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Kristanto, Damar. "The Impact of Game Avatar Customization in Improving User Experience and Gamer Loyalty: Experiment in Role Playing Game (RPG) Based Video Game." TIJAB (The International Journal of Applied Business) 2, no. 2 (February 26, 2019): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/tijab.v2.i2.2018.86-106.
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The increasing number of video game titles raises competition between video game developers getting tighter and more competitive, this encourages the game developers to be more creative in designing their games so that players become loyal to play and not quickly switch to playing other games. While we know that game development is very difficult, time consuming and requires a lot of costs for the RPG genre. So that the loyalty of game players in playing games becomes a crucial problem.This study aims to explain how the customization of game avatars can increase the loyalty of video game players in playing role-playing games (RPGs).This study uses the within-subject experimental method with participants who are RPG video game players who have played for at least 1 year, 24 participants participated in the 8 experiment session throughout the study. The results of this study indicate that avatar customization is very important because it can improve the player's self-identification in the game, improve the playing experience, improve the perceived quality of the video game played, increase the flow and immersion of players, and increase gamer loyalty. Another result that was raised was that the use of avatars that were the same gender with players (male players using male avatars) did not have higher flow and immersion than when using different genders (male players use female avatars) so that this raises new issues of gander swapping in the role playing video game that can be continued for further research.
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Ortiz de Gortari, Angelica B., Karin Aronsson, and Mark Griffiths. "Game Transfer Phenomena in Video Game Playing." International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning 1, no. 3 (July 2011): 15–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcbpl.2011070102.
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Video game playing is a popular activity and its enjoyment among frequent players has been associated with absorption and immersion experiences. This paper examines how immersion in the video game environment can influence the player during the game and afterwards (including fantasies, thoughts, and actions). This is what is described as Game Transfer Phenomena (GTP). GTP occurs when video game elements are associated with real life elements triggering subsequent thoughts, sensations and/or player actions. To investigate this further, a total of 42 frequent video game players aged between 15 and 21 years old were interviewed. Thematic analysis showed that many players experienced GTP, where players appeared to integrate elements of video game playing into their real lives. These GTP were then classified as either intentional or automatic experiences. Results also showed that players used video games for interacting with others as a form of amusement, modeling or mimicking video game content, and daydreaming about video games. Furthermore, the findings demonstrate how video games triggered intrusive thoughts, sensations, impulses, reflexes, optical illusions, and dissociations.
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Yuwono, Ardian Indro, Gabriel Roosmargo Lono Lastoro Simatupang, and Aprinus Salam. "The Unconscious Self in Role Playing Video Game’s Avatar." Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi 16, no. 2 (May 1, 2019): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.31315/jik.v16i2.2687.
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In the world of digital video games, human players are present through surrogates. Surrogates in the video game is a character which also called by the term avatar which is a self-representation of real players. The presence of avatars in role playing games are formed through a process of creation by the gamer. The production of avatars cannot be separated from the unconscious mind of the players, the unconscious desire, ego and ideology. This avatar creation process continues ongoing, following the progress of the video game story. The decision, the path, and the act that the player take in completing the story are gradually reshaping the avatar. In the end, the avatar eventually became a manifestation and reflection of the unconscious minds of the video game players. This research conducted using ethnography and Jacques Lacan psychoanalysis theory.
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Tomkinson, Sian. "Video games through the refrain: Innovation and familiarity." Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 12, no. 3 (October 1, 2020): 287–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jgvw_00020_1.
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The video game market is dominated by numerous franchises and many players lament that games are becoming boring and repetitive. However it is evident that players desire these games, which sell well. This article suggests that Deleuze and Guattari’s refrain can help explain why players desire repetition in games, and what kinds of risks and potentials it can provide. Specifically, in regard to gameplay I consider elements including genre and mechanics, and player’s desire to re-experience games. To explore repetition in players I consider game communities and the gamer identity, which can open up players to difference or encourage restriction. I argue that understood through the refrain, repetition in video games has the potential to generate difference, innovation and connections, but also possibly a closing off. The refrain is a useful tool for games studies and industry workers who are interested in understanding how new experiences can emerge from repetition.
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Chess, Shira, Nathaniel J. Evans, and Joyya JaDawn Baines. "What Does a Gamer Look Like? Video Games, Advertising, and Diversity." Television & New Media 18, no. 1 (August 1, 2016): 37–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476416643765.
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Recent years have seen changes to the video game industry and the image of video game players. There are more games on the market and a larger variety of ways to play those games. Yet, despite market shifts, authors such as Shaw demonstrate that there are still tensions surrounding gamer identification. Even as next-generation systems (such as the Xbox One, the PlayStation 4, and the Wii U) and casual gaming take hold of the market, tension remains between the perceptions of who is playing versus the reality of actual players. In our study, we perform a content analysis of video game commercials in 2013 to explore questions of diversity—particularly in terms of portrayals of the player’s sex and ethnicity—to consider how the gamer is represented in terms of physical and behavioral attributes.
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Rochat, Shékina, and Jérôme Armengol. "Career Counseling Interventions for Video Game Players." Journal of Career Development 47, no. 2 (August 9, 2018): 207–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894845318793537.
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Video games are becoming ubiquitous in Western societies. However, this virtual leisure has received little attention from researchers in career counseling, leaving career counselors relatively unprepared to work with video game players. In this article, we propose three types of interventions to capitalize on the benefits of playing video games to foster the career counseling process. The first intervention aims to identify and transfer the skills that video game players develop through their leisure activity. The second intervention highlights how video game players’ narrative may reveal vocational personality types. The third intervention proposes to turn career counseling tasks into a game to increase motivation to achieve it. The strengths and limitations of these interventions are underlined, as well as the potential of career counseling sessions to help remedy problematic video game play.
