Analog Game Studies and Game in Lab are proud to announce Generation Analog 2024. This year’s online conference will take place July 24 and July 25, 2024. The online event is free and open to the public with registration. All presentations will be recorded and made available after the event. Check out the presentations from previous years via AGS’s YouTube channel (like and subscribe!): https://shorturl.at/asKQ9

HOME will be this year’s conference theme. We will explore games and home, play and home, playing at home, being stuck at home, playing with others, and playing home alone. We will interrogate playing house, play(ful) rooms, game rooms, gaming tables, home squares, home bases, home teams, home brews, house rules, and play as (sometimes) “safe as houses.” Finally, we will imagine alternative domesticities, materialities and economies, found families and gaming groups, and even queer(er) and more radical places, spaces, and possibilities of play. In fact, according to Steven Vider in The Queerness of Home,

Home is not only about shelter and stability but also a sense of personal, cultural, and political connection and recognition, from our communities and a larger public…[and] the many ends that home may serve—the normative and the queer, constraint and liberation, isolation and community…Making a queerer home means recognizing the material, psychological, and cultural meanings embedded in the everyday practice of homemaking—neither to deny nor reify its power and primacy, but to question and expand its limits. (227-228)

Registration for Generation Analog 2024 is required and helps us track attendance and participation. Online conference link will be sent prior to the event. No spam, no harrassment, no hate, no abuse.