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Buckles, Mary Ann. "Interactive fiction : the computer storygame adventure /." Diss., Connect to 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1985. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p8517895.

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Ode, Jon. "Religion in computer games : Religious themes conveyed through an unorthodox medium." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för humaniora och genusvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-12064.

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The purpose of this essay is an attempt to create a “first basis” of reliability for religious content in computes games, and its value in academic studies. While not researching it in depth, this essay will also give a suggestion of computer games’ potential as a didactic medium. A quantitative comparative analysis has been performed, to present several common religious themes and their occurrence in the computer game respectively. While researching the game, an abundance of religious themes have been found, documented and presented. Through this, it is concluded that computer games not only have the capability of presenting religious themes; they are found to be capable mediums of presentation. The content itself is of high varsity and of great interest to any religious scholar.
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Nilsson, Jakob. "Berättelsens labyrinter : Interaktiv fiktion och dess narrativa aspekter." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-15297.

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This essay examines the narrative aspect of interactive fiction. The study uses Janet H. Murrays analysis of the digital environment and the properties of it as procedural, participatory, spatial and encyclopedic. From this, her three characteristic pleasures in digital narratives - immersion, agency and transformation - are examined from the perspective of interactive fiction. The study also examines Nick Montforts analysis of interactive fiction as a potential narrative and a simulated world or environment. His comparison of interactive fiction with the literary riddle is also used in regards to puzzles and other game-related aspects in interactive fiction as a part of storytelling. Furthermore, the essay uses Espen J. Aarseths analysis on ergodic text and non-linearity to place interactive fiction in a tradition of participatory texts not necessarily bound to the computer. The essay show how the repeated and sudden nature of death in interactive fiction poses a potential problem in its aspiration to create a cohesive storytelling experience. Death can however be used as an aid in other narrative aspirations, such as humour. Furthermore, the participatory aspect of interactive fiction can create a meaningful and strong emotional response to the death of non-player characters. The essay also show how interactive fiction may use puzzles and other challenges as a method to create suspense and drama. The quality of interactive fiction as a simulated world enables it to create mazes and related experiences based on spatial navigation. Especially it underlines its capacity to in this manner portrait abstract concepts such as bureaucracy in a convincing and literal way. Finally the essay proposes that interactive fiction can be viewed as a bridge between traditional literary texts and the new digital texts of computer based entertainment. The essay therefore suggests that interactive fiction, with its expressed literary ambitions, is especially qualified as a starting point for understanding computer games as a capable storytelling tool. Further studies on interactive fiction may help reach a deeper understanding of the narrative qualities of computer games.
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Magnuson, Markus Amalthea. "The Dig : De grafiska äventyrsspelen som flyktigt medium." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filmvetenskapliga institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-179044.

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Ali, Ahmad, and Svensson Marcus. "Animation through Body Language : A study using the fictional character Mokhtar." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för speldesign, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-297660.

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Learning to read body language is something we do throughout our whole life. It is a complex non-verbal language that can express more than words. In this study we investigate the possibility to use only body language to portray emotions to the viewer. In a background of a game project we have used a character that has his face covered, therefore, facial expression is not visible during the online survey, which we used as a method for our investigation. As a foundation we have created four character animations to portray anger, frustration, exhaustion and hurt. To find the answer if it is possible to recognize those five emotions in the character animations survey, participants were obligated to name the emotion expressed on each of the video clips. The results of this study show that the characters body language could be sufficient to portray those five emotions. However, it was concluded that body language could be enough to represent the character's emotional state to the viewer; but by including facial expressions we could help to portray the emotion even further.
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Nilsson, Christian. "Berättande simuleringar : Om datorspel och lärande i GY11:s litteraturundervisning." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, Medie-, litteratur- och språkdidaktik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-15343.

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Uppsatsen försöker kartlägga hur och om datorspel kan användas i samma syfte som skönlitteratur i den litteraturundervisning som GY11 föreskriver. Fokus ligger på beröringsytor mellan skönlitteratur och datorspel gällande lärande; främst identitetsskapande, moral och etik men också stilistiska drag och litteraturvetenskapliga begrepp. Med två exempel, Fallout: New Vegas och Grand Theft Auto IV, visas hur berättandet i datorspel kan ge mediet en plats i gymnasieskolans litteraturundervisning, samt hur immersion, perspektiv och interaktivitet kan ge spelare något som inte skönlitteratur kan ge läsare.
The purpose of this thesis is to discuss whether and how computer games can be used as fiction in literature education in accordance with the new Swedish gymnasium curriculums, GY11. The focus is on the contact points between computer games and fiction regarding learning; foremost building identities, morality and ethics, but also stylistics and concepts in literary science. It is show that, using two examples (Fallout: New Vegas and Grand Theft Auto IV), the narrative elements in computer games can give them room and literary education, and also that immersion, perspective and interactivity can give players something that fiction can’t give its readers.
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Stenberg, Peder. "Den allvarsamma leken : Om World of Warcraft och läckaget." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-42073.

