UFOs in SimCity
By Brian Keegan SimCity is one of my favorite computer game franchises from my childhood. I began playing SimCity 2000 when it required writing bootup batch scripts to allocate 4 […]
By Brian Keegan SimCity is one of my favorite computer game franchises from my childhood. I began playing SimCity 2000 when it required writing bootup batch scripts to allocate 4 […]
Play As Life met up with researcher Jessica Hammer who was presenting her work at the Meaningful Play 2012 conference on serious games to talk about her game that will help […]
By Nathaniel Poor, PhD. A while ago, when I was playing Dragon Age II, I was reading over some wiki entry for elves in the game. It went on about […]
By Yvette Wohn Recently, researchers reported that they developed a game that humans can play with pigs (see their website for more details on the game “Pig Chase” and the larger […]
By Yvette Wohn (cross-posted on yvettewohn.com) This NYT article talks about how the aggressive culture at Zynga may pressure employees to leave. In short, the article suggests that employees of […]
“WoW is an inherently social game, yet I wanted to be anti-social because of fear of the consequences of making a mistake. But because of the way the game is structured, I had to be social in order to advance beyond a certain point, so I gave up.”
It’s pretty well known that the female avatars prancing around in MMOs such as World of Warcraft are not necessarily played by women. But what happens when men start putting […]
It is very rare to find a non-white female character as the main character in video games. Many studies of triple A titles (big budget games) have shown that women […]
By Yvette Wohn Survey results of 176 Facebook game players showed significant differences between Asians and Caucasians in play motivation, perceptions of gifting and the extent to which the players engage in […]
By D. Yvette Wohn When the Nintendo Wii came out, people were fascinated with how the game controller- the Wii-mote- could detect their motion. Although motion-detection devices had been available, […]