I was really excited about how many different disciplines were present at the conference. It felt great that there were so many people with different backgrounds that were all passionate about studying video games. Most of them were people who wanted to study them with the intent of expanding the medium.  I want to emphasize that my impression of most of the people was they seemed to want to expand what games can be and not change. But I could be wrong. I was also worried about how much emphasis there was on minority groups and feminism. I am Latino, but it honestly wouldn't have occurred to me to even care about ethnicity or gender when it came to my research. It was weird. Also it was my first exposure to feminist research. I didn't know it was a thing. I was very shocked about their philosophy towards research methodology. I honestly can not agree with it. The talks I attended ranged from breaking down what made some games great, how some games worked well to represent culture, discussion on representation in games, discussions on how to improve diversity in the field of game studies, and a showcase of games. edit:spelling