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2007
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Patterns and computer game design innovation
How can we help people design well-formed and innovative games? The design Patterns of Christopher Alexander is one methodology that has been proposed to assist in the design of w...
Kevin McGee
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
The tale of Peter Rabbit: a case-study in story-sense reasoning
The telling and understanding of stories is a universal part of human experience. If we could reproduce even part of the process inside a computer, it could expand the possibiliti...
Malcolm Ryan, Nicholas Hannah, Joshua Lobb
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Nonverbal communication in multiplayer game worlds
In this paper, methods for nonverbal communication in digital games and virtual worlds are explored as alternatives to chat and other text-based forms of communication. Inspired b...
Troy Innocent, Stewart Haines
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Then, suddenly, I was moved: nostalgia and the media history of games
Gaming has a past; it cannot escape the rearticulation of genres, traditions and images of its history. The haunting of the present is all the more visible here than in other form...
Christian McCrea
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Place as media in pervasive games
By blurring the boundary between game fiction and reality, Pervasive Games impact the shared space of the city areas that they use as gaming platform. Drawing on notions of spatia...
Hugh Davies
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Exploring terra incognita: wayfinding devices for games
The ludic experience of exploring wilderness in gameworlds may be compromised by either the negative affects of disorientation or the conspicuous application of architectural prin...
Nicola J. Bidwell, Colin Lemmon, Mihai Roturu, Chr...
IE
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A physical three-way interactive game based on table tennis
Physical leisure activities such as table tennis provide healthy exercise and can offer a means to connect with others socially; however, players have to be in the same physical l...
Florian Mueller, Martin R. Gibbs