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Bastin, Nina. "World games : constructing and configuring the worlds of Queneau's novels." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324341.
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Perkins, Kyle Eric. "Lifesigns: Successful Storytelling in Open-World Games." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1290205847.
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Tråvén, Sandra. "Procedural world generator for platform games." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Medie- och Informationsteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-139020.
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Creating big games with a lot of content takes time. When it comes to designing levels, two time consuming tasks are creating the content for the levels and placing it in interesting ways. The placing of the content can be done procedurally and is called level generation. By using level generation, the designers need to spend less time working on the levels and if the level generation can be used at run time to create new levels it can also greatly increase the replayability of the game. This thesis is about creating a generator that places platforms and obstacles in an interesting and challenging way which can be affected by parameters that can be set by a level designer. The generator should be fast enough to be used while the game is running and the result should be reproducible. The method used has a strong focus on gameplay and the feeling of flow when playing. It generates what the player should press in the form of a rhythm for the hands. Each press represents the use of one of the characters abilities which are then converted into appropriate placing of platforms and obstacles that would make the player use the same ability when she plays. The generator can create rooms of arbitrary size with varied difficulty. The chance of certain abilities being used and certain obstacles appearing can be controlled.
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Tran, Chris Wang Zuoming. "What's real anymore a comparison of World of Warcraft, secondlife and online experiences /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-10976.
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Rosier, Kady N. "Of humans and avatars: how real world gender practices are brought into World of Warcraft." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/39573.
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This thesis explores the idea of how people 'do gender' in their online use of avatars, specifically avatar choice. A secondary question of whether or not a chatterbot can be used as a potential interviewer will also be examined as a tool acquiring large amounts of interview data.
Gender is one of the ways in which we structure our society, and is completely omnipresent. We cannot opt out of participating in our gender, as we are constantly performing and reaffirming it. Because of this, gender performance and choice spills over into all domains. This includes entertainment such as massively multiplayer online games, both in how the designers make the game, and what the players bring to the game. Deconstructing how and why people engage in these gendered practices and choices becomes an interesting avenue of research, because it allows researchers to partially separate the mental aspects of gender from physical attributes, as the players' physical bodies are not actually in the game.
Through the lens of the popular massively multiplayer online game, World of Warcraft, this thesis will utilize a qualitative user research study to understand how gender affects avatar choices. Prior research identified areas where players brought real world gender norms into the games they played. This research study will extend previous research by having players identify why they made the choices they made for their avatars, and how they feel about those choices.
The methodology for this study will also involve using a chatterbot as a way of gathering interviews. In normal person-to-person interview studies, recruiting and organizing meetings for these interviews can often be a difficult task. This thesis brings in the idea of using a chatterbot as a mechanism to gather more interviews in a shorter time span to alleviate the problem of getting these one-on-one interviews in some types of studies.
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Tran, Chris. "What's Real Anymore: A Comparison of World of Warcraft, SecondLife and Online Experiences." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc10976/.
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The proliferation of the Internet and online-based social interactions has become an increasingly popular topic with communication scholars. The goal of this study was to explore how massively multi-player online role playing game (MMORPG) players make sense of and negotiate their online social interactions. This study (N = 292) examined how players of SecondLife and World of Warcraft evaluated their online relationships compared to their offline relationships and investigated how different levels of realism within different MMORPGs effected player's online experiences. The results indicated that players of SecondLife placed higher values of emotional closeness to their online relationships when compared to players of World of Warcraft and SecondLife was rated more real by its players than World of Warcraft. Results further indicated that players of SecondLife had higher levels of perceived online emotional closeness when compared to perceived offline emotional closeness. Implications of this study focus on developing a bottom up holistic profile of online game players as opposed to the current top down research model.
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Hedin, Ellen. "Through the Looking Glass into the World of Computer Games." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-2403.
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Ma, Shang Chun. "Kaohsiung World Games as a catalyst for sustainable urban development." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2009. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19989/.
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Over the last thirty years the staging of events such as major sporting events has become increasingly recognised as part of development strategies within cities, regions and even countries. Behind such a phenomenon is a fierce competition between potential hosts because of the belief that these can achieve economic, social, environmental, political, cultural and tourism benefits for the hosting areas. As a consequence of the proliferation of these events, there is an increasing need to assess whether such strategy is effective. In this context, impact studies are vital. Traditionally, sports mega-event studies focused on the various impacts and on specific sports megaevents such as the Olympic Games and the football World Cup. Yet comparatively little is known about the procedures prior to the event, or about other types of events such as the World Games. To address these omissions this study investigates host residents' attitudes towards potential impacts prior to the 2009 World Games. It includes the perspectives of key stakeholders, with particular attention to sustainability issues. The research is based on a conceptual framework underpinned by a mixed methods approach that integrates consumer behaviour theory and the concept of a 'Triple Bottom Line' within a sustainable development perspective. A questionnaire survey, observations and semi-structured interviews are the primary data collection methods. For the quantitative research method, purposive sampling was selected. A combination of analysis techniques was employed, including factor analysis, T-test, One-way analysis of variance, Logistic regression and Chi-square. For the qualitative research method, snowball and purposive sampling approaches were adopted, with content analysis and thematic analysis. The findings of this research, are significant. Compared with most studies - which indicate that host residents are more negative about host impacts after events - this research found that they view the staging of the Games in a positive light generally prior to the Games. This quantitative research found that: (a) host residents tended to show a certain level of agreement on potential positive impacts but were uncertain about potential negative impacts and long-term economic effects; (b) there is a high level of support for the idea of hosting 2009 World Games (91%); (c) within different groups of marital status, age, occupation and education there were significant differences inattitudes towards the negative impacts; and (d) the event organisers and government authorities were not entirely successful in communicating to host residents Kaohsiung's objective of investing in the Games as a general strategy to benefit host communities. In contrast, evaluation of the use of a conceptual framework has successfully identified emerging issues in relation to the sustainability of staging the 2009 World Games. The qualitative study indicated that compared with the economic and social issues, the event planners appeared to place more emphasis on a wider range of environmental issues. However, in practice, Kaohsiung's 2009 World Games has not promoted sustainable development more generally from the outset. The results contribute to the wider knowledge of sustainability issues in the planning process and management of a sports mega-event. They add new theoretical insights by developing and testing a conceptual framework to overcome barriers in the evaluation of a sustainable sports mega-event. Practically, the findings are important to event managers, and help provide authorities (KCG) and event organisers (KOC) baselines to facilitate effective dialogue with host residents and to grow support for the Games. The regular assessment of the Games can provide more accurate information. Future event research considering a longitudinal survey and the TBL and SD concepts could apply this framework to studies before, during and post-event.
