About the author

January 20th, 2010

Darryl Woodford

Title BEng, MSc
Languages English
Profile BEng Computer Games and Internet Technology from University of Essex (United Kingdom).
MSc Information Technology: Media Technology and Games from IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark).
Doctoral candidate at Queensland University of Technology (Australia) entitled “Regulation of Virtual Environments”
Research Interests:
 Cheating, Ethics, Gambling, Governance, Law, Magic Circle, Regulation, Semantics, Virtual Environments
Homepage http://www.dpwoodford.net
E-mail darryl [at] dpwoodford.net

Publications:

  • “Online Games: Legal Issues” in Virtual Worlds and Law, Edited by L. Padmavathi , ICFAI Books, India (forthcoming 2010)
  • “Governing Virtual Worlds” in The IUP Journal of Cyber Law, Vol. VIII, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 24-33, August & November 2009
  • “Gambling” with Gordon Calleja (first author) in Encyclopaedia of Play: A Social History, Edited by Rodney Carlisle, Sage Publications, USA (2009).

Invited Presentations:

  • “The Fallacy of the Magic Circle” — Games Convention Online — Leipzig, August 2009
  • Panel Discussion: Farewell to the “Magic Circle” – Expansion of Society into the Digital? Virtual Worlds as Social Worlds — w/ Mark Butler, Ren Reynolds & Stephan Günzel — Games Convention Online — Leipzig, August 2009

Presentations:

  • Abandoning the Magic Circle — “Breaking the Magic Circle” seminar — Tampere, Finland — April 2008 -  PDF – PPT
  • Governing Virtual Worlds – Brunel 2nd Annual Postgraduate Games Conference — London, England — September 2008 – PDF — PPT

Teaching:

  • Game Theory — Assistant Lecturer — Fall 2009 — IT University of Copenhagen
  • Game Design — Assistant Lecturer – Fall 2009 — IT University of Copenhagen
  • Game Culture — Teaching Assistant — Spring 2009 — IT University of Copenhagen

Unpublished Papers:

  • Ludic Gambling: The implications of gambling legislation on online gaming - PDF
  • Designing Emotions: Establishing motivational goals in experimental game design – PDF
  • Countdown: Time in computer gaming – PDF
  • Notes towards defining cheating – PDF
  • Exploring Agency – PDF

Work in Progress:

  • Regulating Virtual Environments (aka A Manifesto for Regulation) – PhD Thesis
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