From Voxel Vistas: Place-Making in Minecraft

Quiring, Tyler

doi:10.4101/jvwr.v8i1.7122

Cited by 14 publications

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“…Conflict is referred to the playfulness aspect that lies at the heart of the play. Siitonen (2009) refers conflict to as something that turns a simple challenge into something much more engaging (Quiring, 2015). For instances such as being able to climb up a high ladder into something more difficult like unlocking a malfunctioned door.…”

Section: Figure 5: In-game Footage Of the Transition Of Virtual Rooms To Enter Into Another Room In The Spaceshipmentioning

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The Elements of Interactive Fiction in “Prominence”

Rahim

Ali

Aziz

2019

IJHAM

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“Prominence” is a new adventure computer game. It is also new as a genre of interactive fiction in the corpus of electronic literature. Hence, the study of “Prominence” in the context of interactive fiction genre is also a study that has not been carried out yet exclusively in the aspect of its structure. For that reason, this paper aims to primarily focus on the structure of “Prominence”. Mainly, the structural elements of interactive fiction in “Prominence” that will be discussed are pronged by four elements; a computer program, potential narrative, world model and game. By focusing on the four main structural elements, this paper shows how “Prominence” works as interactive fiction. The interactor’s interactivity with all these four elements of interactive fiction in playing, engaging and navigating discourse would likely give a diverse sense of aesthetic experience while interacting with the play, which is called immersive pleasure. The discussion on these elements of interactive fiction supports the interactor to successively challenge their self to fit into the play and draw inference on new ideas and information they find during an interaction.

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Section: Figure 5: In-game Footage Of the Transition Of Virtual Rooms To Enter Into Another Room In The Spaceshipmentioning

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The Elements of Interactive Fiction in “Prominence”

Rahim

Ali

Aziz

2019

IJHAM

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“…Via the planetminecraft community, users are provided with a wide range of cities, places and buildings. In his review of Minecraft, (Quiring 2015) notes that for the Minecraft users the digital places are real and meaningful, both within and beyond the virtual space.…”

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Virtualizing the real: a virtual reality contemporary sculpture park for children

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This paper discusses a virtual reality experience for a contemporary sculpture park, Jupiter Artland, developed in Minecraft targeting 9-11-year-old children. Issues of fidelity, realism and authenticity are considered, examining the use of Minecraft to create visual representations loosely coupled with reality that generate affective responses. We discuss the build of our virtual sculpture park outlining our approach to creating a facsimile of the sculpture park through adopting practices from the Minecraft community and refining and improving the artworks and experience informed by a class of 9-10 year old children. Using the real and virtual sculpture parks we explore the impact of engaging with the real before the virtual Jupiter Artland and vice versa, with the results from a three class study outlined in this paper.

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“…So size is not a determinant property of virtual worlds. Qvortrup[p.28] states that virtual (3D) space has the general property of being “geometrically finite, that is, it makes up a bounded, delimited world,” but current computer systems are capable of simulating theoretically infinitely large virtual worlds, for example, in Minecraft . The implementation of a VE largely dictates how freely a player can move through VS.…”

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“…Qvortrup 23[p.28] states that virtual (3D) space has the general property of being "geometrically finite, that is, it makes up a bounded, delimited world," but current computer systems are capable of simulating theoretically infinitely large virtual worlds, for example, in Minecraft. 35 The implementation of a VE largely dictates how freely a player can move through VS. The existence of teleporters invalidates the size metric further and does not differentiate between a world or multiple worlds.…”

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Virtual world, defined from a technological perspective and applied to video games, mixed reality, and the Metaverse

Nevelsteen

2017

Computer Animation & Virtual

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There is no generally accepted definition for a virtual world, with many complimentary terms and acronyms having emerged implying a virtual world. Advances in networking techniques such as host migration of instances, mobile ad hoc networking, and distributed computing, bring in to question whether architectures can actually support a virtual world. Without a concrete definition, controversy ensues and it is problematic to design an architecture for a virtual world. Several researchers provided a definition but aspects of each definition are still problematic and simply can not be applied to contemporary technologies. The approach of this article is to sample technologies using grounded theory and to obtain a definition for a "virtual world" that is directly applicable to technology. The obtained definition is compared with related work and used to classify advanced technologies such as a pseudo-persistent video game, a MANet, virtual and mixed reality, and the Metaverse. The results of this article include a break down of which properties set apart the various technologies; a definition that is validated by comparing it with other definitions; an ontology showing the relation of the different complimentary terms and acronyms; and the usage of pseudo-persistence to categories those technologies, which only mimic persistence.

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From Voxel Vistas: Place-Making in Minecraft

Cited by 14 publications

References 31 publications

The Elements of Interactive Fiction in “Prominence”

The Elements of Interactive Fiction in “Prominence”

Virtualizing the real: a virtual reality contemporary sculpture park for children

Virtual world, defined from a technological perspective and applied to video games, mixed reality, and the Metaverse

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