digital games
Machine learning in digital games: a survey
Wed, 10/02/2010 - 14:58 | 
Jason Rutter
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Artificial intelligence for digital games constitutes the implementation of a set of algorithms and techniques from both traditional and modern artificial intelligence in order to provide solutions to a range of game dependent problems. However, the majority of current approaches lead to predefined, static and predictable game agent responses, with no ability to adjust during game-play to the behaviour or playing style of the player. Machine learning techniques provide a way to improve the behavioural dynamics of computer controlled game agents by facilitating the automated generation and selection of behaviours, thus enhancing the capabilities of digital game artificial intelligence and providing the opportunity to create more engaging and entertaining game-play experiences. This paper provides a survey of the current state of academic machine learning research for digital game environments, with respect to the use of techniques from neural networks, evolutionary computation and reinforcement learning for game agent control.
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Tags: Academia, Artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, Computational intelligence, Computer games, Cybernetics, digital games, Education, Game AI, Game artificial intelligence, injected genetic algorithms, machine learning, Machine learning, machine learning, NETWORKS, Neural network, Science, Time
The Use of Complex Digital Games and Simulations in the Classroom to Enhance Engagement and Learning
Fri, 11/04/2008 - 17:40 | Curtis Conkey
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The purpose of this study is to present an overview of the current writings and research in the field of educational complex games and simulations and their use in the classroom. In addition, it will look at the complex gaming software currently being used and/or developed to help meet the learning needs of the digital age student. It will consider the implications of using games in the classroom and make recommendations for future research.
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‘‘It’s in the Game’: sport fans, film and digital gaming’
Tue, 22/01/2008 - 19:59 | crawford1972
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This essay compares the relative successes of sport-related films and sport-related digital games. Where sport-related films are relatively infrequent and even more rarely successful when compared with other genres of film, sport-related games are a popular and successful genre of digital gaming. In order to understand this discrepancy, and in particular, sport fans' relationship with both film and games, this essays draws on the concept of 'narrative' and, specifically, Ricoeur's 'narrative identity'. Specifically, this essay suggests that sport teams/clubs are to some degree polysemic texts, which allow supporters to construct their own individual narratives around them. However, it is suggested that sport-related films, which tend to offer only limited narratives, are unlikely to fit with fans' own narrative identities, whereas digital games, with their more fluid narratives, are more easily located within fans' relationships and narratives with the teams/clubs they support.
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Source, narrative, Narrative, SPORT, Video game genres
Of Mods and Modders: Chasing Down the Value of Fan-Based Digital Game Modifications
Sat, 22/12/2007 - 06:34 | Curtis Conkey
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This article is concerned with the role that fan-programmers (generally known as “modders”) play in the success of the PC digital game industry. The fan culture for digital games is deeply embedded in shared practices and experiences among fan communities, and their active consumption contributes economically and culturally to broader society. Using a survey of the most commercially successful PC games in the first-person shooter category from 2002 until 2004, this article answers a series of questions concerning fan-programmer produced content: (a) What is the value of the fan produced game add-ons in terms of labor costs? (b) What motivates fans to make add-ons for their favorite games? and (c) How does the fan-programmer phenomenon in PC gaming fit into broader trends in the high-tech economy?
Add new comment | 608 reads | Tags: Accessibility, CONVERGENCE, digital games, Electronic waste, Electronics, Ergonomics, Mod, modders, Modding, Vehicles, Video game industry
Productive Play: Participation and Learning in Digital Game Environments
Thu, 15/11/2007 - 15:26 | Curtis Conkey
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Although there is considerable interest in the idea of using games for learning, success in this area has proven elusive. Clearly it is challenging to take established curricula developed for other media types and attempt to fit them into open-ended game contexts where content is secondary to experience. Digital games are very effective for learning, but they represent a type of productive play that does not fit neatly within established educational paradigms. Furthermore, play and learning take on new dimensions within the context of an increasingly participatory culture that blurs traditional boundaries between producers and consumers, as well as teachers and learners. In participatory contexts, learning is a systemic activity where the contributions of the individual contribute to the larger collective intelligence, and learning is often a by-product of play or creativity. Attempts to use games for learning must take this broader context into account and acknowledge the shifting expectations and emerging literacies of learners steeped in a digital culture that introduces and reinforces new standards for play and participation.
