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Utożsamienie procesu leczenia z religią w światach gier - perspektywa narratologiczna
2020
Video games are among most influential cultural texts - their narratives are key in understanding the chain of reconfiguration of our media and culture. In many games, especially based on fantasy theme we can observe the identification of the healing process with religion, in form of priests, healing spells and holy places. SasułaIn our paper we try to study those identifications with narratology tools, based on work of Mieke Bal.
Defining Role-Playing Games as Language-Games
2011
Role-playing games are a diverse phenomenon, ranging from digital games to live action role-playing. Finding a definition that suits them all is hard, but attempts have been many. All of the definitions emphasize some aspects of role-playing games like rules, the role of players or the story. Many definitions do not describe role-playing games as such, but the activity that is role-playing. This paper looks at one of the latest attempts to define role-playing games, by Hitchens and Drachen (2009), and shows some potential problems with it. As an answer to these problems another definition is proposed, consisting of a game world, participants, shared narrative power and interaction. This def…
Le sauvage et son double, 272 p.,
2011
Players' progression through GraphoGame, an early literacy game: Influence of game design and context of play
2019
Researchers of serious games frequently investigate outcomes of play but overlook the underlying game-design components that drive those outcomes. In this paper, I aim to show how game design and context of play influence progression through GraphoGame, an early-literacy game. This is done by means of two intersecting studies. The first study shows how the game can be represented by a model that explicitly hypothesizes how the interaction between the player and the game drives progression. The second study explores user data generated by first graders (N = 137) who played the game over a period of 25 weeks as part of early literacy instruction. The juxtaposition of these two studies reveals…
Looking ahead in games research
2021
This thematic issue presents a number of emerging scholarships into the study of digital gaming. The articles are based on a 2019 symposium on game studies hosted by the Digital Games Research section of ECREA. As the phenomena related to digital gaming keep on evolving and emerging, so must research keep up with the times and constantly challenge itself. Whether speaking about validating previously developed research methods, imagining totally new ones, or even challenging the whole philosophy of science on which research is being done, there is a constant need for reappraisal and introspection within games research. As a cultural medium that has become deeply embedded into the social fabr…
Vidēja pirmsskolas vecuma bērnu runas attīstības veicināšana muzikālās rotaļās un dziedāšanā
2019
Darba nosaukums: Vidējā pirmsskolas vecuma bērnu runas attīstības veicināšana muzikālajās rotaļās un dziedāšanā. Darba mērķis ir teorētiski izzināt un analizēt vidējā pirmsskolas vecuma bērnu runas attīstības veicināšanas iespējas muzikālajās rotaļās. Lai sasniegtu nostādīto mērķi tika izvēlētas tādas muzikālās darbībās – muzikālās rotaļas, dziedāšana. Darbā tika apkopotas un analizētas pedagogu, psihologu atziņas par bērnu runu, tā veidošanos vidējā pirmsskolas vecumā. Tika aprakstītas muzikālās darbības pirmsskolā. Veikti praktiski pētījumi, izmantojot muzikālās darbības un apstiprināti apgalvojumi – muzikālās rotaļas veicina bērnu runas attīstību. Darbam ir trīs nodaļa. Pirmā nodaļā anal…
Constructing co-presence through shared VR gameplay
2021
This study analyzes how participants playing VR games construct co-presence and shared gameplay. The analysis focuses on instances of play where one person is wearing the VR equipment, and other participants are located nearby without the ability to directly interact with the game. We first show how the active player using the VR equipment draws on talk and embodied activity to signal their presence in the shared physical environment, while simultaneously conducting actions in the virtual space, and thus creates spaces for the other participants to take part in gameplay. Second, we describe how other participants draw on the contextual configurations of the moment in displaying co-presen…
Improving the game with user generated content : an overview of Skyrim mod users
2017
Käyttäjien luoma sisältö on merkittävä ja kasvava osa videopelikulttuuria. Tämä tutkielma tarkastelee fanien luomia ohjelmistomuokkauksia, modeja, joilla muutetaan tai lisätään sisältöä peleissä. Tutkielman tavoitteena on selvittää modien käyttäjien motivaatiota sekä tekijöitä, jotka vaikuttavat modien käyttämisen yleisyyteen. Vaikka modeja on tutkittu akateemisesti, on tutkimus modien käyttäjien näkökulmasta jäänyt hyvin vähäiseksi. Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkasteltiin suositun roolipelin, Skyrimin saatavilla olevia modeja. Empiirinen osuus toteutettiin kuvailevana kyselytutkimuksena, joka kohdistettiin erääseen suureen Skyrim-modiyhteisöön. Kyselyssä selvitettiin modien käyttöön liittyviä ta…
Sports teams as complex adaptive systems: manipulating player numbers shapes behaviours during football small-sided games
2016
Small-sided and conditioned games (SSCGs) in sport have been modelled as complex adaptive systems. Research has shown that the relative space per player (RSP) formulated in SSCGs can impact on emergent tactical behaviours. In this study we adopted a systems orientation to analyse how different RSP values, obtained through manipulations of player numbers, influenced four measures of interpersonal coordination observed during performance in SSCGs. For this purpose we calculated positional data (GPS 15 Hz) from ten U-15 football players performing in three SSCGs varying in player numbers (3v3, 4v4 and 5v5). Key measures of SSCG system behaviours included values of (1) players’ dispersion, (2) …