@inproceedings{35b1c44bb8ea4f1e8f353ecffda2db53,
title = "{"}Kinda like the Sims... but with ghosts?{"}: A Qualitative Analysis of Video Game Re-finding Requests on Reddit",
abstract = "With the advent of the retro-gaming movement there is an increasing interest in rediscovering games once played. Tip of my Joystick' is a Reddit community dedicated to the re-finding of forgotten games. In this subreddit, users describe games they wish to re-find so that other users may help them identify the game's title. This community thus offers a unique opportunity for studying how players recall and describe games and play experiences of the past. This paper presents the results of an analysis of a random sample of 250 posts from this subreddit. The posts were analyzed in terms of what aspects of games they describe For the purpose of this analysis we developed a coding scheme consisting of 38 individual codes belonging to 9 different main categories. Our findings may contribute to research on game archiving and collection as they may help inform the design of better game search engines.",
keywords = "complex information needs, game archives, game description, known-item search, re-finding, video games",
author = "J{\o}rgensen, {Ida Kathrine Hammeleff} and Toine Bogers",
year = "2020",
month = sep,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1145/3402942.3402971",
language = "English",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
editor = "Yannakakis, {Georgios N.} and Antonios Liapis and Kyburz Penny and Vanessa Volz and Foaad Khosmood and Phil Lopes",
booktitle = "FDG '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games",
address = "United States",
note = "15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2020 ; Conference date: 15-09-2020 Through 18-09-2020",
}