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DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Games for Learning: Are Schools Ready for What's to Come?
Games Studies is still a relatively new field where much basic research remains to be done. This study asks K-12 teachers about their attitudes towards the use of games for teachi...
Katrin Becker, Michele Jacobsen
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
How Are Games Educational? Learning Theories Embodied in Games
Through the combined efforts of many dedicated researchers across the globe, the “message” of the value of games for learning is starting to be heard in formal education, but ...
Katrin Becker
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Pretty good for a girl: gender, identity and computer games
Young people’s participation in online digital culture is one of the most efficient means by which they become proficient in the management of Information and Communications Tec...
Catherine Beavis
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Opening the Production Pipeline: Unruly Creators
This paper explores the implications and uptakes of game developers’ increasing reliance on the creative labour of fan content creators. It draws on an ethnographic account of A...
John Banks
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
New Design Methods for Activist Gaming
Mary Flanagan, Helen Nissenbaum, Daniel C. Howe
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
B.Sc. Computer Game Development ... Why not?
We were motivated to consider proposing/adopting a new curriculum by the decrease in student enrolments currently experienced by our computing science programs. This requirement f...
Libero Ficocelli, David Gregg
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Short and Simple Definition of What a Videogame Is
Videogames have been studied seriously only for a few years. So, we can wonder how we could use the recent academic works to approach new design methods. This article proposes a f...
Nicolas Esposito
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Towards the unification of intuitive and formal game concepts with applications to computer chess
A general technique is proposed to deal with the formalization of intuition and human-oriented concepts in competition thinking games like chess, such as defensive play, attack, t...
Ariel Arbiser
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Immersion in Game Atmospheres for the Video Game Heritage Preservation
The video game heritage is being preserved especially on the Web: comments, screenshots, sounds, videos, etc. But one important element is missing: the environment in which we pla...
Nicolas Esposito