#2Martin Gibbs(University of Melbourne)H-Index: 37
Last. Michael Arnold(University of Melbourne)H-Index: 23
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This study introduces the ludic ethics approach for understanding the moral deliberations of players of online multiplayer games. Informed by a constructivist paradigm that places players’ everyday...
#2Peter Howell(University of Portsmouth)H-Index: 45
Last. Neil Dansey(University of Portsmouth)H-Index: 3
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Games often encourage players to feel empathy for characters or scenarios by design. However, the term ‘empathy’ is often misunderstood and used in a variety of contexts as a substitute for feeling...
The fantasy sport industry has seen tremendous changes in the past five years, thanks in large part to increased participation, media acceptance, easing of legal pressure, and the proliferation of ...
This article will argue that the current literature on retrogaming as a practice and the retrogamer as a subject has been lacking in fully describing the variety of practices and subjects that enga...
Game engines have largely become synonymous with the production of certain game genres, and creating games outside those genres is at the least cumbersome if not outright impossible to do. This stu...
#1Felix Lebed(Kaye Academic College of Education)H-Index: 2
The differences between categories of play in English and spiel in German (or jeu in French and so on) are essential because any complex ludic category includes games that are organized and restric...
This project evaluates the current state accessibility of video games, specifically in terms of designing for disability. We evaluate 50 games chosen for their sales data, critical reception, award...
#1Brian TaeHyuk Keum(UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles)H-Index: 8
#2Maynard Hearns(UCSC: University of California, Santa Cruz)
Although online racism occurs frequently and explicitly in online gaming (e.g., anti-Black hate speeches), no research has examined the psychological impact on racial/ethnic minority players. Thus,...
World of Warcraft (WoW) Classic (released August 2019) allows players to return to the original game experience. This study considers how WoW players experience game content through media nostalgia...
Developer credit has been a contested issue in the video game industry since the 1970–80s, when Atari prevented its programmers from publicly claiming authorship for games they had developed. The n...