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"SHE'S JUST LIKE ME!"

Proceedings of Meaningful Play 2018

Educational game development is a complex design process. Early collaboration between educational researchers and producers of educational games is important to ensure the products’ academic potential...

By: MOMOKO HAYAKAWA, LINLIN LI, LAURA BEUKEMA

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Beetle Breeders

Games+Learning+Society (GLS) 8.0

Research shows that educational games can help students build content knowledge and skills, but it can be difficult for teachers to effectively integrate game-based learning into their existing...

By: Judy Perry, Louisa Rosenheck

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Designing and Researching Games to Reduce Stereotypes and Biases

Games+Learning+Society (GLS) 9.0

The workshop gave audience members a first-hand perspective on the psychological approach employed by Tiltfactor Laboratory to create and study games to reduce stereotypes and social biases...

By: Mary Flanagan, Geoff Kaufman, Cote Theriault

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Intergenerational Gaming in Kerbal Space Program

Games+Learning+Society (GLS) 11.0

Kerbal Space Program is a detailed, challenging, and engaging simulation game just released in its final 1.0 version. The high fidelity of the simulation along with the breadth and depth of choices...

By: Eric Klopfer, Oren Klopfer

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Journal of Games, Self, & Society (Vol. 1, No. 1)

A peer-reviewed journal created and edited by iThrive Games and published by ETC Press. JGSS encourages interdisciplinary research, conversation, and...

By: Susan E. Rivers, Kelli Dunlap

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Introduction

Well Played (Vol. 12, No.1)

The Well Played Journal is a forum for in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. This special issue is uniquely...

By: Barry Joseph

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The Digital Gaming Pathway Program

Well Played (Vol. 12, No.1)

In this chapter, Stan Altman introduces the new Gaming Pathways Program which produced this special edition of the Well Played Journal. Stan is the Director of the Gaming Pathways Program and...

By: Stan Altman

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HANDLING DIFFERENCES IN SKILLS BETWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN PLAYING TRINE AND LITTLE BIG PLANET

Well Played (Vol. 5, No. 1)

There are several ways to classify the numerous games that can be played together. A major distinction can be made between competitive and collaborative games. In competitive games each player tries...

By: Wolmet Barendregt

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Journal of Games, Self, & Society (Vol. 2, No. 1)

A peer-reviewed journal created and edited by iThrive Games and published by ETC Press. JGSS encourages interdisciplinary research, conversation, and...

By: Susan E. Rivers, Kelli Dunlap

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Journal of Games, Self, & Society (Vol. 3, No. 1)

A peer-reviewed journal created and edited by iThrive Games and published by ETC Press. Journal of Games, Self, & Society encourages interdisciplinary...

By: Susan E. Rivers, Claudia-Santi F. Fernandes, Grace Collins

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Magic the Gathering

Games+Learning+Society (GLS) 10.0

Magic: The Gathering is not a new game, nor is it indie, or even controversial. It is a paper-based card game (although a digital form exists) that involves the purchase, collecting, arranging, and...

By: Dan Norton

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Creeping Systems

Games+Learning+Society (GLS) 10.0

As the field of games and learning has matured in recent years, we have found ourselves spending a great deal of effort detailing how games “work” as instructional tools, and how they may leverage the...

By: CHRIS GEORGEN, Sean C. Duncan

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LIFE LESSONS WITH ATREUS AND CHLOE

Well Played (Vol. 8, No. 2)

The effects of childhood and adolescent exposure to mature video games has been a recurring topic in popular culture as well as academic research for many years. While many studies have been conducted...

By: ANGELA M. VANDEN ELZEN, ADAM L. VANDEN ELZEN, DEXTER R. VANDEN ELZEN

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Using Games to Support STEM Curiosity, Identity, and Self-Efficacy

Journal of Games, Self, & Society (Vol. 1, No. 1)

In this study, we examine how we might design and use games to support Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) learning as well as relevant social and emotional learning skills such...

By: Lindsay Portnoy, Karen Schrier

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Mafia and the representation of Italians

ToDiGRA (Vol. 5, No. 1)

This study analyses the representation of Italians and the Mafia in video games. It analyses games of different genres with Italian organized crime as the main theme: they differ in terms of gameplay...

By: Giulio Pitroso

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE CARD GAME

Well Played (Vol. 7, No. 1)

The Lord of the Rings card game demonstrates a far-reaching transformation of the source material, while still remaining dependent on it. The literary source is evoked through the textuality of the...

By: MICHAŁ ŻMUDA

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Weird WarioWare

Well Played (Vol. 3, No. 2)

WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! is not just weird, it’s in-your-face weird. Over the course of the game, the player presses buttons to accomplish the following: pick a nose, protect a quail egg from...

By: Josh Fishburn

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WHO NEEDS VIDEO GAMES?

Well Played (Vol. 6, No. 1)

This video analysis of the game South Park: The Stick of Truth approaches what makes the game “well played” by examining three factors in-depth. These factors are: How the game has been made to look...

By: Osvaldo Jiménez

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"SHE'S JUST LIKE ME!"

Beetle Breeders

Designing and Researching Games to Reduce Stereotypes and Biases

Intergenerational Gaming in Kerbal Space Program

Journal of Games, Self, & Society (Vol. 1, No. 1)

Introduction

The Digital Gaming Pathway Program

HANDLING DIFFERENCES IN SKILLS BETWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN PLAYING TRINE AND LITTLE BIG PLANET

Journal of Games, Self, & Society (Vol. 2, No. 1)

Journal of Games, Self, & Society (Vol. 3, No. 1)

Magic the Gathering

Creeping Systems

LIFE LESSONS WITH ATREUS AND CHLOE

Using Games to Support STEM Curiosity, Identity, and Self-Efficacy

Mafia and the representation of Italians

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE CARD GAME

Weird WarioWare

WHO NEEDS VIDEO GAMES?