Gopinath, K. K., & Holopainen, J. (2025, June). Temporal Agency and Timeplay in Video Games. In Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2025: Games at the Crossroads. Karthik Kuduva Gopinath and Jussi Holopainen This paper examines temporal agency in video games, referred to as the player's ability to manipulate time within the game world, to make decisions, and to observe their consequences. Building on existing scholarship about ludic agency and ludic temporality, this paper utiliz