Category Archives: Reseach

I have proposed, following Power and Dalgleish (1997), that emotional reactions to monsters in horror games are disgust-based, not purely fear-based in Goals, Affects, and Empathy in Computer Games (Lankoski, 2007) and in Hear-Raising Entertainment (Ekman, Lankoski, 2009). Power and Dalgleish (1997) argue that emotional reactions to snakes and spiders relate to disgust, not toContinue reading “Fear and Disgust”

A study by Daphne Bavelier, Alexandre Pouget, and C. Shawn Green suggest that players who play action make decision quicker, but as accurately others (in the study the control group was playing Sims). http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-09/uor-vgl091010.php

A study by Markey and Markey (2010) indicates that persons with high neuroticism, low agreeableness, and low conscientiousness personality traits are more likely be influences violent video games. Interestingly, in conclusions, they write: Although the incidences of violence, particularly school violence, linked to video games are alarming, what should perhaps surprise us more is thatContinue reading “A Study Links Personality Traits and Violent Video Game Effects”

Staffan Björk is building version 2.0 for game design patterns (http://www.ninja.sics.se/gdp2/). Staffan is also updating and adding patterns from my Character-Driven Game Design. I am looking forward to seeing how the patterns will change after Staffan’s update. Petri Lankoski likes Character-Driven Game Design Create your Like Badge

Now as my university is building a reward system, I need to voice my concerns on reward systems. First, how do you judge what is good research? One might not be able to comprehend the value of research beforehand. As an example, could anyone at George Boole’s time predict the importance of his work onContinue reading “Reward Systems in Univesities”