Game Research Highlights
Problematic Themes of Colonialism in Board Games
| 6.7.2017
Goa and Navegador depict colonialist empire-building without violence.
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Category: Game Research Highlights
Game Research Highlights
How Video Games Help People Make Better Decisions
| 5.7.2017
From misguided beliefs about global warming to side effects of vaccination, biased decision making can wreak havoc. But how does gaming make us better decision makers?
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Vaporware and Design Fiction
| 4.7.2017
Unreleased products and unfulfilled promises help us speculate and discuss the possibilities of the future.
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News (En)ga(ge)me(nt) Design
| 29.6.2017
How to make journalism more engaging by applying approaches from serious game design?
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Platform Studies and Computational Essentialism
| 28.6.2017
Platform studies would benefit from including analog games into the scope of the framework.
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Days Gone By: Nostalgia in Game Design
| 15.5.2017
Nostalgia can rise from the most mundane things and drive players to explore.
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The Precursors of Escape Room Design
| 28.4.2017
Escape rooms combine digital and non-digital game ideas.
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Identification in the Apocalypse
| 27.4.2017
Identification in The Walking Dead is a fluid, ongoing process.
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4x Gamer as Myth: Understanding through Player Mythologies
| 25.4.2017
4X gamer as a player mythology.
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Capitalism and Unfairness in Competitive Board Games
| 24.4.2017
Games offer a good medium for critical reflection of social inequality.
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Making games for philosophy
| 21.4.2017
Self-reflexive videogames as tools for philosophy is a thought-provoking experiment.
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The Dark Side of E-Sports
| 20.4.2017
What does a French intellectual born 100+ years ago think about League of Legends?
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The Allure of Struggle and Failure in Cooperative Board Games
| 19.4.2017
Failing together is fun.
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Critical alternative journalism from the perspective of game journalists
| 18.4.2017
Alternative gamejournalism : Is the new watch dog of the gaming industry all bark and no bite?
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Postcolonialism, Case: Civilization V
| 12.4.2017
Civilization V is biased, imperialist and silences contrary voices. Like real history.
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ASCII Graphics in Roguelikes
| 31.3.2017
Nostalgia and old-school gameplay philosophy dictate the complex conventions of roguelikes
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Bridging the Gap: The Neo Geo, the Media Imaginary, and the Domestication of Arcade Games
| 30.3.2017
Domesticating the arcade experience: the story of Neo Geo
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Fear and Loathing in Barovia
| 28.3.2017
Curse of Strahd as an exploration of trauma and abuse.
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The perfect ethical competition
| 22.2.2017
Transforming violence into meaningful struggle in multiplayer games #ethics #ganking #trash-talk #multiplayer
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Teaching German Literature Through Larp
| 22.2.2017
Edu-larps may be just the thing for making German Studies more hands-on.
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