Emergence of fun emotion in computer games -An experimental study on fun elements of Hanafuda-

What About Fun and Games?

Wargaming and Computer Games: Fun with the Future

This essay explores aspects of the history of wargaming in order to develop fresh perspectives on the analysis of contemporary computer games. Wargaming is considered in relation to the ludological approach to games studies with a view to developing an understanding of the marginality of narrative content in games that ludology takes as its point of departure. Wargaming is interpreted as a fore...

Lifestyle Ubiquitous Gaming: Computer Games Making Daily Lives Fun

We propose a novel computer gaming style in which users can enjoy games through their daily lives without paying too much attention and time for the games, we call it lifestyle ubiquitous gaming. Lifestyle ubiquitous games track human daily activities implicitly and incorporate the tracked activities in their game logics. Then they represent decorated and virtualized those activities on ambient...

Analysis on Fun Elements of the SNG in ANIPANG

This study analyzes on the Social Network Game (SNG), ANIPANG, in order to discover its unique fun elements, so that suggest new methodologies for development of SNGs. ANIPANG is the most popular SNG in the South Korea on 2012. Recently, the game industry is paying close attention to mobile-based SNGs due to the rapid prevalence of smart-phones and social network services. However, SNGs are not...

Fun and Games with Sums of Squares

This blog post is an introduction to the “Sum of Squares” (SOS) algorithm from my biased perspective. This post is rather long I apologize. If you’d rather ”see the movie”, I’ll be giving a TCS+ seminar about this topic on Wednesday, February 26th 1pm EST. If you prefer the live version, I’ll be giving a summer course in Stockholm from June 30 till July 4th. I’ve been told that there are worse ...