{"id":8525,"date":"2024-08-26T21:03:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8525"},"modified":"2024-08-26T21:03:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:03:52","slug":"replaying-japan-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8525","title":{"rendered":"Replaying Japan 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/replaying.jp\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Replaying-Japan-2023-3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just got back from <a href=\"https:\/\/replaying.jp\/\">Replaying Japan 2024<\/a> which was at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Taro Yoko was one of the keynotes and he was quite interesting on developing games like Nier Automata that are partly about AI in this age of AI. I was a coauthor of two papers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A paper on \u201cParachuting over the Angel: Nintendo in Mexico\u201d presented by Victor Fernandez. This paper looked at the development of a newsletter and then magazine about Nintendo in Mexico that then spread around Spanish South America.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;\n<p>A second paper on \u201cThe Slogan Game: Missions, Visions and Values in Japanese Game Companies\u201d presented by Keiji Amano. This paper built on work documented in this Spyral notebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/voyant-tools.org\/spyral\/learnspyral@gh\/JSlogans\/\">Japanese Game Company Slogans, Missions, Visions, and Values<\/a>. We gathered various promotional statements of Japanese game companies and analyzed them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conference was one of the best Replaying Japan conferences thanks to Mimi Okabe&#8217;s hard work. There were lots of participants, including virtual ones, and great papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from Replaying Japan 2024 which was at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Taro Yoko was one of the keynotes and he was quite interesting on developing games like Nier Automata that are partly about AI in this age of AI. I was a coauthor of two papers: A paper on \u201cParachuting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Replaying Japan 2024<\/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":[74,4,80,51,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-computer-games","category-history","category-japan","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525","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=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8527,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions\/8527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}