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?”
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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.
Are Games Expression or Art?
I watched document Sex and the Silverscreen that was about the history of film expression, censorship and presentation of sex in film. Quotes and anecdotes from 10’s to 40’s sounded very familiar: they were similar to arguments that games are not a form expression and arguments for censoring games. US supreme court rule 1915 thatContinue reading “Are Games Expression or Art?”
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