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Through more than five years of extensive, participatory research the writer became a fully integrated member of the World of Warcraft community he set out to study. By actually living the grounded practices that constitute the everyday life he concludes that the mundane, often repetitive practice has very little to do with the cyber-utopian claim that one can flee the body and become who they want on the Internet. Instead this doctoral thesis argues that the constant transitions of the borders between offline and online, virtual and real, body and avatar, play and work, player and producer are best described with the concept of leakage. Using leakage to describe the perforated borders that surrounds the game not only allows an understanding of World of Warcraft as a powerful site for production of meaning and culture but also places it far from the traditional understandings of separated fun, play and games. Play as an activity has traditionally been described with three intrinsic features: it is separable from everyday life, in particular from work; it is safe, meaning that it isn’t productive nor does it carry consequence and finally that play is pleasurable or fun. World of Warcraft doesn’t easily admit to these features and should not be understood as neither innocent utopia nor as a devoured mimesis, but rather as an expansion of the life space where players repeatedly and deliberately stretch beyond the producer’s intentions and create a world consisting of work, unwritten social norms, creativity and friendship. Players are social laborers that produce the core of what makes World of Warcraft what it is: a serious game.
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Papargyriou, Eleni. "Reading games in twentieth-century Greek fiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433282.

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Goggin, Joyce. "The big deal, card games in 20th-century fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0006/NQ35594.pdf.

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Vedrashko, Ilya. "Advertising in computer games." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39144.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves [67]-[74]).
This paper suggests advertisers should experiment with in-game advertising to gain skills that could become vital in the near future. It compiles, arranges and analyzes the existing body of academic and industry knowledge on advertising and product placement in computer game environments. The medium's characteristics are compared to other channels' in terms of their attractiveness to marketers, and the business environment is analyzed to offer recommendations on the relative advantages of in-game advertising. The paper also contains a brief historical review of in-game advertising, and descriptions of currently available and emerging advertising formats. Keywords: Advertising, marketing, branding, product placement, branded entertainment, networks, computer games, video games, virtual worlds.
by Ilya Vedrashko.
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Плохута, Тетяна Миколаївна, Татьяна Николаевна Плохута, Tetiana Mykolaivna Plokhuta, and B. S. Ilchyshyn. "Computer games and reality." Thesis, Вид-во СумДУ, 2007. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/17551.

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Yan, Jingjing. "Gender and computer games / video games : girls’ perspective orientation." Thesis, Gotland University, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-575.

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The topic of this thesis is “Gender Differences in Computer games/ Video games Industry”. Due to rapid development in technology and popularization of computers all around the world, computer games have already become a kind of common entertainment. Because computer games were designed especially for boys at the very beginning, there are still some remaining barriers when training female game designers and expanding game markets among female players.This thesis is mainly based on two studies which have enormous contributions to gender issue in computer games area. A simple model is established by summarizing factors mentioned and discussed in those two books. The main purpose consists of two comparisons under Gender Differences: one comparison is between the current data with the previous one, in order to check whether there are any changes during the past 10 years. The other one compares the young people in two regions, Sweden and China, in computer games perspective.Model designing, test, questionnaire and interview methods are used in this paper aiming to collect and categorize the data, which facilitates to analyze the results of the comparisons. The results reflect that although computer becomes a familiar “friend” in modern daily life, there are not obvious changes of girls‟ perspectives in computer game industry. Certainly, there are some differences between the young people coming from two regions which will be expounded in the thesis.

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Rihan, Jonathan. "Computer vision based interfaces for computer games." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579554.

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Interacting with a computer game using only a simple web camera has seen a great deal of success in the computer games industry, as demonstrated by the numerous computer vision based games available for the Sony PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 game consoles. Computational efficiency is important for these human computer inter- action applications, so for simple interactions a fast background subtraction approach is used that incorporates a new local descriptor which uses a novel temporal coding scheme that is much more robust to noise than the standard formulations. Results are presented that demonstrate the effect of using this method for code label stability. Detecting local image changes is sufficient for basic interactions, but exploiting high-level information about the player's actions, such as detecting the location of the player's head, the player's body, or ideally the player's pose, could be used as a cue to provide more complex interactions. Following an object detection approach to this problem, a combined detection and segmentation approach is explored that uses a face detection algorithm to initialise simple shape priors to demonstrate that good real-time performance can be achieved for face texture segmentation. Ultimately, knowing the player's pose solves many of the problems encountered by simple local image feature based methods, but is a difficult and non-trivial problem. A detection approach is also taken to pose estimation: first as a binary class problem for human detection, and then as a multi-class problem for combined localisation and pose detection. For human detection, a novel formulation of the standard chamfer matching algo- rithm as an SVM classifier is proposed that allows shape template weights to be learnt automatically. This allows templates to be learnt directly from training data even in the presence of background and without the need to pre-process the images to extract their silhouettes. Good results are achieved when compared to a state of the art human detection classifier. For combined pose detection and localisation, a novel and scalable method of ex- ploiting the edge distribution in aligned training images is presented to select the most potentially discriminative locations for local descriptors that allows a much higher space of descriptor configurations to be utilised efficiently. Results are presented that show competitive performance when compared to other combined localisation and pose detection methods.
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Gélinas, Faucher Claudine. "Beautiful Games: alienation, autonomy and authenticity in Leonard Cohen's fiction." Thesis, Connect to online version, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1441260261&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=10306&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Løland, Karl Syvert. "Intelligent agents in computer games." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-9759.

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In this project we examine whether or not a intelligent agent can learn how to play a computer game using the same inputs and outputs as a human. An agent architecture is chosen, implemented, and tested on a standard first person shooter game to see if it can learn how to play that game and find a goal in that game. We conclude the report by discussing potential improvements to the current implementation.

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Nordvall, Mathias. "SIGHTLENCE : Haptics for Computer Games." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-73873.