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Eden, Allison, Erin Maloney, and Nicholas David Bowman. "Gender Attribution in Online Video Games." Journal of Media Psychology 22, no. 3 (January 2010): 114–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000016.
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Demographic research and anecdotal evidence suggest that, historically, games have been dominated by male players. However, newer research shows gains by female players, especially in online games. Therefore, how gamers perceive the masculinity of other gamers in game has become relevant. Two experiments examine how two variables – game genre and player skill – inform gender perception in online games. Results from both studies show that game genre is a salient cue for gender perception, but that perception of player skill is not. A number of gender differences in perceptions of player skill and the relationship between genre and perceptions of player masculinity are also identified. These findings are an important first step in understanding the perception of others in online entertainment environments.
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Benoit, Julie Justine, Eugenie Roudaia, Taylor Johnson, Trevor Love, and Jocelyn Faubert. "The neuropsychological profile of professional action video game players." PeerJ 8 (November 17, 2020): e10211. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10211.
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In the past 20 years, there has been growing research interest in the association between video games and cognition. Although many studies have found that video game players are better than non-players in multiple cognitive domains, other studies failed to replicate these results. Until now, the vast majority of studies defined video game players based on the number of hours an individual spent playing video games, with relatively few studies focusing on video game expertise using performance criteria. In the current study, we sought to examine whether individuals who play video games at a professional level in the esports industry differ from amateur video game players in their cognitive and learning abilities. We assessed 14 video game players who play in a competitive league (Professional) and 16 casual video game players (Amateur) on set of standard neuropsychological tests evaluating processing speed, attention, memory, executive functions, and manual dexterity. We also examined participants’ ability to improve performance on a dynamic visual attention task that required tracking multiple objects in three-dimensions (3D-MOT) over five sessions. Professional players showed the largest performance advantage relative to Amateur players in a test of visual spatial memory (Spatial Span), with more modest benefits in a test of selective and sustained attention (d2 Test of Attention), and test of auditory working memory (Digit Span). Professional players also showed better speed thresholds in the 3D-MOT task overall, but the rate of improvement with training did not differ in the two groups. Future longitudinal studies of elite video game experts are required to determine whether the observed performance benefits of professional gamers may be due to their greater engagement in video game play, or due to pre-existing differences that promote achievement of high performance in action video games.
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Quick, John M., Robert K. Atkinson, and Lijia Lin. "Empirical Taxonomies of Gameplay Enjoyment." International Journal of Game-Based Learning 2, no. 3 (July 2012): 11–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijgbl.2012070102.
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A survey study was conducted to better understand how gameplay enjoyment relates to players’ personality traits and video game preferences. This study demonstrated that the core design elements of games that lead to enjoyment can be empirically identified. Similarly, it showed that considering personality, an individual characteristic, can produce informative insights about how players perceive gaming experiences. Whereas video game research has historically emphasized either games or players in isolation (Juul, 2010), this study is an initial effort towards a holistic approach that considers how design features and player characteristics combine to generate enjoyable video game experiences. Two empirical taxonomies for creating more enjoyable game experiences are presented.
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Kiyonari, Toko. "Detecting Defectors When They Have Incentives to Manipulate Their Impressions." Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science 1, no. 1 (May 4, 2010): 19–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5178/lebs.2010.5.
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We examined if naive observers can distinguish defectors from cooperators even when defectors may be motivated to present themselves positively. In Study 1, 150 participants played a “semi-sequential” Prisoner’s Dilemma Game (PDG) with real monetary incentives, half as first players and half as second players. First players decided to cooperate or defect, and second players made the same decision without knowing the first player’s choice. The first player was given a chance to present a video message to the second player before the latter made their decision. After the PDG, players played a separate one-shot, semi-sequential Stag Hunt Game (SHG), a coordination game where cooperation is the best choice insofar as the other also cooperates. In this game, the first player was not given a chance to send a video message. When the players had incentives to hide intentions or manipulate impressions of themselves, even motivated judges (whose monetary gain depended on the accuracy of cheater/cooperator detection) could not distinguish defectors from cooperators in either the PDG or SHG. However, they were able to discriminate “hard-core defectors” who defected in both games. In Study 2, however, in which judges had no monetary incentives to detect targets’ choices, participants were unable to discern even hard-core defectors. The contents of the messages did not provide help discerning defectors.
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Velez, John A., and David R. Ewoldsen. "Helping Behaviors During Video Game Play." Journal of Media Psychology 25, no. 4 (January 1, 2013): 190–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000102.
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Research suggests that video games are becoming a social activity. Previous research has neglected the complicated social context in which people now play video games. However, a growing body of literature suggests that playing violent video games cooperatively with others can attenuate their aggression-facilitating effects and increase prosocial behaviors between players. To better understand which types of social game play can foster helping behaviors between players and which players may be engaging in these helping behaviors during game play, the current study administered a survey to 252 students who self-identified as video game players. The results suggest that participants who reported playing cooperatively/competitively with other players were more likely to report engaging in helping behaviors during game play. Additionally, participants who reported being motivated to play specialized roles in group game play and have an altruistic personality were more likely to report engaging in helping behaviors during game play.
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Ferguson, Christopher J., Kay Colon-Motas, Carolin Esser, Connor Lanie, Skylar Purvis, and Mark Williams. "The (Not So) Evil Within? Agency in Video Game Choice and the Impact of Violent Content." Simulation & Gaming 48, no. 3 (December 1, 2016): 329–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1046878116683521.
