We examine the role of sound design in pervasive mobile games. As a case study, we present the sound design and evaluation of a working prototype game called The Songs of North. A...
Inger Ekman, Laura Ermi, Jussi Lahti, Jani Nummela...
While multi-player online games are very successful, their fast deployment suffers from their server-based architecture. Indeed, servers both limit the scalability of the games a...
Christoph Neumann, Nicolas Prigent, Matteo Varvell...
This illustrated paper reports on the early digital games industry in New Zealand, during the late 1970s and 80s. It presents an overview of this largely unknown history, drawing ...
What's My Method? is the game show that asks the question, "How do you user-test games?" The goal of this session is to highlight important differences between user...
The paper reports a small-scale, long-term pilot project designed to foster strategic and reasoning abilities in young primary school pupils by engaging them in a number of comput...
Rosa Maria Bottino, Lucia Ferlino, Michela Ott, Ma...