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Games in general and computer games in particular have now become a mainstream activity for young people in the industrialized nations. Sadly, people’s interaction with computer artifacts and games are mainly still limited to the visual and auditive modalities. This constrains the richness of our interaction with those artifacts, it constrains the possibilities of using those artifacts to communicate and build relations with others, and it excludes some people from using them at all. This thesis answers the questions of whether it’s possible to use haptics as a single modality for conveying information in computer games, if it’s possible to translate the standard interfaces of existing computer games into haptic interfaces, and if it can be accomplished with the technology used in the gamepads of current generation game consoles. It also contains a theoretical foundation for using haptics in game design and a new design method for analyzing the requirements of computer game interface modalities. A computer game prototype called Sightlence was developed in order to answer these questions. The prototype was developed in four iterative cycles of design, development, and evaluative play sessions. Four groups of people participated in the play sessions: graduate students, and teachers, specializing in games; people who are deafblind; people from the general population; and pupils from a national special needs school in Sweden for children with deafness or impaired hearing combined with severe learning disabilities, or congenital deafblindness. The prototypes were tested with usability techniques for measuring performance and learnability. The usability tests showed that Sightlence can be successfully learned by people from the general population while the pupils with cognitive development disorders from the special needs school would need additional support in the game in order to learn to handle the increased abstraction caused by the haptic interface. The thesis ends with discussion of the designed and developed artifact Sightlence. The discussion touches on the design process, the usability testing, and possible future research and development relevant for making haptics a fruitful tool and medium for designers and people.
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Thomson, Matthew Ian Malcolm. "Military computer games and the new American militarism : what computer games teach us about war." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2009. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10672/.

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Military computer games continue to evoke a uniquely contradictory public, intellectual, and critical response. Whilst denigrated as child’s play, they are played by millions of adults; whilst dismissed as simplistic, they are used in education, therapy, and military training; and whilst classed as meaningless, they arouse fears over media effects and the propagandist influence of their representations of combat. They remain the object of intense suspicion, and as part of a new and growing mass medium, they are blamed for everything from obesity to falling literacy standards, and from murder to Abu Ghraib. Much of the suspicion surrounding military computer games has been caused by the development of the military-entertainment complex - the relationship between the computer game industry and the U.S. military which has seen the production of dual-use games, co-produced by the military and the computer game industry and released for both military training and commercial sale. This relationship has placed military computer games at the centre of an intensely politicized debate in which they have become characterized as a mass medium which functions under the control of the military and political establishment and which promotes the militaristic ideals of the neoconservative Bush administration. This thesis serves as a fundamental reevaluation of such preconceptions and prejudices, and in particular, a complete reevaluation of the understanding of the relationship between computer games and American militarism. Its analysis focuses on three main areas: firstly, the content of military computer games; secondly, the determinants which affect the production and representation of war in computer games; and thirdly, the contribution of the representation of war in computer games to the misunderstandings and misconceptions concerning warfare which, in turn, have supported American militaristic beliefs.
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Malmhake, Daniel, and Henrik Karlsson. "Natural Language Interface technology in computer games : AN EVALUATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PARSERS IN COMPUTER GAMES." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-166411.

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A Natural Language Interface is an interface that operates on language input rather thanmouse and keyboard. It works by parsing the input into terms, and then parsing these termsinto a logic statement that can be processed. The efficiency and viability of Natural LanguageInterfaces in computer games was compared to the normal input of keyboard and mouse.This was done by having test users play a game with NLI and then running their inputsthrough a semantic parser. The results indicate that NLI in its current state is less efficient asa way of input than the keyboard/mouse way.
Ett Natural Language Interface är ett gränssnitt som tar indata i form av språk istället för detvanliga sättet med tangentbord och mus. Ett Natural Language Interface fungerar genom attdet först tar ut satsdelarna i indatan, och sedan omvandlar dessa satsdelar till logiska uttrycksom kan bearbetas. Effektiviteten och användbarheten hos Natural Language Interfacesjämfördes med det normala sättet att få indata i form av tangentbord och mus. Dettagenomfördes genom att testanvändare spelade ett spel med Natural Language Interface ochsedan köra deras använda indata genom en semantic parser. Resultaten indikerar att NaturalLanguage Interface i sitt nuvarande tillstånd är ett mindre effektivt sätt att få indata än detvanliga sättet med tangentbord och mus.
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Günzel, Stephan, Michael Liebe, and Dieter Mersch. "The medial form of computer games." Universität Potsdam, 2009. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/3324/.

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The claim is made, that in order to analyze them sufficiently, computer games first of all have to be described according to their mediality, understood as the very form in which possible contents are presented to be interacted with. This calls for a categorical approach that defines the condition of possible actions that are determined by the program, but that can only be perceived as aesthetic features.
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Liboriussen, Bjarke. "The landscape aesthetics of computer games." Universität Potsdam, 2008. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2458/.

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Landscape aesthetics drawing on philosophy and psychology allow us to understand computer games from a new angle. The landscapes of computer games can be understood as environments or images. This difference creates two options: 1. We experience environments or images, or 2. We experience landscape simultaneously as both. Psychologically, the first option can be backed up by a Vygotskian framework (this option highlights certain non-mainstream subject positions), the second by a Piegatian (highlighting cognitive mapping of game worlds).
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Hobro, Mark, and Marcus Heine. "Natural Language Interfaces in Computer Games." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-166592.

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Natural language processing is a complex area of computer science whichhas been under discussion for more than forty years. During recent yearsnatural language interfaces have been established in conjunction withspeech recognition. This report will cover the theory behind naturallanguage processing and evaluate the weaknesses and strengths of implementingand using a natural language interface in a text-based gameenvironment using the Natural Language Toolkit for Python. The resultsshow that the Natural Language Toolkit has great potential forimplementing a natural language interface for a text-based game, butthe library alone is not sufficient to get good results when the scope oflanguage is increased.
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Coggan, Melanie. "Reinforcement learning in commercial computer games." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112391.