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Bilir, Tanla E. "Real economics in virtual worlds a massively multiplayer online game case study: Runescape /." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/31657.
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Thesis (M. S.)--Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010.Committee Chair: Pearce, Celia; Committee Member: Burnett, Rebecca; Committee Member: Do, Ellen Yi-Luen; Committee Member: Knoespel, Kenneth. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.
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Larsson, Jonathan, and Arias Alberto Amigo. "Fun with Death and Failure : An exploration of player experiences in a decentralized open world RPG." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26378.
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Many modern single-player role-playing games offer the player a power fantasy where the experience is designed to make the players feel powerful right from the start, with enemies and challenges that scale to the player characters level and abilities. This study explores what happens with play when power fantasy is replaced with decentralization and especially how this decentralization affects the player’s experience of failure and death. To explore this, three experienced The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim-players played the game with the modification Requiem - The Roleplaying Overhaul. After the participants had played at home for at least 8 hours they each participated in individual semi-structured interviews about their experiences. The interviews were transcribed and a grounded theory coding was performed. Finally the results were analyzed to find common themes. The study found that there was initial frustration due to expecting a power fantasy experience but once players adapted, the increased difficulty of decentralization was enjoyable as long as the player’s agency was not taken away and the world and its difficulty was logical. While the scope of the study is too small to draw generalizable conclusions it nevertheless shows that decentralized, difficult games work well for certain players. Future research is required on how to mitigate the effects of the initial obstacle.Många moderna single-player-rollspel erbjuder spelaren en maktfantasi där denne ska känna sig kraftfull direkt från spelets start genom att spelets fiender och utmaningar är baserade på spelarkaraktärens nivå och förmågor. Den här studien utforskar vad som händer när denna maktfantasi ersätts med en värld som inte anpassar sig efter spelaren, en så kallad decentraliserad värld. Specifikt undersöks hur decentraliseringen påverkar spelarens upplevelse av misslyckande och spelardöd. För att utforska detta spelade tre spelare The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim med modifikationen Requiem - The Roleplaying Overhaul i åtta timmar. Efter att deltagarna spelat utfördes individuella semistrukturerade intervjuer och intervjuerna transkriberades. Därefter genomfördes en grounded-theory kodning och analys för att finna gemensamma teman. Resultatet visar att det till en början uppstod frustration hos spelarna på grund av att de väntade sig en maktfantasi. Men när spelarna anpassade sin spelstil kom det fram att svårighetsgraden i en decentraliserad värld ökade underhållningsvärdet så länge spelaren kände att denne kunde påverka sin situation och att svårighetsgraden är grundad i spelvärldens logik. Emedan omfånget av studien är för liten för att dra några generella slutsatser visar den att decentraliserade spel med hög svårighetsgrad är underhållande för vissa spelare. Vidare forskning behövs på hur spelare lättare ska komma över den initiala tröskeln.
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Lõugas, Marilin. "Weaving Mental Threads: Exploring the Touchpoints Between Parallel Game Worlds in an Ended World Setting." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22784.
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This master thesis researches parallel digital world design in computer games in the setting of An Ended World. The main focus of the research is the touchpoints between two or more worlds and how the inputs from a designer can influence the type of experience received by the player.The overall research takes inspiration from both game and interaction design and follows a very user-centric approach with numerous play sessions and a workshop. The final outcome is presented in the form of attributes and a prototype built as a modification for an existing game.
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Stern, Darrin. "The World University Games, Buffalo '93 : the complete food service perspective /." Online version of thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11856.
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Hermansson, Johan, and Christian Svensson. "World of Warcraft : En virtuellt social värld." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Social Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1477.
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In today’s modern society with high-speed connections covering the globe people are more than ever finding themselves gazing into the cold lights of the computer screen. On the other side a strange and exciting world yet to be explored awaits. Many are those who spend hour after hour running over green hills swimming in vast blue oceans in the lands of Azeroth, the playfield in the MMORPG game World of Warcraft. In media we often read and hear alarming reports on players stuck in this virtual world, ceasing to play a part in the real world. This thesis will make an attempt as to hear what those who play the game has to say in the matter. Through interviews we’ll try to separate or combine media’s view of the game from that of those who play it.
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Calka, Michelle. "Beyond newbie : immersion in virtual game worlds." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1337190.
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The purpose of this thesis is to explore the following research question: How does immersion occur in a virtual game environment? Specifically, this study will focus on the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft. Approaching the question using a grounded theory methodology, the study finds that immersion takes place in two primary areas: Environmental and Social. Environmental immersion concerns technical aspects of the game including aesthetic detail, sensory stimulation, and narratives. Social immersion evolves as a paradigmatic opposition of cooperation and intimidation. Players are not fully immersed in the world until they have accepted cooperation as their dominant paradigm for play.Department of Telecommunications
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Mackie, William Gavin. "Loading world (re)creating life, nature and cosmos in evolutionary computer games." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514321.
