A Look Into The Industry Of Video Games Past, Present, And Yet To Come,
2014
Claremont McKenna College
A Look Into The Industry Of Video Games Past, Present, And Yet To Come, Chad Hadzinsky
CMC Senior Theses
Since its inception, the video game industry has been both a new medium for art and innovation as well as a major driving force in the advancements of many technologies. The often overlooked video game industry has turned from a hobby to a multi-billion dollar industry in its short, forty year life. People of all ages and genders across the world are playing video games at a higher clip than ever before. With so many new gamers and emerging technologies, it is an exciting time for the industry. The landscape is constantly changing and successful business models of the past …
Ar Physics: Transforming Physics Diagrammatic Representations On Paper Into Interactive Simulations.,
2014
University of Central Florida
Ar Physics: Transforming Physics Diagrammatic Representations On Paper Into Interactive Simulations., Yao Zhou
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
A problem representation is a cognitive structure created by the solver in correspondence to the problem. Sketching representative diagrams in the domain of physics encourages a problem solving strategy that starts from 'envisionment' by which one internally simulates the physical events and predicts outcomes. Research studies also show that sketching representative diagrams improves learner's performance in solving physics problems. The pedagogic benefits of sketching representations on paper make this traditional learning strategy remain pivotal and worthwhile to be preserved and integrated into the current digital learning landscape. In this paper, I describe AR Physics, an Augmented Reality based application that …
Digital Interactive Games For Assessment: A Study Of The Effectiveness Of A Digital Game As A Measure Of Students' Understanding Of Boolean Logic,
2014
University of Central Florida
Digital Interactive Games For Assessment: A Study Of The Effectiveness Of A Digital Game As A Measure Of Students' Understanding Of Boolean Logic, Mohammad Ali Haji
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Digital games have been used mostly for entertainment but recently researchers have started to use digital games in other areas such as education and training. Researchers have shown that digital games can provide a compelling, creative, and collaborative environment for learning. However, the popularity of computers and the Internet brings this question to mind: Are the assessment methods falling behind and remaining traditional? Will the traditional methods of learning and knowledge assessment be sufficient for this new generation who are starving for new technology? This study investigates the effectiveness of using a digital interactive game as an assessments method - …
Financial Forest,
2014
University of Central Florida
Financial Forest, Karen Carlson
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Regular savings behavior is critical for low-income Americans to achieve financial mobility. New technology tools are being used to improve personal awareness and attention to financial goals. This thesis reviews mobile learning (mLearning) research and leading commercial personal finance smartphone apps, both of which inform the design of Financial Forest, a savings app. Participants in the 4-week Financial Forest savings study are found to have a statistically significant improved perception of the difficulty of building an emergency fund.
Gayme: The Development, Design And Testing Of An Auto-Ethnographic, Documentary Game About Quarely Wandering Urban/Suburban Spaces In Central Florida.,
2014
University of Central Florida
Gayme: The Development, Design And Testing Of An Auto-Ethnographic, Documentary Game About Quarely Wandering Urban/Suburban Spaces In Central Florida., David Moran
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
GAYME is a transmedia story-telling world that I have created to conceptually explore the dynamics of queering game design through the development of varying game prototypes. The final iteration of GAYME is @deadquarewalking'. It is a documentary game and a performance art installation that documents a carless, gay/queer/quare man's journey on Halloween to get to and from one of Orlando's most well-known gay clubs - the Parliament House Resort. "The art of cruising" city streets to seek out queer/quare companionship particularly amongst gay, male culture(s) is well-documented in densely, populated cities like New York, San Francisco and London, but not …
Honesty,
2013
San Jose State University
Honesty, Marek Kapolka
SWITCH
This article explores the importance of honesty in game design, which the author claims is frequently missing. Through the lens of indie games – The Relationship Saga, A Sad Tale, and Metro Rules of Conduct – the author explains how sincerity in game-making invites deeper engagement and meaning.
Process As Pastime,
2013
San Jose State University
Process As Pastime, Robert Yang
SWITCH
This article explores how the concept of "process" in video game design is shaped by the game industry, academia, and the art world. The author argues for a future where making games is as accessible and personal as other creative hobbies, rather than exclusively for professionals.
Making Duchamp Relevant In The Digital Age,
2013
San Jose State University
Making Duchamp Relevant In The Digital Age, Hanna Regev
SWITCH
Playing Duchamp is an internet art project by Scott Kildall, who programmed a chess computer to play as if it were Marcel Duchamp, a chess player and artist, as an AI personality.
The Future Of Gaming,
2013
San Jose State University
The Future Of Gaming, Jenene Castle, John Bruneau, Marek Kapolka, Thomas Asmuth
SWITCH
This collection of essays explores the changing relationship between gaming and everyday life. Topics include the rise of gamification, the merging of virtual and physical realities, games as tools for activism and education, and the societal impacts of game-based systems.
The World’S A Stage And We Are Players,
2013
San Jose State University
The World’S A Stage And We Are Players, Anna Anthropy
SWITCH
This excerpt from “Rise of the Videogame Zinesters” explores the possibilities of games, emphasizing their roots in theater rather than film. The author argues that games are performative, with each playthrough offering a unique interpretation shaped by player decisions.
The Evolving Definition Of Narrative,
2013
St. Mary's University
The Evolving Definition Of Narrative, Alexandra Birr
Honors Program Theses and Research Projects
No abstract provided.