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Background. The degree to which violent video games do, or do not contribute to aggressive behavior and hostility remains controversial in the scientific community, with scholars not yet having come to a consensus about effects. Recent studies have examined whether other issues such as frustration or competition might explain some video game influences that were previously thought to be due to violent content. Aim. The current study examines whether player agency in determining choice of game played influences aggressive outcomes. Methods. Young adult players were randomized either to play a violent game, a non-violent game, or to be given the choice between several violent and non-violent games. Players were examined for subsequent aggressive behavior using the ice water task as well as for stress levels and hostility. Results. Game condition did not influence hostility, stress, or aggressive behavior, whether with randomized or chosen games. Conclusion. The present study provided no evidence that violent video games contribute to aggressive behavior. Lack of influence for agency in game choice can be understood given the lack of any aggression effect for violent game exposure.
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Kim, Young Bin, Shin Jin Kang, Sang Hyeok Lee, Jang Young Jung, Hyeong Ryeol Kam, Jung Lee, Young Sun Kim, Joonsoo Lee, and Chang Hun Kim. "Efficiently detecting outlying behavior in video-game players." PeerJ 3 (December 10, 2015): e1502. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1502.
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In this paper, we propose a method for automatically detecting the times during which game players exhibit specific behavior, such as when players commonly show excitement, concentration, immersion, and surprise. The proposed method detects such outlying behavior based on the game players’ characteristics. These characteristics are captured non-invasively in a general game environment. In this paper, cameras were used to analyze observed data such as facial expressions and player movements. Moreover, multimodal data from the game players (i.e., data regarding adjustments to the volume and the use of the keyboard and mouse) was used to analyze high-dimensional game-player data. A support vector machine was used to efficiently detect outlying behaviors. We verified the effectiveness of the proposed method using games from several genres. The recall rate of the outlying behavior pre-identified by industry experts was approximately 70%. The proposed method can also be used for feedback analysis of various interactive content provided in PC environments.
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Gligorov, Riste, Michiel Hildebrand, Jacco Van Ossenbruggen, Lora Aroyo, and Guus Schreiber. "Topical Video Search: Analysing Video Concept Annotation through Crowdsourcing Games." Human Computation 4, no. 1 (April 26, 2017): 47–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.15346/hc.v4i1.77.
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Games with a purpose (GWAPs) are increasingly used in audio-visual collections as a mechanism for annotating videos through tagging. One such GWAP is Waisda?, a video labeling game where players tag streaming video and win points by reaching consensus on tags with other players. The open-ended and unconstrained manner of tagging in the fast-paced setting of the game has fundamental impact on the resulting tags. We find that Waisda? tags predominately describe visual objects and rarely refer to the topics of the videos. In this study we evaluate to what extent the tags entered by players can be regarded as topical descriptors of the video material. Moreover, we characterize the quality of the user tags as topical descriptors with the aim to detect and filter out the bad ones. Our results show that after filtering, game tags perform equally well compared to the manually crafted metadata when it comes to accessing the videos based on topic. An important consequence of this finding is that tagging games can provide a cost-effective alternative in situations when manual annotation by professionals is too costly.
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Aune, R. Kelly, Matthew Sharritt, and Daniel D. Suthers. "l33tsp33k." International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence 5, no. 1 (January 2014): 45–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijdldc.2014010104.
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A qualitative case study of student game play is presented that describes how game player communication becomes increasingly complex, efficient, and impenetrable by those who have not actively played the game. Transcripts of gathered video tape reveal how student ‘gamer talk' became increasingly implicit, using terminology provided by the game and their shared context of playing the game. Over time, communication among game player group members generally became more efficient and less penetrable by members outside the group (such as new players), as players engaged in culture-building activities around their shared context. However, players occasionally became more explicit in their communication when grounding was required to reach shared meaning, such as in instances where players disagreed on the purpose of a particular game feature or strategy. Finally, implications are offered to suggest ways in which gamer cultures can be made more accessible to game designers and those guiding classroom interactions.
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Costa, Liliana Vale, and Ana Isabel Veloso. "Factors Influencing the Adoption of Video Games in Late Adulthood." International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction 12, no. 1 (January 2016): 35–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijthi.2016010103.
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In the video game industry, older adults tend to be avid consumers. Although considerable research has been devoted to the positive cognitive effects of video games, less attention has been paid to the older adult gamer profile. The aim of this paper is to describe a survey conducted from November 2012 until May 2013, which includes 245 gamers aged 50 and over, about their game preferences. Specifically, the authors examined: (a) what types of video games are played and (b) what leads these players to be engaged by video games. The results indicate that adventure games with problem-solving are preferred, suggesting the skills that participants would like to practise. The study provides insight into a new video gamer profile.
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Morlock, Henry, Todd Yando, and Karen Nigolean. "Motivation of Video Game Players." Psychological Reports 57, no. 1 (August 1985): 247–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1985.57.1.247.
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44 men and 73 women, freshman college students, rated statements about video games. Analyses indicated those who played frequently were motivated both to master the games and to compete with others. Women who played infrequently seemed to have similar achievement motivation in general but less interest specifically in mastering the games.
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Hofman-Kohlmeyer, Magdalena. "Brand-Related User-Generated Content in Simulation Video Games: Qualitative Research Among Polish Players." Central European Management Journal 29, no. 1 (March 15, 2021): 61–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.7206/cemj.2658-0845.41.
