Editorial Team
Making Games – The Politics and Poetics of Game Creation Tools
In Making Games, Stefan Werning considers the role of tools (primarily but not exclusively software), their design affordances, and the role they play as sociotechnical actors. He frames game-making as a (meta)game in itself and shows that tools, like games, have their own “procedural rhetoric” and should not always be conceived simply in terms of optimization and best practices.
Making data playable: A game co-creation method to promote creative data literacy
This article explores how making data playable, i.e. developing exploratory co-creation techniques that use elements of play and games to interpret small to mid-sized datasets beyond the current focus on visual evidence, can help a) promote creative data literacy in higher education, and b) expand existing definitions of data literacy.
The Playful Citizen. Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture
The Playful Citizen edited volume explores how and through what media we are becoming more playful as citizens and how this manifests itself in our ways of doing, living, and thinking.
Social Animation
Investigating techniques for computing for such socially-driven multi-character animations.
Affective Body Animation
The way users control their avatars should be an easy and natural way.
Social animations for virtual humans in games
A conversation with Zerrin Yumak, assistant professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences.
Europe’s prime ecosystem for applied games
RAGE, Realising an Applied Gaming Ecosystem, aims to develop, transform and enrich advanced technologies from the leisure games industry into self-contained gaming assets that will help game studios develop applied games more easily, quickly, and cost-effectively. These assets will be available along with a large volume of high-quality knowledge resources through a self-sustainable ecosystem, which
DietCare: the value of game elements
What if keeping track of your food and fluids intake feels like playing a game rather than paperwork?
Healthy urban life
The success of Niantic's Pokémon GO shows the many possibilities mobile games offer to reach a big audience and 'play' with the way you use a city.
Health games symposium
This symposium brought together experts in the fields of game design and development, psychology, neuroscience, physiotherapy, and data and computer science.