The Stanley Parable makes the gameplay unfamiliar in the right way
The effect of poetic gameplay can be undermined by unnecessary difficulties related to story or mechanics.
Topical game research articles picked up and referenced by PlayLab! writers.
Autcraft – A digital playfield for children with autism
Autcraft is a modded Minecraft server created to provide a safe place for autistic children to play.
The Popular Memory of Trench Warfare of WWI Is Often not Engaged in Video Games
Popular memory of WWI is something that video-games are scared to engage In his article “It’s Hard to Play in the Trenches: World War I, Collective Memory and Videogames”, Adam…
Players Don’t Reflect Themselves into their Avatars
Avatars don’t seem to be projection of the identity of the player In his article “Getting Into the Game: An Examination of Player Personality Projection in Videogame Avatars” Casey Hart…
Access to play denied – or is it?
In order to play a game your body needs to adapt to the game’s interface. What about those bodies that can’t? In his article “Game Interfaces as Disabling Infrastructures” David…
game controller
What Happens If We Make Gamification Customizable?
Pushing the envelope of gamification just a little bit more.
Considering play: From method to analysis
The methods of gamestudy: formalism vs situationism and more
Following the footsteps of sex toys
To make gaming experience more pervasive, game controllers need to be redesigned to better include body to playing.
Pokémon Go Further
The global phenomenon Pokémon Go doesn’t use the full potential of pervasive gaming.
Defcon (Introversion Software) taken from Steam
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Just War: Ethical Issues Surrounding Warfare
Zagal’s article focuses on some of the different ways that war is represented and portrayed in videogames
Enlightenment
Videogame consumption: The apophatic dimension
Can spiritual concepts be applied to videogames – the case of the apophatic
Integrating games into the art world
Integrating games into the art world: A case study of Jason Rohrer’s games The question “are video games art?” has caused a lot of discussion and debate over the last…
Developing Players, Playing Developers: User Content in Little Big Planet
LittleBigPlanet or LBP is an example of a participatory and a convergence culture whose users show a strongly socially-oriented attitude to technology.
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The Emancipated Player Creates Meaning and Enjoys the Game
Introducing an open-minded and critical player type Different players enjoy different things in video games, but a certain type of player actively strives to create meaning and wants to experience…
Narratives of Escape Rooms
Some escape rooms are experimenting with ways of bringing new genres into the scene In their article titled ’Escape Rooms and the Seductive Ubiquity of Capture’ published in Analog Game…
That Dragon, Cancer on harvinainen peli: se ei trivialisoi kuolemaa
That Dragon, Cancer pelissä kuolema ei ole osa mekaniikkaa vaan osa tarinaa.
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