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DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
"You Shoot Like A Girl!": The Female Protagonist in Action-Adventure Video Games
This paper was inspired by the popularity of female video game protagonists despite girls’ and women’s continued hesitance to participate in digital gaming activities. The pil...
Sara M. Grimes
DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
The Diverse Worlds of Computer Games: A Content Analysis of Spaces, Populations, Styles and Narratives
The Diverse Worlds Project analysed 130 computer and video games (CVGs) to understand their textual landscape. Titles were sampled from the five gaming platforms dominant in 2002....
Jeffrey E. Brand, Scott Knight, Jakub Majewski
DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Together we brand: America's Army
Shenja van der Graaf, David B. Nieborg
DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Game Design Patterns
We present a model to support the design, analysis, and comparison of games through the use of game design patterns, descriptions of reoccurring interaction relevant to game play....
Staffan Björk, Sus Lundgren, Jussi Holopainen
DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Describing Games: An Interaction-Centric Structural Framework
We present a structural framework to describe games in terms of components. The components are divided into four major areas: meta-structure, bounding, narrative and objective. Th...
Staffan Björk, Jussi Holopainen
DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Uncle Roy all around you: mixing games and theatre on the city streets
We describe Uncle Roy All Around You, a mixture of game and theatre that took place in central London in late May and early June of 2003. Street players, equipped with handheld co...
Martin Flintham, Rob Anastasi, Steve Benford, Adam...
DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Power and control of games: children as the actors of game cultures
The primary aim of this paper is to look into the game related practices and significances of games. This perspective is applied to examining the pleasures derived from different ...
Laura Ermi, Frans Mäyrä
DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
The Construction of Ludic Space
Most modern graphics-based computer games entertain the player in part by presenting him or her with a simulated space, an imaginary two- or threedimensional region whose visual a...
Ernest Adams