Soon? We'll be in Slovenia for #ecrea24 with a pair of manuscripts. The first one? An ongoing partnership with myself, Daniel Possler + Rowan Daneels focused on our efforts to move towards a deeper understanding of the eudaimonic motivations to play video games. Teasers!

Present at #ECREA2024 ecrea_eu! Looking forward to all these interesting presentations in the Games section ECREA_DGR

First session of the day on “Games, gamification and society” is about to start! (📍FU7) #ECREA2024 #ECREA10

Grab a coffee or tea and join us for our second session of the day on “Free-to-play and mobile games” (📍FU7). #ECREA2024 #ECREA10

A wild Nick Bowman (包尼克) presenting our work, together with myself and Daniel Possler, on a literature review focused on eudaimonic game motives #ECREA2024 ECREA_DGR

Some updated ways to look at boredom, via Rowan Daneels at #ecrea2024!

A few more from ECREA_DGR - @rdaneels x Jaime Banks

Thank you as well to Karolien Poels & @HeidiVandebosch for supporting me in this study! #ECREA2024 ECREA_DGR

So starts our third DiGRA Belgium symposium, this time at UGent LitUGent and focused on games and narrative!

Some snapshots of our DiGRA Belgium symposium at UGent LW last week, featuring presentations by Larian Studios on #BaldursGate3, Jan-Noël Thon on games and narratology, and hands-on demos of Baldur's Gate 3, Black Myth: Wukong, and Hades II! Thank you to everyone for joining!

We are very excited that the next Moral Media Conference will be held at UBuffalo in April 2025! This year, we have a special submission track in which top papers will receive an auto-R&R decision for a special collection in Journal of Media Psychology! More info & CFP: moralmedia.org/annual-meeting/

Voor een nieuwe studie ben ik op zoek naar jongvolwassenen die 20 minuutjes willen vrijmaken voor het invullen van onze vragenlijst rond video games en gok- en kansspelen. Ervaring niet vereist! Zin om mee te doen? ➡️ tinyurl.com/gamengokken

CfP alert! 📢 Mythological Game Studies Conference Maciej Paprocki and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2! For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1_8…

“The [qualitative] study is limited by its small sample size (n=18) … This restricts the generalizability of findings.” (1) If you’re asked to review qualitative research and have this take: don’t. (2) If you’re a journal editor and come across said review: find another one.

It's about you. Thank you for 30 years of play 💙

PhD help: I'm doing a study on why VR can sometimes feel very "real". Looking for people with VR experience. I'll be giving away a couple of Amazon gift cards worth 30$, so if you can spare 15 minutes, I would love to get your feedback! :) Link to survey: uantwerpen.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9H…

NEW PUB 🚨 Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap recently published an overview article [in Dutch] which summarizes my doctoral research on eudaimonic game experiences and motives in just 22 pages (compared to the 450+ pages long dissertation). It's available in open access through aup-online.com/content/journa…

My master's thesis student is doing a study on #MMORPG players' positive and negative experiences, and she needs your help! Are you someone who 🎮 MMORPGs occasionally or often, and have 10min to spare? Then fill out the following survey! 📝uantwerpen.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_81… Thank you!

#Gamers unite! 🎮 My group of 3rd Bachelor students are looking for respondents to fill in their #survey on #playerexperiences and potential impacting factors! You can choose which game you want to discuss. It only takes 10min to fill in! 📝uantwerpen.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5z… Thank you!

🚨PUB ALERT🚨 Through an online survey, we studied the relationship btwn boredom types (eg under & overstimulation) and players' hedonic/fun, eudaimonic/appreciation, & recovery-based (eg relaxation, mastery) game preferences. Karolien Poels & Heidi Vandebosch doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.…