Papers On Game Research

Author : Nick Dyer-Witheford,Greig de Peuter
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452942704

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Games of Empire by Nick Dyer-Witheford,Greig de Peuter Pdf

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have become major sites of corporate exploitation and military recruitment. In Games of Empire, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter offer a radical political critique of such video games and virtual environments as Second Life, World of Warcraft, and Grand Theft Auto, analyzing them as the exemplary media of Empire, the twenty-first-century hypercapitalist complex theorized by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. The authors trace the ascent of virtual gaming, assess its impact on creators and players alike, and delineate the relationships between games and reality, body and avatar, screen and street. Games of Empire forcefully connects video games to real-world concerns about globalization, militarism, and exploitation, from the horrors of African mines and Indian e-waste sites that underlie the entire industry, the role of labor in commercial game development, and the synergy between military simulation software and the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan exemplified by Full Spectrum Warrior to the substantial virtual economies surrounding World of Warcraft, the urban neoliberalism made playable in Grand Theft Auto, and the emergence of an alternative game culture through activist games and open-source game development. Rejecting both moral panic and glib enthusiasm, Games of Empire demonstrates how virtual games crystallize the cultural, political, and economic forces of global capital, while also providing a means of resisting them.

Author : Mary Flanagan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262518659

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Critical Play by Mary Flanagan Pdf

An examination of subversive games like The Sims—games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique. For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical Play, artist and game designer Mary Flanagan examines alternative games—games that challenge the accepted norms embedded within the gaming industry—and argues that games designed by artists and activists are reshaping everyday game culture. Flanagan provides a lively historical context for critical play through twentieth-century art movements, connecting subversive game design to subversive art: her examples of “playing house” include Dadaist puppet shows and The Sims. She looks at artists’ alternative computer-based games and explores games for change, considering the way activist concerns—including worldwide poverty and AIDS—can be incorporated into game design. Arguing that this kind of conscious practice—which now constitutes the avant-garde of the computer game medium—can inspire new working methods for designers, Flanagan offers a model for designing that will encourage the subversion of popular gaming tropes through new styles of game making, and proposes a theory of alternate game design that focuses on the reworking of contemporary popular game practices.

Author : Patri Lankoski,Staffan Björk,et al.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781312884731

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Game Research Methods: An Overview by Patri Lankoski,Staffan Björk,et al. Pdf

"Games are increasingly becoming the focus for research due to their cultural and economic impact on modern society. However, there are many different types of approaches and methods than can be applied to understanding games or those that play games. This book provides an introduction to various game research methods that are useful to students in all levels of higher education covering both quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods. In addition, approaches using game development for research is described. Each method is described in its own chapter by a researcher with practical experience of applying the method to topic of games. Through this, the book provides an overview of research methods that enable us to better our understanding on games."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Zheng, Robert,Gardner, Michael K.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522505143

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Handbook of Research on Serious Games for Educational Applications by Zheng, Robert,Gardner, Michael K. Pdf

Games have been part of the entertainment industry for decades. Once only considered viable for personal entertainment, virtual gaming media is now being explored as a useful tool for learning and student engagement. The Handbook of Research on Serious Games for Educational Applications presents a comprehensive examination of the implementation of gaming in classroom settings and the cognitive benefits this integration presents. Highlighting theoretical, psychological, instructional design, and teaching perspectives, this book is a pivotal reference source for researchers, educators, professionals, and academics interested in the innovative opportunities of game-based learning.

Author : Melanie Swalwell,Jason Wilson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0786451203

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The Pleasures of Computer Gaming by Melanie Swalwell,Jason Wilson Pdf

This collection of essays situates the digital gaming phenomenon alongside broader debates in cultural and media studies. Contributors to this volume maintain that computer games are not simply toys, but rather circulate as commodities, new media technologies, and items of visual culture that are embedded in complex social practices. Apart from placing games within longer arcs of cultural history and broader critical debates, the contributors to this volume all adopt a pedagogical and theoretical approach to studying games and gameplay, drawing on the interdisciplinary resources of the humanities and social sciences, particularly new media studies. In eight essays, the authors develop rich and nuanced understandings of the aesthetic appeals and pleasurable engagements of digital gameplay. Topics include the role of “cheats” and “easter eggs” in influencing cheating as an aesthetic phenomenon of gameplay; the relationship between videogames, gambling, and addiction; players’ aesthetic and kinaesthetic interactions with computing technology; and the epistemology and phenomenology of popular strategy-based wargames and their relationship with real-world military applications. Notes and a bibliography accompany each essay, and the work includes several screenshots, images, and photographs.

