The article aimed to determine the specificity of computer game discourse, its features, key linguistic characteristics, and communicative features. methodology included analysis discourse materials, in particular, dictionary articles, texts electronic messages, conferences, as well recordings fragments spoken language users games. specific feature is selective combination typical for other typ...

Maybe an event can't be modeled completely through one game but there is more chance with several games. With emphasis on players' rationality, we present new properties of strategic games, which result in production of other games. Here, a new attitude to modeling will be presented in game theory as dynamic system of strategic games and its some applications such as analysis of the clash betwe...

Early foreign language teaching has recently been made compulsory in Finland, making this an area open to development and innovation where policy - makers teachers play a significant role creating new kinds of learning environments, operating cultures, pedagogy for learning. This article discusses the early landscape context theory, initial education as well functional The cornerstone study is ...

abstractthis study investigated the effect of digital games on vocabulary acquisition of low-proficiency iranian male and female efl learners. in order to select homogeneous learners in terms of their english language proficiency, the standard nelson proficiency test was administered, and based on the obtained results, 60 low-proficiency efl learners were selected (31 females and 29 males). the...

In this paper we present an analysis of the academic landscape of games research from the last 15 years. We employed a data driven approach utilizing co-word and co-venue analysis on 48 core venues to identify 20 major research themes and 7 distinct communities, with a total of 8,207 articles and 21,552 unique keywords being analyzed. Strategic diagrams and network maps are applied to visualize...

What is Artificial Intelligence? Artificial intelligence (AI) can be defined (circularly) as “the study of computational systems that exhibit intelligence.” Unfortunately, it is not easy to define what we mean by “intelligence.” In the context of games, an in particular in the design of non-player characters (NPCs) a working definition might be, “It is whatever a person would do.” (Where, of co...

An invitation to simulation is made into a realizable challenge: the reader is taken from scratch to games with words, to mathematical models, to statistical analysis, to simulation of evolution. No special requirements are needed: we work with the inbuilt Visual Basic language that is attached to Microsoft(R) Excel and Word. The Tex source must be downloaded to copy the code that must be run.

nowadays computers are increasingly being incorporated into school curriculums and serious games are occupying the educational games markets. this article addressed the integration of serious games as tools for learning and teaching english in iranian schools to zero-beginner students. an experiment was concluded using computer assisted language learning (call) to investigate the effectiveness ...