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Ludocity: Pervasive Games, Street Games and New Sports

jstone — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:14:00 -0400

Ludocity is a collection of pervasive games, street games and new sports - social forms of play that take place in public spaces, such as city streets, parks and public buildings. Tagged by jstone under game.studies, game.design, reference, repository, community, wiki, open.content,

Well Played 1.0: Video Game, Value and Meaning

jstone — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:42:00 -0400

This book is full of in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. 22 contributors (developers, scholars, reviewers and bloggers) look at video games through both senses of “well played.” Tagged by jstone under book, reference, videogames, game.studies, research, creative.commons, open.content,

Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências dos Videojogos

jstone — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:52:00 -0400

Tagged by jstone under game.studies, research, community, portugal, conference, reference, paper, repository, videogames,

Values at Play

jstone — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:55:00 -0400

Our ambition is to harness the power of video games in the service of humanistic principles. Aware of the tremendous and wide-ranging impact games have in our world, the “Values at Play (VAP) research project seeks to assist and encourage designers in creating games that further the understanding and appreciation of such values as equality, diversity, creativity, and many more. Tagged by jstone under videogames, game.design, reference, research, game.studies, serious.games, education, activism, repository,

Curtis Johnson: Art vs Entertainment

jstone — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:27:00 -0400

Tagged by jstone under article, digital.art, game.studies, culture, theory, research, reference,

IEEE Task Force on Game Technologies (TFGT) - Publications

jstone — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:16:00 -0500

A significant bibliography of game technology and game studies references is being constructed. It's a work in progress, but here are links to the relevant pages as they exist at this moment. Tagged by jstone under research, videogames, repository, paper, game.studies,

Digiplay Initiative | Understanding Digital Games

jstone — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:32:00 -0500

The Digiplay Initiative is a research collective specializing in consumer research in the areas of digital games, adoption of technologies, online well-being and intellectual property crime. It undertakes commercial and academic research as well as providing online information services to the research community. Focusing closely on users we have developed a multi-discipline and multi-method approach to academic and commercial research. We explore the links between technology, innovation and consumer practice in order to get to the heart of consumer attitudes, motivations and change. Tagged by jstone under videogames, sociology, game.studies, research, repository, statistics, marketing, reference,

playbe's playce

jstone — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:30:00 -0500

Steffen P Walz's personal homepage. A great example of using videogames as a web content interface. Tagged by jstone under portfolio, web, design, videogames, human.computer.interaction, game.studies, experimental, inspiration, game.design, user.interfaces,

Game Design Essentials: 20 Mysterious Games

jstone — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:40:00 -0500

Tagged by jstone under article, reference, game.design, game.studies, classic, videogames, history,

Game Design Essentials: 20 Unusual Control Schemes

jstone — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:02:00 -0500

Tagged by jstone under game.design, videogames, history, classic, game.studies, human.computer.interaction, interaction.design,

Game Design Essentials: 20 Open World Games

jstone — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:08:00 -0500

Tagged by jstone under game.design, game.studies, videogames, history, classic, reference,

Game Design Essentials: 20 Difficult Games

jstone — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:36:00 -0500

Tagged by jstone under article, videogames, game.design, game.studies, history, classic, reference,

Values At Play

jstone — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:58:00 -0500

Our ambition is to harness the power of video games in the service of humanistic principles. Aware of the tremendous and wide-ranging impact games have in our world, the “Values at Play (VAP) research project seeks to assist and encourage designers in creating games that further the understanding and appreciation of such values as equality, diversity, creativity, and many more. Tagged by jstone under videogames, game.design, game.studies, activism, research, repository, collaboration,

Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture

jstone — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:51:00 -0400

Tagged by jstone under journal, research, videogames, game.studies, culture, sociology, open.access,

Journal of Game Development

jstone — Wed, 09 May 2007 07:45:00 -0400

Tagged by jstone under journal, game.development, reference, research, game.design, game.studies,

Gameplay Deconstruction: Elements and Layers

jstone — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:11:00 -0400

Tagged by jstone under article, research, game.design, language, notation, visualization, game.studies,

RAPUNSEL

jstone — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:14:00 -0500

Rapunsel is single-player dance game designed to teach computer programming to 10-12 year olds. The project was started with the goal of empowering young girls to learn programming as a way of addressing the critical shortage of women in technology related careers and degree programs. By giving players the opportunity to explore coding through scaffolded challenges in a playful world, we hope to empower young people to learn about computer science. It is a cross platform, downladable game created in the Torque game engine. Tagged by jstone under programming, education, videogames, serious.games, research, free, game.studies, activism,

Without a Goal

jstone — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:33:00 -0500

Tagged by jstone under paper, game.design, game.studies,

Roger Caillois' Patterns of Play

jstone — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:35:00 -0500

Tagged by jstone under sociology, psychology, game.studies, research, article,

Principles of Virtual Sensation

jstone — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:41:00 -0500

This paper explores the underlying principles that govern the “feel” of controlling something in a game. Just as the “Principles of Animation” guide good animation, these principles of virtual sensation are intended to guide good-feeling gameplay Tagged by jstone under article, research, game.design, game.studies, psychology, human.computer.interaction,