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Purpose: The article sought to answer research questions regarding investigated branded content generated by players in simulation video games. How does the process work in video games? What are the characteristics of branded user-generated content in video games? To what extent players are willing to participate in branded content creation? Methodology: I conducted 20 in-depth interviews among Polish players, with the application of snowball sampling. The study participants were adult users of chosen simulation video games: The Sims, Second Life, and Euro Truck Simulator 2. Findings: We can distinguish content based on game mechanism, official add-ons, or game modding. Players frequently check some brands from a set offered by game developers and create content (e.g. in The Sims users can design house interiors with IKEA furniture). Some players are not satisfied by what a game offers and generate content based on modding (e.g. DHL trucks or McDonald’s restaurants inside the Euro Truck Simulator 2). In this respect, the article refers to Smith’s, Fischer’s, and Yongjian’s content dimensions. Branded game modifications described by respondents are characterized by a high level of similarity towards real brands and positive brand sentiment (valence). I noted no statement about player and marketer (brand) communication in gathered material. The biggest challenge for practitioners in the field of UGC in video games is how to manage brand messages. Practical Implications: Brand-related user-generated content is an important phenomenon in terms of the brand-building process and its impact on brand reception, which all require marketers’ attention. For game developers, such a content is a source of information about customer expectations. Players show their personal expectations by game modding. Originality/Value: Brand-related content generated by users is frequently associated with social media. The scholarship shows a lack of knowledge of branded user-generated content in video games.
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Santillan, Luis Alberto Casillas, and Johor Ismael Jara Gonzalez. "Learning Avatar's Locomotion Patterns Through Spatial Analysis in FPS Video Games." International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence 8, no. 1 (January 2018): 28–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijoci.2018010103.
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This article describes how current video games offer an extreme use of media fusion. Such construction implies a novel form of complexity regarding game control and active response from game to player. All of these elements produce deeper immersion effect in players. In order to perform a detailed supervision over this kind of game, additional controls should be included in game. Some of these controls are the moving and decision schemes. Authors believe that players move around virtual scenarios following some sort of pattern. Every player would have a specific pattern, according to his/her experience and capability to manage the gamepad layout. Current proposal consists in a 3D geometrical model surrounding player's avatar. Data unwittingly provided by the player, have elements to discover and, eventually, learn some gamers' patterns. The availability of these patterns would allow an improved game response and even the possibility of machine learning, as well as other artificial intelligence strategies. Every 3D game may include the model proposed in this paper, due to its noninvasive operation.
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Korpak, Klaudia, Aneta Bac, and Anna Ścisłowska-Czarnecka. "Spinal pain syndromes among video game players." Health Promotion & Physical Activity 11, no. 2 (June 30, 2020): 15–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.2636.
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Aim of the study: The purpose of this study was to assess the occurrence of spinal pain syndromes among video game players. Material and methods: 550 persons took part in the survey, including 494 (89.8%) men and 56 (10.2%) women playing video games. The study was conducted using an online questionnaire created using Google Forms. The questionnaire contained 27 questions, including questions about time spent in sitting position, occurrence of spinal pain, ways of dealing with pain and knowledge of the principles of spinal pain prophylaxis. Results: 70% of respondents play on the computer seven days a week, about 3–4 hours a day. Half of the surveyed players devoted one to two hours a day to physical exercise, one third of the study subjects less than an hour, while every third video game player performed physical activity 3–4 times a week. When pain comes, almost 70% of respondents wait for it to subside, every fourth person treats themselves and the rest seeks help of a doctor or physiotherapist. Conclusions: There was no correlation between the number of years spent on playing video games and the occurrence of spinal pain as well as between the daily number of hours spent on playing video games and the occurrence of spinal pain.
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Johnson, Mark R., and Yinyi Luo. "Gaming-value and culture-value: Understanding how players account for video game purchases." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 25, no. 5-6 (November 28, 2017): 868–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856517743667.
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In most writing on video games, whether within or beyond the academy, the availability of gaming media is implicitly taken for granted. However, we propose that the act of video game purchase should be seen as an important aspect of the player–video game relationship. Drawing on original interview data, this work explores two types of video game purchasing that are common in contemporary Western gaming culture – the ‘pre-order’ (paying for a game before its release), and what we term ‘backlog purchasing’ (buying a cheap game unlikely to ever be played). Through Marx and Adorno’s theorizations of value, specifically exchange-value and use-value, we argue that, according to players, the meaningful aspects of those purchases are more than simply obtaining the entertainment value realized through gaming. Instead, different kinds of purchases activities are themselves imbued with varied and powerful values, by both players and the industry. We call these ‘gaming-value’ and ‘culture-value’. Furthermore, drawing on Lewis’ conceptualization of consumer capitalism, this article also traces the ideological root of, and the flow of power beneath, these two particular types of consumption. Through analysing video game purchases, we aim to shed light upon a crucial element of the audience–media relationship, as well as other theoretical issues, most notably adapting and updating Marxist concepts for the purpose of researching modern video games.
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Neiva, Eduardo, and Carlo Romano. "The Semiotic Immersion of Video Games, Gaming Technology and Interactive Strategies." Public Journal of Semiotics 1, no. 2 (July 1, 2007): 31–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.37693/pjos.2007.1.8819.
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The paper analyzes the effect of immersion in digital games using the theoretical apparatus of game theory. The paper illustrates interactive operations and the cause and effect relationship between player and designer, explaining the importance of strategic decision-making and pathing in player immersion. It considers the game function of creating a virtual world and proposes the idea that digital games are not just computer-mediated communication to the player. These games are games of “the moment”, like the game Chicken, and played with apparently great emotion, intelligence, and physical dexterity, although represented in software form. The relationship between the player and the computer is one of sign exchange, precisely the one that semiotics calls semiosis. The paper concludes that the personal achievement of individual players (end-users) accounts for the phenomenon of deep immersion in digital games. Not virtuality, but virtuosity is the strong force in digital game playing.
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Grieman, Keri. "Lakitu's world: proactive and reactive regulation in video games." Interactive Entertainment Law Review 2, no. 2 (December 2019): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/ielr.2019.02.02.
