Scholar

Hartmut Koenitz

H-index: 17
Computer science 30%
Political science 17%
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The call for ICIDS2025 Doctoral consortium/@ARDIN - Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives Emerging Scholars Academy is now open. Submit until September 30.

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DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM – ICIDS 2025
ICIDS 2025 - 2025 Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
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This absolutely matches my experience - brilliant results are possible when given a lot of context and constraints. And this is where the opportunity for education lies.
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Koenitz, H. (2015). Towards a specific theory of interactive digital narrative. In H. Koenitz, G. Ferri, M. Haahr, & T. I. Sezen (Eds.), Interactive digital narrative (pp. 91–105). Routledge.
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Koenitz, H. (2015). Towards a specific theory of interactive digital narrative. In H. Koenitz, G. Ferri, M. Haahr, & T. I. Sezen (Eds.), Interactive digital narrative (pp. 91–105). Routledge.
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In my mind, scholarly work is in continuously developing your thoughts and that also means checking whether there is a new version from an author I'm citing...

For reference, here is a bit of a trajectory (I'm also influenced heavily by Mirjam Eladhari's 2018 Retellings paper):
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It's always nice to be cited and see that my work is used by others. Simultaneously - why, oh why, are they citing the 2010 version of my SPP framework in 2024 when I have spend 14 to develop it further, also in collaboration with scholars such as Christian Roth, Mirjam Eladhari and Anca Serbanescu?
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And this perspective ignores both psychological underpinnings routed in a badly organized unification by the Kohl government and an even longer term issue about a lack of democratic structures and thinking after 60 years of dictatorship
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The monthly ARDIN online social is today, also hear about the ARDIN summer school in Malta.

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2025 ARDIN Summer School registration now open

7-11 July, St. Martin's Institute of Higher Education, Malta (after DIGRA conference)

5 days of training for scholars and practitioners

Systems Analysis
Design methods
Generative AI
Complexity
User Studies
IDN

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I'm running Deepseek R1 on my MacBook Pro and I'm still flabbergasted how easy it was to install and how well it runs given that I use a pretty small version (9 GB).

And yes, the local version does not have censorship of Chinese political topics.
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Impressions from the 2ND ARDIN EMERGING SCHOLARS ACADEMY, the DC at ICIDS 2024 which I co-chaired with Cláudia Silva #icids2024

We had 14 PhD students and 12 mentors as well as guests.

The students originated from 12 countries, including Colombia, Thailand and India.

Thanks to all participants!
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ICIDS 2024 program is out: 4 keynotes, 30 long and short papers, 11 Late Breaking Works, a packed DC and four workshops.

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Want to participate, but not a paper author or an accepted artist? Register as a discounted online guest:

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ICIDS 2024 – International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
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#COSTActionINDCOR The evaluation of our COST action is in and is full of praise.

"General Assessment
The Action’s outputs and achievements are excellent."

I’m grateful to all members - especially my wonderful co-chairs Lissa Holloway-Attaway and Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari – for this success.
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I'm overjoyed to share this labor of love! The first issue of the ARDIN Journal of Interactive Narrative (JIN) is published!

JIN articles include interactive pieces.

Congratulations to the editorial team. Also big thanks to ETC press/Carnegie Mellon University.

check it out: journal.ardin.online
The Journal of Interactive Narrative
Advances the understanding, design, and application of interactive narratives. It is a home for research and practical work as interactive scholarship.
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Sad news from a great game studio. I hope they manage to continue in some way
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The folks at DGF are some of the kindest and most talented I know. Having worked with them, I can give the most enthusiastic endorsement as first-rate coworkers. I'm heartbroken that they have to halt production, and hope everyone lands on their feet soon.
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We’re sad to share that we're halting production at Die Gute Fabrik due to the challenging funding & investment scene in games right now. We downed tools earlier this month & have been doing our best to support the team who'll be looking for work from mid-March. Full statement:

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The folks at DGF are some of the kindest and most talented I know. Having worked with them, I can give the most enthusiastic endorsement as first-rate coworkers. I'm heartbroken that they have to halt production, and hope everyone lands on their feet soon.
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We’re sad to share that we're halting production at Die Gute Fabrik due to the challenging funding & investment scene in games right now. We downed tools earlier this month & have been doing our best to support the team who'll be looking for work from mid-March. Full statement:
We’re sad to share with you all the news that Die Gute Fabrik is halting production.

The publishing and investment scene is so tough for companies and projects of our scale right now it's made it extremely difficult for Die Gute Fabrik to secure funding for our next project without a gap in income. 

We halted production on the 19th Feb, and used our remaining runway to give the current team a month of paid time to catch their breaths. We will still try and seek funding to resume production, but wanted to announce this publicly in order that the team can share that they’re looking for new roles. We have also provided mentoring and career support in this period. Our leadership team (Nils & Hannah) will also be looking for new positions.

Die Gute Fabrik ApS will continue to operate to service our past IPs. Production may resume again under Nils Deneken as CEO should the company find funding in future years, and if so we hope to welcome back our excellent collaborators where possible.

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New: Google News is boosting AI-generated garbage articles that rip-off other peoples' work. One company even admitted practice to me. Even wilder: Google says it doesn't focus on whether an article was made by AI or a human for News, opening way for more

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The next ARDIN online meetup will happen next Wednesday, November 1.
Come and learn what's up with ARDIN, especially the IDN in Education group.
Also have your ICIDS2023 questions answered and hear about developments in the COST Action INDCOR

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ARDIN online social
Networking event by ARDIN - Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives on Wednesday, November 1 2023
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icids2023 keynote speakers are announced:

Youichiro Miyake, Square Enix

Anastasia Salter, University of Central Florida

Mia Consalvo & Andy Phelps (double feature)
Concordia University & American University, DC

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ICIDS 2023 Conference – ICIDS 2023
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