Game Research Highlights
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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Game Research Highlights
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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Through a Shot Glass, Darkly: The Study of Games in the Light of Drinking Games
| 8.2.2017
Drinking games have been long overlooked in the field of game studies, despite what their study has to offer.
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Is Every Indie Game Independent? Towards the Concept of Independent Game
| 18.1.2017
Exploring the “indie” aesthetic, and what it means to be an independent developer.
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Game developing through Artificial Intelligence
| 17.1.2017
Scheherazade-IF is becoming the ultimate Narrative Generating System that’s here to revolutionize story-based games
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Self-Reflexivity and Humor in Adventure Games
| 17.1.2017
The role of self- conscious humor in adventure game design
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BioGraphr: Playing with bacteria
| 13.12.2016
Can biotechnology produce games? The BioGraphr project attemps to prove exactly that #BioticGames
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