Analysing storytelling in PlayStation games offers a fresh opportunity to think about narratives that combine visual art, sound, and interaction. Writing an essay for school, or just exercising your powers of analysis, requires you to be familiar with the basic issues that surround storytelli...
Pervasive games take gaming into the three-dimensional world, and are generally played out in public spaces like shopping malls, conferences, museums, and other non-traditional game venues. With mobile devices, wireless networking, positioning systems, and context-sensing technologies, pervasive gaming ...
However, as the years of gaming have progressed and diversified, with titles like “Tower Defense” games becoming popular in the late 2000s, these games challenge players’ tactical skills and resource management, providing hours of engaging gameplay and a sense of accomplishment when successfully p...
Plasq hosts COMIC LIFE and COMIC DRAW. With COMIC LIFE, students can turn pictures into comics, add them to templates, and create pane layouts on a Chromebook. COMIC DRAW allows users to create comics using their iPad devices. The app is equipped with brushes, fonts, and other customization ...
games," he said. The statement perpetuates a particularly prevalent stereotype, but it’s hard to ignore the fact that there is a vast market out there that is not being served by the current generation of AAA titles and gaming devices. Mattrick himself said as much, predicti...
Digital storytelling is the art of using digital tools and media to tell stories. It’s a multidimensional concept encompassing everything from written blogs and podcasts to videos and interactive games. The essence of digital storytelling lies in its ability to combine traditional storytelling with ...
In this article we explore how to play storytelling games with collections of artworks. First we propose a generic storytelling game, titled "Find the artwork behind the story!", and we present the results of a user study that investigates the game's affordances in different environments and ...
Instead,Sylvie is abandoned, and left to her own devices, her beauty and the actions ofthose who surround her. Sylvie becomes more autonomous, but also, in a sense,more vulnerable than the princess of Clèves. As opposed to this wealthy and wellattended figure, Sylvie has greater freedom of...
The Smart Board Game refers to a hybrid, or 'convergent', game format based on the offline format of the conventional board game augmented through the use of smart devices. The substantive aspects of this game format utilize the procedural deduction and problem-solving skills applicable in ...
First of all, you are already being judged almost all the time by others -- including the people closest to you. It comes with the territory of being human. You could, of course, choose to isolate yourself from others, armed only with your favorite mobile devices and some ice cream, but...