Lignende indlæg: PhD Scholarship in MMORPG development available [...]]]> The ITU has just posted a number of PhD scholarships.
You may be most interested in project proposals within the Innovative Communication area; for instance Uses of online media genres in political communication.
Send forth the applications.

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PhD Scholarship in MMORPG development available (28/07/2005)

Game Research summit at ITU, 6 December (01/12/2006)

Gonzalo at Copenhagen University tommorow (25/05/2005)

As we may watch (28/09/2006)

Video games – passion, practice & fresh perspectives workshop at ITU in August (14/06/2005)

I’ve just published a brief essay on Game Research entitled No Medium is an Island: An essay on the Video Game and its cultural neighborhood. It makes comparisons between the cultural history of video games and that of film. The comment field at the bottom of the page is open :-)

Lignende indlæg: [...]]]>

I’ve just published a brief essay on Game Research entitled No Medium is an Island: An essay on the Video Game and its cultural neighborhood. It makes comparisons between the cultural history of video games and that of film. The comment field at the bottom of the page is open :-)

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New article on videogames and economic game theory (28/12/2006)

Gaming Culture web page now up (28/06/2005)

First European symposium on Computer Games and Emotions (23/11/2006)

PhD Scholarship in MMORPG development available (28/07/2005)

The Spam Wars take a new turn (09/05/2007)

Title: A practical guide to winning and losing: How players deal with shame, glory, and each other

Abstract: A computer will handle the rules of a game in a fair-minded algorithmic fashion. [...]]]> On 5 September (15:00 – 17:00) I’ll be speaking at the ITU as part of the Game Center‘s Game Lecture Series.

Title: A practical guide to winning and losing: How players deal with shame, glory, and each other

Abstract: A computer will handle the rules of a game in a fair-minded algorithmic fashion. Players, however, will not. To players, interaction during play (and how to deal with victory and defeat) entails a complex negotiation of social norms. Based on empirical data on multi-player gaming, this talk will explore how players handle competition, collaboration, shame, and glory as they strive to achieve the game goals.

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Game Lecture at ITU tomorrow: Can you make them cry without tearing your hair out? (06/06/2007)

New article on videogames and economic game theory (28/12/2006)

Game Research summit at ITU, 6 December (01/12/2006)

Game lecture: Aki Järvinen to speak at ITU tomorrow (11/10/2006)

Paper on role-playing game communication out (21/11/2006)

Associate Professor Katherine Isbister, Rensselaer Politechnic Institute

Time and Place:
Thursday June 7th, 16:15-17:30. Auditorium 3, ITU.

About the talk:
Have you been hearing more about how important emotion is for reaching a bigger audience and [...]]]> Can you make them cry without tearing your hair out?
- Emotional Characters

Associate Professor Katherine Isbister, Rensselaer Politechnic Institute

Time and Place:
Thursday June 7th, 16:15-17:30. Auditorium 3, ITU.

About the talk:
Have you been hearing more about how important emotion is for reaching a bigger audience and taking full advantage of new platforms in game design? This talk focuses on one key area of games that can add emotional impact: characters. Working from a foundation in understanding the psychology of the player, this talk presents some essential challenges and opportunities in character design that come along with the rise of procedural animation, better processors that can handle more complex AI, and new input devices (such as Nintendos DS touch pad and Wii controller) that provide richer opportunity for player expression.

Bio:
Katherine is Director of the Games Research Lab at Rensselaer (RPI),
where she has worked to build an undergraduate major in game design,
as well as a robust program of games-related research. She developed
and taught a course at Stanford University on the Design of
Characters for Games, before joining RPI’s faculty. She received her
Ph.D. from Stanford, with a focus on using ideas from social
psychology to design better, more effective interactive characters.
Katherine recently completed a book entitled: Better Game Characters
by Design: A Psychological Approach, which was nominated for a Game
Developer Magazine Front Line award in 2006. She has published work
in a wide variety of venues, and has given invited talks at research
and academic venues including Sony research labs in Japan, Banff
Centre in Canada, IBM, the Royal Institute of Technology in
Stockholm, and others.

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Game Research summit at ITU, 6 December (01/12/2006)

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First European symposium on Computer Games and Emotions (23/11/2006)

Game positions offered (09/02/2007)

Lignende indlæg: Plans and Purposes: Final version of dissertation (05/01/2007)

As we may watch (28/09/2006)

Dissertation V0.9 (29/09/2006)

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 confusion that economists [...]]]>

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 confusion that economists for decades have worked on “game theory” while studying economic behaviour. However, while not focused on games in the recreational sense this perspective does provide a highly meticulous complementary framework for the understanding of computer game structure and player behaviour. This article attempts to extract useful analytic concepts and insights from economic game theory and to give suggestions for how these might be put to concrete use in the study of computer games. A non-technical introduction is given, the framework is applied to computer games, a brief case study is performed and finally ideas for future research are presented.

What more can you ask for?

And hey, merry Christmas out there.

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DIGRA paper wrapped and delivered (12/04/2005)

The Project takes a new direction… – or: At least the sub-title is still reasonable (24/05/2005)

Dissertation abstract beta (04/08/2006)

What’s your take? (03/07/2006)