[Commlist] CFP: Wandering Games conference

We've been asked to extend the CFP deadline for the Wandering Games 
<http://wandering-games-conference.bangor.ac.uk/call-for-papers.php.en> 
conference at Bangor University and so: the new deadline is *February 
15th*. Thank you so much for the excellent submissions we've received 
already—a fabulous mix of formats and topics that I cannot wait to see 
presented.


Conference precis:


What does it mean to be a wandering body in a game world? What does it 
say about the game? The world? The body? What can the act of 
wandering do? We seek proposals on wandering games from academics, game 
designers, and creative practitioners for a conference at Bangor 
University from July 10–12, 2019. Walking Simulators, the genre of 
videogame in which there are no points, goals, or win/loss conditions, 
have for the last several years served as a catalyst for (sometimes 
furious) debates about anti-game aesthetics, changing gamer 
demographics, and the radical potential of poetic spatial storytelling 
in videogames. From Myst to Gone Home, The Path to The Stanley Parable, 
what began as the derogatory sneer "Walking Simulator" has become a 
catch-all term for games that are interested in alternative modes of 
expression, drawing together considerations of embodiment, environment, 
orientation, and community.  We are interested in work, on Walking 
Simulators and their context, that focuses on some aspect of wandering 
in games but also could draw connections and intersections from long 
traditions of walking thought in performance, philosophy, pilgrimage, 
and protest.


The two keynotes will be Kate Craig, Environmental Artist 
at/ Fullbright/, and Dr. Kris Darby 
<https://www.hope.ac.uk/staffindex/staffindeximport/dr-kris-darby.html>, 
Lecturer in Drama and Performance Studies at Liverpool Hope University.


We welcome proposals for academic papers, game prototypes, or alternate 
format projects by *February 15th*. Papers will be considered for 
inclusion in a special issue of the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds.


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