Forgot to blog about New Research Perspectives on Game Design and Development Education workshop paper. Hartmut Koenitz, Christian Roth, Elisa D. Mekler, Staffan Björk, Petri Lankoski, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Annakaisa Kultima, & Ben Medler Abstract Research into the design aspect of games has proliferated since the early 1970s. Currently, early historical overviews appear and categoricalContinue reading “Methods, History, and Impact: Directions in Game Design Research”
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2018 DiGRA Distinguished Scholar
I have the honor to be selected as one of 2018 DiGRA Distinguished Scholars. In 2016 DiGRA established the Distinguished Scholars program to recognize senior scholars in the field of game studies who have been at the forefront of the development of rigorous scholarship, the establishment of game studies and game development programs, and whoContinue reading “2018 DiGRA Distinguished Scholar”
A simple save system in Unity
Saving game data is a task that I need regularly. Using serialization and writing data to a file is an approach that I have used much, but that does not work in WebGL builds. Instead, I wrote data in a PlayerPrefs string. In this way I do not need to keep a details about whatContinue reading “A simple save system in Unity”
Measuring aggression, the effects of violent games (and other media)
According to Anderson et al. (2010) there is a link between violent games and aggressive behavior. However, that meta-analysis has been criticized. In addition, studies have found little evidence that violent games relates to violent behavior in real life, for example, as aggravated assault or homicide. (see my previous post). Again, this is not aContinue reading “Measuring aggression, the effects of violent games (and other media)”
Violent game effects?
This is not anything like systematic review, but more notes for myself. The long debate of how violent games effect on behavior. Anderson, et al. (2010) argue that there are violent games increase aggression and lower empathy: The evidence strongly suggests that exposure to violent video games is a causal risk factor for increased aggressiveContinue reading “Violent game effects?”
A brief history on how a new thing are bad for you
In 1795, author J. G. Heinzmann insisted that such devotion [to novels] caused “weakening of the eyes, heat rashes, gout, arthritis, hemorrhoids, asthma, apoplexy, pulmonary disease, indigestion, blocking of the bowels, nervous disorder, migraines, epilepsy, hypochondria and melancholy.”Anslow (2016) Anslow covers stuff that what is claimed to be bad for you from novels to comicsContinue reading “A brief history on how a new thing are bad for you”
Embodiment in character-based video games
Petri Lankoski This is author’s version of the paper. The authoritative version is available via ACM.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2994310.2994320. The paper is presented at AcademicMindtrek’16, October 17-18, 2016, Tampere, Finland (c) 2016 ACM. ISBN978-1-4503-4367-1/16/10… and published in the conference proceedings. Abstract Embodiment is used to denote the sense that something is a part of one’s body. TheContinue reading “Embodiment in character-based video games”
Confidence intervals & credible intervals
This is a note for me. Confidence intervals: “Are the observed data x reasonable given the hypothesised values of θ?” == P(θ| x) vs Credible intervals: “What values of θ are reasonable given the observed data x?” == P(x| θ) Those are related as “P(θ| x) = P(θ)P(x| θ)” Credible intervals are part of Bayesian approach. http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/2272/whats-the-difference-between-a-confidence-interval-and-a-credible-interval
2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,300 times in 2015. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here toContinue reading “2015 in review”
About my formal education & stuff
As there seems to be some interest of my eduction, I thought to add a short note about that so that this is out here. I have Masters degree in New Media (art & design). That degree includes 60-70% computer science, mathematics, and multimedia (that was at that time formal languages, signal processing, virtual reality, etc.).Continue reading “About my formal education & stuff”
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