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Boone, George William. "A Burkean analysis of "World of Warcraft" identity work in a virtual environment /." Click here for download, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1568974071&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Gregory, Clairellyn Rose. "Who Gender-Bends and Why? A Qualitative Study of World of Warcraft." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/421.
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According to a 2009 study, 68% of American households played video games (Entertainment Software Association). With this number continually on the rise, video games and their cultures are in need of further scholarly exploration. A video game of particular interest is a massive online game known as World of Warcraft, drawing over twelve million players worldwide (Blizzard Entertainment, 2010). With a cyberspace-based culture, World of Warcraft exposes its players to phenomenon that are unique to it, and thereby not easily understood through the same measures and evaluations offered by society at large. One such phenomena is that of gender, or more specifically the bending of gender by which players assume characters of the opposite gender. Although a common practice in video games like World of Warcraft, its motivations have yet to receive adequately scholarly attention. The present study seeks to explore the process of gender selection in the massive online game World of Warcraft through qualitative methods utilizing interviews, texts, and field notes. The data is then analyzed using Kellner's (2003) methods of critical analysis of media and Langian's (1975) work on thematization.
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Ritter, Christopher Jonas. "Why the humans are white fantasy, modernity, and the rhetorics of racism in World of Warcraft /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2010/c_ritter_050410.pdf.
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Dutton, Nathan T. "PARTICIPATORY QUITTING: QUITTING TEXTS AND WORLD OF WARCRAFT PLAYER CULTURE." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1172851023.
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Chan, Pauline B. "Narrative participation within game environments: role-playing in massively multiplayer online games." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/37126.
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Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) present fantastic, persistent worlds and narratives for a community of players to experience through pre-defined rules, roles, and environments. To be able to offer the opportunity for every player to try the same experiences, many game developers have opted to create elaborate virtual theme parks: scripted experiences within static worlds that cannot be affected or changed through player actions.
Within these games, some players have turned to role-playing to establish meaningful connections to these worlds by expanding upon and subverting the game's expectations to assume a limited sense of agency within the world. The interaction between role-players and the locations they occupy within these worlds is a notable marker of this narrative layering; specific locations inform social codes of conduct, designed by developers, and then repurposed by players for their characters and stories. Through a qualitative case study in World of Warcraft on public role-playing events, this thesis considers how the design of in-game locations inform their use for role-playing, and how locations are altered through storytelling as a result.
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Devlen, Balkan. "Games leaders play renegade and international crisis /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5945.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on December 20, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Bordenet, Mark. "An introduction into the world of gaming and how one achieves the identity of gamer." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2000. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1339.
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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2000.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 133 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-109).
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Welsh-Morgan, Bryan. "The Impact of Online Games such as World of Warcraft on Today's Youth." UOIT, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10155/64.
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Harding, Lisa Nicole. "Media Use and Body Image Among Senior Participants of the World Senior Games." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3222.pdf.
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Holliday, Cyrus E. "Threat assessment in the new world order." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30294.
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Young, Karl, and Gregory Troha. "Social Roles in Virtual World Games : A case study of the social role of rated battleground leader in World of Warcraft." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-303620.
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Ericsson, Emil, and Martin Adolfsson. "Låt det förflutna tillhöra det förflutna : En studie om datorspel, socialt välbefinnande och kunskapsmässig utveckling." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap (UV), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-39663.
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This study investigates the effects that commercial computer games have on young individuals social comfort and learning progress. As a systematic study of literature, scholarly articles have been analysed in order to illuminate the positive as well as negative effects on social comfort and learning progress that may come with playing computer games. The social effects have mainly been discussed with role-playing games, such as World of Warcraft, as starting point, while the learning effects have been coupled with strategy games, such as Civilization IV. The study does not simply declare how these games can be good for these factors, but also in what respect computer games may prevent the development of young individuals socials skills and learning progress. The study showed that in spite of perpetual prejudices against computer games in the technological age, computer games might actually be good to use as a tool in order to authorize the development of young individuals regarding learning and social aspects. However, computer games may as well become the source of problems regarding time, family and school results.
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Anteros, Linnarsson Oliver, and Sebastian Lorenzo. "Strategy Synthesis for Real-world Problems Modeled as Single-player Games of Imperfect Information." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-280339.
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When most people play games, they attempt to intuitively come up with a winning strategy. However, algorithmic ways of synthesizing winning strategies for games does exist. These methods usually requires an abstract way of representing the game. One way of constructing such an abstract representation is known as knowledge-based subset construction (KBSC). This thesis explores the possibility of modeling real-world problems as games of imperfect information, as well as the possibility and feasibility of synthesizing knowledge-based strategies from the model with the help of KBSC. This is done by first synthesizing a strategy for a simple real-world problem through intuitive reasoning. Then attempting to model the same problem as a game of imperfect information, applying KBSC on it, and synthesizing a knowledge-based strategy from that. The problem that was chosen for modeling, was that of an automatic vacuum cleaning robot with a broken navigation system, tasked with vacuum cleaning two rooms. It was found that it is indeed possible to model real-world problems as games of imperfect information and to synthesize knowledge-based strategies for them with the help of KBSC. The knowledge-based strategy was found to be 20% more effective than the one synthesized through intuitive reasoning. However this was a rather simple problem in and of itself, and it was also limited to only a single agent. Furthermore the sample size of people attempting to synthesize strategies through intuitive reasoning was extremely limited. Thus further study is needed to verify the findings presented in this thesis.Oftast när en person spelar ett spel så försöker han eller hon intuitivt komma fram till vinnande strategier. Men det finns även algoritmiska sätt att syntetisera vinnande strategier för spel. Dessa metoder kräver vanligtvis ett abstrakt sätt att representera spelet. Ett sätt att konstruera en sådan abstrakt representation är KBSC, eller "knowledge-based subset construction". Detta kandidatarbete undersöker möjligheten att modellera verkliga problem som spel av ofullständig information, samt möjligheten och genomförbarheten av att syntetisera kunskapsbaserade strategier från modellen med hjälp av KBSC. Detta genomförs genom att först syntetisera en strategi för ett enkelt verkligt problem genom ett intuitivt resonemang. Därefter modelleras samma problem som ett spel av ofullständig information, sedan tillämpas KBSC på modellen och en kunskapsbaserad strategi syntetiseras utifrån det. Problemet som valdes för modellering var det av en automatisk robotdammsugare med ett trasigt navigationssystem, med uppgiften att dammsuga två rum. Det visade sig att det faktiskt var möjligt att modellera verkliga problem som spel av ofullständig information och att syntetisera kunskapsbaserade strategier för dem med hjälp av KBSC. Den kunskapsbaserade strategin visade sig vara 20% mer effektiv än den som syntetiserades genom intuitivt resonemang. Detta var dock ett ganska enkelt problem och det var också begränsat till endast en enda agent. Dessutom var antalet personer som försökte syntetisera strategier genom intuitivt resonemang extremt begränsad. På grund av detta behövs ytterligare undersökning för att verifiera resultaten som presenteras i detta kandidatarbete.
