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Record W4406940158 · doi:10.1145/3709616.3709621

Report on ReAnimate'24: 2024 Summer School on Retro Gaming History, Critic, and Development

2025· article· en· W4406940158 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDigital Games and Media
Canadian institutionsUniversité de MontréalÉcole de Technologie SupérieureConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceArchitectural engineeringEngineering

Abstract

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For many years, there has been an interest in ''old'' games, either real old games or recent games with an ''old'' look and feel. The retro gaming community has grown from very niche to mainstream, following the general gaming trend. Retro gaming has also entered the general psyche with books, movies, documentaries, articles, etc. becoming mainstream. However, despite this mainstream status and some recent books, retro gaming remains under-studied in academia and existing research rarely enters mass media. We proposed a summer school dedicated to retro gaming, which invited both the humanities and engineering fields to provide unique insights on retro gaming, both theoretical and practical, and opportunities for cross-fertilization among research fields. This summer school welcomed anyone interested in retro gaming. In particular, students in the humanities learned about general game development and the particularities of retro games while students in engineering learned about the history of gaming and theories about games and game design. This summer school, supported by the ACM SIGSOFT and Cloanto, featured lectures in the mornings and practical, hands-on sessions in the afternoon given by experts on (retro) games as well as site visits, panels, and discussions to foster exchanges, create a community, and promote the studies of retro games.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.139
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.836
Threshold uncertainty score0.884

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.139
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.279
Teacher spread0.251 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it