2020 - Bugibba, Malta Duration: 14 Sept 2020 → 18 Sept 2020 http://fdg2020.org/index.php |
Conference
| Conference | Foundations of Digital Games 2020 |
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| Country/Territory | Malta |
| City | Bugibba |
| Period | 14/09/2020 → 18/09/2020 |
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Keywords
- video games
- game description
- game archives
- re-finding
- known-item search
- complex information needs