Programme

Horrorscapes & Subversions

• Laurie McRae Andrew, " Wandering Gothic interiors in ‘Gone Home,’ ‘What Remains of Edith Finch,’ and ‘The Vanishing of Ethan Carter'"
• Eoin Murray, "What's Over My Shoulder? Horror and Suspense in Walking Simulators"
• Sarah Beyvers, " The Game of Narrative Authority: Subversive Wandering and Unreliable Narration in The Stanley Parable (2013)"
• Hannah Wood, " Intimacy and Immersion: How walking simulators use poetic mechanics and ‘play, don’t tell’ to negotiate narrative and player agency

Fictional Overlays

• Isabel Vincent, " Time and Relative Dimensions in Cardiff: What role can a city perform in a fictional universe?"
• Ursula Curwen, "Egress to Ingress"
• John Murray, "Wandering Gaze: Visions for Mixed Reality Headset Platform Mechanics"
• Mona Bozdog, "Walking across virtual and physical worlds"

Digital Embodiment

• Irene Fubara Manuel, " 'Scaping' the Border: On Geographic Agency in Gamescape"
• Florence Smith Nicholls, " Dawning on Me: Gendered Nightwalking in Video Games"
• Doug Stark, " “This Body that Knows More than We Do:” Focalizing Alternate Grammars of Action in QWOP the Walking Simulator"
• Ellis Bartholomeus and Sybille Lammes, “The Ma of Meandering in Play

Interactive Storytelling

• Anastasia Salter, "Just a Puppet: Bandersnatch, Watching Simulators and the Future of Passive Interaction"
• Lyle Skains, " The Reader/Player Can Wander; Can the Writer/Designer?"
• Stuart Moulthrop, “Closed Game-like Curves: Remediations of Play in the Late Age of Video”
• Martin Graham Smith, “On Firewatch and story structure for immersive experiences”

Game Exhibition

• Victor Buehring, "[25] Pockets of […]"
• Dhruv Jani, "a Diagram of Leaving"
• Alexander Muscat, "WORLD4"
• Alexander (Sandy) Tarvet, "4 games"
• Robin Sloan, "Virtua Walker 87"
• Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, "REALIDAD VE"

Workshop

• Jacqueline Ann Calderwood, "From Boardgame to Walkabout: Adapting Game Mechanics for the City Streets"

Theorizing & Navigating

• Rob Gallagher, " Love/Hate: The ‘Walking Sim’ as ‘Ambivalent Betrayal’"
• Jack Lowe, " Theorising wandering game experiences: post-phenomenology, navigation and narrative"
• Daniel Goodbrey and Jan-Noel Thon, " Wandering between Panels: Storytelling Strategies for Game Comic Walking Simulators"

Agency & Identity

• Maurício Amaro, “A space odyssey: self-fiction and the building of identity in the game No Man’s Sky”
• Tomas Breedveld, “Completely Helpless while in Absolute Control”
• Gudrun Filipska and Carly Butler, 'The S Project'

Nostalgia & Spirituality

• Derek Burrill, " An Ontology of Everyday Wandering: Nostalgia and the Abject in Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture "
• Robin Sloan, " Virtua Walker ’87: Step into the Past in a 2-Bit-Tinted Headset"
• Samuel Clark, "Playing Pilgrim: Walking and Pilgrimage in Journey"

Break

Splash Talks

Richard Walsh

James Whitehead

Wrap-up & Brainstorming