6 th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games

COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES

Presentation of the documentary"The gamer inside"

Jesus Fabre presenting "The Gamer Inside", a collaborativedocumentary project which is licensed under CreativeCommons(CC BY-NC-ND). It was born with the goal ofportraying the impact of video games on society.

What began in December 2010, when Jesús Fabre (Murcia,1983) decided to document the collective memory of hischildhood friends, has now pushed the boundaries of personal,becoming a global outreach project where the players are thecore on which it develops. Behind it, there is a team lookingforward to facing this challenge to tell a collective story. A storybased on testimonials from worlds as diverse as business,academic, artistic, software engineering, eventmanagement,journalism, music, movies, television, education,among others ...

A collaborative project that has already more than 150testimonies from a generation that saw the birth of a meanwhich, either as a form of expression and/or entertainment, hasleft a unique trace in its memory and influenced their lives.

Workshop: «Gaming to understand: the genderexperience in video games»

María Rubio Méndez – ARSGAMES. The present workshopintends to offer an overview of the different ways in which videogames can be experienced from a gender perspective. Throughthe analysis of several video games, we will reveal the differentrepresentations of women that appear in this medium and theplurality of interpretations that can be given of them dependingof the different attitudes towards the fictional universe of videogames.

In this workshop we propose a gaming session in which twodifferent forms of practice are to be carried out while gaming: apractice of analysis of the symbolic universe of video games,and a practice of experimentation with gender identity.

At the end of the workshop a brief discussion will be held todraw conclusions, which will be included in a document that is tobe published together with the Conference proceedings.