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DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Bringing New HOPE to Networked Games: Using Optimistic Execution to Improve Quality of Service
As more games of a wider variety of genres move online to provide multiplayer experiences to their players, there is an increasing need to improve the quality of service delivered...
Michael Katchabaw, Ryan Hanna
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Realistic Reaction System for Modern Video Games
The substantial growth of the video game industry has fueled a search for new technologies and methodologies for providing rich and rewarding experiences for players of modern vid...
Michael Katchabaw, Stephen Danton, Leif Gruenwoldt
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Playful Play with Games: Linking Level Editing to Learning in Art and Design
The title ‘Playful Play with Games’ refers to the possibility of creative involvement with games by altering their structure in a playful way. The focus of this paper is on mo...
Maia Engeli
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Framing Virtual Law
Building on the work of games theorists and virtual world designers, this paper proposes a framework for understanding the real-virtual dichotomy in terms of a series of five fram...
Peter Edelmann
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Her Own Boss: Gender and the Pursuit of Incompetent Play
Jennifer Jenson, Suzanne de Castell
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Nip and the Bite
An examination of the contributions that can be made by the field of non-mechanistic cybernetics (as elaborated by Gregory Bateson and Anthony Wilden) to a theory of videogames th...
Darshana Jayemanne
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Liberal Sims?: Simulated Difference and the Commodity of Social Diversity
This paper outlines how representations of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity intersect with strategies of late capitalism in The Sims, arguably the most popular video game of ...
A. Brady Curlew
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Connecting Worlds. Fantasy Role-Playing Games, Ritual Acts and the Magic Circle
From a cultural history and game theoretical perspective my work focuses on the relationship between the fantasy subculture, fantasy role-playing games and the daily life of their...
Marinka Copier