📂 Playful Records: Counter-Archival Game Art and Videogame Collections (forthcoming)
Bailey, A. (2026). Playful Records: Counter-Archival Game Art and Videogame Collections. Amsterdam University Press.
CV
Education
- Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
- M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
- B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012
Work experience
- Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
- Github University
- Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
- Supervisor: The Users
- Fall 2015: Research Assistant
- Github University
- Duties included: Merging pull requests
- Supervisor: Professor Hub
- Summer 2015: Research Assistant
- Github University
- Duties included: Tagging issues
- Supervisor: Professor Git
Skills
- Skill 1
- Skill 2
- Sub-skill 2.1
- Sub-skill 2.2
- Sub-skill 2.3
- Skill 3
Publications
👨🏫 From Mods to Memories: Teaching Game History and Culture through the Paratextual Archive. (forthcoming)
Bailey, A. (2026). “From Mods to Memories: Teaching Game History and Culture through the Paratextual Archive.” In “Teaching Video Games in the Humanities: New Media, New Pedagogies,” a special issue of Open Screens, guest edited by Iris Kleinecke-Bates and Marta F Suarez
🍄 Scarlet Rot at the End of the World: Fans Searching for Mycological Authenticity within Elden Rings Cosmic Horror (forthcoming)
Bailey, A. (2026). “Scarlet Rot at the End of the World: Fans Searching for Mycological Authenticity within Elden Rings Cosmic Horror.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Fungal Horror in Popular Culture. Edited by Katarina Gregersdotter and Berit Astrom. Palgrave Macmillan.
🐙 Cosmic Canvases: The Lovecraftian Legacy of Giger and Beksiński in Scorn and Indie Horror Game Design (forthcoming)
Bailey, A. (2026). “Cosmic Canvases: The Lovecraftian Legacy of Giger and Beksiński in Scorn and Indie Horror Game Design.” In Eldritch: New Critical Developments in the Lovecraftian Mythos, edited by David K. Goodin, Lang Publishing.
🗺️ Factional History: Tracing the Cultural Coding of Total War: Warhammer 3’s “Immortal Empires” Map (forthcoming)
Bailey, A. (2024). “Factional History: Tracing the Cultural Coding of Total War: Warhammer 3’s “Immortal Empires” Map.” In Depictions of Power: Strategy and Management Games, edited by Simon Dor, Bloomsbury
⛰️ Kaizo Ascent: Celeste and Difficult Level Design as Community Practice. (forthcoming)
Bailey, A. (2026). “Kaizo Ascent: Celeste and Difficult Level Design as Community Practice.” In The Effects of Community on Game Play and Design. Edited by Kevin Veale and Adam Jerrett.
🩸 Demade by the Blood: Bloodborne PSX at a crossroads of horror fandoms (forthcoming)
Bailey, A., and Dolan, P. (2024). “Demade by the Blood: Bloodborne PSX at a crossroads of horror fandoms.” In Researching Horror Fans and Audiences in the Twenty-First Century, edited by James Rendell and Kate Egan, Edinburgh University Press
⛪ The Counter-Archival Potential of SpekWork’s Assassin’s Creed Art History (forthcoming)
Bailey, A. (2025). The Counter-Archival Potential of SpekWork’s Assassin’s Creed Art History. In The Video Game Art Reader Volume 5, the VGA Gallery and Amherst College Press.
🧙♂️ Edit Wands Always: Experimentation, Modding, and Metagaming in Noita
Bailey, A. (2025).“Edit Wands Always: Experimentation, Modding, and Metagaming in Noita.” In The Rise of the Roguelite: The Influence of Roguelikes on Contemporary Video Games, edited by James Cartlidge, Bloomsbury.
👹A Devious Archive: The Affective Historicity and Paratextual Russian Folkloristics of Black Book
Bailey, A. (2024). “A devious archive: The affective historicity and paratextual Russian folkloristics of Black Book.” In Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games, edited by Michał Mochocki, Paweł Schreiber, Jakub Majewski, Yaraslau I. Kot, Routledge.