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The goal of this thesis is to explore the use of reinforcement learning (RL) in commercial computer games. Although RL has been applied with success to many types of board games and non-game simulated environments, there has been little work in applying RL to the most popular genres of games: first-person shooters, role-playing games, and real-time strategies. In this thesis we use a first-person shooter environment to create computer players, or bots, that learn to play the game using reinforcement learning techniques.
We have created three experimental bots: ChaserBot, ItemBot and HybridBot. The two first bots each focus on a different aspect of the first-person shooter genre, and learn using basic RL. ChaserBot learns to chase down and shoot an enemy player. ItemBot, on the other hand, learns how to pick up the items---weapons, ammunition, armor---that are available, scattered on the ground, for the players to improve their arsenal. Both of these bots become reasonably proficient at their assigned task. Our goal for the third bot, HybridBot, was to create a bot that both chases and shoots an enemy player and goes after the items in the environment. Unlike the two previous bots which only have primitive actions available (strafing right or left, moving forward or backward, etc.), HybridBot uses options. At any state, it may choose either the player chasing option or the item gathering option. These options' internal policies are determined by the data learned by ChaserBot and ItemBot. HybridBot uses reinforcement learning to learn which option to pick at a given state.
Each bot learns to perform its given tasks. We compare the three bots' ability to gather items, and ChaserBot's and HybridBot's ability to chase their opponent. HybridBot's results are of particular interest as it outperforms ItemBot at picking up items by a large amount. However, none of our experiments yielded bots that are competitive with human players. We discuss the reasons for this and suggest improvements for future work that could lead to competitive reinforcement learning bots.
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Gibson, Benjamin Ian. "Educational Games for Teaching Computer Science." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9239.

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Much work has done on teaching Computer Science by having students program games, but little has been done on teaching Computer Science by having the students learn from playing educational games. The current work in this field does not seem to be particularly cohesive, so there is no clear idea of what has already been done, and what works. The focus of this thesis is to provide a clearer picture of the range of games available for teaching Computer Science, and to provide guidelines for designing and evaluating them. The first and primary part of the thesis was to find and provide detailed information on as many of the existing educational games that teach Computer Science as possible. An extensive search was performed, and 41 games were found. From these it can be seen that while a few topics, mainly binary and introductory programming concepts, have sufficient coverage, most topics in Computer Science have barely been touched. Of the games for teaching Computer Science that were found, most were available online, at no cost, and only required a short time investment to play. The second part of the thesis focuses on growing the number of games that could be used for teaching Computer Science. This is achieved by providing guidelines on producing new work, and an example game is produced to test the guidelines.
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Chaperot, Benoit. "Computational intelligence applied to computer games." Thesis, University of the West of Scotland, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739387.

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Wacher, Elin Gunnarsdottir. "COMPUTER GAMES AND THE OLDER GENERATION." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25230.

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The main purpose of the survey was to map older generations’ use of computer games, hereafter called gaming, and to highlight positive effects gaming has on the aging person. The goal of the survey is to contribute with deeper understanding and broadened awareness of which possibilities gaming offer to improve the wellbeing of the ageing human being. The collected empirical information was based on these questions: What does gaming look like amongst societies’ persons of the third age? Which factors contribute to encourage the ageing person to play? Can gaming be an important preventive factor for the ageing persons of the future? The gathering of data was carried out, using two different methods. A questionnaire based survey and thematically opens interviews. The selection of participants in the questionnaire based survey consisted of 32 persons. Two interviews were carried out. One with two persons and one with one person. All participants were of the third age, meaning that they are healthy and can manage daily life themselves. The result of the questionnaire based survey indicates thatmost persons of the third age, in spite of being in possession of digital instruments, well suited for gaming, very few of them actually play, and have no interest in it. The results of the interviews indicate that the lack of interest by older adults can partially be caused by the mass medias’ exposure of negative effects gaming can have on people, and partially by a lack of exposure of positive effects it can have to achieve improved wellbeing. Furthermore, the results of the interviews indicate that what could increase older persons interest in gaming, is research confirming the positive effects it can have on older persons, and that games that are both interesting and satisfying are available.
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Shi, Yinxuan. "Procedural Content Generation for Computer Games." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469147321.

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Prechtl, Anthony. "Adaptive music generation for computer games." Thesis, Open University, 2016. http://oro.open.ac.uk/45340/.

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This dissertation explores a novel approach to game music that addresses the limitations of conventional game music systems in supporting a dynamically changing narrative. In the proposed approach, the music is generated automatically based on a set of variable input parameters corresponding to emotional musical features. These are then tied to narrative parameters in the game, so that the features and emotions of the music are perceived to continuously adapt to the game's changing narrative. To investigate this approach, an algorithmic music generator was developed which outputs a stream of chords based on several input parameters. The parameters control different aspects of the music, including the transition matrix of a Markov model used to stochastically generate the chords, and can be adjusted continuously in real time. A tense first-person game was then configured to control the generator's input parameters to reflect the changing tension of its narrative---for example, as the narrative tension of the game increases, the generated music becomes more dissonant and the tempo increases. The approach was empirically evaluated primarily by having participants play the game under a variety of conditions, comparing them along several subjective dimensions. The participants' skin conductance was also recorded. The results indicate that the condition with the dynamically varied music described above was both rated and felt as the most tense and exciting, and, for participants who said they enjoy horror games and films, also rated as the most preferable and fun. Another study with music experts then demonstrated that the proposed approach produced smoother musical transitions than crossfades, the approach conventionally used in computer games. Overall, the findings suggest that dynamic music can have a significant positive impact on game experiences, and that generating it algorithmically based on emotional musical features is a viable and effective approach.
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Chan, Siu Man. "Pebble Games and Complexity." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3593787.

