Generation Analog 2024

Generation Analog Conference

Generation Analog is an annual online tabletop games and education conference.

<a href="https://analoggamestudies.org/" title="https://analoggamestudies.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Analog Game Studies</a> and <a href="https://www.game-in-lab.org/en/game-in-lab-home/" title="https://www.game-in-lab.org/en/game-in-lab-home/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Game in Lab</a> 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 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBKDBJdpWDxTWmE06W9jgPA" title="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBKDBJdpWDxTWmE06W9jgPA" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">AGS’s YouTube channel</a> (like and subscribe!): <a href="https://shorturl.at/asKQ9" title="https://shorturl.at/asKQ9" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://shorturl.at/asKQ9</a>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, <blockquote>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)</blockquote>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.

Day One (July 24)

9:00-9:30 AM
EDT 	Opening Remarks

Aaron Trammell (he/him), Evan Torner (he/him), Shelly Jones (they/them), Edmond Chang (he/they), Megan Condis (she/her)
Analog Game Studies

Day One: Opening Remarks (9:00-9:30 AM EDT)

9:30-11:00 AM EDT
Session 1A: Actually Playing The Home
​​Moderator: Shelly Jones (they/them)

Session 1A: Actually Playing The Home ​​(9:30-11:00 AM EDT)

11:30 AM-
1:00 PM EDT
Session 1B: Homebreaking
Moderator: Evan Torner (he/him)



Session 1B: Homebreaking (11:30 AM- 1:00 PM EDT)

1:30-2:30 PM EDT
KEYNOTE I
Moderator: Evan Torner (he/him)

Wandering On Home
Jay Dragon (no pronouns)
Editorial Director
Possum Creek Games

Role-playing games model communities and friend groups, both within the game world and structurally outside it. Both around the table and in the world, people come together, squabble over social norms, and produce meaningful works of art. Jay Dragon discusses using games as a model for relating to others over time, thinking about the ups and downs of community-building, and as a map for eventually finding one's way home.

KEYNOTE 1: Wandering On Home (Jay Dragon, 1:30-2:30 PM EDT)

3:00-4:30 PM EDT
Session 1C: Art Rooms
Moderator: Edmond Chang (he/they)



Session 1C: Art Rooms (3:00-4:30 PM EDT) 

5:00-6:00 PM EDT
Session 1D: Homepunk
Moderator: Edmond Chang (he/they)



Session 1D: Homepunk (5:00-6:00 PM EDT)

6:30-8:00 PM EDT
Session 1E: No Home
Moderator: Megan Condis (she/her)



Session 1E: No Home (6:30-8:00 PM EDT)

Day Two (July 25)

9:00-9:30 AM
EDT
Opening Remarks
Aaron Trammell (he/him), Evan Torner (he/him), Shelly Jones (they/them), Edmond Chang (he/they), Megan Condis (she/her)
Analog Game Studies



Day Two: Opening Remarks (9:00-9:30 AM EDT)

9:30-11:00 AM EDT
Session 2A: Uncanny Relationships
Moderator: Aaron Trammell (he/him)



Session 2A: Uncanny Relationships (9:30-11:00 AM EDT)

11:30 AM-
1:00 PM EDT
Session 2B: Queer Vulnerability and Tabletop RPGs
Moderator: Edmond Chang (he/they)


Session 2B: Queer Vulnerability and Tabletop RPGs (11:30 AM- 1:00 PM EDT)

1:30-2:30 PM EDT
KEYNOTE II
Moderator: Aaron Trammell (he/him)
On Recording Home Games
Emily Friedman 
Associate Professor of English
Auburn University

One of the most famous Actual Plays in the world insists that it is still playing a home game. What would happen if we took that seriously as a claim?  Drawing from survey data, interviews, and analysis of thousands of actual plays, this talk explores the wide range of play styles and audiences for roleplaying games—and the debates over authenticity that have ensued during the rise of Actual Play.


KEYNOTE II: On Recording Home Games (Emily Friedman, 1:30-2:30 PM EDT)

3:00-4:30 PM EDT
Session 2C: Emotional Design
Moderator: Megan Condis (she/her)



Session 2C: Emotional Design (3:00-4:30 PM EDT)

5:00-6:30 PM EDT
Session 2D: Cozy Capture
Moderator: Shelly Jones (they/them)



Session 2D: Cozy Capture (5:00-6:30 PM EDT)

6:30-7:00 PM EDT
Closing Remarks
Aaron Trammell (he/him), Evan Torner (he/him), Shelly Jones (they/them), Edmond Chang (he/they), Megan Condis (she/her)
Analog Game Studies

Closing Remarks (6:30-7:00 PM EDT)

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