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Anthropology, defined as the scientific study of human development and societies, can play a critical role in the design of (video) game mechanics and aesthetics. Especially religion and culture are seen as fundamental components in building communities, ...

In this paper, we explore the use of brain-computer interface (BCI)-adapted visual effects to support atmosphere in a walking simulator, and investigate its impact on player-reported immersive experience. While players were using a keyboard or joystick ...

The game design community has a long history of adapting different forms of AI techniques to produce new playable experiences. However, current AI-based game design literature focuses primarily on designers’ intent and expression. This paper argues that ...

We explore the future of synchronous, multiplayer mobile AR gaming through our game V-Light, which extends current mobile AR game capacities using edge computing. Mobile AR games are currently limited by on-board processing power, while offloading ...

Tabletop Role-Playing Games (TTRPGs) offer players the opportunity to form imaginary gameworlds and stories within them, create community, solve problems, and explore identity. Designers and researchers have tried to identify how aspects of TTRPGs ...

Research in multiple fields have examined how video games shape behavior. Specifically, one area of research indicates that prosocial video game play (game play that features helping as a core mechanic) impacts subsequent prosocial behaviors, affect, ...

Fighting games can have barriers to entry as a result of the competency and skill needed to understand the mechanics and objectives of play. One of the key challenges in fighting game design is to teach players how to attain competency. The most common ...

Alternative game controllers — physical input mechanisms for interactive media that are distinct from traditional handheld controllers or computer inputs — are a continuing presence in commercial and academic games fields. Many of these works, presented ...

In creative roleplaying games, game masters take on many roles, including keeping track of the game’s story, remembering past actions, and improvising new content based on player choices and desires. This dynamic storytelling can be quite difficult, ...

Although multiple models have been proposed to explain what motivates different players to engage with digital games, the domain of tabletop games have not received the same attention from the research community. This work tries to fill that gap, ...

When discussing a work of literature, text quotes can provide access to specific pieces of content and allow them to be placed in a larger context. However, we have no obvious analog for this notion of quotes in the medium of videogames. In this paper, ...

Video games are increasingly present and are currently a dominant vehicle not only for entertainment, but also for information. This position has generated a rapid growth and consequent increase in competitiveness in the game development industry, which ...