Background. Taking Klabbers' call for a coherent game science as a starting point, we argue
for an alternative way to approach the multidisciplinarity of research into games. Aim …

This review article examines research into the conceptualization and development of
narrative-based virtual reality (VR) experiences with the aim of articulating the overlaps and …

Mobile serious games are very important tools for self-learning, training, and edutainment.
They can be used to improve the children's learning skills to grasp new concepts rapidly in …

This dissertation is positioned on the multidiscipline of game studies. It presents the findings
of a ten-year study of game developers and the contexts of their creative practices. As a …

Serious games developed for learning have gained popularity due to their promise for better
learning outcomes. However, designing these games can be costly, take a long time, and …

In this article, the notion of game design value is proposed and explored utilizing three
design theory frameworks: Holm's design values, Lawson's guiding principles and Schön's …

People in all known cultures play games and today digital gaming is an important leisure
activity for hundreds of millions of people. At the same time game design has developed into …

While the casual game market is expanding, there are increasingly few research projects
and explorations about the definition of this game style. Existing definitions are contradictory …

This systematic literature review study explores how precedent knowledge, as a form of
design knowledge, is understood across multiple domains of design (architecture …

During the last decades, game design research has burgeoned, from Chris Crawford's
seminal, The art of game design in 1984, to recent publications such as O'Donnell's …