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Chiniquy, Michael. "Lyckade spelkomponenter : Vad ligger bakom World of Warcrafts popularitet?" Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-18526.
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I denna studie så kommer jag att analysera MMORPG-spelet World of Warcraft genom att utföra en analys i hopp om att isolera spelmekanismer och element som kan anses vara välfungerande och väldesignade. Jag kommer dessutom att bryta ner World of Warcraft till dess kärnkomponenter med hjälp av Interaction Centric Framework modellen som ett komplement till denna studie. Resultaten visar att World of Warcraft använder sig av många slags egenskaper och designval som skiljer sig själv från andra spel, som att dra ner på story element och att destillera spelets kärna till en väldigt grundlig ”morot-och-piska” formel som låter spelaren kunna spela oavbrutet utan att känna något skäl att sluta spela.In this paper, I intend to analyze the MMORPG game World of Warcraft by conducting a formal analysis as a way to isolate game mechanics and elements that could be viewed as well-functioning and well-designed. I will also be breaking down the core components of World of Warcraft using the Interaction Centric Framework to complement the study. The results show that World of Warcraft employs a number of features and design choices that differentiates itself from other games, such as stripping the game of story elements and distilling the gameplay to a basic “carrot on a stick” formula, also leaving the player completely uninterrupted and undeterred during gameplay.
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Kabiling, Maria. "World War II in popular American visual culture film and video games after 9/11 /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/650832955/viewonline.
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Unkovski, Georgi. "THE IMMERSIVE WORLD OF VIDEO GAMES AND THE GAMING CONCEPTS IN THE FUTURE OF CINEMA." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Filmová a televizní fakulta. Knihovna, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-251444.
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Tato práce se zabývá konceptem imerze ve videohrách a analyzuje možné implikace, které mohou videohry mít pro kinematografii. Imerze je zkoumána jakožto kvantifikovatelná zkušenost prostřednictvím hry ?Heavy Rain? (2010 PS3 titul). Tato práce taky prozkoumává negativní aspekty imerze a současné argumenty pro a proti prosazování prostorových a kinestetických imerzních technologií. Nakonec se práce věnuje vývoji těchto dvou médií a pokouší se predikovat budoucí podobu vyprávění příběhu.
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Bezerra, Flávio Soares. "Identidades e poderes no World of Warcraft." Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2016. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5690.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPESFactors like globalization have unleashed changes in the human being way of life, bringing new practices into the quotidian (BAUMAN, 2001; LÉVY, 1996). In this work, it is relevant to focus in one of these present day practices; the act of play (electronic games). Disseminated mainly because of its function as an entertainment product and socially recognized as such, the electronic games pass through a filter which depreciates activities that are inherent to its process and need in today‟s classroom practice, as agreed in the OCEM (BRASIL, 2006). When acknowledged beyond entertainment, electronic games compose a cultural artifact and stir one of the world‟s greatest industries, besides being even more constant in the academy. Studies related to electronic games are being developed in several areas, rendering the practice of play problematic and demystifying it as a good or bad practice in its totality. In this context, this research aims at analyze questions of identity and power in the electronic game World of Warcraft from Blizzard Entertainment (2004-2016). For this purpose, besides a bibliographical study, the researcher‟s participation is employed in an ethnographical investigation as well as an interview with players from Brazilian realms. Therefore, the “moveable feast” taken as the late-modernity man‟s identity is discussed (HALL, 2011), the proposition of the identity construction as a process observed in real, virtual and projective instances is also taken into account (GEE, 2003). The relations of power scattered in the virtual space are brought into the light of Foucault‟s argumentation (2003; 2004) considering to what extent and in what manner the mechanisms of power act in the game and how they can be understood.
Fatores como a globalização têm desencadeado mudanças no modo de vida do ser humano, trazendo novas práticas ao cotidiano (BAUMAN, 2001; LÉVY, 1996). Neste trabalho, faz-se relevante o foco em uma dessas práticas atuais: o jogar (jogos eletrônicos). Disseminados principalmente devido a sua função como entretenimento e socialmente reconhecidos como tal, os jogos eletrônicos passam por um filtro que desmerece atividades inerentes ao seu processo e que são necessárias na sala de aula de hoje, de acordo com as OCEM (BRASIL, 2006). Visto além do entretenimento, os jogos eletrônicos compõem um artefato cultural e movimentam um dos maiores mercados mundiais, além de estarem cada vez mais presentes na academia. Estudos em relação aos jogos eletrônicos, desenvolvidos em diversas áreas, problematizam e desmistificam a prática de jogar como sendo totalmente benéfica ou maléfica. Nesse contexto, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar questões sobre identidade e poder no jogo World of Warcraft, produzido pela Blizzard Entertainment (2004-2016). Para tanto, além do estudo bibliográfico, emprega-se a participação do pesquisador em investigação etnográfica e entrevista junto a jogadores dos reinos brasileiros. Assim, discute-se a “celebração móvel” que é a identidade do sujeito pós-moderno (HALL, 2011), tomando também como orientação a proposta de que o processo de construção de identidade pode ser observado no âmbito do real, do virtual e daquilo que é projetado no jogo (GEE, 2003). Observam-se também as relações de poder que são difundidas neste espaço virtual à luz das argumentações de Foucault (2003; 2004), considerando até que ponto e de que maneira os mecanismos de poder atuam no jogo e como estes podem ser entendidos.
