Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
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Whitepaper3 pages
Against Seamlessness and Hedonistic Loops: The Cases of Pause, Reflect, Resist, and Reform, from Interaction Design into Games
This paper challenges the dominant assumption in Interaction Design and game design that friction is a usability flaw to be minimised in pursuit of seamless, uninterrupted flow.
- The paper challenges the assumption in interaction and game design that friction is a usability flaw to be minimised, arguing instead that deliberate friction can be treated as a generative design resource.
- The authors contend that seamlessness can conceal structural inequalities and reproduce power asymmetries, while intentional friction can generate reflective, political, sensory, and transformative forms of play.
- Based on a qualitative analysis with purposeful sampling across commercial, artistic, speculative, and infrastructural cases, the authors derive four behavioural modalities: pause, reflect, resist, and reform.
DiGRAJun 2026
Whitepaper5 pages
Flesh, Plastic, Stone: The Pleasure of Recontextualised Character Models
This paper examines moments in videogames that deliberately undercut their own fictions by presenting characters as inert digital objects rather than lifelike agents.
- The paper argues that moments where game characters appear as statues, toys, or museum exhibits deliberately undercut their own fictions and produce a distinctive pleasure, analysed through theories of comedy, the ontology of digital objects, and the cultural status of games.
- Its central example is Shenmue II, where a marble bust of a villain turns out to be the same scaled and retextured 3D model used for the character himself.
- The author contends such moments do more than mock players who mistake digital puppets for living people (as Bergson's theory of laughter might suggest), also mediating anxieties about games as commodified playthings versus serious art, and the deskilled, precarious labour of developers whose cutting-edge assets become obsolete.
DiGRAJun 2026