Kinephanos journal: Exploring the Frontiers of Digital Gaming

For your theoretical perusal, a new issue of the Kinephanos journal:

Exploring the Frontiers of Digital Gaming: Traditional Games, Expressive Games, Pervasive Games

Special Issue, April 2016 / Numéro spécial, avril 2016
Edited by / Dirigé par Sébastien Genvo & Carl Therrien

Introduction: Exploring the Frontiers of Digital Gaming:
Traditional Games, Expressive Games, Pervasive Games
SÉBASTIEN GENVO & CARL THERRIEN
Université de Lorraine & Université de Montréal
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Century of Play: 18th Century Precursors of Gamification
MATTHIAS FUCHS
Leuphana Univesity

Football Manager: Mutual Shaping between Game, Sport, and Community
ALEXANDRE HOCQUET
Université de Lorraine & CNRS

Welcome to the Dollhouse.
Constructing Bodies in Crytek’s Crysis and Mattel’s Kiddle Dolls.
CARL THERRIEN & JOYCE GOGGIN
Université de Montréal / Universiteit van Amsterdam

Replaying the Lost Battles:
the Experience of Failure in Polish History-Themed Board Games
PIOTR STERCZEWSKI
Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Defining and Designing Expressive Games: The Case of Keys of a Gamespace
SÉBASTIEN GENVO
Université de Lorraine

Differentiating Serious, Persuasive, and Expressive Games
GABRIELLE TRÉPANIER-JOBIN
Université du Québec à Montréal

Bridging The Gap Between Game Designers and Cultural Institutions: A Typology to Analyse and Classify Cultural Pervasive Games
DIANE DUFORT, FEDERICO TAJARIOL, IOAN ROXIN
Université de Franche-Comté

World of Warcraft Dramaturgical Approach: A Drama that Plays with its own Limits
VICTOR CAYRES & ADOLFO DURAN
CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil / Federal University of Bahia

American Journal of Play 8.2

Here is American Journal of Play Volume 8, Number 2•Winter 2016.

Though technically about the titular play, this journal is becoming increasingly intertwined with game studies.

Interview

Play, Toys, Learning, and Understanding: An Interview with Doris Bergen

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Articles

Microgravity Playscapes: Play in Long-Term Space Missions

Marianthi Liapi and Edith Ackermann
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“We Don’t Allow Children to Climb Trees”: How a Focus on Safety Affects Norwegian Children’s Play in Early-Childhood Education and Care Settings

Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter and Ole Johan Sando
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Blocks, Bricks, and Planks: Relationships between Affordance and Visuo-Spatial Constructive Play Objects

Daniel Ness and Stephen J. Farenga
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Inserting Child-Initiated Play into an American Urban School District after a Decade of Scripted Curricula: Complexities and Progress

Julie Nicholson, Anne Bauer and Ristyn Woolley
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Book Reviews

Thomas S. Henricks, Play and the Human Condition

Miguel Sicart
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David F. Lancy, The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings

Garry Chick
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Matt Omasta and Drew Chappell, Eds., Play, Performance, and Identity: How Institutions Structure Ludic Spaces

Jennesia Pedri
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Carroll Pursell, From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play

Howard P. Chudacoff
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John Sharp, Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art

Chris Hanson
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Nathan Altice, I AM ERROR: The Nintendo Family Computer/Entertainment System Platform

Michael Z. Newman
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Mary Flanagan and Helen Nissenbaum, Values at Play in Digital Games

Jose P. Zagal
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ToDIGRA Journal vol 2, No 2 out

For your theoretical pleasure, here is ToDIGRA (Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association) Vol 2, No 2.

Special issue, Snowbird DiGRA 2014

On Chairing a Games Research Conference	PDF
Jose P Zagal

We Are All Fishes Now: DiGRA, Feminism, and GamerGate	PDF
Shira Chess, Adrienne Shaw

Exploring the Cause of Game (Derived) Arousal: What biometric accounts of player experience revealed	PDF
Gareth Schott, Raphaël Marczak

Reconciling Csikszentmihalyi’s Broader Flow Theory: With Meaning and Value in Digital Games	PDF
John Hamon Salisbury, Penda Tomlinson

A Structural Model for Player-Characters as Semiotic Constructs	PDF
Daniel Vella

What is Strafe Jumping? idTech3 and the Game Engine as Software Platform	PDF
Dylan Lederle-Ensign, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Game Developers Conference 2016 in tweets: March 18

Continued from yesterday, here is March 18 of the 2016 Game Developers Conference, in tweets:

VR is still there, main story is Microsoft hiring dancers for their party. And then, experimental gameplay workshop and a fan giving “David Brevik money to make up for pirating Diablo back in the 90s”.

Game Developers Conference 2016 in tweets: March 17

Continued from yesterday, here is March 17 of the 2016 Game Developers Conference, in tweets:

VR, Iwata and the expo continue to dominate. New upcoming themes: Women. Rez. Slides.

Game Developers Conference 2016 in tweets: March 16

Continued from yesterday, here is March 16 of the 2016 Game Developers Conference, in tweets:

VR wins again. The Game Developers Choice Awards and the IGF awards make their mark (“congrats”), as does the Satoru Iwata tribute. Marketeers have discovered twitter, hence encouragements to stop by a booth for a giveaway.

VR is so far the only theme to stand out. (Some years have clear themes, some don’t.)

GDC 2016 in tweets, so far

A few years ago I did word clouds based on Game Developer Conference tweets as a quick way of gauging the main themes. Why not do it again? I also get to see how the Twitter API has changed since last time.

Here is Monday March 13th, before the conference started. General arrival and anticipation:

Tuesday March 14th, summits and VR conference. No big themes, but VR and Ubisoft show up (Ubisoft mainly for their lounge, though):

Wednesday March 15th, more summits, VR, and the announcement of PlayStation VR. Complete domination by Sony (President Andrew is Andrew House, president of Sony):