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Campedelli, Gabriela. "Bem vindos a Azeroth: aspectos da economia lúdica nos mundos fantásticos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27153/tde-29092009-154338/.
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Esse trabalho tem como finalidade a análise de aspectos econômicos e sociais do mundo sintético World of Warcraft, um Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). A escolha desse jogo se dá pela sua popularidade no mundo, contando com mais de 11 milhões de jogadores segundo dados divulgados pela Blizzard Entertainment, em outubro de 2008. A etnografia, que se desenvolveu online realizada por meio de dez personagens especialmente criados para integrar o jogo nas terras virtuais de Azeroth, observa os aspectos de desenvolvimento da comunidade de jogadores e dos mecanismos de governança da Blizzard, constitui uma introdução a jogos desse gênero, com o objetivo de ressaltar a dinâmica econômica que se estabelece nesse complexo universo digital. O jogar é uma fonte de valor e o lúdico tem a sua própria economia.This work aims to analyze economic and social aspects of the synthetic world entitled World of Warcraft, a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). This choice was made because of the popularity of this game around the world, counting 11 million players according to Blizzard Entertainments data published in October 2008. The etnography was developed online by ten avatars speacially created to take part of the world inside the virtual land of Azeroth, and observes the developing aspects of the player communities and their relationship with Blizzard governance while it also constitutes an introduction to this genre of game which highlights the economic dynamics of this complex digital universe. Play is a source of value and the ludicity has its own economy.
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Chagas, Artur Alves de Oliveira. "O transbordamento do lúdico e da biopolítica em jogos Massive Multiplayer online: um estudo sobre World of Warcraft." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-30082010-104541/.
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Os jogos eletrônicos denominados Massive Multiplayer Online, nos quais milhares de pessoas podem estar conectadas simultaneamente, são tomados como exemplo atual de jogos coletivos. A partir da análise biopolítica de Michel Foucault, são investigadas as construções identitárias individuais, os papéis sociais e compromissos assumidos com outros jogadores e as aprendizagens e disciplinas reforçadas em tais jogos, tomando como referência o jogo World of Warcraft, o mais popular do gênero, atualmente. O trabalho de campo foi realizado com jogadores e com os websites oficiais do jogo selecionado, por onde circulam os regimes de verdades que aqui nos interessam. A cibercultura é compreendida, neste trabalho, como condição da engenharia social que reconfigura as distâncias e limites físicos e temporais, reforçando modos de sujeição sempre mais individualizados e referenciados por discursos de agrupamentos espraiados. O tipo de jogo analisado neste trabalho, além de tornar-se popular por empregar instrumentos e práticas próprias das novas tecnologias eletrônicas, favorece a análise de que as formas de governo e de controle sobre a vida estejam cada vez mais apuradas, transbordando por todos os planos da existência. Tal análise possibilita a problematização de discursos científicos, principalmente na última década, a respeito das práticas entre sujeitos, envolvendo jogos eletrônicos, e principalmente quando se referem às práticas em educação e aprendizagem.The segment of computer games called Massively Multiplayer Online, in which thousands of people can be connected simultaneously, are taken as examples of current collective games. From the analysis of Michel Foucault\'s biopolitics, are investigated the identity constructions of individuals, social roles and commitments with other players and the learning and disciplines reinforced in such games, with reference to the game World of Warcraft, the most popular of this genre, today. The fieldwork was carried out with players and with the official websites of the selected game, through which the regimes of truths that concern us here. Cyberculture is understood in this work as a condition of social engineering that reconfigures the distances and the physical and temporal boundaries, reinforcing ways of subjection ever more individualized and referenced by speeches of sprawling groups. The type of game considered in this work, in addition to become popular by employing tools and practices peculiar to the new electronic technologies, favors the analysis that the forms of government and control over life are increasingly refined, overflowing by all planes of existence. Such analysis allows the questioning of scientific discourse, mainly in the last decade, about practices among subjects involving games, and mainly when referring to practices in education and learning.
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Behrenshausen, Bryan G. "Touching is Good: An Eidetic Phenomenology of Interface, Interobjectivity, and Interaction in Nintendo's "Animal Crossing: Wild World"." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/BehrenshausenBG2007.pdf.
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Harding, Lisa Nicole. "Senior body image and media use : a study of participants at the Huntsman World Senior Games /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3222.pdf.
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Steele, Samara Hayley. "The Gamer Who Destroyed the World and Other Stories from my Life." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2020.
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The Gamer Who Destroyed the World and Other Stories from my Life is the framework of a memoir about the extrapolation of utopic ideology upon bodies. It chronicles the author's life and lineage, examining themes of family, gaming, technology, gender, domestic violence, and economics. The memoir is divided into a prologue, three chapters, and an epilogue. The prologue is a scene depicting the teenaged author at a Live Action Role Play ("larp") game. The first chapter focuses upon the author's family history and her childhood experience of growing up in low-income housing in the 1990s, during which she creates meaning by working for money, until her childhood is disrupted by two expulsions: the expulsion of meaning from the "franchise" workplaces of her teens, and an abrupt expulsion from her childhood home. The second chapter flips between two realities: the author's anxiety as she struggles with homelessness while pushing herself through the American university system, and her adventures in the nerd subculture of the 2000s, focusing on her transition from cosplay (pretending to be fictional characters at genre conventions) to larp (pretending to be part of a fictional universe with others at a campground, dance club, or other physical location). The third chapter jumps forward to the authors' life in a Bay Area cooperative house during the Occupy Movement in 2011. The epilogue jumps back in time to 2006 to describe the author's final experiences larping, and the text concludes with her reflections on the concepts of consent and utopia.