Author : Johannes Fromme,Alexander Unger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400727779

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Computer Games and New Media Cultures by Johannes Fromme,Alexander Unger Pdf

Digital gaming is today a significant economic phenomenon as well as being an intrinsic part of a convergent media culture in postmodern societies. Its ubiquity, as well as the sheer volume of hours young people spend gaming, should make it ripe for urgent academic enquiry, yet the subject was a research backwater until the turn of the millennium. Even today, as tens of millions of young people spend their waking hours manipulating avatars and gaming characters on computer screens, the subject is still treated with scepticism in some academic circles. This handbook aims to reflect the relevance and value of studying digital games, now the subject of a growing number of studies, surveys, conferences and publications. As an overview of the current state of research into digital gaming, the 42 papers included in this handbook focus on the social and cultural relevance of gaming. In doing so, they provide an alternative perspective to one-dimensional studies of gaming, whose agendas do not include cultural factors. The contributions, which range from theoretical approaches to empirical studies, cover various topics including analyses of games themselves, the player-game interaction, and the social context of gaming. In addition, the educational aspects of games and gaming are treated in a discrete section. With material on non-commercial gaming trends such as ‘modding’, and a multinational group of authors from eleven nations, the handbook is a vital publication demonstrating that new media cultures are far more complex and diverse than commonly assumed in a debate dominated by concerns over violent content.

Author : Miguel Angel Garcia-Ruiz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781315354361

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Games User Research by Miguel Angel Garcia-Ruiz Pdf

"Fundamentally, making games is designing with others, everyone contributing from different angles towards the best possible product. Conclusively, Garcia-Ruiz has chosen a collection of chapters that demonstrates several different aspects of working in gaming and working with others that stands to raise the level of expertise in the field." —Veronica Zammitto, Senior Lead Games User Research, Electronic Arts, Inc., from the Foreword Usability is about making a product easy to use while meeting the requirements of target users. Applied to video games, this means making the game accessible and enjoyable to the player. Video games with high usability are generally played efficiently and frequently while enjoying higher sales volumes. The case studies in this book present the latest interdisciplinary research and applications of games user research in determining and developing usability to improve the video game user experience at the human–computer interface level. Some of the areas examined include practical and ethical concerns in conducting usability testing with children, audio experiences in games, tangible and graphical game interfaces, controller testing, and business models in mobile gaming. Games User Research: A Case Study Approach provides a highly useful resource for researchers, practitioners, lecturers, and students in developing and applying methods for testing player usability as well as for conducting games user research. It gives the necessary theoretical and practical background for designing and conducting a test for usability with an eye toward modifying software interfaces to improve human–computer interaction between the player and the game.

Author : Florentin Smarandache,Sukanto Bhattacharya,Mohammad Khoshnevisan
Publisher : Infinite Study
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781599730080

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Computational Modeling in Applied Problems: collected papers on econometrics, operations research, game theory and simulation by Florentin Smarandache,Sukanto Bhattacharya,Mohammad Khoshnevisan Pdf

Computational models pervade all branches of the exact sciences and have in recent times also started to prove to be of immense utility in some of the traditionally 'soft' sciences like ecology, sociology and politics. This volume is a collection of a few cutting-edge research papers on the application of variety of computational models and tools in the analysis, interpretation and solution of vexing real-world problems and issues in economics, management, ecology and global politics by some prolific researchers in the concerned fields.