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We study the connection between pebble games and complexity.

First, we derive complexity results using pebble games. It is shown that three pebble games used for studying computational complexity are equivalent: namely, the two-person pebble game of Dymond-Tompa, the two-person pebble game of Raz-McKenzie, and the one-person reversible pebble game of Bennett have the same pebble costs over any directed acyclic graph. The three pebble games have been used for studying parallel complexity and for proving lower bounds under restricted settings, and we show one more such lower bound on circuit-depth.

Second, the pebble costs are applied to proof complexity. Concerning a family of unsatisfiable CNFs called pebbling contradictions, the pebble cost in any of the pebble games controls the scaling of some parameters of resolution refutations. Namely, the pebble cost controls the minimum depth of resolution refutations and the minimum size of tree-like resolution refutations.

Finally, we study the space complexity of computing the pebble costs and of computing the minimum depth of resolution refutations. It is PSPACE-complete to compute the pebble cost in any of the three pebble games, and to compute the minimum depth of resolution refutations.

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Mubireek, Khalid Al. "Gender-oriented vs. gender-neutral computer games in education." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1056139090.

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Kimmel, Jason. "Simple Games on Networks." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1307994412.

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Caldwell, Nicholas Peter. "How civilized! : discourses in modernity and postmodernity in the computer strategy game /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16691.pdf.

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Keijser, Robin. "Popularity of Indie Games." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-17156.

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The rising popularity of indie games is researched to answer the research aim: why have indie games gained their popularity? A study of relevant literature is performed to determine if there is a definition for good game design and to find out what technological developments have helped indie games rise in fame. Relevant articles to the research aim are also discussed. To explore what developers think of indie games interviews are attempted and a survey is distributed on various online forums to find out what people like about indie games. A conclusion is reached that show people like the creative nature of indie games and that they tend to have a emphasis on gameplay over high technological graphics.
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Walls, Richard. "Using Computer Games to Teach Social Studies." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-183039.

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This study investigates the effectiveness of two computer games as learning tools in comparison to established learning tools teaching two different topics in the course Social Studies 1b of the Swedish Upper Secondary School Curriculum. The use of computer games in education is placed in the context of changing ideas of the aims for education systems in the 21st Century with regard to student skills rather than content, including digital skills. The findings indicated that using these particular computer games as learning tools for these topics was at least as effective as the alternative, more established, lessons. Focus group discussions with students after the study lesson indicated a preference for variation in teaching methods and the desire for learning activities that require active student participation.
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Messing, Andreas, and Henrik Rönnholm. "Scalability of dynamic locomotion for computer games." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-166424.

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Dynamic locomotion in computer games is becomingmore common, but is still in its cradle. In this report weconduct an investigation into whether gait oscillators couldbe used as an in-game technique to generate dynamic locomotionin realtime. We tested this by using an industrialquality physics simulator to simulate a biped and aquadruped (humanoid and salamander) and measure quality,runtime and memory usage. The tests show that abiped need some balance system in order to walk indefinitely,while the salamander managed to walk properly withonly minor defects. Memory allows several thousands ofinstances while runtime allows up to a thousand instances.This leads to the conclusion that it is a cheap system, suitablewhere the quality is secondary to number of instances.
Dynamisk förflyttning i datorspel blir allt vanligare, menär fortfarande i sin vagga. I denna rapport genomför vi enutredning om ifall oscillatorer i form av ett CPG-systemkan användas som en spelteknik för att generera dynamiskrörelse i realtid. Vi testade detta genom att använda enfysiksimulator av industrikvalitet för att simulera en tvåfotingoch en fyrfoting (humanoid och salamander) och mätakvalitet, tidsåtgång och minnesanvändning . Försöken visaratt en tvåfoting behöver något sorts balanssystem för attgå längre sträckor, medan salamandern lyckades gå med endastmindre defekter. Minnet tillåter flera tusen instansermedan tidsåtgången tillåter upp till ett par hundra instanser.Detta leder till slutsatsen att det är ett billigt system lämpligtdär antalet instanser är viktigare än kvaliteten.
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Manzaneda, Martin. "Natural Language Interface Technology in Computer Games." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-166647.

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This project delivers the results of research about the implementation of natural language interfaces (NLIs) on computer games. We will study how to combine these concepts, making a small game and evaluating different methods to achieve this.
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Gunder, Anna. "Hyperworks : on digital literature and computer games /." Uppsala : Avd. för litteratursociologi vid Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen i Uppsala, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-4517.

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Che, Pee Naim. "Computer games use in an educational system." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12297/.

