Polish game studies publications in English

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1	This list references English-language game studies publications written by Polish authors. If you know about a publication that is not mentioned here, please let me know: krawczykstanislaw@gmail.com
2	The list is being maintained by Stanisław Krawczyk: --------------------------------------------------->			https://uw.academia.edu/Stanis%C5%82awKrawczyk
3				http://stanislawkrawczyk.blogspot.co.uk/p/o-mnie.html
4	Most of the publications are about video games but the list is meant to be inclusive. It is open to pieces concerning non-digital games, to works on gamification, etc.
5	The definition of “Polish author” is broad: for instance, it could be a person that worked in Polish academia in the past and now works in another country.
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7	A longer list of publications, which includes Polish texts, is available here: ---------------------->			https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BST3rKK2o8X-hJDPdKv8L4Aa42FmdId5UV0RObzDIkA/edit#gid=0
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9	Last updated: August 4, 2019 (books updated March 15, 2023)
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11			Books
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13	Author	Year	Publication title	Press
14	Marta M. Kania	2017	Perspectives of the Avatar: Sketching the Existential Aesthetics of Digital Games	Wydawnictwo Naukowe Dolnośląskiej Szkoły Wyższej
15	Agnieszka Dytman-Stasieńko, Jan Stasieńko, Adam Flamma, Krystina Madej, Maciej Śledź	2021	“Fragile Avatars?” Representations of Disability in Video Games	Wydawnictwo Naukowe Dolnośląskiej Szkoły Wyższej
16	Sonia Fizek	2022	Playing at a Distance: Borderlands of Video Game Aesthetic	The MIT Press
17	Michał Mochocki	2022	Role-play as a Heritage Practice: Historical Larp, Tabletop RPG and Reenactment	Routledge
18	Agata Waszkiewicz	2022	Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games	De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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20			Individual papers		(Unless otherwise specified, the “Issue” column denotes the issue in a particular volume, not in the entire journal run.)
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22	Author	Year	Publication title	Journal title			Book title	First page no.	Last page no.	Other information
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25	Wioleta Adamczyk-Bębas	2016	The Role of Computer Games in Children’s Lives	-			Contemporary Homo Ludens	297	303?
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27	Sylwester Bębas	2016	The Positive and Negative Aspects of Playing Computer Games	-			Contemporary Homo Ludens	304	314?
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29	Ryszard Błaszkiewicz	2016	Safe Computer Games: The Problems of Age Rating	-			Contemporary Homo Ludens	283	296?
30		2016	Playing With Digital Hypertext Literature	Zabawy i Zabawki [Plays and Toys]	14	1	-
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32	P. Konrad Budziszewski	2012	[various entries throughout the book]	-			Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming
33		2015	Poland				Video Games Around the World
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35	Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak	2006	Giving “to Airy Nothing a Local Habitation and a Name”: William Shakespeare’s Worlds of Imagination as Accessed through a Role-Playing Game	Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation	2	1	-
36	Agata Zarzycka
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38	Mikołaj Dymek		To be filled in, for now see the following links: ------------->	https://www.miun.se/personal/mikolajdymek	http://www.digra.org/digital-library/authors/dymek-mikolaj/	https://www.kth.se/en/itm/inst/indek/2.2101/2.18873/mikolaj-dymek-1.10587	https://www.routledge.com/Video-Game-Marketing-A-student-textbook/Zackariasson-Dymek/p/book/9781138812277
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40	Dagmara Dziedzic	2016	Dynamic difficulty adjustment systems for various game genres	Homo Ludens	8	1	-	35	51
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42	Mateusz Felczak	2015	Narratives of spectatorship: E-sports in Poland	-			New Perspectives in Game Studies: Proceedings of the Central and Eastern European Game Studies Conference	109	123
43		2018	Aesthetics and Cosmetic Microtransactions in Path of Exile	-	-	-	Proceedings of DiGRA 2018	-	-
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45	Mirosław Filiciak	2003	Hyperidentities: Postmodern Identity Patterns in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games	-			The Video Game Theory Reader	87	103
46		2015	Playing Capitalism: The Polish People’s Republic, Constructing Memory, and Video Games	View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture	3	3	-	-	-
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48	Sonia Fizek, Monika Wasilewska	2011	Embodiment and Gender Identity in Virtual Worlds: Reconfiguring our "Volatile Bodies"	-			Creating Second Lives Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual	75	98
49	Sonia Fizek	2014	Pivoting the Player: A Framework for Player Character Research in Offline Computer Role-Playing Games	Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds	6	3		215	234
50	Sonia Fizek	2014	Why Fun Matters: In Search of Emergent Playful Experiences	-			Rethinking Gamification	273	287
51	Jarosław Beksa, Sonia Fizek, Phil Carter	2015	Audio Games: Investigation of the Potential through Prototype Development	-			A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing	211	224
52	Sonia Fizek	2016	All Work and No Play: Are Games Becoming the Factories of the Future?							Previously published in German
