Game studies methodologies which focus on the visual, narrative, and semiotic content of digital games overlook the way that embodied perception and physiological response contrib...
Instead of confining the player to a single role, the active participator model positions the player in a more flexible position towards the fictional gameworld: involved and imme...
Like many massively-multiplayer role-playing games, Final Fantasy XI is a persistent world with a heroic fantasy setting. This paper discusses fictive player identities, and descr...
Hannamari Saarenp?? University of Tampere Kanslerinrinne 1 33014 Tampereen Yliopisto, Finland hannamari.saarenpaa@uta.fi Hannu Korhonen Nokia Research P.O. Box 1000 00045 Nokia Gro...
We study coalitional games where the value of cooperation among the agents are solely determined by the attributes the agents possess, with no assumption as to how these attribute...