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…
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.
Enlightenment
Videogame consumption: The apophatic dimension
Can spiritual concepts be applied to videogames – the case of the apophatic
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…
Lads like Call of Duty: The statistical analysis of video game preferences
From fans of FIFA to those who enjoy The Sims, there is plenty to analyze about gaming preferences. In their article "The Structure of Video Game Preference", Rune Klevjer and…
Canonizing Bioshock: Cultural Value and the Prestige Game
The cultural value of Bioshock : the poster child of prestige games Felan Parker explores in his article “Canonizing Bioshock: Cultural Value and the Prestige Game” how Bioshock (2007) exemplifies…
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The Limitations of Gameplay in Games Examining the JFK Assassination Cause Players to Challenge the Official Historical Narrative
JFKreloaded and Call of Duty depict one of the JFK assassination in a way that creates uncertainty The assassination of John F. Kennedy has been depicted in multiple forms of…
What is strafe jumping?
From bug to a feature: strafejumping and the legacy of Quake engine bugs. Strafe jumping is a technique that allows Quake players to achieve a speed level normally unobtainable in…
The Pokémon Go Effect: An Urban Planner’s Best Friend
How much does this mobile phenomenon really affect our daily lives? Could Pokemon Go make playgrounds out of cities? Pokémon Go, the location-based mobile augmented reality game developed by Niantic…
Make a game, ???, profit – The art of selling indie titles
To make money it’s not enough that an indie developer has a good game, there’s also a need for marketing skills.
Näkökulmia pelaamisen aikaiseen kehollisuuteen – tarkastelussa pelitutkimuksen artikkeli
Jana Rambusch laajentaa esseessään pelin aikaisen kehollisuuden tarkastelun itsestään selvien ruumiinliikkeiden ulkopuolelle.
Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? Avatar Identification as a Contributing Factor in Game Addiction
Research suggests that avatar identification can be a stepping stone towards online game addiction.
Never mind the vampires, here’s glitch horror
Glitch horror utilizes the fallibility of technology as the source of its horrors.
Papers, Please succeeds in replicating Weber’s Iron Cage of Bureaucracy in Video Game Form
The depiction of bureaucracy in Papers, Please reflects the ideas of Max Weber. Glory to Arstotzka!