Conventional Game Research Articles

DIGITAL AND NON-DIGITAL GAMES IN YOUNG LEARNER EFL CLASSROOMS AT WARTIME IN UKRAINE

The present study aims to investigate the gaming habits of young learners (YLs) in the process of learning English as a foreign language and examine the role non-digital or conventional and digital games play in teaching English to young learners. It examines both conventional games used in the classroom and digital games played outside of formal instruction. Reasons for playing these two types of games were elicited from the children who were additionally asked about the preferences concerning playing games alone (solitary play) or with peers (collaborative play), in the English classroom or beyond it, i.e. preferred contexts for gameplay (classroom vs. home). The survey was conducted in Ukraine in a particularly challenging period in February and March, 2023, marked by the aftermath of COVID-19 and the subsequent declaration of martial law in the country. An online questionnaire was designed to collect data from our participants aged 10-13. The questionnaire was then administered to the children, and a total of 175 completed questionnaires yielded valuable results that formed the foundation of the study’s analysis. Findings revealed that in the current war-torn Ukraine most frequently preference is demonstrated for conventional games which are played within the structured environment of the English classroom. These games were perceived by YLs as a means offering them to alleviate the burdens of everyday stress while simultaneously facilitating lively and engaging peer interaction in English. Conversely, digital games were preferred for home-based play primarily due to their inherent entertainment value, essentially bringing them pleasure and enjoyment. One of the most crucial implications to be gleaned from this research lies in the urgent need for educators to actively integrate age-appropriate and educationally sound digital games and applications into their existing EFL curricula. By strategically incorporating these digital tools, educators can effectively supplement formal language instruction, fostering a more multifaceted and engaging learning experience for their young learners.

Investigating the impact of environmental feedback on the optional prisoner's dilemma for insights into cyclic dominance and evolution of cooperation.

This study incorporates environmental feedback into the optional prisoner's dilemma and rock-paper-scissors games to examine the mutual influence of eco-evolutionary outcomes and strategy dynamics. A novel game-theoretic model is developed that integrates the optional prisoner's dilemma and rock-paper-scissors games by incorporating an environmental state variable. By adjusting feedback parameters, chaos, oscillations and coexistence are observed that surpass the usual outcomes of social dilemmas when the environment transitions between depleted and replenished states. Defection is no longer advantageous in evolution; cooperation, abstention and cyclic dominance arise. The observed transitions align with natural economics, ecology and sociology phenomena. The inclusion of abstention options and environmental feedback has a significant impact on collective outcomes when compared with conventional games. This has important implications for studying adaptation and decision-making in situations with ecological constraints.

Enhancing Numeracy Skills in Elementary Students through the Traditional Congklak Game: A Study in Kudus

The objective of this study is to assess the efficacy of the conventional congklak game in enhancing numeracy abilities among primary school pupils in Kudus. The capacity to enumerate is a fundamental skill in the field of mathematics education, which is sometimes regarded as tedious by young learners. This study employed an experimental research approach and included a sample of 100 students representing diverse social and economic backgrounds. The employed methodologies encompass literature review, documentation, direct observation, and pre-test and post-test assessments to evaluate students' numeracy abilities. In addition, questionnaires and interviews were used to analyse several dimensions like learning motivation, social interaction, and family environmental support. The findings indicated that pupils who were taught utilizing the congklak game shown a notable enhancement in their numeracy abilities in comparison to students who employed traditional approaches, with an average rate of improvement of 28%. Furthermore, the congklak game has been empirically shown to enhance both learning motivation and social interaction among students. The findings of this study validate the need of including conventional games within the primary education curriculum in order to establish a learning environment that is both entertaining and efficient. Therefore, this study provides a substantial contribution to the advancement of novel and efficient learning methodologies. The findings from this study can serve as a valuable resource for policy makers and educators in developing a curriculum that is both engaging and effective in enhancing students' fundamental skills.

The Impact of Traditional Games on Social-Emotional Development: A Comprehensive Review of Existing Research

This comprehensive review examines how conventional games affect children's social-emotional development. Traditional games offer benefits that current games and educational tools may not match due to their cultural roots. According to the review, these games improve social skills, emotional regulation, cognition, cultural identity, and physical health. Traditional games help kids learn social skills, emotional management, strategic thinking, and problem-solving. These games also help kids feel connected to their cultures and respect diversity. Traditional games improve fitness and well-being through physical activity. Despite these benefits, long-term effects and comparative studies with modern games are lacking. The assessment suggests incorporating traditional games into education, encouraging community and family involvement, and funding more research on their advantages. Traditional games can help educators, policymakers, and parents enhance children's holistic development and well-being in varied cultural and educational contexts while preserving cultural legacy and embracing new advances.