🌿 Object Gardens
Bailey, A. (2024). Object gardens. In PAVED Meant Vol. 5 (2021-2023), edited by David LaRiviere. PAVED Arts. https://www.pavedarts.ca/paved-meant-vol-5-2021-2023/
💡 Half-light Histories: Exploring the Experimental Realism of Kentucky Route Zero and Disco Elysium
Bailey, A. (2024) “Half-light histories: Exploring the experimental realism of Kentucky Route Zero and Disco Elysium” In Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell About, With, and Around Videogames, edited by Megan Condis and Mike Sell, Louisiana State University Press.
👻 Ghastly Graphics: Tool Fandom, Bad Cinema, and the Haunted PS1 Game Development Community
Dolan, P., and Bailey, A. (2023). “Ghastly Graphics: Tool Fandom, Bad Cinema, and the Haunted PS1 Game Development Community.” In “Digital Nostalgia in/as Contemporary Creative Practice,” a special issue of the International Journal of Creative Media Research, guest edited by Bethany Lamont (Bath Spa University) and Beth Wakefield.
⚙️ Stealth Algorithms: Hito Steyerl’s Encoding Of Metal Gear into her Factory Of The Sun
Bailey, A. (2022). “Stealth algorithms: Hito Steyerl’s encoding Of Metal Gear into her Factory Of The Sun.” The VGA Reader, Issue 3. The Video Game Art Gallery.
🌏 Living Narrative Worlds: Assemblage and Multistability within Ian Cheng’s Emissaries trilogy
Bailey, A. (2020) "Living narrative worlds: Assemblage and multistability within Ian Cheng’s Emissaries trilogy," in Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative Aesthetics in Video Games, edited by Deniz Eyuce Sansal, and Deniz Denizel, Peter Lang Group.
😷 Critical Compilation: Pathologic
Bailey, A. (1 July 2020). "Critical compilation: Pathologic," Critical Distance.
🦋 The Museum and the Killing Jar: How Animal Crossing’s Insects Reveal Videogames’ Object Afterlife
Bailey, A. (2021). “The Museum and the Killing Jar: How Animal Crossing’s insects reveal videogames’ object afterlife.” Loading: The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association, Winter 2020, Vol. 13, No. 21.
🚶🏻♀️ Shifting Borders: Walking Simulators, Artgames, and the Categorical Compulsion of Gaming Discourse
Bailey, A. (2019). “Shifting borders: Walking simulators, artgames, and the categorical compulsion of gaming discourse.” Press Start Journal, The University of Glasgow.
💖 Unforgotten Fantasies: Romantic Play within the Game Art of Angela Washko and Nina Freeman
Bailey, A. (26 June 2019). "Unforgotten fantasies: Romantic play within the game art of Angela Washko and Nina Freeman," First Person Scholar. The University of Waterloo.
🦵 Body Clusters, Counter-Play, and Game Art within Chris Kerich’s Piles.
Bailey, A. (2019). “Body clusters, counter-play, and game art within Chris Kerich’s Piles.” Mediascape: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Fall 2018 Issue, University of California
📹 Hauntological Remediation within P.T. and Resident Evil 7: The Beginning Hour
Bailey, A. (18 July 2018). "Hauntological remediation within P.T. and Resident Evil 7: The Beginning Hour." First Person Scholar. The University of Waterloo.
🐛 Authority of the Worm: Examining Parasitism within INSIDE and Upstream Color.
Bailey, A. (2018). “Authority of the worm: Examining parasitism within INSIDE and Upstream Color.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Literature, Issue, 4.2.
🔎 Fantastic Places And Where To Find Them: Pseudo-Indexical Realities Within Video Games And Game Art
Bailey, A. (2018). “Fantastic places and where to find them: Pseudo-indexical realities within video games and game art.” The VGA Reader, Issue 2. The Video Game Art Gallery.
Talks
Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Conference proceedings talk at Testing Institute of America 2014 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA
Talk 2 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Talk at London School of Testing, London, UK
Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Tutorial at UC-Berkeley Institute for Testing Science, Berkeley CA, USA
Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Talk at UC San Francisco, Department of Testing, San Francisco, California
Teaching
Service and leadership
- Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams