Europa Universalis IV and Deep Learning: Historical Accuracy, Counterfactuals and Historical Themes [PDF]
, 2021 This article examines issues encountered with Europa Universalis IV (EUIV) in terms of teaching history in adult learning. The article identifies the educational limitations of the game, as well as the types of history that can be learnt from it.
Loban, Rhett
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The elusive “indieness": Measuring the defining characteristics of indie games [PDF]
, 2021 This article aims to investigate what are the internal and external marking traits of indie games. Building up on previous efforts from other scholars, we developed a mix method research approach relying on interviews with indie game developers and a ...
Pereira, Leônidas Soares
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Mental Health in 3D: A Dimensional Model of Mental Illness Representation in Digital Games [PDF]
, 2021 There is a wealth of research on the depiction and impact of mental health representations in traditional media; however, less is known about video games.
Dunlap, Kelli, Kowert, Rachel
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La culture vidéoludique au Québec: Le besoin d’une histoire du jeu, de ses pratiques et de ses discours [PDF]
, 2021 How are video games discussed through time in the Belle Province? Do Quebecers share a common and specific video game culture? We try to answer those two questions in this paper through an analysis of Bibliothèque and Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ)
Lavigne, Francis
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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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Baba Is You: Doing Things With Words [PDF]
, 2021 Baba is you is a 2D electronic game in which the player-controlled character pushes word-blocks around in order to build sentences, which make up the rules governing the simulated environment.
Silva Campos, Simone
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Game Design and Affect: How Games Move Us as a Catalyst for Explorations in Game Studies [PDF]
, 2018 How Games Move Us: Emotion By Design is an introduction to the ways in which digital games and game studies are slowly encroaching on other territory; in this case, Isbister looks at the intersection of psychology, kinesthetics, design and games and how ...
Hugelmann, Christopher
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Disrupting video game distribution
Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 2019 This article analyses the disruptive potential of Valve’s game distribution platform, Steam, focusing specifically on how Steam has evolved into a de facto online social network and how Valve uses constant feature changes as part of its corporate ...
Werning Stefan
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Indie Eh? Some Kind of Game Studies. [PDF]
, 2012 This introduction to this special issue of Loading... considers the articles of the issue in the context of game studies’ growing interest in, and implication with, the cultures of independent game development and the ‘indie scene’ in general. ‘Indie’ is
Simon, Bart
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Building the perfect game – an empirical study of game modifications [PDF]
Empirical Software Engineering, 2020 Game developers cannot always meet the growing and changing needs of the gaming community, due to the often already overloaded schedules of developers. So-called modders can potentially assist game developers with addressing gamers' needs. Modders are enthusiasts who provide modifications or completely new content for a game.
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