Researcher basic information

• PhD, Brunel University, Jun. 2012

• https://researchmap.jp/paulmartin?lang=en

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3464-2103
• https://jglobal.jst.go.jp/detail?JGLOBAL_ID=202501011880522099

• 11019473

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3464-2103

• 202501011880522099

• English language learning; board games; tabletop role-playing games

• Humanities & Social Sciences, Foreign language education, Language acquisition, board games

Research activity information

• The narrativization of ludic elements in videogame fanfiction
  Yuhua Hanna Wu; Paul Martin
  Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Apr. 2024
  Scientific journal
• Diminished ambiguity: the transformation of masculinity from Chinese videogames to their fan-fiction
  Yuhua Wu; Paul Martin
  Continuum, 04 May 2023
  Scientific journal
• Correction to: Esports in the Asia-Pacific
  Filippo Gilardi; Paul Martin
  2023
• Conclusions to Esports in the Asia–Pacific
  Filippo Gilardi; Paul Martin
  2023
• Introduction to Esports in the Asia-Pacific
  Filippo Gilardi; Paul Martin
  2023
• Realism in play
  Paul Martin
  Landscapes of Realism:Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. Volume I: Mapping realism, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 15 Apr. 2021
• Gaming on campus
  Paul Martin
  Global esports: Transformation of cultural perceptions of competitive gaming, 2021
• Honour of Kings as Chinese popular heritage: Contesting authorized history in a mobile game
  Bjarke Liboriussen; Paul Martin
  China Information, 34, 3, 319, 341, {SAGE} Publications, Nov. 2020
  English, Scientific journal, This article examines how users on social media responded to state criticism of the representation of Chinese historical characters in the popular Tencent mobile game Honour of Kings. The game’s usage of historical characters and the ensuing debate and criticism are analysed as ‘popular heritage’. A qualitative content analysis identifies several categories in the discussion of this game on the Q & A website Zhihu (知乎). The article discusses these categories in relation to existing literature on popular heritage. The analysis contributes to this literature by identifying a new feature of popular heritage, whereby the dissonance associated with popular heritage becomes in itself an enjoyable object of popular pleasure, deepening popular heritage’s capacity to generate critique of authorized heritage and exposing divisions within the power bloc. In light of these findings, we call for an approach to popular heritage that escapes a dichotomous people–elite schema in favour of a multi-actor approach.
• Morphology and Meaning in 'Castle Wolfenstein 3D'
  Paul Martin
  Ludotopia: Spaces, Places and Territories in Computer Games, 31 Dec. 2019
• The contradictions of pop nationalism in the manga Gate: Thus the JSDF Fought There!
  Paul Martin
  Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 11, 2, 167, 181, Informa {UK} Limited, Nov. 2018
  English, Scientific journal
• Students as co-producers in a multidisciplinary software engineering project: addressing cultural distance and cross-cohort handover
  Paul Martin
  Teachers and Teaching, 03 Oct. 2018
  English, Scientific journal
• Race, Colonial History and National Identity: Resident Evil 5 as a Japanese Game
  Paul Martin
  Games and Culture, Sep. 2018
  English, Scientific journal
• Carnal Hermeneutics and the Digital Game
  Paul Martin
  Journal of the Philosophy of Computer Games, 2018
  Scientific journal
• The Intellectual Structure of Game Research
  Paul Martin
  Game Studies, 2018
  Scientific journal
• Regional Game Studies
  Paul Martin
  Game Studies, 2016
  Scientific journal
• Special issue: Games and gaming in China
  Liboriussen, B.; Martin, P.
  Games and Culture, 11, 3, 2015
  Scientific journal
• Socio-spatial relations in mobile gaming: Reconfiguration and contestation
  Paul Martin
  Mobile Media and Communications: Social, Political and Economic Implications, IGI Global, 2014
• A spatial analysis of the JBA headquarters in Splinter Cell: Double Agent
  Martin, P.
  Entertainment Computing, 5, 1, 2014
  Scientific journal
• Embodiment in skateboarding videogames
  Paul Martin
  International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media, 9, 2, 01 Aug. 2013
  English, Scientific journal
• Toponymy in the Videogame GTA IV
  Paul Martin
  Onoma, 46, 5, 28, 2011
  Scientific journal
• Ambivalence and Recursion in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
  Paul Martin
  Eludamos, 2011
  English, Scientific journal, Konami's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (SoTN) (KCE Tokyo 1997) is a recursive game in several ways. The player, the main character, the story, all in some senses move back and forth. This paper seeks to understand how the patterns of recursion that permeate the game interact with each other in ways that illuminate and enrich the characterisation of the protagonist, Alucard, as ambivalent. The performances by the player and the character are derived from and constrained by a combination of the configuration of space and the character's changing capabilities. These performances are here approached as texts that are open to interpretation and can be read alongside themes otherwise elucidated in the game's back-story and cutscenes in which character and plot are developed. In SoTN there is a parallel between the game's thematic concern with ambivalence and the centrality of recursion in its performance.
• The pastoral and the sublime in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
  Martin, P.
  Game Studies, 11, 3, 2011
  Scientific journal