53	Sonia Fizek	2017	Ludification of Culture. The significance of play and games in everyday practices of the digital era	-			Digitalisation: Theories and Concepts for Empirical Cultural Research
54	Sonia Fizek	2018	Automated State of Play. Rethinking Anthropocentric Rules of the Game	Digital Culture & Society	4	1	-	201	214
55	Sonia Fizek	no date	Gamification	-			Critical Keywords for the Digital Humanities
56	Anne Dippel, Sonia Fizek	2015	Playful Laboratories: The Significance of Games for Knowledge Production in the Digital Age	-			Proceedings of DiGRA 2015: Diversity of play: Games – Cultures – Identities
57			see also a German paper by Anne Dippel and Sonia Fizek here: ------------------------------------------------------------>	https://www.academia.edu/25493113/Ludifizierung_von_Kultur._Zur_Bedeutung_des_Spiels_in_allt%C3%A4glichen_Praxen_der_digitalen_%C3%84ra
58	Sonia Fizek, Markus Rautzenberg	2018	The work of game in the age of automation	Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds	10	3	-	197	201
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60	Paweł Frelik	2014	Gothic Videogames	-			Expanding the Gothic Canon. Studies in Literature, Film and New Media	269	286
61		2014	Towards a Science Fiction Video Game Collection: A Modest Proposal	Eaton Journal of Archival Research In Science Fiction	2	1	-	3	18
62		2014	Video Games	-			Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction			On video games in science fiction literature
63		2015	Changing Realities: VideoGame Mods, (Micro)Politics, and the Fantastic	Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction		120 (within the entire journal run)	-	15	28
64		2015	Simulating the Future: Mortensen/Linderoth/Brown’s The Dark Side of Game Play, Tringham’s Science Fiction Video Games, Väliaho’s Biopolitical Screens, and Voorhees/Call/Whitlock’s First-Person Shooter Games	Science Fiction Studies	43	1	-			Review essay
65		2016	The Master’s Digital Tools: Cognitive Capitalism and Non-Normative Gaming Practices	Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds	8	2	-	163	176
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67	Damian Gałuszka	2018	Video Games in the Family Context: How Do Digital Media Influence the Relationship Between Children and Their Parents?	-	-	-	Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World	161	183
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69	Maria B. Garda	2012	„Limits of Genre, Limits of Fantasy”: Rethinking Computer Role-Playing Games	-			Cultural Perspectives of Video Games: From Designer to Player
70		2013	Neo-Rogue and the Essence of Roguelikeness	Homo Ludens	5	1		59	72
71		2014	Nostalgia in Retro Game Design	-			Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Association Conference 2013
72	Maria B. Garda, Paweł Grabarczyk	2016	Is Every Indie Game Independent? Towards the Concept of Independent Game	Game Studies	16	1	-	-	-
73	[see Paweł Grabarczyk’s profile here]
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75	Justyna Janik	2015	The Cluster Worlds of Imagination: The Analysis of Collage Technique in Games by Amanita Design	-			New Perspectives in Game Studies: Proceedings of the Central and Eastern European Game Studies Conference	45	54
76		2017	Glitched perception: beyond the transparency and visibility of the video game object	Transmissions	2	2		65	82
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78	Jankowski Filip	2017	New American Patriotism in Games: WWII-Themed Military Shooters in the Shadow of Post-9/11 Politics	Transmissions	2	1	-	5	20
79		2017	Political and Social Issues in French Digital Games, 1982–1993	Transmissions	2	2	-	162	176
80		2017	Reflection on Postmodern Nomadism in French Science Fiction Games (1987–1992)	Maska	11	4	-	153	163
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82	Krzysztof Jański	2016	Towards a Categorisation of Animals in Video Games	Homo Ludens	8	1	-	85	101
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84	Paweł Kleka, Paweł Łupkowski	2014	Gamifying science – the issue of data validation	Homo Ludens	6	1	-	45	55
85	[see Paweł Kleka’s profile here]
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87	Michał Kłosiński	2016	SimCity: Where the City Ends	-			More After More. Essays Commemorating the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia	134	146
88		2018	Games and Utopia	Acta Ludologica	1	1	-	4	14
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90	Jerzy Kociatkiewicz	2000	Dreams of Time, Times of Dreams: Stories of Creation From Roleplaying Game Sessions	-	6	1	Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies	71	86
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92	Wojciech Kosior	2016	Undead Knights, Fallen Giants and Poisoned Fruit of Life: A Digital Retelling of the Judeo-Christian Creation Motifs	The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series	5	1	-	35	52	The journal changed its name in 2015, but the volume number refers to the entire journal history.
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94	Bernardeta Kosztyła	2016	The Functions of Dance Games in Preschool and Early Childhood Education	-			Contemporary Homo Ludens	258	267?
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96	Stanisław Krawczyk	2015	"You must gather your party before venturing forth": Why did computer games from around 2000 become so important in Poland?	-			New Perspectives in Game Studies: Proceedings of the Central and Eastern European Game Studies Conference	9	26
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98	Piotr Kubiński	2014	Immersion vs. emersive effects in videogames	-			Engaging with Videogames: Play, Theory, and Practice	133	141
99		2016	Immersion vs. emersive effects in videogames	-	vol. 3		Video Games and Gaming Culture	286	300	Slightly corrected version of the 2014 paper
100		2016	Toward a Poetics of Video Games	Forum of Poetics	2	2