Health benefits of traditional games - a systematic review

Background: Traditional games have been integral to human culture since ancient times. However, with the development of technology and changes in modern lifestyles, the popularity of traditional games has declined significantly. Nonetheless, research on the health benefits of conventional games has shown promising results, and many recent studies have highlighted the importance of maintaining and promoting these activities for human well-being. Study Objectives: This study aimed to conduct a systematic review of the existing literature to investigate the health benefits of traditional games, focusing on physical, mental, and emotional aspects. Materials and Methods: A systematic review was conducted by searching for relevant articles in various databases, including PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were set to select suitable studies. Data from the selected studies were extracted and analysed to identify key findings on the health benefits of traditional games. Results: The study findings suggest that conventional games benefit human health. Physically, traditional games help improve physical fitness, coordination and motor skills. On the mental side, these activities can reduce stress, improve concentration, and promote happiness and well-being. Meanwhile, the social aspect of traditional games can strengthen social relationships, build a sense of solidarity, and improve interpersonal communication skills. Conclusion: This systematic review confirms that conventional games have great potential to improve overall health and well-being. Therefore, it is essential to continue promoting and supporting these activities in modern society as part of efforts to improve lifestyle and enhance quality of life. Furthermore, further research is needed to deepen the understanding of the mechanisms behind the benefits of traditional games and to develop more effective interventions to integrate these activities into daily life. Keywords: Benefits of traditional games, Physical and mental health, Systematisation of the review, Positive effects of traditional activities, Implications for public health

Virtual Reality Presence in Partially Non-Euclidean Environments

Abstract Currently, virtual reality is limited by a physical workspace if the user walks indefinitely inside its virtual world. Therefore, it is necessary to find solutions to this limitation. A possible solution could be to reuse this workspace by overlapping different parts of the virtual space. This can be achieved through the use of imperceptible portals that connect different points in the virtual environment. Thanks to these portals it is possible to create a momentary break in the conventional Euclidean geometry displaying parts of the virtual world that are farther away than usual. Although this kind of effect has been seen in conventional games, its application to virtual environments has some technical implications. One of the most important technical characteristics to be evaluated is the presence, which could be affected by this type of visual effect. For this reason, a validation of the effect has been carried out by quantitatively analyzing the perceptual presence and conducting qualitative interviews with users. The results did not show an overall impact on presence, and users were excited to experience this type of visual effect inside the virtual world. Finally, this article shows everything learned in this development and is discussed from a perceptual design point of view, opening the possibility of new studies associated with this visual effect applied to the virtual world.

Social Interaction of PUBG Mobile Gamers in the "Eden Esports" Community from A Dramaturgic Perspective

Traditional games are becoming outmoded and rarely used. Technology has transformed conventional games, making online games more engaging. PUBG Mobile is a popular internet game among teens. Social interaction concerns can arise in gaming, especially when one team or opponents is verbally attacked with criticism, insults, and humiliations. Players often criticise, criticise, and degrade teams and opponents in community participation and gaming. Dramaturgical analysis is used to evaluate Pubg Mobile Gamers' social interactions in the "Eden Esports" group. This study uses a qualitative descriptive research strategy. This study included interviews, observation, and documentation with ten informants. This study found that gamers use disparaging language and slurs. This contrasts with their domestic or non-community behaviour, when they speak less and do less. Completed. Goffman believes that direct interpersonal exchanges involve dramatic components. Individuals choose a character and expose it to appropriate situations and discussion partners.

“Anything a Guardian Does Is Canonical”: Player Understanding of Canon in Destiny

The narrative experience of perennial games---ongoing, live games---revolves around the community that plays it. These games serve a fractured form of storytelling, which leaves it to the community to determine what counts as part of the story; or what is considered “canon”. What is canon is a question of who and what the story is allowed to be about, and what is allowed to be in it. Therefore, it is important to understand how players of perennial games understand what is canon and what is not. This paper presents a mixed methods study of an online survey (N=118) and interviews (N=15) of players of the game Destiny 2, with the goal of understanding what events players consider canon and why. The findings indicate that while authorship and conventional game story elements are considered canon, there is still disagreement, especially as the storytelling methods become non-conventional. Players can provide nuanced viewpoints on why an event is or is not canon, and they do not always agree. These results can help designers understand how their decisions influence the community discussions of canonicity, and how properties of their game can help create experiences that lets players see themselves in the work.