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Regulating a population is difficult, and no easier when that population has grenade launchers. Video game publishers and developers face the unenviable challenge of balancing their game's playability with regulating the individuals within it. This is done proactively (by game design) and reactively (by punishing or rewarding player behaviour). What players encounter affects the game's age rating, but also the player's desire to continue playing. Even games focusing on violence impose taboos on unsportsmanlike behaviour, and real-world referential behaviour or attacks. Games can become known for their toxic player behaviour, rather than the gameplay itself. In examining pro and reactive regulation in online multiplayer games, such as type of communication and moderation, there appears to be a correlation between highly proactive in-game regulation and low age ratings, and highly reactive in-game regulation and high age ratings. While further study is needed, this suggests potential avenues for future regulatory efforts.
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Li, Xiaozhou, Zheying Zhang, and Kostas Stefanidis. "A Data-Driven Approach for Video Game Playability Analysis Based on Players’ Reviews." Information 12, no. 3 (March 17, 2021): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info12030129.
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Playability is a key concept in game studies defining the overall quality of video games. Although its definition and frameworks are widely studied, methods to analyze and evaluate the playability of video games are still limited. Using heuristics for playability evaluation has long been the mainstream with its usefulness in detecting playability issues during game development well acknowledged. However, such a method falls short in evaluating the overall playability of video games as published software products and understanding the genuine needs of players. Thus, this paper proposes an approach to analyze the playability of video games by mining a large number of players’ opinions from their reviews. Guided by the game-as-system definition of playability, the approach is a data mining pipeline where sentiment analysis, binary classification, multi-label text classification, and topic modeling are sequentially performed. We also conducted a case study on a particular video game product with its 99,993 player reviews on the Steam platform. The results show that such a review-data-driven method can effectively evaluate the perceived quality of video games and enumerate their merits and defects in terms of playability.
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Burgess, Jacqueline, and Christian Jones. "The Female Video Game Player-character Persona and Emotional Attachment." Persona Studies 6, no. 2 (March 16, 2021): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/psj2020vol6no2art963.
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This research, using online qualitative survey questions, explored how players of the PlayStation 4 console game, Horizon Zero Dawn, formed emotional attachments to characters while playing as, and assuming the persona of the female player-character, Aloy. It was found that the respondents (approximately 71% male) formed emotional attachments to the female player-character (PC) and non-player characters. Players found the characters to be realistic and well developed and they also found engaging with the storyworld via the female PC a profound experience. This research advances knowledge about video games in general and video game character attachment specifically, as well as the emerging but under-researched areas of Persona Studies and Game Studies.
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Xiao, Shou Bai. "The Application of Multimedia Video Technology in 3D Table Tennis Games." Applied Mechanics and Materials 599-601 (August 2014): 1934–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.599-601.1934.
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With the continuous development of computer technology, the technology in designing and developing 3D games has been more and more mature. Compared to the traditional ones, 3D games present more real screen effects and stronger visual impact due to its adopting the concept of stereo space coordinates, increasing the arbitrariness of space operation and its own attraction. By applying media video technology to 3D table tennis games, players can hit the ball with the racket to implement the move of the ball in the game scene. To achieve the ball’s real-time depiction, every frame in the game must be updated. An outstanding 3D game cannot be developed without an excellent 3D game engine. The complex graphic algorithm of the game is encapsulated in modules efficiently while simple and effective SDK interface, powerful editor and matching third-party plug-ins are provided externally. Meanwhile, it possesses the function in network, database and script, etc, making the development of 3D games easier and of high quality. Numerous UI (graphical interfaces) are offered in the whole game to help players understand and learn the game. The game is operated so easily that it can be well played only through click, which simplifies the fussy operation of regular ones and provides players with more enjoyment.
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Geslin, Erik, Laurent Jégou, and Danny Beaudoin. "How Color Properties Can Be Used to Elicit Emotions in Video Games." International Journal of Computer Games Technology 2016 (2016): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5182768.
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Classifying the many types of video games is difficult, as their genres and supports are different, but they all have in common that they seek the commitment of the player through exciting emotions and challenges. Since the income of the video game industry exceeds that of the film industry, the field of inducting emotions through video games and virtual environments is attracting more attention. Our theory, widely supported by substantial literature, is that the chromatic stimuli intensity, brightness, and saturation of a video game environment produce an emotional effect on players. We have observed a correlation between the RGB additives color spaces, HSV, HSL, and HSI components of video game images, presented ton=85participants, and the emotional statements expressed in terms of arousal and valence, recovered in a subjective semantic questionnaire. Our results show a significant correlation between luminance, saturation, lightness, and the emotions of joy, sadness, fear, and serenity experienced by participants viewing 24 video game images. We also show strong correlations between the colorimetric diversity, saliency volume, and stimuli conspicuity and the emotions expressed by the players. These results allow us to propose video game environment development methods in the form of a circumplex model. It is aimed at game designers for developing emotional color scripting.
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Weiss, Alfred, and Sharon Tettegah. "World of Race War." International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations 4, no. 4 (October 2012): 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jgcms.2012100103.
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Stereotypical portrayals of race are common in many modern video games. However, research on games and game environments has often overlooked race as an important consideration when evaluating games for their educational potential. This is particularly true of the educational literature on online games, which has tended to emphasize virtual game spaces as intrinsically exemplary learning environments while deemphasizing the narrative content of the games themselves. This article addresses this oversight. Through a close reading of game communications and fan-created content, the authors examined how developer-produced racial narratives influence players’ experience of the game world. The authors find that players and player communities reproduce and reinforce narrow developer-produced interpretations of race during in-game interactions as well as in player forums and virtual communities beyond the confines of the game world. Because the game environment is not conducive to players’ critical examination of race, the authors conclude that the game does not intrinsically provide a means for players to engage critically with game content. They further conclude that as educational environments these games must be situated and contextualized within the ideologies and discourses of the physical world.
