Sentences with phrase «adventure games research»

Adventure games research requires being able to play games critically and, more importantly, knowing the field of game studies in order to situate the work.

Not exact matches

According to video game research firm Newzoo, game sales of Activision's (ATVI) 2013 title Skylanders Swap Force sold about 3.9 million copies to date, slightly lower than the 2012 Skylanders Giants version at 4.65 million, which was comparable to Skylanders Spyro's Adventure sales in 2011.
You can never start researching early enough so ignore the midweek home game and get ready for your next away day adventure.
Meticulously researched and featuring insights from a host of educators and game designers, as well as his own enthusiastic adventures in the classroom, Matthew Farber's book is an impressive primer, revealing what works and what doesn't out here on education's exciting new frontier.»
Description: Play the Wild Weather Adventure game and your weather research blimp will explore Earth and its weather.
What I explain in the article, although focused on adventure games, is my understanding of what games research may be (we games researchers are still figuring that out).
Stranded in Singapore is a classic point and click adventure game built on research developed by Clara Fernández - Vara on procedurally generated puzzles.
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STASIS is a 2D isometric adventure game, set aboard a derelict medical research ship called the Groomlake.
Like Conarium, this game takes place on an south polar research station, but instead of a first - person adventure, Distrust is a tactical RPG based heavily on John Carpenter's The Thing.
So if you're looking for some alone time on the big screen, we researched and compiled a list of the best single - player games to buy right now, and included titles that run the gamut from horror to sci - fi, to action - adventure and fantasy.
Adventure games are also part of this rich research landscape, and their status in the field of game studies remains to be defined.
Researching adventure games requires going through all types of games: interactive fiction (such as Zork, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), point - and - click adventure games (such as King's Quest, Myst), and games that take advantage of new types of controls, such as Hotel Dusk: Room 215, or Indigo Prophecy (also known as Fahrenheit).
This article is an introduction to the study of adventure games and how research can inform not only scholars but also game developers and fans of the genre.
He is currently completing his PhD on the formal history of adventure games and plans to pursue research and / or creation projects in the fields of game design and game studies.
Myst is, of course, well known to fans of the adventure genre, so it is not too surprising that the game has been ported by Hoplite Research (not Cyan, maker of the original Myst) to the Nintendo DS.
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