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Teaching a subject which involves a long process and inter-related problems can sometimes be difficult through conventional classroom activities. This is particularly difficult at the UK Key Stage 3 (13-14 years) where students are only beginning to understand the processes of reason. Often what the teacher would like to encourage is group discussion but for many reasons, young students may be reluctant to put forward ideas in a conventional classroom setting. An area where this becomes less of a problem is once they get involved in playing a game together. In addition to this certain subjects are difficult to teach because they involve complex interactions that are largely outside the general knowledge of young students. An example of this is the issue of human contributions to climate change. The subject is one of recent heated debate, much of which involves complex arguments on the relationship between the natural contribution to climate variation and those produced by human beings. In the work reported here a computer game has been developed which tries to incorporate the various processes involved in a realistic way. In principle this game can be used individually. However, it also provides the opportunity for generating group discussion and reasoning processes. The game which has been developed uses a non-player character which is controlled by the teacher. The game is played in a networked environment with a number of teams of two players each trying to provide solutions to a complex climate issue. The non player character is able to monitor the performance of the different teams and provide feedback that will be of a more realistic/less predictable nature. This thesis addresses the design and the implementation of the game as a tool for teaching and learning purposes for learning about the human contribution to climate change. Three experiments have been done using this computer game to investigate the effectiveness of game-based learning towards tackling these issues. The first two studies were carried out in the UK while the third study was carried out in Malaysia to investigate educational cultural background. The initial study involved two groups of Key Stage 3 children in a Geography class. The study was undertaken in the normal teaching sequence. The children were divided into pairs during game-play and each session lasted about one hour. The behaviour of the whole group and individual teams was monitored throughout the game-play. Analysis of this shows that the game not only allowed the students to investigate the science but also to communicate with each other during the process. Overall, it is felt that by introducing an environment with which they were sufficiently familiar (playing a game together) the normal inhibitions to communication were removed. The control based experiment reinforced these findings.
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Frazer, Alex. "Towards better gameplay in educational computer games." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/172421/.

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There is currently a notable amount of research suggesting that educators should use computer games as part of their teaching. Most of this research suggests why games should be used choosing very specific example games, or making broad sweeping statements about gaming as a whole. But very little of the research explains how these games should be used. What features should be present in the game? Do these features change depending on a given learning outcome? Do they change depending on the type of game? This thesis begins by compiling a prospective set of required features for an educational game, taken from literature on Learning Environments, as well as the requirements of different learning styles. This requirement set is cross-referenced with an overview of some typical, commercially available games, to show that such games are capable of meeting these requirements. This preliminary list is used in two investigations: the first explores how well the chosen features are offered by a series of current educational mini-games; the second shows how different requirements are offered by different commercially-available computer game genres. The results of these investigations are used to refine the list, before carrying out a user survey to identify the important features offered by different game genres, and to determine whether game quality improves as more of the features are met. The survey results show that some key requirements separate the genres significantly, while others were consistent across all genres. In addition, there is a positive correlation between each feature offered, and the overall user enjoyment of the game. The thesis concludes with a proposed framework of game genres and features, to assist in the design and selection of games for a given educational scenario, as well as some suggestions for future work.
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Sundin, Olle. "Natural Language Content Generation for Computer Games." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-165091.

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The demand for engaging and fresh game content is steadily increasing in the modern computer game industry. However, the manual process of game content creation is expensive and unscalable which has led to an increased use of Procedural Content Generation methods.In this thesis we explore the possibilities of combining Natural Language Generation with Procedural Content Generation methods to produce natural language game content for the computer game Crusader Kings II. We present several theoretical proposals for Natural Language Generation techniques suitable for Crusader Kings II. Furthermore, we propose, implement and evaluate a new method, MergeTree, that is a variation on the traditional NLG pipeline. The new method combines the existing softwares CoreNLP and SimpleNLG into a new pipeline architecture in order to rewrite existing surface texts. The MergeTree parser is an intermediate tool which creates a Text Specification for a given surface text. This allows for additional microplanning in order to generate linguistic variations of the existing surface texts.Fifty sentences from existing event descriptions in Crusader Kings II were given as input to the MergeTree parser, which could correctly handle 30% of the inputs. Additionally, 26% of the inputs caused minor errors which could be resolved with future development of the MergeTree method.
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Hearn, Robert A. (Robert Aubrey) 1965. "Games, puzzles, and computation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37913.

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There is a fundamental connection between the notions of game and of computation. At its most basic level, this is implied by any game complexity result, but the connection is deeper than this. One example is the concept of alternating nondeterminism, which is intimately connected with two-player games. In the first half of this thesis, I develop the idea of game as computation to a greater degree than has been done previously. I present a general family of games, called Constraint Logic, which is both mathematically simple and ideally suited for reductions to many actual board games. A deterministic version of Constraint Logic corresponds to a novel kind of logic circuit which is monotone and reversible. At the other end of the spectrum, I show that a multiplayer version of Constraint Logic is undecidable. That there are undecidable games using finite physical resources is philosophically important, and raises issues related to the Church-Turing thesis. In the second half of this thesis, I apply the Constraint Logic formalism to many actual games and puzzles, providing new hardness proofs. These applications include sliding-block puzzles, sliding-coin puzzles, plank puzzles, hinged polygon dissections, Amazons, Kohane, Cross Purposes, Tip over, and others.
(cont.) Some of these have been well-known open problems for some time. For other games, including Minesweeper, the Warehouseman's Problem, Sokoban, and Rush Hour, I either strengthen existing results, or provide new, simpler hardness proofs than the original proofs.
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Manurangsi, Pasin. "On approximating projection games." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100635.

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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.
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The projection games problem (also known as LABEL COVER) is a problem of great significance in the field of hardness of approximation since almost all NP-hardness of approximation results known today are derived from the NP-hardness of approximation of projection games. Hence, it is important to determine the exact approximation ratio at which projection games become NP-hard to approximate. The goal of this thesis is to make progress towards this problem. First and foremost, we present a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for satisfiable projection games, which achieves an approximation ratio that is better than that of the previously best known algorithm. On the hardness of approximation side, while we do not have any improved NP-hardness result of approximating LABEL COVER, we show a polynomial integrality gap for polynomially many rounds of the Lasserre SDP relaxation for projection games. This result indicates that LABEL COVER might indeed be hard to approximate to within some polynomial factor. In addition, we explore special cases of projection games where the underlying graphs belong to certain families of graphs. For planar graphs, we present both a subexponential-time exact algorithm and a polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for projection games. We also prove that these algorithms have tight running times. For dense graphs, we present a subexponential-time approximation algorithm for LABEL COVER. Moreover, if the graph is a sufficiently dense random graph, we show that projection games are easy to approximate to within any polynomial ratio.
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Cai, Yang Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The complexity of Nash equilibria in multiplayer zero-sum games and coordination games." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62458.

