From the monthly archives: December 2006

New article on videogames and economic game theory

By On 28/12/2006 ·

The Christmas issue of Game Studies has hit the streets. This implies that my own article The Games Economists Play – Implications of Economic Game Theory for the Study of Computer Games has now been revealed.

Here’s the abstract:
It is a source of [...]

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Game bibliography goes Wiki

By On 15/12/2006 ·

The good people at Digiplay have wikified their game bibliography.
I can’t say that I like the interface much, but I love the BibTex integration and the RSS feed (in good Web 2.0 spirit we show the latest additions on the front page of Game Research).
2074 references entered, and counting.

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Fear of reptiles

By On 13/12/2006 ·

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Billede039, originally uploaded by Agent Smith.

You can’t really tell from the picture, but you must believe [...]

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PhD defense completed – get ready

By On 09/12/2006 ·

This Thursday I succesfully defended my PhD thesis entitled Plans and Purposes: How Videogame Goals Shape Player Behaviour (slides / preliminary dissertation final dissertation).

The opponents asked reasonable questions, the technical equipment worked flawlessly, the post-defense red wine was half-decent, and any post-defence tension was relieved [...]

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Study results

By On 05/12/2006 ·

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Study results, originally uploaded by Agent Smith.

Very roughly, this graph shows the prevalence of various types [...]

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