2024 | Programme – Events and Communities

Time	Tuesday 7.5.	Wednesday 8.5.
8:30-9:00	Registration and morning coffee	Registration and morning coffee
9:00-9:15	Welcome
9:15-11:15	Session 1	Session 4
11:15-11:30	Break	Break
11:30-12:15	Keynote: Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux	Keynote: Sebastian Deterding
12:15-13:15	Lunch	Lunch
13:15-15:15	Session 2	Session 5
15:15-15:45	Coffee	Truck Stop Coffee
15:45-17:15	Session 3	Session 6

18:00	Social programme	Social programme

Tuesday Sessions

9:15-11:15 Session 1: Meta as Scaffolding

Chair: Rainforest Scully-Blaker

Johan Kalmanlehto: Style Makes the Player? The Relation between Playstyle, Aesthetics, and Subjectivity
Daniel Nielsen: “The Perils of Infinite Promise”: Fixing No Man’s Sky’s Player Economy
Usva Friman & Matilda Ståhl: The Meta of Nordic Esports
Miia Siutila & Olli Siltanen: Is it all hearsay and guessing game? A study on building meta in Taekwondo Poomsae

11:30-12:15 Keynote 1

13:15-15:15 Session 2: Design & Production

Chair: Olli Sotamaa

Jan Švelch: The Game Awards Meta: Industrial Reflexivity and the Institutionalization of Prize-Worthy Games
Aasa Timonen: Cheese vs. Fluff: The Conflict of Metagame and Paragame in Warhammer
Kati Alha: The Games We Can Never Truly Play: The Alternative Universe of Deceptive Mobile Game Advertisements
Diego A Mejía-Alandia: “Digital content for a generation that will live to witness the end times”: Nostalgia and Social Change in Demagog Studio’s Post-Apocalyptic Meta-Communication

15:45-17:00 Session 3: Meta by the Numbers

Chair: Mark Maletska

Jorge Ruiz Cabrejos: Pushing for change through theorycrafting: The “Ignite Munching” experience in World of Warcraft: Classic
Feng Zhu: The Magic: the Gathering Arena Draft Metagame: from Metric Power to Data Mysticism?

9:15-11:15 Session 4: Method Meta

Chair: Usva Friman

Henry Korkeila & Lobna Hassan: The Meta of Game and Play Research in Finland: A Registered Report
Mauricio Castro Valdez: Unraveling the Residual: Critical Metagames as Tools to Reveal and Challenge Ideologies in Board Games
Doruk Balcı, Jaakko Stenros, & Olli Sotamaa: Game Rules as Player Tools: Introducing the Introspective Rulebook Method
Leland Masek, Arttu Lakkala, & Daphne Bachmann: How Game Spaces Can Study Games: Three Studies and Meta-Reflection

11:30-12:15 Keynote 2

13:15-15:15 Session 5: Sparkling Capitalism

Chair: Jaakko Stenros

Arianna Boldi & alessandro franzó: “I Neither Play nor Work, and That’s My Meta”: A Look into Unpaid Playbour Practices and Why They Matter
Tanja Sihvonen & Kristine Ask: TikTokification of NPC Clicking
Christopher A. Paul & Mia Consalvo: Optimization: The Worst Metagame
Rainforest Scully-Blaker: Keep on Truckin’: The Blur-ification of Work and Play as Capitalist Meta

15:45-17: 15 Session 6: Maybe the Real Meta Is the Friends We Made along the Way

Chair: Frans Mäyrä

Solip Park: Truck Meta: The Massive Metagame of Carrot and Stick in South Korea
Beatrix Livesey-Stephens: Player Calibration and Safety Tool Use as Games and Play within a Metatechnique Status
Maria Ruotsalainen & Mikko Meriläinen: Meta as a Social Contract in Competitive Play

Registration for social programme events will be available in the seminar Discord (link to be shared with registered participants).

Monday 6 May

19:00- Pre-seminar drinks/dinner at Plevna, address: Itäinenkatu 8 (at your own expense)

Tuesday 7 May

18:00 Reception at OASIS space (free of charge)

Wednesday 8 May

18:00 Private tour at the Finnish Museum of Games (free of charge)