Toward A Game Citation and Reference Workbench
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Abstract
Over the last few years, substantial progress has been made both in citation standards for interactive media and in technologies to support easy collection, reference, and sharing of citations of interactive works. We are developing a suite of software tools based on these emerging standards and are making them accessible to digital game scholars.
To enable this new approach to game scholarship, we have produced an online database supporting tens of thousands of game software records on several major 1980s-1990s PC operating systems, home game consoles, and handheld game devices; a tool for playing games in the browser to produce citations of moments in games and performances of games; and a JavaScript library to embed interactive citations of interactive media in line with regular HTML documents.
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DOI:10.1145/3649921
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