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We prove a generalization of von Neumann's minmax theorem to the class of separable multiplayer zero-sum games, introduced in [Bregman and Fokin 1998]. These games are polymatrix-that is, graphical games in which every edge is a two-player game between its endpoints-in which every outcome has zero total sum of players' payoffs. Our generalization of the minmax theorem implies convexity of equilibria, polynomial-time tractability, and convergence of no-regret learning algorithms to Nash equilibria. Given that three player zero-sum games are already PPAD-complete, this class of games, i.e. with pairwise separable utility functions, defines essentially the broadest class of multi-player constants sum games to which we can hope to push tractability results. Our result is obtained by establishing a certain game-class collapse, showing that separable constant-sum games are payoff equivalent to pairwise constant-sum polymatrix games-polymatrix games in which all edges are constant-sum games, and invoking a recent result of [Daskalakis, Papadimitriou 2009] for these games. We also explore generalizations to classes of non- constant-sum multi-player games. A natural candidate is polymatrix games with strictly competitive games on their edges. In the two player setting, such games are minmax solvable and recent work has shown that they are merely affine transformations of zero-sum games [Adler, Daskalakis, Papadimitriou 2009]. Surprisingly we show that a polymatrix game comprising of strictly competitive games on its edges is PPAD-complete to solve, proving a striking difference in the complexity of networks of zero-sum and strictly competitive games. Finally, we look at the role of coordination in networked interactions, studying the complexity of polymatrix games with a mixture of coordination and zero-sum games. We show that finding a pure Nash equilibrium in coordination-only polymatrix games is PLS-complete; hence, computing a mixed Nash equilibrium is in PLS n PPAD, but it remains open whether the problem is in P. If, on the other hand, coordination and zero-sum games are combined, we show that the problem becomes PPAD-complete, establishing that coordination and zero-sum games achieve the full generality of PPAD. This work is done in collaboration with Costis Daskalakis.
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Kaiser, David Michael. "The Structure of Games." FIU Digital Commons, 2007. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2.

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Computer Game Playing has been an active area of research since Samuel’s first Checkers player (Samuel 1959). Recently interest beyond the classic games of Chess and Checkers has led to competitions such as the General Game Playing competition, in which players have no beforehand knowledge of the games they are to play, and the Computer Poker Competition which force players to reason about imperfect information under conditions of uncertainty. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the area of General Game Playing both specifically and generally. On the specific side, we describe the design and implementation of our General Game Playing system OGRE. This system includes an innovative method for feature extraction that helped it to achieve second and fourth place in two international General Game Playing competitions. On the more general side, we also introduce the Regular Game Language, which goes beyond current works to provide support for both stochastic and imperfect information games as well as the more traditional games.
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Delbecque, Yannick. "Quantum games as quantum types." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40670.

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In this thesis, we present a new model for higher-order quantum programming languages. The proposed model is an adaptation of the probabilistic game semantics developed by Danos and Harmer: we expand it with quantum strategies which enable one to represent quantum states and quantum operations. Some of the basic properties of these strategies are established and then used to construct denotational semantics for three quantum programming languages. The first of these languages is a formalisation of the measurement calculus proposed by Danos et al. The other two are new: they are higher-order quantum programming languages. Previous attempts to define a denotational semantics for higher-order quantum programming languages have failed. We identify some of the key reasons for this and base the design of our higher-order languages on these observations. The game semantics proposed in this thesis is the first denotational semantics for a lambda-calculus equipped with quantum types and with extra operations which allow one to program quantum algorithms. The results presented validate the two different approaches used in the design of these two new higher-order languages: a first one where quantum states are used through references and a second one where they are introduced as constants in the language. The quantum strategies presented in this thesis allow one to understand the constraints that must be imposed on quantum type systems with higher-order types. The most significant constraint is the fact that abstraction over part of the tensor product of many unknown quantum states must not be allowed. Quantum strategies are a new mathematical model which describes the interaction between classical and quantum data using system-environment dialogues. The interactions between the different parts of a quantum system are described using the rich structure generated by composition of strategies. This approach has enough generality to be put in relation with other work in qu
Nous présentons dans cette thèse un nouveau modèlepour les langages de programmation quantique. Notre modèle est uneadaptation de la sémantique de jeux probabilistes définie par Danos etHarmer: nous y ajoutons des stratégies quantiquespour permettre la représentation des états et des opérations quantiques.Nous établissons quelques propriétés de base de ces stratégies. Cespropriétés sont ensuite utilisées pour construire des sémantiquesdénotationnelles pour trois langages de programmation quantique. Le premierlangage est une formalisation du calcul par mesures proposé par Danoset al. Les deux autres langages sont nouveaux: ce sont deslangages quantiques d'ordre supérieur dont la syntaxe a été construiteà partir d'observations expliquant l'échec des tentatives précédentespour construire une sémantique dénotationnelle pour de tels langages. La sémantique de jeux présentée dans cette thèseest la première sémantique dénota­tionnelle pour de telslambda-calculs équipés de types et d'opérations supplémentairespermettant la programmation d'algorithmes quantiques. Les résultatsprésentés valident les deux approches différentes utilitées dans laconception de ces deux nouveaux languages d'ordre supérieur: une premièreoù les états quantiques sont indirectement accessibles via desréférences et une seconde où ils sont introduit directement comme desconstantes dans le langage. Les stratégies quantiques présentéespermettent de comprendre les contraintes devant êtreimposées aux systèmes de type quantique comportant des types d'ordresupérieurs. La contrainte la plus importante est le fait que l'abstractionsur une partie d'un état quantique comportant plusieurs qbits inconnus doitêtre prohibée. Les stratégies quantiques constituent un nouveau modèle mathématique quidécrit l'interaction entre les données classiques et quantiques par desdialogues entre système et environnement. L'interaction entre les differentespar
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Holmgren, Johan, and Mikael Stewén. "Serious games med rökdykningssimulering." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1312.

