Changing the Rules of the Game: Rule-Adjustment Mechanics in Tabletop Games by Jorgensen, Teis

“…The paper concludes with a discussion around the creative, strategic, and educational opportunities that rule-adjustment mechanics offer players and a set of recommendations for educators and game designers looking to integrate such mechanics into their work.…”
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Motivare la classe di lingue by Lombardi, Ivan

“…This paper analyses video games by transcending the tool itself and breaking down its essence in the form of its constituent game elements – i.e. the components of games that game designers blend with craft into thoroughly engaging gaming experiences. …”
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Donkey Kong's Legacy by Johannes Bruder

“…Through the strategic use of the microprocessor as “model organism” and references to biological and psychological lab research, the authors draw attention to speculative research in machine learning, where arcade video games designed in the 1980s provide test beds for artificial intelligences under development. …”
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Designing a Game for Playful Communication within Families by Ida Marie Toft, Amani Naseem

“…This article presents the game Junomi, a game designed to give families and teenagers opportunities to play with the way they communicate and also experience closeness and togetherness. …”
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Un environnement multimédia privilégiant l'expression en langage naturel, pour des activités éducatives de type piagétien by Élisabeth Godbert

“…This paper deals with the development of educational software, which proposes, in a multimedia, multimodal and reactive environment favoring natural language expression, piagetian games designed for natural language learning. In such systems, each exercise brings into play a micro-world of graphic objects on which the user can act (for example to modify, move or withdraw the objects), by composing natural language queries to which the system gives an answer. …”
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Closer and Closer Worlds: Using LLMs to Surface Personal Stories in World-building Conversation Games by Lee, Cassandra, Mindel, Jessica

“…This demonstration presents Closer Worlds, a 2-player digital game designed to facilitate intimate conversation through the magic of collaborative world-building. …”
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Serious Games Supporting the Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Consumption in Youth: Scoping Review by Juan Martínez-Miranda, Ismael Edrein Espinosa-Curiel

“…The eligibility criteria included studies that described serious games designed to support the prevention or treatment of alcohol and drug consumption, targeted a population aged between 12 and 30 years, and included an evaluation procedure. …”
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Design Recommendations for Improving Immersion in Role-Playing Video Games. A Focus on Storytelling and Localisation by Vanessa Cesário, Mariana Ribeiro, António Coelho

“…The results provided design recommendations to enhance video game immersion (language and voice-acting) and highlight certain aspects that game designers should consider to further intensify players’ immersion during gameplay.…”
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Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism by Salvador Gómez-García, Teresa de la Hera

“…The development of digital games designed to frame journalistic messages led to the emergence of newsgames. …”
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Video Games and Learning About Climate Change by Garrett W. Richards, Michael Long

“…This short perspectives article describes our experiences as an early-career climate change researcher and an independent game designer in responding to a community challenge posed by a nonprofit organization focused on the potential positive social impact of video games. …”
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The Response to Impactful Interactivity on Spectators’ Engagement in a Digital Game by Raphaëlle Brissette-Gendron, Pierre-Majorique Léger, François Courtemanche, Shang Lin Chen, Marouane Ouhnana, Sylvain Sénécal

“…These results provide a suggestion of design that could be used by game designers who wish to engage their spectatorship, a segment of their target market that is becoming impossible to ignore.…”
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A Preliminary Study of the Influence of Game Types on the Learning Interests of Primary School Students in Digital Games by Min-Bin Chen, Siou-Ge Wang, You-Ning Chen, Xiao-Fang Chen, Yi-Zhen Lin

“…The balance between gameplay and education in educational games is a key issue in designing such games. Designing educational games to be less complex and more casual makes it easier to balance education and entertainment. …”
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استخدام الالعاب Gamification کوسيلة لمحو الامية المعلوماتية بالمکتبات الجامعية by إيناس صادق

“…The best game that achieved the elements of game designing is the Quarantined Axl Wise game,most games have concentrated on dealing with the sources and  services of information in the library, followed by learning the methods of research in indices, and finally teaching the numbers of indexing of the Congress Library used in most university libraries.…”
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Review of user experience (UX) frameworks for educational games by Nagalingam, Vanisri, Ibrahim, Roslina

“…Knowledge of UX design for EG will benefit the games designer for helping them design a better game.…”

A review of user experience (UX) frameworks for educational games by Nagalingam, Vanisri, Ibrahim, Roslina

“…Knowledge of UX design for EG will benefit the games designer for helping them design a better game.…”

Evaluating a Strengths-Based mHealth Tool (MyStrengths): Explorative Feasibility Trial by Stian Jessen, Jelena Mirkovic, Elanor Halvorsen Brendmo, Lise Solberg Nes

“…With this in mind, we have developed the MyStrengths app prototype, a gamefully designed app aimed at aiding users in both identifying their strengths and using these strengths more actively in their daily life. …”
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Tuer le père, tuer le pair. Figures d’autorité et doubles maléfiques comme adversaires dans les coming-of-age stories de la saga Persona by Thaïs ARIAS

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Diamond: The Game – a board game for secondary school students promoting scientific careers and experiences by Claire Murray, Matthew Dunstan, Catherine Heron, Laura Holland, Sophy Palmer, David Price, Mark Basham

“…<p class="first" id="d618865e174"> Diamond: The Game is a board game designed for secondary school students (aged 11–18) to enable them to explore a broad variety of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers, STEM subjects and life as a scientist. …”
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A Game on Time: The Witness and the Temporality of the Digital Image by Patrick Saxton Brown

“…Taking the game’s embedding of a ten-minute sequence from director Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Nostalghia (1983) within its gameplay as a cue, I develop these ideas in relationship to both the phenomenology of time and the cinema of the “time image,” in particular the work of Abbas Kiarostami. For game designer Jonathan Blow, as for Kiarostami, the digital image is a fundamentally new form of temporal experience that requires new kinds of environmental awareness and care (Sorge). …”
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“Even’s nightmare was just beginning…”: Lost in Random and the Gothic Tradition by Tânia Cerqueira

“…Indeed, looking back at the history of video games, game designers have been frequently drawing on the Gothic by representing labyrinthine spaces, ghostly enemies, and uncanny objects (Kirkland, “Gothic” 109). …”
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