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Kimble, Charles E., and Jeffery S. Rezabek. "PLAYING GAMES BEFORE AN AUDIENCE: SOCIAL FACILITATION OR CHOKING." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 20, no. 2 (January 1, 1992): 115–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.1992.20.2.115.
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This study examined video game performance under audience scrutiny to see if social facilitation or choking effects would be obtained. Social facilitation theory suggests that good players would do better and poor players would do worse under audience pressure and that all players would do better on a simple or maximizing game and worse on a complex or optimizing game under audience pressure. Choking research indicates that audience pressure would produce poorer performance on both games. College student players played either a simple game, Pinball, or a complex game, Tetris, unobserved and then as the experimenter watched. Results showed that good players performed worse and bad players played better on the simple game under audience pressure. All participants played worse under audience pressure on the complex game. The choking approach accounts for these results better than social facilitation theory does.
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Moyzhes, L. V. "An Analysis of the Ideological Potential of Video Games from the Point of View of James Gibson’s Theory of Affordances." Sociology of Power 32, no. 3 (October 2020): 32–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2074-0492-2020-3-32-52.
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The purpose of this article is to propose a method for analyzing the ideological content of video games while taking into account the agency of the players. The interactivity of video games as a medium has been attracting the attention of researchers for many years, raising, in particular, the question of how this unique property serves to broadcast certain ideologies. The ability of games to make ideological statements was discussed by Bogost, Frasca, Aarseth, and many other pioneers of game studies. Video games were analyzed both in the context of older media forms that promoted certain ideas through plots, visuals, and other traditional means, and as unique types of objects that can make statements through rules. I aim to introduce the player — as a subject who is able to transform and conceptualize the game based on their own cultural background — to this discussion. Using James Gibson’s theory of affordances, I want to acknowledge the player’s freedom of interpretation, the potential to assign one or another ideology to the game in each playthrough. On the one hand, the player acts as a consumer of content; on the other hand, they are a co-author who will use the tools offered by the video game to produce their own statements, to be interpreted independently. This leaves the final decision about the ideology of the game to the consumer; thus, game studies need an approach that allows the analysis of the ideological content of specific games. It is especially important in the light of more and more games prioritizing player freedom and not providing any clear plot or even victory conditions. Of course, research can still proclaim, and rightfully so, that the specific rules in such games bear traces of certain ideological systems — capitalism or secularism, for example. But individual players could undermine such interpretations both at the level of reading the game as a “text”, and at the level of interactive actions inspired by those readings.
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Dobrowolski, Pawel, Krzysztof Hanusz, Bartosz Sobczyk, Maciek Skorko, and Andrzej Wiatrow. "Cognitive enhancement in video game players: The role of video game genre." Computers in Human Behavior 44 (March 2015): 59–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.051.
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Koehler, Matthew J., Brian Arnold, Spencer P. Greenhalgh, and Liz Owens Boltz. "A Taxonomy Approach to Studying How Gamers Review Games." Simulation & Gaming 48, no. 3 (April 17, 2017): 363–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1046878117703680.
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Background. Player-generated reviews of video games represent a large, rich, and under-explored source of data for exploring what makes for an effective game. Aim. We explore whether existing theory, in the form of a comprehensive gaming taxonomy, suitably captures the issues that players raise when they review games. Method. User-submitted game reviews were coded along the dimensions of the comprehensive gaming taxonomy to test the frequency of usage of each dimension. Results. We found some support for the use of the taxonomy, as four of nine taxonomy features were frequently present in game reviews. We also found support for other features of reviews not encapsulated by the Bedwell et al. (2012) taxonomy. Specifically, we found that players often reviewed video games: a) holistically; b) by comparing them to other games, game franchises, and other reviews; and c) by judging the value of games in terms of time, money, and effort. These results have implications for using game reviews for future research.
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Ferguson, Christopher J., and Stephanie M. Rueda. "The Hitman Study." European Psychologist 15, no. 2 (January 1, 2010): 99–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000010.
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This article explores commonly discussed theories of violent video game effects: the social learning, mood management, and catharsis hypotheses. An experimental study was carried out to examine violent video game effects. In this study, 103 young adults were given a frustration task and then randomized to play no game, a nonviolent game, a violent game with good versus evil theme (i.e., playing as a good character taking on evil), or a violent game in which they played as a “bad guy.” Results indicated that randomized video game play had no effect on aggressive behavior; real-life violent video game-playing history, however, was predictive of decreased hostile feelings and decreased depression following the frustration task. Results do not support a link between violent video games and aggressive behavior, but do suggest that violent games reduce depression and hostile feelings in players through mood management.
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Ruberg, Bonnie. "Straight Paths Through Queer Walking Simulators: Wandering on Rails and Speedrunning in Gone Home." Games and Culture 15, no. 6 (March 7, 2019): 632–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555412019826746.
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This article identifies the limitations of queerness in Gone Home (The Fullbright Company, 2013) by exploring the ways in which players’ movements through space in video games can be considered queer or “straight.” Drawing from Sara Ahmed, I demonstrate how the potential for queer in-game movement in Gone Home has been straightened both by the game itself and by elements of its player reception. Gone Home is widely seen as exemplifying a current shift toward increased LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) representation in video games. The game is also associated with queerness through its status as a “walking simulator,” a genre with ties to the queer flaneur. Indeed, Gone Home’s gameplay seems to encourage queer wandering, moving not straight but instead meanderingly. Yet, a closer analysis of its interactive elements reveals that Gone Home is far less queer than it may initially appear. The player’s path is rigid and linear, much like in a “rail shooter.” The potential for queer movement in Gone Home has been furthered straightened by speedrunners who play the game along the straightest possible paths. This article argues for player movement as an important site of meaning in video games and calls for an increased engagement with the tensions that surround queerness and video games.
