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The Impact of Mass Game Industry Layoffs on the CHI PLAY Community Open

Raquel Robinson, Jan Benjamin Vornhagen, Guo Freeman, Brendan Keogh, Regan L. Mandryk , et al. · 2024

"We want to give others the same chance we had": When indiedevelopers become money capitalists. Open

Brendan Keogh · 2024

A play of bodies: a phenomenology of videogame experience Open

Brendan Keogh · 2024

Videogames require robust yet flexible methods and vocabularies of critical analysis that appreciate both the textual and embodied pleasures of players. Such analysis cannot start with the player’s intentions as an autonomous user nor with…

Creative, Technical, Entrepreneurial: Formative Tensions in Game Development Higher Education Open

Brendan Keogh, Taylor Hardwick · 2023

Higher education (HE) has become a common pathway into game development careers. Previous research with students and educators has shown how game development HE exemplifies a “creative industries” approach that seemingly marries technical …

The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist Open

Brendan Keogh · 2023

The precarious reality of videogame production beyond the corporate blockbuster studios of North America. The videogame industry, we're invariably told, is a multibillion-dollar, high-tech business conducted by large corporations in North …

An Iranian Videogame Industry? Localizing Videogame Production Beyond The “Global” Videogame Industry Open

Mahsuum Daiiani, Brendan Keogh · 2022

Videogame researchers have long considered the role videogames play in different cultural, social, and political contexts around the world. However, when it comes to researching videogame production, literature on the nominally global vide…

Virtual respiratory therapy delivered through a smartphone app: a mixed-methods randomised usability study Open

Clarence Baxter, Julie‐Anne Carroll, Brendan Keogh, Corneel Vandelanotte · 2022

Introduction A new smartphone app (QUT Inspire) has been developed to detect inspiratory sound and deliver virtual incentive spirometry (ISy), a respiratory therapy technique used in postoperative recuperation, management of some chronic c…

Seeking Inspiration: Examining the Validity and Reliability of a New Smartphone Respiratory Therapy Exergame App Open

Clarence Baxter, Julie‐Anne Carroll, Brendan Keogh, Corneel Vandelanotte · 2021

Background: Clinically valid and reliable simulated inspiratory sounds were required for the development and evaluation of a new therapeutic respiratory exergame application (i.e., QUT Inspire). This smartphone application virtualises ince…

1. Hobbyist Game Making Between Self-Exploitation and Self- Emancipation Open

Brendan Keogh · 2021

Critics of both the game industry specifically and the cultural industries broadly have long drawn attention to how romantic ideals around creative and passionate work are exploited by cultural firms.Long hours, periods of contingent emplo…

8. More Than One Flop from Bankruptcy : Rethinking Sustainable Independent Game Development Open

John Banks, Brendan Keogh · 2021

Since the mid-2000s saw runaway videogame successes created beyond the traditional studio paradigm, 'indie games' have received increased attention from distributors, console manufactures, documentary makers, festival organizers, and, cruc…

Game Production Studies Open

Olli Sotamaa, Jan Švelch, Brendan Keogh, Aleena Chia, Hovig Ter , et al. · 2021

In the introduction, the editors of this collection argue for the importance of game production studies at a point when the public awareness about the production context of video games has, arguably, never been higher.With so many accounts…

Hobbyist Game Making Between Self-Exploitation and Self-Emancipation Open

Brendan Keogh · 2021

Critics of both the game industry specifically and the cultural industries broadly have long drawn attention to how romantic ideals around creative and passionate work are exploited by cultural firms. Long hours, periods of contingent empl…

Hobbyist Game Making Between Self-Exploitation and Self-Emancipation Open

Brendan Keogh · 2021

Critics of both the game industry specifically and the cultural industries broadly have long drawn attention to how romantic ideals around creative and passionate work are exploited by cultural firms. Long hours, periods of contingent empl…

More Than One Flop from Bankruptcy: Rethinking Sustainable Independent Game Development Open

John Banks, Brendan Keogh · 2021

Since the mid-2000s saw runaway videogame successes created beyond the traditional studio paradigm, ‘indie games’ have received increased attention from distributors, console manufactures, documentary makers, festival organizers, and, cruc…

Platformisation in game development Open

Aleena Chia, Brendan Keogh, Dale Leorke, Benjamin Nicoll · 2020

This article examines how the process of platformisation is manifesting in videogame development. Rather than reinforcing a top-down perspective of platformisation centred on distribution platforms like app stores, we focus on often overlo…

The Melbourne indie game scenes Open

Brendan Keogh · 2020

This chapter draws from over 40 interviews conducted with Australian videogame makers based in the state capital of Victoria, Melbourne – where a combination of established skills, state funding, and cultural support have birthed a rich an…

