The measurement of player engagement has been the concern of academics and industry professionals alike. Specifically, there is interest towards the best way to measure engagement through surveys or questionnaires. Recently, a new tool was published ...

Assembly language programming is an important skill needed in several knowledge areas, such as operating system development, compiler design, high-performance computing, computer architecture design, multimedia acceleration in processors, and many ...

Many people with upper limb motor disabilities enjoy playing video games but are often limited to accessible controllers with buttons and switches. My research aims to broaden controller options by exploring wearable technology alternatives. ...

Video game engines are used in most modern video games because they simplify and speed up development. In addition, some of the most popular engines, such as Unreal Engine 5 (UE5), also integrate visual scripting tools. Visual scripting in UE5, through ...

Gaming sickness, where players experience dizziness, nausea, or even vomiting while playing video games, is typically viewed through a quantitative lens, limiting our insights into the lived experience of the phenomenon and thus concealing mitigation ...

Understanding what leads to meaningful experiences in digital games can help researchers and practitioners create more meaningful games and other interactive experiences. Literature on meaning is reviewed from the fields of Positive Psychology, ...

Video games pose different challenges during development and maintenance than classic software. For example, common and widespread assets, that are typically created as part of video game development are Non-Player Characters (NPCs). NPCs ...

Video games have the potential to help teach evolutionary biology, but most commercial games misrepresent evolutionary principles by allowing player choice to dictate evolutionary trajectories. Our game studio aims to incorporate scientifically ...

Integration of video games in classroom instruction poses challenges for teachers, including the need for technical and financial resources, support from parents and administrators, concerns about toxic gaming culture, and uncertainty in teaching ...

Expanding non-player character (NPC) navigation behavior in video games has the potential to induce novel player experiences. Current industry standards represent traversable world geometry by utilizing a Navigation Mesh (NavMesh); however NavMesh ...

The growing capability and availability of large language models (LLMs) have led to their adoption in a number of domains. One application domain that could prove fruitful is to video games, where LLMs could be used to provide conversational ...

Narrative puzzles feature prominently in story-based open world video games where they form part of the progression of a narrative and require exploration and logical and creative thinking to solve. Open world games use navigation aids to help ...

Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gained widespread popularity across different fields, it is essential to recognize that AI systems, while impressive, do not consistently exhibit robust generalization, particularly for difficult problems such ...

Video games are an important form of entertainment and have become an increasingly popular pastime in the 21st Century. However, many people with disabilities are still excluded from gaming due to accessibility barriers. While some progress has been ...

Previous work shows that high latency, a prolonged delay between player in- and system output, negatively affects player experience and performance. However, previous work also comes to contrary conclusions about how the in-game perspective alters the ...

With the rise of free-to-play (F2P) games, the profitability of video-gaming apps critically depends on the ability of developers to acquire, retain, and monetize large numbers of players. In this context, most game designers have no viable alternative ...

Heuristics present a cheap and effective way of evaluating usability. However, in video games, evaluating unique player experiences that are dependent on individual preferences and abilities presents a challenge that goes beyond usability. Video games ...

The impact of digital games on chemistry education has received less attention compared to other scientific fields. This research gap resulted in a limited understanding of how to effectively design mobile chemistry games (MCG) distinct from non-science ...

A between-subjects controlled experiment with a 4 × 4 factorial design was conducted with 391 participants to test the impact of narrative framing and upgrades on player experience. Participants played one of 16 versions of a custom research game ...

Due to the increasing adoption of specialized hardware, the development of novel gaming experiences in virtual reality (VR) has gained traction. Despite the popularity that VR has achieved so far, it is still not clear how to address the design of ...