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Charbonneau, Emiko. "Bridging the Gap Between Fun and Fitness: Instructional Techniques and Real-World Applications for Full-Body Dance Games." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5780.
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Full-body controlled games offer the opportunity for not only entertainment, but education and exercise as well. Refined gameplay mechanics and content can boost intrinsic motivation and keep people playing over a long period of time, which is desirable for individuals who struggle with maintaining a regular exercise program. Within this gameplay genre, dance rhythm games have proven to be popular with game console owners. Yet, while other types of games utilize story mechanics that keep players engaged for dozens of hours, motion-controlled dance games are just beginning to incorporate these elements. In addition, this control scheme is still young, only becoming commercially available in the last few years. Instructional displays and clear real-time feedback remain difficult challenges. This thesis investigates the potential for full-body dance games to be used as tools for entertainment, education, and fitness. We built several game prototypes to investigate visual, aural, and tactile methods for instruction and feedback. We also evaluated the fitness potential of the game Dance Central 2 both by itself and with extra game content which unlocked based on performance. Significant contributions include a framework for running a longitudinal video game study, results indicating high engagement with some fitness potential, and informed discussion of how dance games could make exertion a more enjoyable experience.Ph.D.
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Dill, Karen E. "Violent video game and trait aggression effects on aggressive behavior, thoughts, and feelings, delinquency, and world view /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9841277.
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Spottke, John Christopher. "Ethnographic reflection on group formation in Blizzard's "World of Warcraft"." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4569.
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Cyberanthropology or the anthropology of cyber space/culture is an emerging subfield of cultural anthropology that deals with the varied integration of human beings and technology. This specialized area of study focuses on topics ranging from new technologies used in ethnographic research to information and communication technologies utilized by specific societal groups. Communication technology encompasses the World Wide Web, email, and online multiperson interactive spaces such as chatrooms and video games. In this work, I ethnographically investigate human social interactions in the online gaming realm of World of Warcraft. On the whole, the expanding numbers of virtual communities in existence today offer new and exciting realms for social scientists in general, and anthropologists in particular, to expand their knowledge of social interaction. During the period between August 2007 and May 2009 I "lived" with the players of WoW as a participant observer. The culmination of this research spotlights virtual group formation and dynamics from an anthropological perspective and is intended to pave the way for future research.ID: 029050327; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2010.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-46).
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McMillan, Ian C. "Patent claim language games, why interaction with others and with the external world is integral to inventions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ63086.pdf.
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Szabo, Vio. "Spelare som råkar vara kvinnor : Öppningar och begränsningar i genus, sexualitet och spelarnätverk i World of Warcraft." Thesis, Södertörn University College, The School of Culture and Communication, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-2031.
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Koptur, Evren. "TRANSFERABLE LEARNING SKILLS OF AN MMORPG: A WORLD OF WARCRAFT QUEST." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1459175932.
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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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Nevelsteen, Kim J. L. "Distributed Technology-Sustained Pervasive Applications." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-129151.
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Technology-sustained pervasive games, contrary to technology-supported pervasive games, can be understood as computer games interfacing with the physical world. Pervasive games are known to make use of ‘non-standard input devices’ and with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), pervasive applications can be expected to move beyond games. This dissertation is requirements- and development-focused Design Science research for distributed technology-sustained pervasive applications, incorporating knowledge from the domains of Distributed Computing, Mixed Reality, Context-Aware Computing, Geographical Information Systems and IoT. Computer video games have existed for decades, with a reusable game engine to drive them. If pervasive games can be understood as computer games interfacing with the physical world, can computer game engines be used to stage pervasive games? Considering the use of non-standard input devices in pervasive games and the rise of IoT, how will this affect the architectures supporting the broader set of pervasive applications? The use of a game engine can be found in some existing pervasive game projects, but general research into how the domain of pervasive games overlaps with that of video games is lacking. When an engine is used, a discussion of, what type of engine is most suitable and what properties are being fulfilled by the engine, is often not part of the discourse. This dissertation uses multiple iterations of the method framework for Design Science for the design and development of three software system architectures. In the face of IoT, the problem of extending pervasive games into a fourth software architecture, accommodating a broader set of pervasive applications, is explicated. The requirements, for technology-sustained pervasive games, are verified through the design, development and demonstration of the three software system architectures. The scaling up of the architecture to support distributed pervasive applications, is based on research in the domain of Virtual Worlds and IoT. The results of this dissertation are: the aligning of the Pervasive Games research domain with that of Virtual Worlds, the mapping of virtual time and space to physical counterparts, the scaling up of pervasive games to distributed systems, and the explication of the problem of incorporating IoT into pervasive applications. The implication of this dissertation is to ensure that pervasive games are not left reinventing existing technologies.Teknikförmedlade verklighetsspel (technology-sustained pervasive games), i motsats till teknikstödda verklighetsspel (technology-supported pervasive games), kan förstås som dataspelets gränssnitt mot den fysiska världen. Verklighetsspel games är kända för att använda sig av ‘icke-standardiserade inmatningsenheter’ och med ökningen av Sakernas Internet (Internet of Things) (IoT), kan verklighetsapplikationer (pervasive applications) förväntas gå längre än verklighetsspel. Denna avhandling omfattar