Pox And The City,
2013
Rochester Institute of Technology
Pox And The City, Elizabeth S. Goins
Journal of Interactive Humanities
Pox in the City is a prototype of a social history game that focuses on the medical profession circa 1800 in Edinburgh. The prototype was research, designed and developed on a small budget (about $17,000) and in a short time frame (20 weeks). The experimental design goal was to create a narrative driven educational game that was engaging and delivered some basic educational goals to be used in the high school and college level classrooms. To experiment with writing historic game narrative and to stay within budget, the design was built around a point and click adventure framework. Narrative was …
Press Start: Video Games In An Art Museum,
2013
Smithsoniam American Art Museum
Press Start: Video Games In An Art Museum, Georgina Goodlander, Michael Mansfield
Journal of Interactive Humanities
Art museums can be complex, confounding, boring, exciting, absurd, and breathtaking. They can be sad, enlightening, hurtful, alive, dead, mainstream and avant-garde. They can, at once, be all of these things. Or they can be any one of these things separately. Museums can be more. Art museums might provide a place for contemplation, a place for social commentary, a place for political discourse, a place for lunch. They can identify us, deconstruct us, or illuminate our experiences for everyone. They can be an index for the health and vibrancy of our culture and our time. The Smithsonian American Art Museum …
Embodied Tuning: Interfacing Danish Radio Heritage,
2013
University of Southern Denmark
Embodied Tuning: Interfacing Danish Radio Heritage, Christian Hviid Mortensen, Vitus Vestergaard
Journal of Interactive Humanities
Most museum exhibitions favor vision, not hearing. When there is audio in exhibitions, it tends to take on a secondary role as a soundtrack or commentary. In some cases, however, audio should be the primary object of interest. Radio heritage is such a case. The traditional way of showcasing audio is through webaccessible archives or through listening kiosks in the exhibition. Neither one takes advantage of the unique affordances of the spatiality and physicality of an exhibition. We therefore propose an alternative way of exhibiting radio heritage in a listening exhibition where users move around and explore the physical gallery …
Modding The Humanities: Experiments In Historic Narratives,
2013
Rochester Institute of Technology
Modding The Humanities: Experiments In Historic Narratives, Elizabeth S. Goins, Christopher Egert, Andrew Phelps, Chandra Reedy, Joel Kincaid
Journal of Interactive Humanities
While the ludology versus narratology debate raged within game studies circles [1], game designers continued building games and developing methods to improve player experience. Today however, while designers may have their personal preferences, there is no longer any doubt that both mechanics and story can have an important role to play in a game [2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7].
You Have Died Of Dysentery: A First Attempt At Navigating A Course In Educational Games,
2013
Rochester Institute of Technology
You Have Died Of Dysentery: A First Attempt At Navigating A Course In Educational Games, Adrienne Decker, David Simkins
Journal of Interactive Humanities
This paper describes our experiences developing and piloting a course in educational games. We discuss the structure of the course, the topics we included in the course, as well as the final projects the students created for the course. Of particular interest to non-technical educators interested in exploring games in their courses is the fact that our course incorporated many critical thinking skills as part of the coursework. We felt that an important part of the student’s immersion in this material was not just the production of the game, but also a deeper understanding of the issues surrounding education and …
Real Time Visibility Culling With Hardware Occlusion Queries And Uniform Grids,
2013
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Real Time Visibility Culling With Hardware Occlusion Queries And Uniform Grids, Ilya Iseletsk Seletsky
Master's Theses
Culling out non-visible portions of 3D scenes is important for rendering large complex worlds at an interactive frame rate. Past 3D engines used static prebaked visibility data which was generated using complex algorithms. Hardware Occlusion Queries are a modern feature that allows engines to determine if objects are invisible on the fly. This allows for fully dynamic destructible and editable environments as opposed to static prebaked environments of the past. This paper presents an algorithm that uses Hardware Occlusion Queries to cull fully dynamic scenes in real-time. This algorithm is relatively simple in comparison to other real-time occlusion culling techniques, …
Press €˜A’ To Speak: Videogames As A Storytelling Medium,
2013
DePauw University
Press €˜A’ To Speak: Videogames As A Storytelling Medium, Brian Banta '13
Honor Scholar Theses
How can we study games? Any attempt will require a scholar to be well versed in multiple methods. In order to adequately analyze and unpack a game we need to consider questions of literary theory, film theory, and play. This introductory section will serve as the foundation for my analysis of three case study games. I will briefly give an overview of my analytical method of choice, ludology, and then explain how it relates to narrative.
Visual Metaphor In Games Of Chance: What You See Is What You Play,
2013
Johnson & Wales University - Providence
Visual Metaphor In Games Of Chance: What You See Is What You Play, Stephen Andrade
Computer Graphics Department Faculty Publications and Creative Works
Visual images have been a key element in the development of wager-based games. The legacy of visual metaphor in gaming can be traced through paper ephemera such as playing cards and lottery tickets. Both paper and printing technology ushered the age of wide spread playing opportunities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Modern play behaviors have given way to Postmodern gaming norms in digital space. The digital age has presented a new set of challenges for gaming architecture in wager-based play. Action research in prototyping games is beginning to reveal a new and different set of game characteristics.
Teaching Algebra Through Functional Programming:An Analysis Of The Bootstrap Curriculum,
2013
Brigham Young University - Provo
Teaching Algebra Through Functional Programming:An Analysis Of The Bootstrap Curriculum, Robert Lee
Theses and Dissertations
Bootstrap is a computer-programming curriculum that teaches students to program video games using Racket, a functional programming language based on algebraic syntax. This study investigated the relationship between learning to program video games from a Bootstrap course and the resulting effect on students' understanding of algebra. Courses in three different schools, lasting about six weeks each, were studied. Control and treatment groups were given a pre and post algebra assessment. A qualitative component consisting of observations and interviews was also used to further triangulate findings. Statistical analysis revealed that students who completed the Bootstrap course gained a significantly better understanding …
