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The Digital Games Research Association: the international association of academics and professionals who study digital games. Its Digital Library holds the proceedings of the DiGRA conferences since 2002.

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To Get Help, Please Press X: The Rise of the Assistance Paradigm in Video Game Design

The Rise of the Assistance Paradigm in Video Guest lecturer, Université de Montréal The first generation of video games are known to be tremendously challenging.

DiGRAJan 2011
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Can't Stop the Signal?: The Design of the Dutch Firefly LARP

The Design of the Dutch Firefly LARP [email protected] In this paper, I analyze the design of a Dutch live-action role-playing game (LARP), based on the television series Firefly.

DiGRAJan 2011
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The End of the Rainbow: In Search of Crossing Points Between Organizations and Games

The End of the Rainbow: In search of Nyenrode Business Universiteit 3621 BG Breukelen, The Netherlands Against the backdrop of an unstable economic and social environment, managers and scholars of organization have been taking an increasing interest in computer games as a source of inspiration.

DiGRAJan 2011
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Casual Mobile Gameplay: On Integrated Practices of Research, Design and Play

integrated practices of research, Zentrum für Informatik und Medientechnologien Iaroslav Sheptykin, Barbara Grüter, Annika Worpenberg, Andreas Lochwitz, David Oswald, Heide-Rose Vatterrott Zentrum für Informatik und Medientechnologien [email protected], [email protected] The Mobile Game Lab is a…

DiGRAJan 2011
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Why Gamers Don't Learn More: An Ecological Approach to Games as Learning Environments

An ecological approach to games as learning environments ABSTRACT The idea is thus that schools could learn from the game industry This paper criticizes the argument that video games by their nature about how to facilitate learning.

DiGRAJan 2010
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And Justice for All: The 10 Commandments of Online Games, and Then Some

And Justice for All - the 10 commandments of Online Magnus Johansson Harko Verhagen Department of Computer and Systems Sciences Department of Computer and Systems Sciences Stockholm University Stockholm University Forum 100, 164 40 Kista, SWEDEN Forum 100, 164 40 ...

DiGRAJan 2010
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Review on Psychophysiological Methods in Game Research

Review on psychophysiological methods in game J. Matias Kivikangas, Inger Ekman, Guillaume Chanel, Simo Järvelä, Ben Cowley, Mikko Salminen, Pentti Henttonen, Niklas Ravaja Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research, Aalto University [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] ABSTRACT theory behind the…

DiGRAJan 2010
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Glitch Game Testers: African American Men Breaking Open the Console

Glitch Game Testers: African American Men Breaking Betsy James DiSalvo1 , Mark Guzdail1 , Tom Mcklin2 , Charles Meadows3 , Kenneth Perry3 , Corey Steward1 , Amy Bruckman1 1. Georgia Institute of Technology 2.

DiGRAJan 2009
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Let Me Entertain You: Designing for Surveillance and Online Gaming

Let Me Entertain You: Designing for Surveillance and Deirdre Devers Stephanie Wilson City University London City University London Northampton Square Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB London, EC1V 0HB [email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT 1.

DiGRAJan 2009
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Newsgames: Procedural Rhetoric Meets Political Cartoons

Newsgames: Procedural Rhetoric meets Political Cartoons Mike Treanor Michael Mateas University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California, 95064 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California, 95064 [email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT ...

DiGRAJan 2009