krav- och utvecklingfokuserad (Design Science) forskning för distribuerad teknik omfattande verklighetsspel, som innehåller kunskap från områdena distribuerad databehandling (Distributed Computing), blandad realitet (Mixed Reality), kontextmedveten databehandling, geografiska informationssystem och IoT. Dataspel har funnits i decennier, ofta med en återanvändbar spelmotor för att driva dem. Om verklighetsspel kan förstås som dataspel med gränssnitt mot den fysiska världen, kan då dataspelsmotorer användas för att iscensätta verklighetsspel? Med tanke på användningen av ickestandardiserade inmatningsenheter i verklighetsspel och den tilltagande mängde IoT tillämpningar, hur kommer detta att påverka arkitekturen som stöder verklighetsspel? Användningen av en konventionell spelmotor kan återfinnas i vissa befintliga verklighetsspelsprojekt, men mer generell forskning om hur verklighetsspel överlappar med konventionella dataspel saknas. När en konventionell dataspelsmotor används, är en diskussion om vilken typ av motor som är mest lämplig och vilka egenskaper uppfylls av motorn ofta inte en del av diskursen. Denna avhandling använder flera iterationer av metodramverket för design vetenskap (method framework for Design Science) för konstruktion och utveckling av tre mjukvarusystemarkitekturer. Med tanke på IoT utarbetas problemet att utvidga verklighetsspel till en fjärde mjukvaruarkitektur som kan tillmötesgå en bredare uppsättning av verklighetsapplikationer. Kraven för teknikförmedlade verklighetsspel verifieras genom design, utveckling och demonstration av tre mjukvarusystemarkitekturer. Uppskalning av arkitekturen för att stödja distribuerade verklighetsspel är baserad på forskning inom området för virtuella världar och IoT. Resultaten från avhandlingen är: anpassning av forskningsområdet verklighetsspel med forskningsområdet virtuella världar, metod för matchning av virtuell tid och utrymme till fysiska motsvarigheter, uppskalning av verklighetsspel till distribuerade system, och utarbetning av problemen med att införliva IoT in verklighetsapplikationer. Innebörden av denna avhandling är att se till att implementeringen av verklighetsspel inte leder till att man återuppfinner redan existerande teknik.
At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 4: Submitted. Paper 6: Submitted. Paper 7: Submitted.
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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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Chung, Hsien-Yu. "Taiwan’s Public Diplomacy and Mega-event : An Analysis of Foreign News Reports of the World Games 2009 Kaohsiung." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Centrum för studier av politik, kommunikation och medier (CPKM), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-14485.
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This thesis, as a case study, focuses on the perspective of foreign news reports on Taiwan’s first time hosting an international multi-sport event, the World Games 2009 in its biggest port city Kaohsiung. The World Games 2009 Kaohsiung, the significant Olympic type mega-event as to Taiwan, is applied as the approach to public diplomacy and soft power for the purpose of expanding Taiwan’s international space. It is expected to raise publicity and mass media exposure to boost Taiwan’s international profile and spur its tourism industry. From Taiwan’s image-marketing strategy, practices to foreign news reports, it outweighs to study foreign media’s reflection on Taiwan and the World Games 2009 as the important evaluation on the mega-event as a whole. This thesis attempts to answer two research questions: How was the World Games 2009 Kaohsiung reported by the foreign media? Did hosting the World Games improve Taiwan’s image? It presents the results and perspectives of foreign news reports by qualitative methods: case study and discourse analysis of online-English news reports and some quantitative methods applied on data. It combines news reports study with theory, model of public diplomacy, mega-event and expected-model. Within 101 pieces of online-English news found related to the World Games 2009, it unveils fruitful results such as the failure of interpreting the core story (Taiwan’s images and values) by foreign media during the sporting extravaganza, and it echoes Rivenburgh (2004)’s three viewpoints toward the Olympic type event (intercultural challenges, less news about host country’s culture and dramatic news). By the amount of news and the absence of foreign media on the press conference indicates that foreign media did not pay much attention to the World Games and Taiwan. In spite of reporting the sports and games, other major topics of reports were Taiwan’s hosting the event, the greenest solar-powered stadium designed by Japanese, Toyo Ito, Chu Chen’s promotion itinerary to Beijing and China’s absence on the opening and closing ceremony which triggered foreign media’s great concern.
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Eklund, Lina. "The Sociality of Gaming : A mixed methods approach to understanding digital gaming as a social leisure activity." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-83163.
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This dissertation is an exploration of the practice of social digital gaming, using a mixed methods approach with complementary data and analytical methods. The main themes are the prevalence and meaning of gamers’ experiences of social gaming and the underlying structures limiting or assisting social gaming, both material and social. Applying an everyday perspective, focus is on gamers’ day-to-day practices and experiences. Studies I and II enquire into relational aspects of social gaming based on interviews and survey data. Study III investigates the relationship between game design and gamer agency and its importance for social interaction with strangers, using in-game participant observation. Lastly in Study IV, building on interviews, female gamers come to the fore as their gender construction in an online game is examined with the aim of understanding the connection between online and offline. The main result concerns how social gaming takes place in various social relations. How gaming comes to be―what it means―is dependent on the relations between gamers, be they family members, real life friends, Internet friends or strangers. In these interactions, gender and sexual identity are realized; in the relations between gamers, physical proximate or online. Finally, virtuality is shown to be a social accomplishment of the people engaging in games rather than a property of the games themselves. Focus on the relational unveils how gaming comes to be in the process of interaction, a process at the same time dependent on underlying structures, i.e. games as designed platforms with certain affordances for social behaviour. We are able, thus, to reconcile the social constructivist position that (social) gaming is created in the relations between gamers engaging in games with the more formalist approach that games are rule based structures. Games create a foundation for interaction that can further develop into the creation/maintenance of relationships and identity.At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: Manuscript. Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript.
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Razera, Bruno Ayres. "Interações estratégicas em games massivos online: visibilidade de simulacros identitários e a axiologia do Transmog em World of Warcraft." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21357.
