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Media and Communication, 2021 The article explores the limitations of the current scholarly game studies (GS) field. Its central presuppositions are (1) that there are certain attributes broadly understood as “GS” by those writing in or adjacent to the field; (2) that those ...
Alex Gekker
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The light, the dark, and everything else: making sense of young people's digital gaming
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Whether gaming has a beneficial or detrimental effect on young people's lives is a defining feature in both the research and the public discussion of youth digital gaming.
Mikko Meriläinen, Maria Ruotsalainen
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Story beats in videogames as value-driven choice-based unit operations
Images, 2021 We present a framework of story beats, defined as microunits of dramatic action, as a tool for the ludonarrative analysis of videogames. First, we explain the Goal - Action - Reaction - Outcome model of the story beat.
Michał Mochocki, Raine Koskimaa
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Avatars Going Mainstream: Typology of Tropes in Avatar-Based Storytelling Practices [PDF]
, 2016 Due to the growing popularity of video games, gaming itself has become a shared experience among media audiences worldwide. The phenomenon of avatar-based games has led to the emergence of new storytelling practices.
Tymińska, Marta
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THREE TYPES OF NOSTALGIA IN COMPUTER GAMES
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2023 The article is devoted to the problems of representation of nostalgia in computer games and offers a distinction between its three interrelated forms: retrotopic, aestheticizing, nostalgia for childhood and lost parental home. These forms are featured in
Ksenia V. Igaeva
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Editorial: Die Darstellung von künstlichem Leben im Computerspiel
MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, 2022 Darstellungen künstlicher Lebensformen beflügeln nicht nur die Fantasie, sondern sind auch Ausdruck einer Reflexion des technologischen Fortschritts.
Christopher Könitz
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The Placebo Effect in Digital Games [PDF]
, 2015 Play-testing of digital games is a crucial part of any game development process, used to gather feedback about the game and correct any existing and potential flaws with the design.
Cairns, P., Denisova, A.
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Journal of Forest Science, 2010 Surface ozone is considered to be a very phytotoxic gaseous air pollutant. Its negative impacts at both the cell and the organ level have been shown, mainly as a result of experiments. However, the demonstration of ozone negative impacts on native plants
L. Matoušková +3 more
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Load Shifting in the Smart Grid: To Participate or Not? [PDF]
, 2015 Demand-side management (DSM) has emerged as an important smart grid feature that allows utility companies to maintain desirable grid loads. However, the success of DSM is contingent on active customer participation.
Mandayam, Narayan B. +3 more
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Digitale Kontexte - Problemaufriss zur Erforschung digitaler Medien am Beispiel des Computerspiels
Textpraxis, 2017 Ziel des Beitrags ist es, exemplarisch anhand der Game Studies vier Problemfelder bei der Erforschung digitaler Medien zu identifizieren. Diese werden in Verbindung gesetzt zu hier bislang unterrepräsentierten theoretischen, medialen und kulturellen ...
Hennig, Martin
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