A novel resource allocation method based on supermodular game in EH-CR-IoT networks

Internet of Things (IoT) allows the connectivity of smart devices embedded with sensors, but with the growing problem of overcrowding in unlicensed bands, the data exchange in the network is severely disrupted. Besides, because Cognitive Radio IoT (CR-IoT) networks are composed of many small sensor devices, there is a great need for energy utilization efficiency. Building a new kind of Energy Harvesting enabled Cognitive Radio IoT (EH-CR-IoT) networks by applying EH technology and CR functions to IoT becomes an existing technical solution that can better solve problems such as scarce spectrum resources and valuable energy resources. In order to efficiently and reasonably manage resources such as energy and spectrum for EH-CR-IoT networks, Supermodular Game (SG) theory based resource allocation methods are proposed for both perfect spectrum sensing and imperfect spectrum sensing. The proposed methods first model the resource allocation problems in EH-CR-IoT networks as Bertrand game competition models, then design the utility functions of the consumers and the entire networks in terms of network pricing, next prove that the proposed Bertrand game competition models strictly comply with the theory of SG and the function solutions are Nonlinear Optimization Problems (NOP), after that the Nash Equilibrium (NE) solutions and the optimal network utility are obtained, finally simulation results are presented and prove the validity and the superiority of the proposed methods. Compared with conventional game methods, the proposed methods can better improve the network resource utilization and network benefits.

Socialization of Bridge Base Online

Bridge sport game, in playing the player must go through the process of playing mini bridge first. You have to master how to play, you have to know the High Card Point (HCP), the names of the cards, the bidding sheet, the score sheet, this is the basis for playing bridge. Bridge base online is a way of learning bridge online. This online bridge base is learning that must be applied by teachers or trainers in schools that are in a formal school education environment to apply online training to simplify and shorten how to play bridge can be done independently without involving other people. In conventional games, at least 4 people are required to play bridge. With bridge base online everything can be done alone without involving many people and done anytime and anywhere as long as there is an internet connection

The Existence Of The Tana Luwu Traditional Game Among The Millennials As A National Cultural Heritage

Traditional games are part of the nation's rich and varied cultural heritage, including the conventional games of Tana Luwu. However, with the development of technology and modern lifestyles, traditional games among millennials in Tana Luwu are being threatened. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the Tana Luwu traditional game among millennials as a national cultural heritage. This study used a quantitative descriptive method with data collection techniques through interviews and observation. The results show that the level of recognition of traditional games is still quite good; some are even known by 90% of the respondents. At the same time, the frequency of young people playing these traditional games is the highest played by young people at 54%. Therefore, more severe and sustainable efforts are still needed to strengthen the Tana Luwu traditional game among millennials as part of the nation's cultural heritage. This can be done through education, development, and appropriate technology to facilitate access and promote the traditional game of Tana Luwu to millennials. The results of this research can contribute to preserving the conventional Tana Luwu game as a national cultural heritage among millennials and using the right technology to facilitate access and promote the traditional game of Tana Luwu to millennials. The results of this research can contribute to preserving the conventional Tana Luwu game as a national cultural heritage among millennials and using the right technology to facilitate access and promote the traditional game of Tana Luwu to millennials. The results of this research can contribute to preserving the conventional Tana Luwu game as a national cultural heritage among millennials.

Matrix games involving interval-valued hesitant fuzzy linguistic sets and its application to electric vehicles

Game theory has been successfully applied in a variety of domains to deal with competitive environments between individuals or groups. The matrix games involving fuzzy, interval fuzzy, and intuitionistic fuzzy numbers exclusively examine the numeric components of an issue. However, several researchers have also examined various extensions of conventional game theory, considering the ambiguous situations for payoffs and goals. In many real-life scenarios, qualitative information is often critical in expressing the payoffs of a matrix game. Thus, the present work contributes to the field of matrix games where the payoffs have been quantified via qualitative variables, termed interval-valued hesitant fuzzy linguistic sets. The mathematical formulation and solution concept for matrix games involving interval-valued hesitant fuzzy linguistic numbers is designed by utilizing an aggregation operator supported by linguistic scale function and solving them by employing score function. Finally, the proposed approach is validated by applying it to electric vehicle sales.