Assessment of Mobile Health Apps Using Built-In Smartphone Sensors for Diagnosis and Treatment: Systematic Survey of Apps Listed in International Curated Health App Libraries Open

Clarence Baxter, Julie‐Anne Carroll, Brendan Keogh, Corneel Vandelanotte · 2020

Background More than a million health and well-being apps are available from the Apple and Google app stores. Some apps use built-in mobile phone sensors to generate health data. Clinicians and patients can find information regarding safe …

Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) submission to the Review of Australian classification regulation Open

Terry Flew, Stuart Cunningham, Rosalie Gillett, Brendan Keogh, Amanda D. Lotz , et al. · 2020

Seeking inspiration:Development and evaluation of a new mHealth app for respiratory therapy using built-in smartphone sensors Open

Clarence Baxter, Julie‐Anne Carroll, Brendan Keogh, Corneel Vandelanotte · 2020

Incentive spirometry (ISy) is a longstanding respiratory therapy technique for clearing mucus from the airways to prevent respiratory complications such as chest infections or pneumonia. Slow gradual maximal inspirations are encouraged by …

The Cultural Field of Video Game Production in Australia Open

Brendan Keogh · 2019

Beyond the blockbuster studios and multinational publishers of North America, Western Europe, and Japan, videogame production happens in a range of contexts, at a variety of scales, and for a number of reasons. While “the videogame industr…

Prescribable mHealth apps using built-in smartphone sensors for diagnosis and therapy Open

Clarence Baxter, Julie‐Anne Carroll, Brendan Keogh, Corneel Vandelanotte · 2019

Background: The 2.7 billion or more smartphone users worldwide possess devices with multiple built-in sensors which may be amenable to generating valuable data to improve health. Over 500 million smartphone users have downloaded one…

From aggressively formalised to intensely in/formalised: accounting for a wider range of videogame development practices Open

Brendan Keogh · 2018

Beyond the dominant North American and Japanese console manufacturers and multinational publishers, the global videogame industry is fragmenting. New audiences, distribution platforms, and development tools are expanding the videogame indu…

“Game Over, Man. Game Over”: Looking at the Alien in Film and Videogames Open

Brendan Keogh, Darshana Jayemanne · 2018

In this article we discuss videogame adaptations of the Alien series of films, in particular Alien: Colonial Marines (2013) and Alien: Isolation (2014). In comparing critical responses and developer commentary across these texts, we read t…

Introduction Open

Christy Dena, Brendan Keogh · 2017

On 2 April 2016, the DiGRA Australia chapter held its inaugural regional symposium in Brisbane, Queensland. The goal of this symposium, in part, was to highlight and identify the broader scholarship happening on games beyond the usual geog…

<i>Pokémon Go</i>, the novelty of nostalgia, and the ubiquity of the smartphone Open

Brendan Keogh · 2016

None of the elements that contribute to the phenomenon of Pokémon Go are particularly new. Augmented-reality and location-based games, artworks, and marketing campaigns have existed for well over a decade. Meanwhile, the Pokémon franchise …

Hackers and Cyborgs: Binary Domain and Two Formative Videogame Technicities Open

Brendan Keogh · 2016

Through the course of Binary Domain’s action-packed narrative, it becomes increasingly unclear who is human, who is machine, and who is somewhere in between. Ultimately, such a distinction is futile when our everyday experiences are so ubi…

Playing for Fun, Training for War Open

Robert Sparrow, Rebecca A. Harrison, Justin Oakley, Brendan Keogh · 2015

In the cultural controversy surrounding “violent video games,” the manufacturers and players of games often insist that computer games are a form of harmless entertainment that is unlikely to influence the real-world activities of players.…

Making things: Beyond the binary of manufacturing and creativity Open

Brendan Keogh · 2015

In December 2013 US auto giant General Motors announced it would wind up production in Australia. It signalled the end of domestic production of the iconic “Australian” Holden motor car, and subjected thousands of workers and their familie…

Between aliens, hackers and birds: Non-casual mobile games and casual game design Open

Brendan Keogh · 2015

issue of video game magazine Edge did not display a high-defi nition render of an upcoming blockbuster game on its cover.It simply showed the increasingly ubiquitous logo of technology company Apple, creators of the iPhone.'Apple has chang…

Hackers, gamers and cyborgs Open

Brendan Keogh · 2015

Gamergate began in August 2014 when a slighted and abusive ex-boyfriend of Zoe Quinn, developer of the award-winning interactive fiction game Depression Quest, posted private and libellous information to internet message boards with a pred…

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