Playtime : videogames mythologies

Playtime Measurement with Survival Analysis

Maximizing product use is a central goal of many businesses, which makes retention and monetization two central analytics metrics in games. Player retention may refer to various duration variables quantifying product use: total playtime or session playtime are popular research targets, and active playtime is well-suited for subscription games. Such research often has the goal of increasing play...

Playtime in the White Cube

This thesis argues for the need to examine the user experience in video game play using the setting and methods of interactive art. It proposes to investigate the field of game art from a user perspective by situating it at the intersections of art, games and interactive media. It then gives a thorough depiction of the accompanying thesis project MOVE, an installation using computer vision and ...

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.