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The research investigates how the game mode Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), by strategic concomitance, directs the player to operate by the visibility, to build the meaning of their simulacra identity. Concomitance, according to linguistics, is the designation of one or more actions, things or facts that occur simultaneously; coexistence or simultaneity. In this study the strategic concomitance has the coexistence as the relation of a strategist sender with the subject that provides his own tactic in simultaneity, working values in a same logical line. The most popular game of the genre, World of Warcraft (WOW), is taken as an object, as the immersion of its players is sanctioned by its great geographic reach and number of users who remain, year after year, faithful to the product, generating a movement large volume financial instrument, as well as employing new electronic technology tools and practices. The act of playing keeps the subject in interaction with other subjects and in the operation of this visibility that they construct identity simulations, shaped by the enunciative choices to make-see. In the analysis of the game, the use of the device called "transmog" was used to transform the appearance of the player's equipment. Syntagmatic operations call the device in its placement in discourse and thus build the axiology that makes the subject have to be, a simulacrum of socialized doing that establishes visibility as its main value. The theoretical-methodological support for the analysis is given by the discursive semiotic theory of Greimas (2014, 2007, 2002), which structures the generative path of meaning, the basis of the construction of meaning. It is also supported by Landowski's (1992, 1997, 2013, 2014a, 2014b) socio-demographic concept that, through the regimes of meaning and interaction, as well as through the regimes of visibility, allows to elucidate lived practices of the participants and their simulacrums built in the game. The theories of other semioticians are also bases for the elaboration of the axiological taxonomy of transmog. The bibliographical references also include a review of the history of the games and the survey of works with this theme. To carry out the study, there are analyzes of the transmog phenomenon, highlighting the dynamics of the interactions of the audience of World of Warcraft; in short, the study of the discursive practices of this device in the game, surrounded by the regimes of visibility, meaning and interaction. It was possible, with this, to verify the hypothesis that the visibility values in the game allow to maintain and extend the immersion of the players in a continuity, corresponding to the social practices: transmog, this device in game, does not determine the values in game, as facilitator and computer of an axiological exchange shared to the player. In addition, this work contributed to the theoretical basis for the area of communication that deals with the strategies of the gaming industry
A pesquisa investiga como a modalidade de game Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), por concomitância estratégica, direciona o jogador a operar pela visibilidade, para a construção do sentido de seus simulacros identitários. Concomitância, de acordo com a linguística, é a designação de uma ou mais ações, coisas ou fatos que ocorrem em simultâneo; coexistência ou simultaneidade. Neste estudo a concomitância estratégica tem como coexistência a relação de um destinador estrategista com o sujeito que provê própria tática em simultaneidade, trabalhando valores em uma mesma linha lógica. O game World of Warcraft (WOW), mais popular do gênero, é tomado como objeto, pois a imersão de seus jogadores é sancionada por seu grande alcance geográfico e número de usuários que permanecem, ano após ano, fiéis ao produto, gerando uma movimentação financeira de grande volume, além de empregar instrumentos e práticas novas de tecnologias eletrônicas. O ato de jogar coloca o sujeito em interação com outros sujeitos e é na operação dessa visibilidade que são construídos simulacros identitários, moldados pelas escolhas enunciativas para fazer-ver. Recortou-se, na análise do game, o uso do dispositivo denominado como “transmog”, que consiste em permitir transformar esteticamente a aparência dos equipamentos do jogador. As operações sintagmáticas convocam o dispositivo na sua colocação em discurso e assim constroem a axiologia que faz o sujeito ter para ser, simulacro do fazer socializado que instaura a visibilidade como seu principal valor. O suporte teórico-metodológico para a análise é dado pela teoria semiótica discursiva de Greimas (2014; 2007; 2002), que estrutura o percurso gerativo de sentido, a base da construção da significação. Apoia-se também na sociossemiótica de Landowski (1992; 1997; 2013; 2014a; 2014b) que, pelos regimes de sentido e de interação, assim como pelos regimes de visibilidade, permite elucidar práticas vividas dos partícipes e do seu fazer em sociedade, pelos simulacros construídos no game. As teorias de outros semioticistas são também bases para a elaboração da taxonomia axiológica do transmog. Os referenciais bibliográficos incluem ainda uma revisão da história dos games e do levantamento de trabalhos com esta temática. Para realizar o estudo, há análises do fenômeno do transmog, destacando a dinâmica das interações do público de World of Warcraft; em minudência, a do estudo das práticas discursivas desse dispositivo no game, nos envoltos dos regimes de visibilidade, de sentido e de interação. Foi possível, com isso, verificar a hipótese de que os valores de visibilidade no game possibilitam manter e ampliar a imersão dos jogadores em uma continuidade, correspondente às práticas sociais: o transmog, este dispositivo in game, não determina os valores em jogo, funcionando como facilitador e ordenador de um câmbio axiológico partilhado ao jogador. Além disso, este trabalho contribuiu para o embasamento teórico para a área da comunicação que trata das estratégias da indústria dos games
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Gracia, Tjong Richard Jake. "Escapism in to the Virtual World : A study on the accumulation of Bourdieu’s forms of capital in online games." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29219.
Full textAbstract:
This study aims to present the characteristics and functions of Bourdieu’s forms of capital;economic, cultural, social and symbolic capital in large online social games genre called Massive multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPG). This is done in order to determine if these are reproduced in an online society consisting of thousands of players, which of the forms of capital are of outmost importance and how the accumulation of these affect the players lives using qualitative methods. Results show that the forms of capital in-game carry similar characteristics to the accumulation of such in the real world but are not transferable to the real world to the same extent. Which of the forms of capital was most of importance than others was not evident from the results, however, the empirical material shows of an interrelationship between the accumulation of capital between the dimensions; real world and game world.