"Kinda like The Sims... But with ghosts?": A Qualitative Analysis of Video Game Re-finding Requests on Reddit

Ida Kathrine Hammeleff Jørgensen; Toine Bogers

doi:10.1145/3402942.3402971

"Kinda like The Sims... But with ghosts?": A Qualitative Analysis of Video Game Re-finding Requests on Reddit

Ida Kathrine Hammeleff Jørgensen
, Toine Bogers

Aalborg University

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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
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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3402942.3402971
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	Foundations of Digital Games 2020 - Bugibba, Malta Duration: 14 Sept 2020 → 18 Sept 2020 http://fdg2020.org/index.php

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Conference	Foundations of Digital Games 2020
Country/Territory	Malta
City	Bugibba
Period	14/09/2020 → 18/09/2020
Internet address	http://fdg2020.org/index.php

Keywords

video games
game description
game archives
re-finding
known-item search
complex information needs

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Jørgensen, I. K. H., & Bogers, T. (2020). "Kinda like The Sims... But with ghosts?": A Qualitative Analysis of Video Game Re-finding Requests on Reddit. In G. N. Yannakakis, A. Liapis, & P. Kyburz (Eds.), FDG '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (pp. 1-4). Article 40 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3402942.3402971

Jørgensen, Ida Kathrine Hammeleff ; Bogers, Toine. / "Kinda like The Sims... But with ghosts?" : A Qualitative Analysis of Video Game Re-finding Requests on Reddit. FDG '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. editor / Georgios N. Yannakakis ; Antonios Liapis ; Penny Kyburz. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. pp. 1-4

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Jørgensen, IKH & Bogers, T 2020, "Kinda like The Sims... But with ghosts?": A Qualitative Analysis of Video Game Re-finding Requests on Reddit. in GN Yannakakis, A Liapis & P Kyburz (eds), FDG '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games., 40, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-4, Foundations of Digital Games 2020, Bugibba, Malta, 14/09/2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3402942.3402971

"Kinda like The Sims... But with ghosts?": A Qualitative Analysis of Video Game Re-finding Requests on Reddit. / Jørgensen, Ida Kathrine Hammeleff; Bogers, Toine.
FDG '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. ed. / Georgios N. Yannakakis; Antonios Liapis; Penny Kyburz. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. p. 1-4 40.

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"Kinda like The Sims... But with ghosts?": A Qualitative Analysis of Video Game Re-finding Requests on Reddit

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