March 2017 – MIT Game Lab

How Not to Wipe; or, How MMORPGs Work to Disassociate Gender and Caretaking

By Kyrie Caldwell Posted on March 29, 2017 Posted in Research

As l started working as a games researcher, I found I had some holes in my play history that were hindering my research opportunities. Namely, I had never played a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or MMO) before, a type …

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Boston FIG Talk: Good Co-op Bad Co-op

By Kaelan Doyle Myerscough Posted on March 16, 2017 Posted in Events, Research

On January 8, 2017, the Recasting Player Two crew headed to the Boston Festival of Indie Games to give a FIG Talk on our research on the gendered dynamics of co-operative play. We spoke to a crowded room of developers, …

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Month: March 2017

How Not to Wipe; or, How MMORPGs Work to Disassociate Gender and Caretaking

Boston FIG Talk: Good Co-op Bad Co-op