Swap Adjacent Gems to Make Sets of Three: A History of Matching Tile Games

Juul, Jesper

doi:10.1080/17493460601173366

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“…For instance, one aspect of game design which was not prominent in students' games was the development of a ludic economy: the distribution of rewards and assets across the game space to sustain emergent structures of play. We draw here on Juul's (2001) distinction between two basic structures for games: 'that of emergence (a number of simple rules combining to form interesting variation) and that of progression (separate challenges presented serially)'. Throughout our study, the games have structures based on a progression model; in other words, they demonstrate a concept of (linear) narrative.…”

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Game Design as Textual Poaching: Media Literacy, Creativity and Game-Making

Pelletier

Burn

Buckingham

2010

E-Learning and Digital Media

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This article addresses practices of textual appropriation in computer games made by young people. By focusing on how young people's production work makes reference to popular media texts, it examines the basis on which such work claims to be legible as a game text: how it claims to be literate in the context of an after-school game-making club. The analysis builds on studies of 'identity work' at play in children's discussions of popular media, but develops this by looking at practices of media production rather than consumption. To realise this move, the article draw on methods of textual analysis developed for the study of multimodal, interactive texts. The article contributes to debates about the nature of creativity and how this can be taught and learned, particularly with respect to media education. It draws on an account of creativity developed by Vygotsky, in which creativity is described in terms of the transformation of cultural resources using semiotic tools, including concepts. This account allows the positioning moves realised by young people's game texts in terms of creative literacy practices to be traced, whilst avoiding notions of creativity which are either reductively skill based or unhelpfully celebratory.

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Game Design as Textual Poaching: Media Literacy, Creativity and Game-Making

Pelletier

Burn

Buckingham

2010

E-Learning and Digital Media

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“…Game Play Information: The game's play information coding categories were drafted and fine-tuned through multiple game play trials and by referencing existing game coding protocols. [38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50] The coding categories included: Primary Health Topic (adapted from the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases), 51 Level of Claimed Influence (this refers to the potential influence claimed by the game designers and developers, not their actual influence among players, which is reported by peer-reviewed publications), Internet Connectivity, Game Genre, Sound Presence, Information about Playable Game Characters, Game Perspective, Game Setting, Number of Players, Narrative Presence, Game Play Time, and Game Usability Evaluation. In terms of the criteria for a game's playability evaluation, we adopted the usability principles for videogame design 52 into a usability criteria chart of game play to evaluate each game by entering 1 to 3 for each criterion (1-Bad, 2-OK, and 3-Good).…”

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A State-of-the-Art Systematic Content Analysis of Games for Health

Kharrazi

2018

Games for Health Journal

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As the field of games for health continues to gain momentum, it is crucial to document the field's scale of growth, identify design patterns, and to address potential design issues for future health game development. Few studies have explored the attributes and usability features of games for health as a whole over time. We offer the first comprehensive systematic content analysis of digital games for health by examining 1743 health games released between 1983 and 2016 in 23 countries extracted from nine international English health game databases and directories. The majority of these games were developed in the United States (67.18%) and France (18.59%). The most popular platforms included web browsers (72.38%) and Windows (14.41%). Approximately four out of five (79.12%) of the games were available at no cost. We coded 1553 accessible games for an in-depth analysis and further assessed 1303 for usability. Popular health topics represented included: cognitive training (37.41%), indirect health education (13.33%), and medical care provision (9.98%). Most games (75.66%) could be completed within 60 minutes. The main game usability problems identified included a lack of customization, nonskippable contents, and a lack of feedback and instruction to the players. While most of the usability problems have improved as did the software and hardware technology, the players' ability to skip nonplayable contents has become slightly more restricted overtime. Comparison with game efficacy publications suggested that a further understanding of the scope for games for health is needed on a global level.

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“…Many games are built around or contain some form of story/narrative -this is the case for most first-person shooters and platform games, and all role-playing games, but arguably not for many other types of games, such as matching tile games like Tetris (Alexey Pajitnov 1984) or Bejeweled (PopCap 2007) [57]. (It should be noted that there is a debate about to what degree all games contain or constitute narrative, and some people would argue that Tetris is a game with narrative [58].)…”

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Search-Based Procedural Content Generation: A Taxonomy and Survey

Togelius

Yannakakis

Stanley

et al. 2011

IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games

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Abstract-The focus of this survey is on research in applying evolutionary and other metaheuristic search algorithms to automatically generating content for games, both digital and non-digital (such as board games). The term search-based procedural content generation is proposed as the name for this emerging field, which at present is growing quickly. A taxonomy for procedural content generation is devised, centering on what kind of content is generated, how the content is represented and how the quality/fitness of the content is evaluated; searchbased procedural content generation in particular is situated within this taxonomy. This article also contains a survey of all published papers known to the authors in which game content is generated through search or optimisation, and ends with an overview of important open research problems.

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Swap Adjacent Gems to Make Sets of Three: A History of Matching Tile Games

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Game Design as Textual Poaching: Media Literacy, Creativity and Game-Making

Game Design as Textual Poaching: Media Literacy, Creativity and Game-Making

A State-of-the-Art Systematic Content Analysis of Games for Health

Search-Based Procedural Content Generation: A Taxonomy and Survey

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