Video Games and Narrative
Narrative Archaeology:Excavating Object Identity in Lovecraftian Video Games
... Lovecraftian video game adaptations may often attempt to translate the inexplicable horrifying terror, their depiction of objects meanwhile deviates from their original textual ...Lovecraftian video ...
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The potential psychological benefits of Active Video Games in the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries and deficiencies: A narrative review of the literature
... Two distinct sources of article retrieval were used for this study: First, electronic database searches were employed. These included: Academic Search, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), CAB Abstracts, Cochrane ...
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The Role of Fantasy in Video Games: A Reappraisal
... of games that reap the greatest rewards from a deeper appreciation of ...makes games better, ...of narrative, on the other hand, might do well to consider that narrative—as we interpret it—may ...
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Video Games as an Art Form
... between games and ...that games so often ...its narrative and resounding ...of games, they could provide connections to the texts that they are teaching ...importantly, games with an ...
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barelyMusician: An Adaptive Music Engine For Video Games
... The primary focus of the evaluation was to assess the level of interactivity and recognition of mood that the user may experience when using the music generation system. Informal findings gathered from a preliminary ...
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Personality assessment through the use of video games
... a video game scenario that was designed using the pre-existing Neverwinter Nights (BioWare 2002) which is a modifiable role-play game (RPG) (Van Lankveld, Spronck, et ...the video game matched specific ...
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Optimising gamification with constructive competition and video games
... The major aim of this study has been to develop a new theory for the design and implementation of gamification within a higher education setting. Gamification is cheaper and more flexible than educational games, ...
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Video Games. A Critical Analysis. Lowell Monke
... In video game play, it is the child’s avatar, an image that the child partly controls from a distance, that makes the ...some video game advocates, this is seen as an attractive collaborative relationship ...
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Question Answering with Logic Specific to Video Games
... This paper presents a corpus and a knowledge database aiming at creating a Question-Answering system specific to a new context, the open world of a video game. Un- like many QA systems that are designed to answer ...
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Greetings Generation in Video Role Playing Games
... as feeling a sense of urgency. In addition we asked the subjects for a short self-evaluation of their ex- perience with video and role playing games as well as their experience with Skyrim. Out of seven ...
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Towards Procedural Generation of Narrative Puzzles for Adventure Games
... Abstract. Narrative puzzles involve exploration, logical thinking and progressing a ...a narrative design innovation in the form of a system for the procedural generation of such puzzles for use in ...
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GOOD VIDEO GAMES AND GOOD LEARNING
... 12. System Thinking. Games encourage players to think about relationships, not isolated events, facts, and skills. In a game like Rise of Nations, for instance, players need to think of how each action taken might ...
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Research and Educational Innovation with Video Games
... science-based video game. These work- shops used the video game as an educational tool to facilitate specific processes of creative ...of video games contribute to the construction of ...
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Enhancing Video Game Design: Involving Users into the Design of Video Games
... social video platform and communitie for ...recorded video on Twitch. The video can also be uploaded to YouTube, after which it becomes capable to download the video to a hard ...
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Resolution on Violence in Video Games and Interactive Media
... interactive video games suggests that the most popular video games contain aggressive and violent content; depict women and girls, men and boys, and minorities in exaggerated stereotypical ...
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A Review of Biomap Video Games, Part 1
... In particular, we show how deductive verification tools, and the combination of finite-state model checking and abstraction, allow the verification of infinite-state systems featuring da[r] ...
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Conceptual Model of Game Aesthetics for Perceived Learning in Narrative Games
... are games that tell stories of adventure and role- playing games thus created various game ...called narrative game is being discussed among ludologists and narrativists to provide a consensus on the ...
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Learning Theory, Video Games, and Popular Culture
... Even when players are not modifying games, they play them with goals in mind, the achievement of which counts as their ‘win state’. Players must carefully consider the design of the world and consider how it will ...
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A study on impact of video games on outdoor games with special reference to young generation, Erode
... and video games are a maturing medium and industry and have caught the attention of scholars across a variety of ...active video games that use control interfaces to perform physical actions ...
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Validity Threats in Quantitative Data Collection with Games : A Narrative Survey
... Action. Games are one of the few social contexts in which ruthlessly rational, strategic, self-interested action is allowed and even desired: a player who doesn’t try hard to calculate and take optimal moves in ...
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