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DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Push. Play: An Examination of the Gameplay Button
At the center of the video game experience is the interface. Before a player grabs the first powerup or meets the first obstacle, the would-be-adventurer must accept the limitatio...
Stephen Griffin
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 6 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
ACMACE
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Motivation-driven educational game design: applying best practices to music education
Building upon research on motivation theory, we provide insights on how video games can be framed as expert tools that naturally reconcile learning and fun, a worthy goal since st...
Guillaume Denis, Pierre Jouvelot
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A video game-based framework for analyzing human-robot interaction: characterizing interface design in real-time interactive mul
There is growing interest in mining the world of video games to find inspiration for human-robot interaction (HRI) design. This paper segments video game interaction into domain-i...
Justin Richer, Jill L. Drury
EUROPAR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Searching for Concurrent Design Patterns in Video Games
The transition to multicore architectures has dramatically underscored the necessity for parallelism in software. In particular, while new gaming consoles are by and large multicor...
Micah J. Best, Alexandra Fedorova, Ryan Dickie, An...