Dr Bettina Bódi

I am a Lecturer in Media and Communication at DMU. As an early career researcher interested in agency in and around videogames, I published articles on playfulness, agency, and narrativity in games. I am currently working on a monograph based on my doctoral research focusing on player agency as a game design affordance in avatar-based videogames, and their conceptualisations by game developer discourse. I am also a guest researcher at the Game Studies Research Group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

In the past I taught media production studies and research design at the University of Nottingham, and visual culture and visual communication at Nottingham Trent University. I also worked on research projects in collaboration with the heritage sector, and the television industry.

Media and Communication Research Centre

• Bódi, B. (2021). "Can Playfulness Be Designed? Understanding Playful Design through Agency in Astroneer (2019)." Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture 12 (1): 39–61.
• Bódi, B./Thon, J.-N. (2020). “Playing Stories? Narrative-Dramatic Agency in Disco Elysium (2019) and Astroneer (2019).” Frontiers of Narrative Studies 6(2): 157–190. https://doi.org/10.1515/fns-2020-0012
• Bódi, B. (2020). “Procedural Content Generation, Player Agency, and Playfulness in Survival-Crafting Game Astroneer.” Proceedings of 2020 DIGRA International Conference: Play Everywhere. https://hes32-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.digra.org%2fwp%2dcontent%2fuploads%2fdigital%2dlibrary%2fDiGRA%5f2020%5fpaper%5f25.pdf&umid=e0a393f2-1b3e-4a9f-9b07-82e46fe1de5f&auth=abf3dc013bb623204479f0e1f803993cdb4617ca-99b72739658bbd5793622d47d626f6ec1f2b11db

• Agency and interactivity
• Videogame aesthetics
• Media industry and production studies
• Media paratexts
• Transmedia and media convergence
• Technology and everyday life

• Game studies
• Film and television studies
• Production studies
• Media cultures and everyday life

• PhD in Film and Television (University of Nottingham, UK)
• MA in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (University of Vienna, Austria)
• BA in Philologist with a specialisation in Aesthetics (University of Szeged, Hungary)

• MEDS1405 Media Cultures and Everyday Life
• MEDS3000 Media and Communication Dissertation
• MEDS2011 Media, Gender, and Identity

Digital Games Research Association (DIGRA) [2018-ongoing]

• Procedural Content Generation, Player Agency, and Playfulness in Survival-Crafting Game Astroneer’ Playfulness Across Media – International Research Workshop 2-3 December 2020.
• ‘Procedural Content Generation, Player Agency, and Playfulness in Survival-Crafting Game Astroneer’ CGSA 2020 – Canadian Game Studies Association Annual Conference 3-5 June 2020, London, Canada [paper accepted, but event cancelled due to COVID-19].
• ‘Procedural Content Generation, Player Agency, and Playfulness in Survival-Crafting Game Astroneer’ DIGRA 2020 – Digital Games Research Association Annual Conference 2-6 June 2020, Tampere University, Finland [paper accepted, but event cancelled due to COVID-19].
• ‘Spatial-Explorative Agency in Avatar-Based Video Games’ The State of the Avatar – Workshop at DIGRA 2020 Annual Conference 2 June 2020, Tampere University, Finland [paper accepted, but event cancelled due to COVID-19].
• ‘A Roadmap to Nowhere? BioWare, and the Changing Trends in the Realm of AAA Video Games’ MECCSA PGR 2019 – Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Postgraduate Network Conference July 1-2 2019, Bangor University, UK.
• ‘Agency as a Game Design Affordance in Avatar-Based Video Games’ Birmingham Digital Day 7 Nov 2019, University of Birmingham, UK.
• ‘Ludonarrative Dissonance and Agency in Naughty Dog’s Uncharted Series’ Play|Pause Symposium: Immersion|Dissonance 22 May 2019, University of Birmingham, UK.
• With Anna Cruse. ‘Space and Experience in Renaissance Painting and Assassin’s Creed 2’ Historia Ludens 19 May 2017, University of Huddersfield, UK.

10/2017– AHRC Midlands3Cities Industrial Challenge Studentship Award from the 
09/2019 National Productivity Investment Fund, UK

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1236-3610