Author : Suzanne De Castell,Jennifer Jenson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820486434

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Worlds in Play by Suzanne De Castell,Jennifer Jenson Pdf

Worlds in Play, a map of the «state of play» in digital games research today, illustrates the great variety and extreme contrasts in the landscape cleft by contemporary digital games research. The chapters in this volume are the work of an international review board of seventy game-study specialists from fields spanning social sciences, arts, and humanities to the physical and applied sciences and technologies. A wellspring of inspiring concepts, models, protocols, data, methods, tools, critical perspectives, and directions for future work, Worlds in Play will support and assist in reading not only within, but across fields of play - disciplinary, temporal, and geographical - and encourage all of us to widen our focus to encompass the omni-dimensional phenomenon of «worlds in play.»

Author : Joost Raessens,Jeffrey Goldstein
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262516587

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Handbook of Computer Game Studies by Joost Raessens,Jeffrey Goldstein Pdf

A broad treatment of computer and video games from a wide range of perspectives, including cognitive science and artificial intelligence, psychology, history, film and theater, cultural studies, and philosophy. New media students, teachers, and professionals have long needed a comprehensive scholarly treatment of digital games that deals with the history, design, reception, and aesthetics of games along with their social and cultural context. The Handbook of Computer Game Studies fills this need with a definitive look at the subject from a broad range of perspectives. Contributors come from cognitive science and artificial intelligence, developmental, social, and clinical psychology, history, film, theater, and literary studies, cultural studies, and philosophy as well as game design and development. The text includes both scholarly articles and journalism from such well-known voices as Douglas Rushkoff, Sherry Turkle, Henry Jenkins, Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman, and others. Part I considers the "prehistory" of computer games (including slot machines and pinball machines), the development of computer games themselves, and the future of mobile gaming. The chapters in part II describe game development from the designer's point of view, including the design of play elements, an analysis of screenwriting, and game-based learning. Part III reviews empirical research on the psychological effects of computer games, and includes a discussion of the use of computer games in clinical and educational settings. Part IV considers the aesthetics of games in comparison to film and literature, and part V discusses the effect of computer games on cultural identity, including gender and ethnicity. Finally, part VI looks at the relation of computer games to social behavior, considering, among other matters, the inadequacy of laboratory experiments linking games and aggression and the different modes of participation in computer game culture.

Author : Ratliff, Jacob A.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781466681767

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Integrating Video Game Research and Practice in Library and Information Science by Ratliff, Jacob A. Pdf

Video games are now a ubiquitous form of media used by the majority of the American population. However, the academic research field surrounding this genre does not accurately reflect the pervasive influence of video games. The field of library and information sciences helps provide the necessary foundational support for this media. Integrating Video Game Research and Practice in Library and Information Science brings together video gaming culture and its unique forms of communication with information behavior research. By detailing the nuances of video games and their influence, this reference book reveals communication patterns within society and provides comprehensive background and analysis for libraries, librarians, and information professionals.

Author : Gaines S. Hubbell,Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476668376

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What Is a Game? by Gaines S. Hubbell,Matthew Wilhelm Kapell Pdf

What is a videogame? What makes a videogame "good"? If a game is supposed to be fun, can it be fun without a good story? If another is supposed to be an accurate simulation, does it still need to be entertaining? With the ever-expanding explosion of new videogames and new developments in the gaming world, questions about videogame criticism are becoming more complex. The differing definitions that players and critics use to decide what a game is and what makes a game successful, often lead to different ideas of how games succeed or fail. This collection of new essays puts on display the variety and ambiguity of videogames. Each essay is a work of game criticism that takes a different approach to defining the game and analyzing it. Through analysis and critical methods, these essays discuss whether a game is defined by its rules, its narrative, its technology, or by the activity of playing it, and the tensions between these definitions. With essays on Overwatch, Dark Souls 3, Far Cry 4, Farmville and more, this collection attempts to show the complex changes, challenges and advances to game criticism in the era of videogames.

Author : Alexander J. de Voogt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Board games
ISBN : UOM:39015022883709

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New Approaches to Board Games Research by Alexander J. de Voogt Pdf

Author : Jessica Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computer games
ISBN : 1840826290

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The Effects of Computer Games on Young Children by Jessica Harris Pdf

Author : Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1434 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781466601505

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Handbook of Research on Serious Games as Educational, Business and Research Tools by Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela Pdf

"This book presents research on the most recent technological developments in all fields of knowledge or disciplines of computer games development, including planning, design, development, marketing, business management, users and behavior"--Provided by publisher.