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Burgess, Jacqueline, and Christian M. Jones. "“Is It Too Much to Ask That We’re Allowed to Win the Game?”: Character Attachment and Agency in the Mass Effect 3 Ending Controversy." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 37, no. 3 (October 2017): 146–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0270467618819685.
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The interaction between the concepts of character attachment, agency, and choice in a video game narrative was investigated using BioWare’s Mass Effect trilogy. Posts on a BioWare forum discussing the depiction of their player characters in the ending sequences of Mass Effect 3, the final game in the trilogy, were downloaded and analyzed using thematic analysis. Players demonstrated emotional attachment for the characters and narrative and expected to see the consequences of their choices play out, as in the previous games. Furthermore, players conflated winning the game with achieving a narratively satisfactory ending for the game world and its characters indicating emotional consequences for players that developers should consider when designing games with a high degree of player choice and agency. However, for some players character attachment is incongruous as they described Shepard as “acting out of character,” which needs further research.
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Kneer, Julia, Ruud Jacobs, and Christopher J. Ferguson. "You Could Have Just Asked: The Perception of Motivations to Play Violent Video Games." Studies in Media and Communication 6, no. 2 (July 17, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/smc.v6i2.3389.
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Recent research has found that age and playing experience moderates people’s opinions regarding video games’ negative effects while the perception of the cause of game play – game play motivation – was not considered so far. This study investigated how age and playing expertise influence perceived game play motivations. A survey was performed on a sample of mixed age (N = 374). Categories found for perceived playing motivations for violent video games were: virtual aggression, fun/challenge, catharsis, boredom, and social. Fun/challenge was found to be the main motivations for both, non-players and players. However, age positively and playing experience negatively predicted the importance of the perceived motivation virtual aggression while the opposite pattern was found for fun/challenge. The discussion focuses on: 1.) How we should deal with such in- and out-group perceptions in game studies, 2.) how beliefs about player motivations influence further perceptions, and 3.) the necessity of understanding how society’s perception of games can influence game science itself.
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Sevin, Rebecca, and Whitney Decamp. "From Playing to Programming: The Effect of Video Game Play on Confidence with Computers and an Interest in Computer Science." Sociological Research Online 21, no. 3 (August 2016): 14–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.4082.
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Research on the effects of playing video games has been limited by a preoccupation with possible negative repercussions. Nevertheless, research has shown that video games can have positive effects on young players’ social lives. The existing body of research, however, has largely ignored the more computer-related aspects of video game play and its effects. This study provides empirical evidence to support theoretical arguments about the relationship between playing video games and computers. The type of scientific thinking encouraged by video games and the technological abilities needed to play video games is suggested to result in an increase in players’ confidence with computers and interest in computer science. These potential relationships are examined using data from over 1,000 undergraduate students to empirically assess the relationship between video game play and: 1) confidence with computers, and 2) interest in computer science. The results indicate that game play is statistically significant as a predictor of confidence and interest. In comparison to the other predictors in the model, the strength of the effect from playing video games is relatively very strong. The findings suggest that exposure to video games as a recreational technology help inform players’ abilities with non-recreational technology and build an interest in technology in general.
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Hoffman, Kelly M. "Social and Cognitive Affordances of Two Depression-Themed Games." Games and Culture 14, no. 7-8 (November 21, 2017): 875–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555412017742307.
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Video games can have a variety of intended and unintended effects on players, making the impacts of games and the role that individual design elements play in causing those impacts a valuable area of research. This study explored the social and cognitive effects on players of two “art games” ( Depression Quest and Actual Sunlight) by analyzing player-generated discussion board posts, focusing on (1) what real-life social and cognitive effects the games had on players and (2) what elements of the games made the players consider them “good” or “bad” games. Players reported or demonstrated that the games led to understanding and empathy, self-evaluation, lessons learned, clinical discussion of depression, encouragement to others, a sense of community, and opening dialogue with friends and family. Discussions of game quality centered on realism, game endings and message, and player agency.
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Pardina Torner, Helena, Xavier Carbonell, and Marcos Castejón. "A comparative analysis of the processing speed between video game players and non-players." Aloma: Revista de Psicologia, Ciències de l'Educació i de l'Esport 37, no. 1 (May 28, 2019): 13–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.51698/aloma.2019.37.1.13-20.
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Speed is an essential cognitive skill in our day to day life, as such, it has been extensively studied. The uncertainty of whether the processing speed can be increased with appropriate training-within one individual, across a range of tasks, and without compromising accuracy- remains to this day. The aim of the present study was to analyse the processing speed of video game players and compare it to non-video game players to see if there are any significant differences between these two groups. To this end, a questionnaire on gaming habits and sociodemographic data, and two tests that evaluate the processing speed were administered to a sample of 50 university students from different degrees. The scores were then compared and, taking into account the possible errors, results showed that video game players have a shorter reaction time than non-video game players and that neither of the groups made more mistakes than the other.
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Hafeez, Tehmina, Sanay Muhammad Umar Saeed, Aamir Arsalan, Syed Muhammad Anwar, Muhammad Usman Ashraf, and Khalid Alsubhi. "EEG in game user analysis: A framework for expertise classification during gameplay." PLOS ONE 16, no. 6 (June 18, 2021): e0246913. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246913.
