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Rockwell, Geoffrey

doi:10.1023/a:1016174116399

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“…), but at the same time, it must be structured in such a way that the player gets engaged in an experience beyond the game, which is an aesthetic experience. As defined by McLuhan (1964, in Rockwell, 2002, ''Games are popular art, collective, social reactions to the main drive or action of any culture. Games, like institutions, are extensions of social man and the body politic, as technologies are extensions of the animal organism.…”

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Art Video Games

Díaz

Tungtjitcharoen

2014

Games and Culture

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This study conducted analytical and semiexperimental research with the purpose of testing if art video games serve as a form of transmission of social representations and feelings. Accordingly, a free-association questionnaire was used after participants played the game The Graveyard. The associative method was paired with item hierarchization and clustering techniques using a structural approach. The data were analyzed using mixed methods (frequency analysis, semantic weight, and categorical clustering). Additionally, a cluster analysis was conducted to determine connections between representations. Afterward, categories were compared with the representations the game designers wanted to transmit to the players. The results of the research confirmed the possibility of accessing people's social representations using a video game as stimulus. Cluster analyses depicted that these representations were emotionally linked and socially shared among the players without regard to age or gender. The relation with the designers' representations about the game was found to be not significant.

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Art Video Games

Díaz

Tungtjitcharoen

2014

Games and Culture

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“…Simulations share many aspects with games, but attempt to simplify dynamic systems that exist in the real world with a much greater degree of veracity (McCall, 2012, 2016). While scholars continue to disagree about the exact definition of what constitutes a game, simulation, play, or the ludic, most agree that games and simulations are more than just amusing pastimes (Caillois, 1961; Corbeil, 1999; Huizinga, 1970; McCall, 2016; O’Neil, Wainess, & Baker, 2005; Rockwell, 2002; Vowinckel, 2009). Since at least the end of the nineteenth century, toy manufacturers, educators, and doctors have recognized the significant value of games as forms of instruction (Hutchinson, 1908; McLoughlin Brothers, 1897; “Toys of War Wanted,” 1899).…”

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Teaching History With Custom-Built Board Games

Hoy

2018

Simulation & Gaming

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Purpose. This article investigated the potential of a custom-built board game as a means to teach historical empathy, improve class participation, and to improve student understanding of the limitations of archival collections. Method. Participant behavior as well as verbal and written feedback were collected during a pilot study of POLICING THE SOUND. A total of 88 undergraduate and graduate participants from History and Indigenous Studies took part during the pilot study. Results. Student participation and understanding of historical context improved during the game. While graduate and undergraduate students showed similarity in their enjoyment of the game and their belief that it made historical arguments, the curricular differences in graduate and undergraduate programs influenced how each group approached the game. Conclusion. Participant feedback, facilitator observation, and external observation indicate that groups of players can resolve confusion more efficiently than individual players can, time constrained decision-making may help maintain student engagement, an inability to win does not necessarily cause disengagement in short educational games, and that a structured debrief is important in achieving educational goals even in custom-built games.

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Scottish Literature in the 21st Century and the New Media

Lamont

2023

A Companion to Scottish Literature

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