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Video game studies (Lat. Ludology) is the still-young field of analyzing video games from a social science or humanities perspective.
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Although departments of computer science have been studying video games from a functional perspective for years, the study of them in the humanities is still in its infancy. Unlike most computer science efforts which aim to make video games, video games studies, like film theory, attempts to understand video games, players, and the interactions between them. Like most fields, those who study video games often have differing approaches. While scholars use many different theoretical frameworks, the two most visible approaches are ludology and narratology.
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Nine Leading Research Teams Selected to Study How Digital Games Improve ... - Reuters
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Wyo. sets wildlife guidelines for wind developers - The Associated Press
Wyo. sets wildlife guidelines for wind developersThe Associated PressCiting existing studies, the report says amphibians and reptiles, bats, birds and mammals may be influenced in different ways by wind farms. ...and more »
Dallas Cowboys' Witten a great role model for other NFL tight ends - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Dallas Cowboys' Witten a great role model for other NFL tight endsFort Worth Star TelegramPhiladelphia Eagles tight end Brent Celek said this week that he studies Witten's game for pointers. Two weeks ago, Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez ...and more »
University researchers to study video games' affect on health - Computerworld
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Studies With Video Gamers Suggest Dreaming Helps Humans Learn New Skills - ABC News
Studies With Video Gamers Suggest Dreaming Helps Humans Learn New SkillsABC NewsThe studies don't prove that dreaming about games makes players better. But they strongly suggest that dreaming and learning are intertwined. ...and more »
Dreamers - Website for book of the same name. Includes sample chapter and individual pages for authors Brad King and John Borland.
Antifactory - A collaborative wiki focused on the art and science of Game Design.
Artificial Life Game - Contains useful links to resources and studies of artificial life games.
Artificial Life Game - Articles and inform information on artificial life games.
DFC Intelligence: Game Industry Research - Providing strategic market research and statistics on the video game, interactive entertainment and interactive broadcasting industries.
Digiplay Initiative - Research project on computer games, gamers and the gaming industry. Site has an extensive bibliography of print and online game research. Some news, links, events, own publications.
Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games - Virtual exhibits from the University of Waterloo, Ottawa, Canada. Dedicated to research and the collection, preservation, and exhibition of games and game-related objects.
Meta Description: [ Intorduction to the Museum and Archive of Games Web Site ]
Game Game - Ludology meets Understanding Comics. A card game about game studies by Aki Järvinen.
Meta Description: [ Ludology meets Understanding Comics.
In GameGame, players compete in designing games. Players collect and trade cards in order to create a complete game design. In between, one player gets to play a game publisher, while the other players try to sell their game concepts to her. In the ... ]
Game Liberation - A game about game theory by Jesper Juul.
Game Research - Offers news and research information on the development and social impact of computer games, and the Games Research mailing list.
Meta Description: [ This site attempts to bring together the art, business, and science of computer games ]
Games For Health - Sponsored by the Serious Games Initiative. Develops a community and best practices platform for the numerous games being built for health care applications.
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Meta Description: [ A comprehensive list of computer and video game research resources around the world. ]
GamesLab - New Zealand based research group dedicated to raising the profile of games research and acting as a proponent in developing a critical awareness of video games.
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Global Timoto - One man, on a motorcycle, around the world, in mission to explore and record diverse people and the games they play.
Meta Description: [ Tim Hull is Globaltimoto: One man, on a motorcycle, around the world, in A Quest For Gameplay. A mission to explore and record diverse people and the games we play. ]
Habitat Chronicles - Blog and development historical information from Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer, designers of Habitat, 1985.
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Interactive Fiction - Annotated bibliography and several scholarly articles about interactive fiction, by Dennis G. Jerz.
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Meta Description: [ Learning Games Initiative (LGI) ]
Richard A. Bartle: MUD Writings Archive - A collection of fulltext research articles on MUDs by different researchers.
Satellite Uplink - A collection of insights that put video games inside a broader cultural and aesthetic framework. E-book available for download.
Serious Games Initiative - Focuses on using games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Sponsors annual Serious Games Summit.
The Canadian Video Game and Computer Industry - Offers information and analysis about the video and computer game industry in Canada. Produced by a group of researchers in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
Video Game Culture: Leisure and Play Preferences of BC Teens - Study examines the significance of children's video game play by surveying British Columiba teenagers' attitudes, interests, motives and behaviors toward gaming.
Meta Description: [ Video Game Culture: Leisure and Play Preferences of B.C. Teens. A report from the Media Analysis Laboratory
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C.
October 1998. Reprinted with permission. ]
Yee, Nicholas - The Norrathian Scrolls: A Study of EverQuest - Findings of a major study of EverQuest players including data on and discussions of demographics, statistics, psychology, charts, addiction, gender differences, gender bending, relationships, romance and guilds.
Meta Description: [ Online Research of the computer game EverQuest. Presentation of the Study. By Nicholas Yee. ]
Julian Dibbell - Play Money: Gold Farms, Game Studies:Julian Dibbell, author of My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World and Play Money: Or How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot, argues for a game studies that goes beyond traditional cultural and media theories — into the realms of political economy, social history, and computer science — in search of the emerging significance of computer games. |
