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Design Recommendations for Improving Immersion in Role-Playing Video Games. A Focus on Storytelling and Localisation

Interaction Design and Architecture(s), 2023
This article investigates the role of storytelling in video game localisation and its impact on players’ immersion and overall gaming experience. While these topics have been extensively studied and developed within the research community, there is still
Vanessa Cesário, M. Ribeiro, A. Coelho
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Time, engagement and video games: How game design elements shape the temporalities of play in massively multiplayer online role‐playing games

Information Systems Journal, 2021
Researchers and developers constantly seek novel ways to create engaging applications that are able to retain their users over the long term, make them desire to spend time using the application or go back to using it after a break.
A. Rapp
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Using Video Games for Design Education: An Example of Developing Earthquake Scenarios for Home Environments

Journal of Design Studio, 2022
The heart of interior design/architecture education is design studios. As a design-based graduate program, the main objective of the International Masters of Interior Architecture and Design Program-(IMIAD) in Istanbul Technical University Graduate ...
Merve Oksuz, Ozge Cordan
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Nutritional Education and Promotion of Healthy Eating Behaviors Among Mexican Children Through Video Games: Design and Pilot Test of FoodRateMaster

JMIR Serious Games, 2020
Background Childhood obesity has risen dramatically in recent decades, reaching epidemic levels. Children need guidance on and support for maintaining a healthy diet and physical activity to ensure that they grow appropriately and develop healthy eating ...
I. Espinosa-Curiel, Edgar Efrén Pozas-Bogarin, Jorge Luis Lozano-Salas, J. Martínez-Miranda, Edwin Emeth Delgado-Pérez, Lizeth Stefania Estrada-Zamarron   +5 more
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Computational Thinking through Design Patterns in Video Games [PDF]

International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games, 2020
Prior research has explored potential applications of video games in programming education to elicit computational thinking skills. However, existing approaches are often either too general, not taking into account the diversity of genres and mechanisms ...
G. Barbero, M. G. Maureira, F. Hermans
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Video games, design, and aesthetic experience

, 2016
L’articolo colloca i videogiochi nell’area di cio che chiamo “esperienze progettate”. Le esperienze progettate sono esperienze – nel mondo reale o attraverso i media – che sono progettate per sollecitare specifici effetti o affetti.
J. Gee
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Behavioral design in video games

Games Res. Pract.
Game design has an impact on health and well-being. Due to their evolving capacities, young people and children are especially sensitive to the negative and positive impacts of media design choices.
M. Birk, Simone van der Hof, Antonius J. van Rooij   +2 more
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Join the Fold: Video Games, Science Fiction, and the Refolding of Citizen Science

Design Issues, 2023
This article explores the value of science fiction narratives in games for citizen science. Focusing on the protein-folding game Foldit, it describes the process of modifying and redesigning the game to feature a framing narrative and other alterations ...
C. Milburn, K. Buse, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Melissa A. Wills, Raida Aldosari, Patrick Camarador, J. Miller, Justin Siegel   +7 more
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Non-Euclidean Video Games: Exploring Player Perceptions and Experiences Inside Impossible Spaces

IEEE Transactions on Games
Non-Euclidean geometry has the potential to be used for novel interactions in video games and create virtual spaces that are not physically possible in the real world.
Daniil Osudin, Alena Denisova, Christopher Child   +2 more
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A model of heritage content to support the design and analysis of video games for history education

Journal of Computers in Education, 2018
In recent years, increasing academic attention has been focused on the educational potential of video games. Serious games for heritage applications have received much interest, and many examples are well documented in the literature. Many frameworks and
Laurence Hanes, R. Stone
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