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International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.Abstract In Tower Defense (TD) games, the objective is to defend a specific point on the game map from mobile units by constructing towers with offensive capabilities. In this work, we focus on Bloons Tower Defense (Bloons TD), one of the earliest and most prominent TD games.
Maxence Delorme, Jakub Malinowski
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photographies, 2021 This article explores “the play element in photography”, to adapt a key phrase from Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens (1938).
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Intentionalism, anti‐Intentionalism and conversational interaction
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Proponents as well as opponents of modeling aesthetic interpretation on conversation tend to assume that this implies that the author's intention constitutes the meaning of her work and that the aim of interpretation consists in recovering it.
Palle Leth
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Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 2305-2331, September 2026.Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
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Literacy, Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to discuss the potentialities of open‐ended board games for story generation in educational contexts. We have analysed story prototypes created through D‐Stories, a collective storytelling game designed for this project.
Antoni Roig Telo +2 more
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Etymology and entomology: The semiotics and ethics of multispecies gene nomenclatures
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract This article examines controversies surrounding gene names that are perceived as humorous in the context of fruit flies but are considered rude in the clinical context of human medicine. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in insect laboratories, interviews with entomologists and geneticists, and an analysis of scientific and clinical ...
Colin M. E. Halverson
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 1003-1019, July 2026.Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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Ludic interfaces. Driver and product of gamification
G|A|M|E The Italian Journal of Game Studies, 2012 The recent success of non-standard and playful interface devices like Wii Remote, Move, and Kinect is an indicator of a process that demonstrates that ludic interfaces might be the core driver for a transformation in the sector of video games cultures ...
Mathias Fuchs
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IN PURSUIT OF THE HOFFMANNESQUE
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 298-310, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article seeks to elucidate the term ‘Hoffmannesque’ — the eponymous adjective that refers to E. T. A. Hoffmann — through recourse to Hoffmann's own use of ‘esque’ words: arabesque, grotesque, burlesque, picturesque. By investigating the characteristics of ‘esque’ formulations and tracing their recurrence through Hoffmann's texts, I argue ...
Polly Dickson
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TerminusThe aim of this article is to outline the characteristics of the troubadouresque model of masculinity based on cases from 12th- and 13th-century poetry.The troubadouresque model of masculinity was ...
Michał Sawczuk
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