Week 1 Flashcards
1
Q
What is a video game? (2)
A
Intentionally bounded system, designed to facilitate cognitively or affectively engaging conceptual scenarios through interaction.
- Has multiple definition based on field research based in.
2
Q
What is Game research?
A
The “Sciences” part of “game academics”
3
Q
What is Game Studies?
A
The “Humanities” part of “game academics”
4
Q
What is gamification?
A
The use of game design elements in a non-game context
Ex: Points, badges, individual game eleements
5
Q
(Paper 1 - In Search of a New Definition) Summarize the paper
A
- Suggests a name or a more broad perspective for certain games that fall under gamification, serious games, etc. so that they fall onto the same umbrella of “Applied Games”.
- Researchers: might help establish more “common ground” in future