Study on BMI and selected physical fitness components of Chhau dancer and Traditional game players

Chhau dance is a semi classical Indian dance with martial art and folk traditions. The dance ranges from celebrating martial arts, acrobatics and athletics performed in festive themes of a folk dance, to a structured dance with religious themes. Traditional game provides unique opportunities that conventional games may not have. They are generally based on fun and participation rather than competition and connect more important things beyond sports and physical activities. The purpose of this study was - to find out difference in BMI and physical fitness components between chhau dancer and traditional game players. To observed the relationship between BMI and physical fitness components of chhau dancer and traditional game players. The researcher was selected 156 male subjects from two groups. 78 subjects were chhau dancer who regular practice their dance and performed chhau dance programs. 78 subjects were traditional game players who played different traditional games. The obtained results of the study that chhau dancer was better fitness than traditional game players on the respect of explosive leg strength, agility and flexibility. But there was no significant difference between the means of reaction time of chhau dancer and traditional game players. There was positive relationship between BMI with reaction time of chhau dancer, but there was no relationship between BMI with explosive leg strength, agility and flexibility of chhau dancer. Other side there was no relationship between BMI with reaction time, explosive leg strength, agility and flexibility of traditional game players.

DEVELOPMENT OF RABBIT GOALS GAME TO INCREASE STUDENT MOTIVATION IN THEMATIC LEARNING AT PRIMARY SCHOOL

Playing is an activity that cannot be separated in children lives. Children preference for playing needs attention so that the games they do support their competence. Especially with the development of technology in the era of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, it has changed the pattern of conventional games into digital-based games. So it is necessary to develop educational games that can meet the needs of children in playing and learning. The purpose of this study was to develop an educational game for thematic subjects called rabbit goals and to find out the impact of using this game on children learning motivation. This research was conducted at MI Barokah At-Tahdzib for 2nd grade students. The results of this development are in the form of a game that contains thematic material and displays for 2nd grade students. The impact of using this educational game includes increasing student motivation, increasing student accuracy, improve students ability in arithmetic operations, and build independent learning in students, because according to students learning by using rabbits is the goal to be more exciting and fun.

A digital game for preserving food cultural heritage: design and evaluation of ThaiFoodAdventure game

<p><span lang="EN-US">Digital games are a powerful tool for the presentation of food cultural heritage. A digital game was designed and developed to raise and enhance young people’s interest in and knowledge of Thai food cultural heritage, currently an under-researched field. The platform game was played on a mobile device and required the collection of food ingredients appropriate to popular cuisine in four Thai regions while overcoming obstacles. A sample (N=61) of young people (mean age=19 years) played the game, and the differences in their pre and post-test knowledge of and interest in Thai food and its cultural heritage were analyzed. The findings showed a highly significant increase in interest in and knowledge of Thai food cultural heritage, and did so despite the opinion of some participants that learning games were less interesting than conventional games, or that games were not a good way of raising interest in cultural heritage.</span></p>

Facilitating Social Inclusion of Migrant Students through Digital Games: Design Principles and Pitfalls in Wanderers

Schools are central in facilitating the inclusion of migrants and refugees in society. However, research from the LIM: Language, Integration, Media project has shown a lack of activities where students from various cultural backgrounds can come to know one other on equal terms. To meet this need, we designed a collaborative puzzle game – Wanderers – with the goal of facilitating low-stakes social interaction and cultural exchange between high school students with and without migrant backgrounds. This article outlines this design process and explores the design principles and pitfalls for digital games that support the social inclusion of migrants in a classroom setting. In the study, we use a design-based research methodology to address the research question: what design principles can be used to support social inclusion through cultural exchange in local collaborative play? We outline and discuss the following key design principles for games designed to facilitate social inclusion: 1) Facilitating cultural exchange through “safe topics”; 2) Promoting mutual dependency; 3) Diversity in representation and 4) A stimulating theme. We argue that these design principles can be used to design positive experiences that support the idea of inclusion as a two-way process. However, our discussion also shows how these design principles can also reinforce existing majority/minority configurations, and how conventional game design principles may fall short when applied in this specific context. The paper argues for the importance of low-threshold activities, such as small talk about food and holiday traditions, while also highlighting specific challenges in designing games for social integration.

