Military Videogames

Videogames: Dispelling myths and tabloid headlines that videogames are bad

Christian M Jones Laura Scholes Daniel Johnson Mary Katsikitis Michelle C. Carras University of the Sunshine Coast University of the Sunshine Coast Queensland University of Technology University of the Sunshine Coast Johns Hopkins University Queensland, Australia Queensland, Australia Queensland, Australia Queensland, Australia Baltimore, MD, USA [email protected] [email protected] dm.johns...

Virtual Unreality of Videogames

Beginning with an objection raised to the excessive attention promotion gives to the aspect of "realism" in videogames, I chose to describe instead how excessive realism may be counterproductive. I identify and focus on what game designers wish to obtain from their products, then proceed to introduce and explain the concept of "virtual unreality of videogames". A number of examples and counter-...

Videogames, here for good.

Understanding Meaningfulness in Videogames

This thesis explores "meaningfulness" in videogames. Academics, journalists, and others who write about games often discuss the concept of meaning yet seldom define it clearly. I am focusing on a variation of this topic: what it means for a gaming experience to be meaningful--literally: full of meaning. Meaningfulness, as I define it, refers to the quality a videogame has when one considers it ...

Scientific rigor through videogames.

Hypothesis-driven experimentation - the scientific method - can be subverted by fraud, irreproducibility, and lack of rigorous predictive tests. A robust solution to these problems may be the 'massive open laboratory' model, recently embodied in the internet-scale videogame EteRNA. Deploying similar platforms throughout biology could enforce the scientific method more broadly.