Game studies. Game studies or gaming theory is an academic discipline that deals with the critical study of games.
More specifically, it focuses on game design, players, and their role in society and culture. Game studies is an inter-disciplinary field with researchers and academics from a multitude of other areas such as computer science, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, arts and literature, media studies, communication, theology, and more. Like other media disciplines, such as television studies and film studies, game studies often involves textual analysis and audience theory.
Game studies tends to employ more diverse methodologies than these other branches, drawing from both social science and humanities approaches. Jose Zagal's Home Page - Research and Projects. GameLog is an online blogging environment for supporting reflection of gameplaying experiences.
By writing about the games they play, users can begin to identify gameplay features and design elements present in multiple games, and how these features interact to provide particular experiences. GameLog also support users' understanding of how a game, and the gameplay experience, can change over time. Artists Re: Thinking Games Liverpool University Press - Foundation for Art Creative Tec: Amazon.de: Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Corrado Morgana: Englische Bücher. Expressive Processing - Table of Contents. Mez Breeze. Work[edit] "Mez does for code poetry as jodi and Vuk Ćosić have done for ASCII Art: Turning a great, but naively executed concept into something brilliant, paving the ground for a whole generation of digital artists.
" Breeze developed, and continues to write in, the hybrid language mezangelle. Her unorthodox use of language demonstrates the ubiquity of digitization and the intersections of the digital and the real that are increasingly common in 21st century life.