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 ...

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 ...

Game balancing is one of the most challenging features to be implemented in a typical game design process. Approaches for evaluating and achieving game balancing include extensive playtesting - which typically requires several iterations of games with ...

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 ...

This paper introduces a new system to design constructive level generators by searching the space of constructive level generators defined by Marahel language. We use NSGA-II, a multi-objective optimization algorithm, to search for generators for three ...

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 ...

Much work has been done on educational games, game-based learning, and gamification in recent years, exploring how games may benefit learning. However, the reverse relationship has yet to be fully explored—how can educational psychology and pedagogy ...

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 ...

Over the past few years scientific research has opened up to the idea of using digital games for human-based studies. Fields such as Neuroscience, Medical and Affective Computing are currently using games to study human-based phenomena. Even though a ...

Game design is emerging in contemporary education, especially in constructionist curricula for student-centered and discovery learning. While previous work focused on assessing how complementary skills (e.g., computational thinking) develop through game ...