{"id":6279,"date":"2016-08-24T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6279"},"modified":"2016-08-24T14:37:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T14:37:05","slug":"replaying-japan-2016-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6279","title":{"rendered":"Replaying Japan 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6281\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/29021966955_ff2cccc999_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6281 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/29021966955_ff2cccc999_z.jpg\" alt=\"29021966955_ff2cccc999_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/29021966955_ff2cccc999_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/29021966955_ff2cccc999_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posing with Namco designers Masanobu End\u014d (Xevious), Toru Iwatani (Pac-Man), me, Junko Ozawa (music for Tower of Druaga), and Yoshihiro Kishimoto (R.B.I. Baseball) at Replaying Japan 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week I was at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/home.uni-leipzig.de\/jgames\/replayingjapan2016\/\">Replaying Japan 2016<\/a>\u00a0which was held in Leipzig and organized by Martin Roth and Martin Picard of the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.uni-leipzig.de\/jgames\/en\/\">jGames Research Initiative<\/a> at University of Leipzig. You can see my <a href=\"http:\/\/philosophi.ca\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ReplayingJapan2016\">Replaying Japan 2016 Conference Report here<\/a>. The conference is the fifth such conference that I have helped organize to look at Japanese and Asian videogame culture. We had terrific keynotes from Namco game and game music designers from the 1980s including Iwatani (Pac-Man) and Junko Ozawa (music for many Namco arcade and\u00a0videogames). We also had a terrific talk about the history of localization from Minako O&#8217;Hagan.<\/p>\n<p>The conference continued a tradition of bringing Western and Japanese game studies researchers together in a friendly environment. The quality of papers was really quite high and the conversation even better. The time has come to develop a community of research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Last week I was at\u00a0Replaying Japan 2016\u00a0which was held in Leipzig and organized by Martin Roth and Martin Picard of the jGames Research Initiative at University of Leipzig. You can see my Replaying Japan 2016 Conference Report here. The conference is the fifth such conference that I have helped organize to look at Japanese &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6279\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Replaying Japan 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-conference","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6282,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions\/6282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}