Optimization-based spectrum sensing in crn for effective utilization of available channel

Cognitive radio networks (CRN) are subjected to the challenge of demand in available resources, limited fair resource allocation between users in the heterogeneous CRN. The availability of minimal resources affects the channel allocation between Primary Users (PUs) and Secondary Users (SUs). In heterogeneous CRNs, efficient resources are available to SUs with fair resource allocation in a multi-hop environment. This paper proposed an efficient resource allocation in multi-hop CRN through Monte-Carlo Normal Form (MCNF). The proposed MCNF is involved in the optimization of the available resources through the estimation of the objective function. With Monte-Carlo estimation, MCNF computes the optimal resource availability within the CRN. Based on the Normal Form game theory resource availability of the network is computed and allocated between the users. The performance of the proposed MCNF is computed in terms of throughput, PDR, and running time. The proposed MCNF is comparatively examined with conventional game theory and the Monte-Carlo technique. The simulation analysis of the proposed MCNF expressed that running time is reduced with increased Packet delivery rate (PDR) and throughput.

Game theoretic solution for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle network host under DDoS attack

Game theory is being used in cybersecurity to observe different attacks as it can provide a mathematical representation of the interactions between system admins, hackers, and users. The game-theoretic solution determines the favorable parameters (strategies), predicts the player’s behavior, and suggests the best settings for minimizing the attack’s effect. To this end, our paper attempts to study the usefulness of game-theoretic applications for the prevention of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on a drone by deriving the information from conventional game solutions and augmenting that with the bounded rationality concept called Quantal response equilibrium (QRE). In this process, we identify feasible strategies for each player through simulations and formulate five non-cooperative game scenarios for two variants of DDoS attacks. In these games, the traditional game-theoretic solution or Nash Equilibrium (NashE) provides information about the drone’s recommended settings, the hacker’s preferred strategy, and the game-theoretic threshold assuming that all participants are highly intelligent. We augment this information by considering the participant’s tendency to make errors and the evolution in their behavioral pattern from zero to high-values of rationality using QRE. The information coupled from NashE and QRE provides better clarity to a drone operator, thus improving the drone’s security by two levels and allowing the drone operator to take timely precautions. Inspired by this multilevel process, we propose an equivalent real-world framework for protecting Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) nodes against a DDoS attack.

Utilizing Digital Storytelling Structure for Developing an Electronic Traditional Game Gobak Sodor

Gobak Sodor is a traditional game that came from Indonesia. Gobak Sodor is also known as a different name in Indonesia and Malaysia, such as Panjang tangan in Riau-Sumatra, Asing in Makassar, Galah Asin in West Java, and Galah Panjang in Malaysia. Gobak Sodor is a game that is played in two groups and has a rule that one group must prevent the opponent through the line back to back. However, Indonesia's open area has gradually reduced so that people difficult to play gobak Sodor. The loss of open land for playing Gobak Sodor and game technology advances make children slowly forget the gobak sodor. In the present time, technology is common for people to support their daily life activities. One of technology implementation form is electronic game, where peoples can play without the limitation of time and space. The electronic game also give pleasure and fun as much as conventional game activities. With the form of electronic game, this research develop a game application which implements all of the gobak sodor rules. Where the players can play the gobak sodor using their mobile device and without the trouble to play on a field or open space. Using electronic game for playing Gobak Sodor gives people satisfaction, awareness. In the hope that this will preserves the traditional game Gobak Sodor. The survey found that 80% of people have an interest to play The Gobak Sodor game.

Design and Validity Evidence for a Unique Endoscopy Simulator Using a Commercial Video Game.

BackgroundProcedural simulation enhances early endoscopy training. Multiple commercial simulators are available; however, their application is limited by cost and poor user compliance. First-person “shooter” (FPS) video games are popular. In this study, we aimed to show that a novel in-house designed colonoscope controller used to play an FPS video game shares similar constructs with real-life endoscopy.MethodologyParticipants completed the first three levels on an FPS video game, Portal (Valve Corporation, Bellevue, WA), first using a conventional controller and then the modified endoscope controller. A total of 12 expert endoscopists and 12 surgical residents with minimal endoscopy experience were evaluated based on completion time, button presses, and hand motion analyses.ResultsExperts outperformed novices for completion time (expert: 944 seconds; novice: 1,515 seconds; p = 0.006) and hand movements (expert: 1,263.1; novice: 2,052.6; p = 0.004) in using the novel colonoscope controller. There was no difference in button presses or total path length traveled. Furthermore, performance did not differ using conventional game controls.ConclusionsExperts outperformed novices using the endoscope but not the conventional controller with respect to the economy of movement and completion time. This result confirms that our endoscope-controlled video game shares similar paradigms with real-life endoscopy and serves as a first step toward creating a more enjoyable and cheaper alternative to commercially available endoscopy simulators.