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Source, PARTICIPATION, Participation, participatory culture, Participatory culture, perceived playfulness
Of Sins, Vices and Pecados: The Cultural Context of Videogame Play
Tue, 13/11/2007 - 05:56 | Jason Rutter
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Using a case study of Grand Theft Auto 3: Vice City, this chapter examines the cultural context of videogame consumption in Caracas, Venezuela in Summer 2005. Using data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation and interviews over that period, it analyzes the features of Vice City that made it the most frequently played single player game in Internet cafés. We argue that it is not so much the game’s graphic or narrative elements, but its flexibility in terms of styles and approaches to play that led to it becoming a standard feature of Venezuelan gaming life. The game caters to the requirements of the intense social space of offline interactions within the Internet café and supersedes the limitations and difficulties imposed by various social, economic and technological factors affecting the game playing audience in Venezuela.
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The impact of the display type and content to a game adaptation
Sun, 21/10/2007 - 06:38 | Jason Rutter
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This study examines the impact of the display type (form) and content (game) to the PC -game adaptation. An ordinary table-top display (cathode ray tube; CRT) and a near-eye display (NED) suitable for mobile gaming are compared in two different driving games. A measurement model based on a large dataset (n=2182) is applied to study psychological aspects of the game adaptation. This model integrates two constructs considered important for the game adaptation: involvement and presence. The results show that the content affected the subjective sense of presence. However, the form did not have an effect on the presence. These results indicate that NED's are capable of supporting similar adaptation to the game worlds as compared to CRT's. However, the results also weakly indicate that playing with a CRT increases the evaluations of interaction. The study shows the advantages of using multidimensional measures in studying a rich human-computer interaction.
Women and games: Technologies of the gendered self
Thu, 11/10/2007 - 12:39 | Jason Rutter
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This study examines how individual differences in the consumption of computer games intersect with gender and how games and gender mutually constitute each other. The study focused on adult women with particular attention to differences in level of play, as well as genre preferences. Three levels of game consumption were identified. For power gamers, technology and gender are most highly integrated. These women enjoy multiple pleasures from the gaming experience, including mastery of game-based skills and competition. Moderate gamers play games in order to cope with their real lives. These women reported taking pleasure in controlling the gaming environment, or alternately that games provide a needed distraction from the pressures of their daily lives. Finally, the non-gamers who participated in the study expressed strong criticisms about game-playing and gaming culture. For these women, games are a waste of time, a limited commodity better spent on other activities.
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Utilizing Text-Mining Tools to Enrich Traditional Literature Reviews. Case: Digital Games
Tue, 10/07/2007 - 20:53 | Jason Rutter
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In contrast to the many technological developments of the last ten years that have shaped also the researchers’ key tasks, the literature reviews have not diversified much from their traditional forms. This is somewhat surprising given that the manual scan of journals and copying of selected articles in the university library have transformed into an online discovery in various full-text and bibliographic databases. What is more, there are several insightful text mining and information visualization tools that have been developed to help the researcher in profiling, mapping and visualizing knowledge domains. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate by way of an example the potential of a new approach called research profiling, and to raise discussion about the method’s applicability in enriching traditional literature reviews. The specific topic of interest in this paper is digital games research as indexed in the ISI Web of Science. Altogether 2.136 articles were profiled. Almost half of the digital games research were classified either under computer science or psychology, or their subcategories. Only a small subset of the research was conducted from a business or management school perspective, which points to an obvious gap in the literature.
The Cult of Champ Man: The Culture and Pleasures of Championship Manager/Football Manager Gamers
Fri, 23/03/2007 - 15:31 | crawford1972
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This paper considers the popularity and social significance of the gaming series Championship Manager/Football Manager. Sport-related games continue to be one of the most popular forms of digital gaming, and the series has proved to be one of the most successful of all time. Drawing on 32 interviews with game players and developers of this series, this paper argues that this series has proved particularly popular due to its 'intertextual' links to the sport of football, which allows this game to be drawn on as a resource in conversations and social networks. In particular, this paper argues that aspects of gaming, such as performativity and control, extend and cross-cut with wider social formations. Hence, the author argues that it is crucial that considerations of digital games seek to locate these within wider social and cultural patterns.
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Source, manager, performativity, Performativity, Science, SPORT
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