Independent Researcher

Fasi Uddin Mir

Independent Researcher in Critical Game Design, Game Production, and Design Ethics

Research

My research examines how game production can serve as a site for ethical, cultural, technological, and organizational inquiry. My work is particularly interested in critical game design, reflective practice, production systems, design ethics, and ethical accountability.

Critical Game Design
Game Production
Design Ethics
Reflective Practice
Practice-Based Research
Ethical Accountability
Game Studies
Sociotechnical Systems

Current Research

Reflective Solo-Auditing: A Retrospective Framework for Ethical Game Production

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Reflective Solo-Auditing (RSA) is a practice-based methodological framework for examining ethical accountability in game production through structured retrospective analysis.

The framework organizes retrospective inquiry around three phases: Collection, Interpretation, and Synthesis, and four evaluative dimensions: Intention, Constraint, Impact, and Reflection.

The research is grounded in a retrospective case study of the independently developed mobile game Falcon Federation Pod and examines how ethical understanding emerges through production decisions, constraints, infrastructures, and reflective inquiry.

The manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics (JLAE), published by North American Business Press, and is currently proceeding through final production and formatting.

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Publication

Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics

The Reflective Solo-Auditing manuscript has been accepted for publication following the journal's double-blind peer-review process. The journal focuses on theoretical and applied work and is published by North American Business Press.

The manuscript has not yet appeared in a published issue and is currently progressing through final production and formatting.

About

Fasi Uddin Mir is an independent researcher in critical game design based in Hyderabad, India, with a master's degree in Game Production and Management from the University of Advancing Technology.

His research brings together game production practice, critical game design, design ethics, and reflective inquiry to examine how creative decisions are shaped by broader technical, institutional, cultural, and infrastructural conditions.

He approaches research and professional practice with an emphasis on empathy, ethical accountability, collaboration, critical thinking, reflective practice, and responsible creative production.