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Video games have become a ubiquitous part of demographically diverse cultures. Numerous studies have focused on analyzing the cognitive aspects involved in game playing that could help in providing an optimal gaming experience by improving video game design. To this end, we present a framework for classifying the game player’s expertise level using wearable electroencephalography (EEG) headset. We hypothesize that expert and novice players’ brain activity is different, which can be classified using frequency domain features extracted from EEG signals of the game player. A systematic channel reduction approach is presented using a correlation-based attribute evaluation method. This approach lead us in identifying two significant EEG channels, i.e., AF3 and P7, among fourteen channels available in Emotiv EPOC headset. In particular, features extracted from these two EEG channels contributed the most to the video game player’s expertise level classification. This finding is validated by performing statistical analysis (t-test) over the extracted features. Moreover, among multiple classifiers used, K-nearest neighbor is the best classifier in classifying game player’s expertise level with a classification accuracy of up to 98.04% (without data balancing) and 98.33% (with data balancing).
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McLean, Lavinia, and Mark D. Griffiths. "Gamers’ Attitudes towards Victims of Crime." International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning 3, no. 2 (April 2013): 13–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcbpl.2013040102.
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Research on video game playing has focused mainly on the effects of such games in relation to aggression and attitudes towards perpetrators and towards crime. The present research was designed to investigate gamers’ attitudes towards victims of crimes and incidents that were designed to mirror those portrayed in violent video games. Vignettes were used during interviews to explore 50 participants’ attitudes towards different types of victims. The results indicate that long-term playing of violent video games appears to be associated with more negative attitudes towards victims of crime. This is the first study to directly explore attitudes towards victims of crime, in relation to violent video game exposure. Compared to nonviolent video game players, the violent video game players in the study reported less positive attitudes towards the victims in the study and attributed more blame to the victims. The implications of this finding in the context of previous research on violent video games, and on attitudes are explored. Directions for future research in the area are also highlighted.
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Tichon, Jennifer G., and Timothy Mavin. "Experiencing Resilience via Video Games." Social Science Computer Review 35, no. 5 (August 18, 2016): 666–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894439316664507.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of games, where characters must overcome adversity, on player’s perceptions of their psychological resilience. Located on the PlayStation blog (blog.us.playstation.com ), the online PlayStation Network (PSN) community group focuses on video gamers unique stories and experiences. Using a qualitative and exploratory design, blogs posted between March 2012 and January 2013 were analyzed for content describing experiences via gameplay that members reported made them feel more resilient. Both social and emotional aspects of resilience were discussed with players reporting game experiences had helped them feel more confident in their abilities. Many also associated themselves with the same resilient traits as their characters display in games. A range of popular off-the-shelf video games were reported as helpful in providing players with the opportunity to feel confident under pressure and, importantly, some players reported transferring these positive psychological effects to their real-world lives.
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Rautalahti, Heidi. "Non-religious Players Asking Big Questions: Video Game Worlds Affording Affinities of Meaningful Encounters." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 33, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 69–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jrpc.2020-0012.
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The article examines player narratives on meaningful encounters with video games by using an argumentative qualitative interview method. Data gathered among Finnish adult video game players represents narratives of important connections in personal lives, affinities that the article analyzes as further producing three distinctive themes on meaningful encounters. Utilizing a study-of-religion framework, the article discusses meaning making and emerging ways of meaningfulness connected to the larger discussion on the “big questions” that are asked, explored, and answered in popular culture today. Non-religious players talk about intricate and profound contemplations in relation to game memories, highlighting how accidental self-reflections in mundane game worlds frame a continuing search for self.
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Green, C. S., and D. Bavelier. "Action-Video-Game Experience Alters the Spatial Resolution of Vision." Psychological Science 18, no. 1 (January 2007): 88–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01853.x.
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Playing action video games enhances several different aspects of visual processing; however, the mechanisms underlying this improvement remain unclear. Here we show that playing action video games can alter fundamental characteristics of the visual system, such as the spatial resolution of visual processing across the visual field. To determine the spatial resolution of visual processing, we measured the smallest distance a distractor could be from a target without compromising target identification. This approach exploits the fact that visual processing is hindered as distractors are brought close to the target, a phenomenon known as crowding. Compared with nonplayers, action-video-game players could tolerate smaller target-distractor distances. Thus, the spatial resolution of visual processing is enhanced in this population. Critically, similar effects were observed in non-video-game players who were trained on an action video game; this result verifies a causative relationship between video-game play and augmented spatial resolution.
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Pasinski, Amanda C., Erin E. Hannon, and Joel S. Snyder. "How musical are music video game players?" Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 23, no. 5 (January 5, 2016): 1553–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0998-x.
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Schmidt, Tarah N., Grace W. L. Teo, Gabriella M. Hancock, Zack Amicarelle, James L. Szalma, and Peter A. Hancock. "Action Video Game Players and Vigilance Performance." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 57, no. 1 (September 2013): 1450–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1541931213571324.
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Clark, K., M. Fleck, and S. Mitroff. "Video game players excel at change detection." Journal of Vision 9, no. 8 (March 21, 2010): 154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/9.8.154.
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Cain, M. S., A. N. Landau, W. Prinzmetal, L. C. Robertson, and A. P. Shimamura. "Attention processes in action video game players." Journal of Vision 9, no. 8 (March 22, 2010): 237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/9.8.237.
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Berard, Aaron V., Matthew S. Cain, Takeo Watanabe, and Yuka Sasaki. "Frequent Video Game Players Resist Perceptual Interference." PLOS ONE 10, no. 3 (March 25, 2015): e0120011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120011.
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McDermott, Ashley F., Daphne Bavelier, and C. Shawn Green. "Memory abilities in action video game players." Computers in Human Behavior 34 (May 2014): 69–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.01.018.
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