As the field of games for health continues to gain momentum, it is crucial to document the
field's scale of growth, identify design patterns, and to address potential design issues for …

Videogames are important cultural and economic artifacts. They also present challenges
that anticipate the problems inherent in any complex digital interactive system. Not only are …

Hobby board gaming is a serious leisure pastime that entails large commitments of time and
energy. When serious hobby board gamers become parents, their opportunities for …

The classical fauna from the Keisley Limestone, one of the first Upper Ordovician conodont
faunas described from the UK, is re‐evaluated based on relatively abundant collections of …

Consistent with the imminence of the metaverse, academics and industry have been paying
more attention to the research into the metaverse. The viewpoint that present studies have …

The existing common video game genres lack clarity as well as consistency and thus cannot
serve as a solid reference to inform the research on digital educational games (DEG), which …

At the turn of the millennium, digital games researcher Marc Prensky sought to turn many of
the prevailing assumptions about young people on their head. Prensky argued that being …

Our main research question is how the choice of game type influences the success of digital
educational games (DEGs), where success is defined as significant domain-specific …

Within the last few decades, the videogame has become an important media, economic, and
cultural phenomenon. Along with the phenomenon's proliferation the aspects that constitute …

Software design patterns have a proven impact on the quality of software applications and
the development process of an application. The success of design patterns in the software …