Dom Ford

Dom Ford

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Bremen

Biography

I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, part of the Literatures and Media of Religion lab headed by Kerstin Radde-Antweiler. At Bremen, I’m also a member of the Institute for the Study of Religion and Related Didactics and the ZeMKI Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research. My postdoc project centres on community formation in digital games using a framework of mythmaking expanded from my PhD dissertation.

I wrote my PhD at the IT University of Copenhagen’s Center for Digital Play. My dissertation, Mytholudics: Understanding Games As/Through Myth, proposes a method for analysing games both as conduits of mythologies within society and as mythological structures in themselves.

I’m also the managing editor for the academic journal gamevironments and on the editorial board for Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture.

This is my website where you’ll find links to all the other relevant internet places you can find me at, all of my publications, games and other projects, and the occasional blog post whenever I feel like writing something here.

All of my publications here have a link or download where you can read it for free. If that is ever not the case, please contact me and I will happily send you a copy directly and make one available online.

Interests
  • Myth
  • Religion
  • Ritual
  • Narrative
  • Game design
  • Play
  • Monsters
  • Spatiality
  • Neomedievalism
Education
  • PhD, 2022

    IT University of Copenhagen

  • MSc in Games (Design and Theory), 2019

    IT University of Copenhagen

  • MA in English Literary Studies, 2016

    University of Exeter

  • BA (Hons) in English, 2015

    University of Exeter

Games

Harvest

Harvest

Explore a mysterious hollow world from the inside.

Too Many Crooks

Too Many Crooks

Band together a ragtag team of criminals to start building your own crime syndicate. Start with humble raids on innocent hot dog stands and work your way up to well-organised casinos and banks in this crime management game.

Wizards of the Hexagonal Table

Wizards of the Hexagonal Table

An over-the-top card game about balancing your mana. Push it to the limit but be careful not to overcharge.

Jump-o-lantern

Jump-o-lantern

A Halloween-themed endless musical vertical platformer.

Grappltar

Grappltar

A one-button game that mixes Spider-Man with the guitar guy in Mad Max.

Keeper

Keeper

Bring light to a dark world through exploration and combat.

Not Alone

Not Alone

A top-down two player co-op zombie shooter with a twist – one player has a flashlight and the other has a gun.

Unnatural Selection

Unnatural Selection

Select the genes for the new generation as you respond to national crises. But every choice has consequences and side effects.