Peer Reviewed Publications
2023
(Book Chapter) Noel Brett, Sasha Soraine -
Pandemmy-Core: How the Perceptions of Hardcore and Casual Changed Over the Pandemic
- Games and Gaming in Times of
Pandemic. Bloomsburry Game Studies Series [Forthcoming]
2022
(Journal Manuscript) Noel Brett -
Why Do We Only Get Anime Girl Avatars?: Collective White Heteronormative Avatar Design in Live Streams
- Special edition on Gender and Streaming
in Television and New Media. Eds. Dr. Bo Ruberg and
Dr. Johanna Brewer [link]
2021
(Academic Blog) Melody Devries, Noel Brett - Processes of Authentication and “Fake”
News: On Gaining System Access
- Items - Insights from the Social Sciences [link]
(Book Chapter) Noel Brett -
Moments of Political Gameplay: Game
Design as a Mobilization Tool for
Far-Right Action
- Rise of the Far-Right: Technologies of
Recruitment and Mobilization. Rowman &
Little Field [book
link][pdf]
2019
(Academic Blog) Noel Brett - Hetero-comfortable avatars -
Platypus The CASTAC Blog[link]
[pdf]
2018
(Conference Proceeding: Short Paper) Noel Brett, Christopher Hugelmann - Restricted Affordances: Avatar models and
capacities for identity - DiGRA
[academia.edu]
[pdf]
(Conference Proceeding: Short Paper) Noel Brett - Revision of Queer Bodies: Modifications of
Sexual Affordances in World of Warcraft -
DiGRA [academia.edu]]
[pdf]
2017
(Conference Proceeding) Noel Brett, Umair Siddique, Borzoo Bonakdarpour - Rewriting-Based Runtime Verification of
Alternation-Free HyperLTL Formulas -
International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the
Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS-2017),
Springer [pdf]
Conference & Panel Presentations
2023
“Political Conversations with Games” –
International Conference on Games and Narrative,
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada [PDF]
"'Azeroth As It Was': Trans Futures at the Beginning of Times" –
International Communication Association - Pre-conference on Games, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada
“Collectively Building Avatar Bodies: The Relationship Between Audiences, Designers, and Games” –
Ready Avatar One, McMaster University and Virginia
Commonwealth University, Hybrid.
2022
“Azeroth As It
Was”: Is WoW Classic really Vanilla? –
Queering Game Studies Symposium at Canterbury Christ Church University
2021
Moments of
Political Gameplay: Far-Right Gameplay
and Political Becoming
- Conference on Right-Wing Studies & Research on Male
Supremacism
2020
Gaming
Politically: Far-Right Recruitment via
Political Game Design - Conference on Right-Wing Studies & Research on Male
Supremacism *
“Azeroth As It Was”: Can We Expect to See Queerness
in World of Warcraft Classic? –
Canadian Game Studies Association*
Relational
Avatar Bodies – Digital
Games Research Association (DiGRA)
(Workshop) *
Discrete and
Continuous Becoming: Temporality, and
Design Practices in VRChat and World
of Warcraft. – DiGRA
*
2019
Evolving Worlds:
Digital Historicity, Temporality, and Change -
American Anthrological Association (Panel
Organizer)
The becoming of
avatar bodies: Dynamic affordances and embodiment in
VRChat and World of Warcraft - American
Anthrological Association
Affective Avatar
Creation: Character Customization Practices and Emotional
Affordances - Media Ethics Association
Conference
2018
Becoming
(in)visible: Avatars, digital practice, and embodied life
online - American Anthropological
Association (Panel Chair)
Deprecating
Queerness: VRChat Vs. Performing Avatars -
American Anthropological Association
Revision of Queer Bodies: Modifications of
Sexual Affordances in World of Warcraft -
Digital Games Research Association Annual
Conference
2017
Rewriting-Based Runtime Verification of
Alternation-Free HyperLTL Formulas -
International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the
Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS-2017)
Other Talks
2023
“Games & (Problematic?) Culture”
–
XP Game Developer
Summit. Toronto, Canada
2018
Computer (Bio)Analyzers:
Formal methods techniques for monitoring and analyzing
cancer cell growth - Computing And Software
Department - McMaster University
2016
Formal Methods
for Analysis in Systems Biology Department
of Computing And Software, McMaster University.
White Papers
Noel Brett, Jacques Carette, Gabriel Dalimonte, Adele
Olejarz, Geneva Smith, Sasha Soraine -
Discussing the Effects of Visual Scaling on
Games - White Paper
[pdf]
Technical Projects
2016
Noel Brett - BnB Database - Auction Management and Automated Invoice Generation
Contract - Ryerson United Church.
2015
Ashley General, Noel Brett,
Matthew Halleran, and Iheatu Wogu. My Shuttle - A Mobile Application
For Real-Time Bus Schedules For
Hamilton - Thesis Project -
Department of Computing And Software,
McMaster University.
Natalie Perna, Noel Brett, James Anthony. Buzzr - The Smart Enterphone System For Tenants - Software
Entrepreneurship Final Project - Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University.
(Winner of the Indellient Prize in Software
Entrepreneurship)
Noel Brett, James Anthony, Courtney
Wittmann, Joy Hopper. Influence of
Immersion in Navigation for 3D Environments -
HCI Report Department of Computing And Software,
McMaster University
Noel Brett, Ashley General, Matthew Halleran, and Michael Liut.
Moby Dick - 4K Mandelbox Video Generated in C++ and MPI Final Project
for Computer Science 4F03 - Department of Computing And
Software, McMaster University.
[video]