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Utbildning och träning av rökdykning inom räddningtjänsten är idag både dyrt och

tidskrävande. Vid praktisk träning måste räddningstjänsten bege sig ut till befintliga

övningsområden och ta med sig en stor mängd utrustning: luftpaket, skyddskläder, radio etc. Detta gör det till ett omfattande och kostsamt moment. Detta öppnar tankebanor för alternativ och komplement till befintlig utbildning och träning.

Serious games finns idag i många former och är ett utbildnings och rekryteringsredskap som bygger på datorstödd inlärning. Med detta menas att ett Serious game är ett spel som har som huvudsyfte att lära ut och om möjlighet vara underhållande under tiden. Man kan genom denna teknik simulera verkliga situationer i realistiska miljöer med hjälp av verklighetsliknande kommunikationsprotokoll. Denna studie handlar om vilka huvudsakliga faktorer som är viktiga för ett Serious game. Vidare undersöks på vilket sätt ett Serious game

ska anpassas för svensk Räddningstjänst med inriktning på sökning och kommunikation vid rökdykningsträning och utbildning.

Vi har kommit fram till att följande huvudsakliga faktorer är viktiga för ett Serious game som är inriktat på förstapersonsimulering: Utvärdering, administration, grafik, underhållning, tutorials och dynamik. Vi har även kommit fram till att vid utveckling av en träningssimulator för rökdykning bör man använda befintliga inlärningsteorier, SDK som utvecklingsverktyg.

Denna studie öppnar även möjligheter för andra att fortsätta och genomföra utveckling av en riktig prototyp till Räddningstjänsten, utifrån våra resultat. Studien kan också ses som enklare underlag vid skapandet av ett Serious game av typen förstapersonsimulator.

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Liebe, Michael. "There is no magic circle : on the difference between computer games and traditional games." Universität Potsdam, 2008. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2459/.

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This text compares the special characteristics of the game space in computer-generated environments with that in non-computerized playing-situations. Herewith, the concept of the magic circle as a deliberately delineated playing sphere with specific rules to be upheld by the players, is challenged. Yet, computer games also provide a virtual playing environment containing the rules of the game as well as the various action possibilities. But both the hardware and software facilitate the player’s actions rather than constraining them. This makes computer games fundamentally different: in contrast to traditional game spaces or limits, the computer-generated environment does not rely on the awareness of the player in upholding these rules. – Thus, there is no magic circle.
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Rören, Jonas. "Best of Both Worlds: A Platform for Hybrids of Computer Games and Board Games." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22398.

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This report describes my work with developing a game for a gaming platform that enables hybrids between board games and computer games. My ambition has been to develop a game that takes advantage of the novel possibilities that this platform permits. Among those are to operate with a combination of the computer game traits of complexity in the games and ease of playing; as well as the board game / card game traits of combining social dynamics around a game session with ability to keep information hidden from other players. This is accomplished by a combination of mobile phones and a computer connected to the Internet. The screen of the computer will serve as board and the phones will display cards and other private information to the players, as well as functioning as the players' means for interaction with the game. The game developed, Wind Bugs, takes advantage of the complexity of game states that a computer easily can handle. Effort has been put into finding mechanics with a level of complexity while still implementing them in way that makes them both playable and enjoyable. Rather than focusing on immersion, which has become common in the design of computer games, hopes are that games for this platform, including the game developed in this project, will give room to social dynamics among the players. Though operating with the use of mobile phones, the platform will not support "mobile gaming"; the proposed setting is a group of players surrounding a big screen.
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Benkar, Rohan Sudhir. "Configurable Persuasive Games." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1373323538.

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Hillman, Joel. "Kinect in retro games." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5201.

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Have you ever asked yourself whether new technology mixed with older might have a great outcome? How about using a modern kind of input control, such as a camera with gesture recognition in an older game? This study is meant to nd out whether or not camera-based input is suitable in older retro games and how it di ers in comparison to standard gamepad input. A modi ed version of In nite Super Mario is used to receive input from a Kinect application and control the character inside the game. Questionnaires and logging is added into the application to collect research data to help in answering the research questions. The evaluation consists of a pre-survey to collect background information about the player, empirical analysis of statistics collected during game play to measure performance and a post-survey to nd out the reactions of the subjects. T-tests are used to nd signi cant di erences in the test results and the participants are grouped based on their preference, former gamepad- and Kinect experience. The results indicate that players with lower gaming experience have a higher satisfaction using the Kinect as input method. Additionally gesture recognition appears to add an another fun factor to the game.
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Yuen, Jeanne Y. Y. "Computer Go-Muku." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64063.

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