Game-based learning has received considerable attention for the teaching of subjects such as Math and Science. For the teaching of foreign languages, however, the field is still in its infancy as the proliferation of gamification topples meaningful and ...

Which is more important: the business of games, the design of a game, or the way players play a game? Unfortunately, we face the problem that our answers tend to depend on our disciplinary background.

As an example, what kind of thing are independent ...

How can new materialism and non-human agency inform game design research? Through a process of game-design-as-research, the hybrid setting creation game Primal Clay offers one possible answer. In Primal Clay, human players collaborate with Hydrostone ...

Procedural Music Generation in Games (PMGG) can enrich the playing experience by providing both entertainment and communication to the player. We present a system that generates unique procedural thematic music for non-player characters (NPC) based on ...

Research has shown that serious games can influence players’ attitudes, often based on either flow experience or identification with game characters. Studies showed that identification with game characters resulted in players aligning their view with ...

The main barrier that prevents players from playing games with the pay-to-play (P2P) business model is the price of the game that they have to pay to own or play the game. Games with a free-to-play (F2P) business model, this barrier does not exist. In ...

Prior research has explored potential applications of video games in programming education to elicit computational thinking skills. However, existing approaches are often either too general, not taking into account the diversity of genres and ...

This paper considers the ways in which game making may be a means for deeply analyzing literary and artistic works. This work is done through a game design postmortem of La Mancha, a storytelling card game based on Miguel de Cervantes’ 1605 novel Don ...

Boardgames exist that explicitly address Computational Thinking (CT for short) concepts and practices. Some are actual games, while others are more akin to gamified learning activities. And since CT has been formalized only recently, many existing ...

Game design can have a positive impact on children's game literacy skills, on domain specific knowledge, and on cognitive skills such as problem solving. This paper reports a participatory game design activity involving early childhood education ...

The nature of ‘reading’ different types of texts, across all media, is fundamentally beholden to the concept of ‘literacy’. The concept of literacy is well established in media studies–from books, to film, and visual, performing and interactive arts–and ...

With hybrid board games rising in popularity and game AI algorithms becoming more sophisticated, there is potential in involving AI to create novel game experiences and tools that can support developers. However, examples of hybrid board games that ...

Tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) and procedural content generators can both be understood as systems of rules for producing content. In this paper, we argue that TTRPG design can usefully be viewed as procedural content generator design. We present ...

As of 2020, the international workshop on Procedural Content Generation enters its second decade. The annual workshop, hosted by the international conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, has collected a corpus of 95 papers published in its ...

This paper explores gamers’ perceptions of Fortnite streamers’ YouTube videos specifically exploring how players perceive Fortnite streamers as influencers and how these internal perceptions shape their experience of the streamers’ videos and their own ...

What distinguishes a good AI opponent from a bad one in the eyes of players? To answer this question, hundreds of opinions were analysed, as expressed by strategy-game players in forums; from these, a grounded theory was formed. It was found that the AI’...

Players in modern Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games progress through ambitiously designed narratives, but have no real influence on the game, since only their characters’ data, not the game environment, persists. Although earlier games ...

To recognize satire, the audience must be aware of the context and the satirical intent of the work in question. Academic research on the possibilities and effects of satire in games is minimal, if compared with other rhetorical uses of playful ...

Interactive narratives are widely used to frame and contextualize education in games. However, the specifics of how their designs aid the learning process and outcomes remains relatively unexplored. To better understand this space, a study was ...

Not only have virtual currencies in digital games from the pre-Blockchain era helped to understand digital currency systems, but the idea that digital objects can have monetary value is a question of faith that has been expressed primarily through the ...