Game-based interventions have been gradually and successfully implemented in the mental
health domain given the games' ability to positively affect a variety of mental health …

There is no generally accepted definition for a virtual world, with many complimentary terms
and acronyms having emerged implying a virtual world. Advances in networking techniques …

Equally interested in what is and what could be, Cybertext Poetics combines ludology and
cybertext theory to solve persistent problems and introduce paradigm changes in the fields …

Pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating... Has manipulating video
game timelines altered our experience of time?“Compelling.”—Choice Video game scholar …

Los videojuegos son una de las industrias culturales y de ocio más importantes del mundo.
Lejos de ser meros juguetes infantiles, los actuales juegos digitales se asemejan al cine ya …

Researchers and developers constantly seek novel ways to create engaging applications
that are able to retain their users over the long term, make them desire to spend time using …

In the past, social interaction has been discussed mostly in the context of multiplayer games,
ignoring the implicit forms of sociability in single player games. This paper distinguishes …

The design and representation of time and space are important in any narrative form. Not
surprisingly there is an extensive literature on specific considerations of space or time in …

Performance studies deals with human action in context, as well as the process of making
meaning between the performers and the audience. This paper presents a framework to …

Due to the popularity of social media networks and the games played on those platforms
interest in the so-called social games has piqued. This article looks at those games in the …