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My Email System is Kaput

My university decided to outsource the email system and management, and transfer took place at last weekend. The consequence of the transfer is that I am not currently receiving any emails. I hope that that the email service will be up soonish. Meanwhile, I can be contacted by phone or facebook. Update: it seems thatContinue reading “My Email System is Kaput”

Situated Play Papers

DiGRA 2007 Situated Play Conference papers are now available at the digital library of DiGRA (http://www.digra.org/dl/order_by_author?publication=Situated%20Play)

A Paper Accepted to GDTW

A paper Gameplay Design Patterns for Social Networks and Conflicts by Staffan Björk and me was accepted to The Fifth Annual International Conference in Game Design and Technology (Liverpool, 14–15 Nov, 2007). Here is the abstract: This paper explores how games can be designed to make the social networks of characters as part of theContinue reading “A Paper Accepted to GDTW”

DiGRA 2007 & Game Characters

This post contains notes and my comments on papers relating to game characters (presented at Situated Play, DiGRA 2007 conference).

All Games Are Educational?

University of Toronto researchers have discovered that differences between men and women on some tasks that require spatial skills are largely eliminated after both groups play a video game for only a few hours. (Elias, 2007) So study implies that games can help to improve skills from driving to math. There were also a studyContinue reading “All Games Are Educational?”

New Journal & CFP

There is a new journal International Journal of Role-Playing and they have a call for papers out for the first number (deadline January 1st, 2008).

Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture

New open access journal Eludamos: Journal for computer game culture has published their first number.

Gameplay Design Patterns for Believable Non-Player Characters

Petri Lankoski Media Lab University of Art and Design Helsinki Staffan Björk Interaction Design Collegium Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University Situated Play, Proceedings of DiGRA 2007 Conference (c) 2007 Authors & Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). Personal and educational classroom use of this paper is allowed, commercial use requiresContinue reading “Gameplay Design Patterns for Believable Non-Player Characters”

New MOGAME Paper

Inger Ekman will be presenting a paper Sound-Based Gaming for Sighted Audiences – Experiences from a Mobile Multiplayer Mobile Gaming In Audio Mostly 2007 conference. As you may figure out, the paper is about the sound design of The Songs of North game, especially it’s second version.

Research on Fear using Games

Note for myself. Dig out the research mentionened in Video game sheds light on fear. BBC mentiontion that one of the authors is Dean Mobbs of University College London and the piece was published in Science.