At the 2023 Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) Conference, a paper titled A Co-Operative Study of Transnational Histories of European Videogames was presented by researchers Alex Wade, Maria Garda, Mirosław Filiciak, Ivo Furman, and Maryja Šupa. The study is part of Working Group 1 (WG1) within the larger COST Action initiative “Grassroots of Digital Europe” (GRADE), aimed at mapping the diverse and underrepresented histories of creative computing cultures across Europe.
The research team used Zotero to create a shared bibliography titled “Creative Computing Cultures.” The database, which as of June 2023 contained 624 entries, covers six key categories: creative computing, clones, piracy and the demoscene, gender, related fields, and the Soviet Bloc/Yugoslavia. By categorizing and tagging the research, WG1 aimed to identify trends, patterns, and gaps in how creative computing has been studied over the past four decades.