Idea Of Games Research Articles

Game-design Workshops with Co-creation Toolkit to Support Game-based Learning for Heritage Museum

In the context of heritage museums, the integration of game-based learning and gamification has garnered significant interest from academia and educational stakeholders. However, barriers such as high costs and lengthy development cycles hinder wider adoption of game-based learning, particularly among educators who lack of software development skills. This paper introduces a series of game design workshops supported by a card-based toolkit aimed at simplifying the process of creating location-based games. These workshops serve a dual purpose: providing educators and museum stakeholders with an accessible toolkit for data collection and offering engaging game-based learning activities for young museum visitors aged 15-30. To achieve this goal, a pilot study was conducted in collaboration with the Guangzhou Maritime Museum, focusing on 48 university students aged 18-26 and 10 museum staff members visiting the Sea God Temple, a heritage site with a 1400-year history. Qualitative and quantitative data collected from this study indicated positive feedback on the value of a co-creation toolkit acting as the instructional scaffolding to support informal learning. Insights gained from this research informed the refinement of the toolkit design, while the game ideas from workshops served as a foundation for mobile game development tailored to young museum visitors.

Futurable: Serious game to raise awareness by building futures

Today, educational uses of games (serious games) and gamification companies are multiplying, which are helping to extend the field of games so that "the idea of games comes to apply to realities, to situations, to behaviors in connection with which its use, until recently, would have seemed inappropriate, even absurd or scandalous'. However, all these systems are based on very diverse educational and political models, constructing their public sometimes as receivers to be trained, consumers to be convinced, workers to be hired or citizens to be mobilized. This article makes it possible to present and analyze a concrete case of mediation and awareness-raising through play, in which the playful experience is articulated with the fictional creation of anticipation in an attempt to support an open form of democratic dialogue about cities and territories’ evolution regarding climate change issues. This game that was developed is analyzed through this article.

Why Have There Been No Great Women Board Game Designers?

Board Games are becoming increasingly popular, and yet the Board Game designer population continues to be primarily made up of white men. This article intends to present the factors that may have held women and non-binary people back from occupying the Board Game community as intensely as men and which contribute to the homogeneity of Board Game designers today. Firstly, supported by the relevant literature, this article starts by establishing a connection between implicit stereotypes and the way we choose to spend our free time. Secondly, data from studies performed in different countries shows that, even when choosing to play Board Games, women have tendentially less free time than men to play – and, therefore, less time to develop ideas for new Board Games. Lastly, this article focuses on the women who play and how their experiences in Board Game events and conventions may prevent them from participating further in the hobby and its community, including in Board Game design.

A Study on the Possible Problems and Countermeasures of Domestic Games Going Abroad from the Perspective of Cultural Studies

Against the backdrop of rapid development of information technology, the online game industry is thriving. Although game companies in China started late, the industry scale is constantly expanding, and the total revenue of games is constantly increasing, due to the vast market, technical support, and frequent international cooperation. In 2020, it has become the world's largest online game market. From a global perspective, there is still a significant gap between domestic game companies and game companies in Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea, lacking competitiveness in the international market and facing the challenge of going global. Based on the perspective of cultural research, this paper studies the important significance of domestic games going abroad, analyzes the problems that domestic games may encounter when going abroad, and proposes corresponding solutions, in order to provide theoretical experience and practical ideas for domestic games going abroad.

Olimpijski zabavnik

Daily practice shows that educators, teachers, and children find it interesting to jointly organize sports events and competitions that they call "small Olympics, athletic Olympics - in the world of competition and the like". For example, similar to this was the final event of preschoolers in the primary school "Mladost" from Belgrade in June 2023. It is interesting to emphasize that before the new era, the Olympiads represented a unit of measure of 4 years between two Olympic Games. The Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held in Paris in 2024. This paper is intended, primarily for those who are interested in the Olympic Games as the largest sports competition in the world, which is held every four years. In this paper, all members of one family can find something interesting, both the youngest and the oldest. The purpose of this paper is to acquaint readers of different ages with the origin of the Olympic Games, both ancient (Olympia before the new era) and these modern (renewed) ones that were created inspired by the ancient Olympic Games. This paper can serve as a good starting point, primarily for educators, but also for teachers, for planning project and teaching activities on the topic of the Olympic Games, sports competitions, mythology, winter and summer sports, Paralympic competitions, various symbols that are dominant before some planetary events in the near future such as the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024, as well as nations, continents and cities that at least briefly unite the idea of the Olympic Games.

The Problem of Personal Security: An Analysis of Basic Concepts and Approaches to Modeling

Introduction. The problem of security is extremely relevant for humanity as a whole and for the individual in particular. It is closely connected, for a person, with the main concepts – “life” and “death”, is interdisciplinary and the key to all arts and a huge number of sciences. However, the largely isolated development of their thesauri and model tools led to the formation of very eclectic conceptual and model apparatuses, exacerbated the problem of generalization (conceptual synthesis) and reduction in the dimension of the problem field. The purpose of the work is to analyze the basic concepts and model tools of the problem field of personal security. Materials and Methods. Systematic and interdisciplinary approaches and methods were applied: analysis and conceptual synthesis; analogy and transfer of knowledge; generalized method of qualitative structures; modeling, including the idea of multimodel descriptions and model games when used for these purposes, adequate to the reality of the collision of opposing models. In the case of insufficient evidence to confirm the hypotheses put forward at specific levels of the system hierarchy, we carried out the transition to the super system, as required by the conclusion following from the proofs of Kurt Gödel’s well-known theorems “On incompleteness”. Results. When understanding the problem of the security of the personality of a multidimensional person, the benefits of the transfer of knowledge and meaningful procedures, according to generalizations of concepts. Using the concept of “personality” as an example, the effectiveness of using the GMQS by I. M. Kalinauskas – B. V. Shmakov for the purposes of conceptual synthesis. The prospects of a multi-model description of the vast problem field of personal security by opposing models and model games of the type of “Life Strategy of a Creative Personality” by G. S. Altshuller – I. M. Vertkin. It is hypothesized that the current problem of “identity depersonalization” in thesauri and modeling, as well as the design and construction of multi-aspect systems for ensuring the personal safety of people in the future, can be removed in the process of creating their individual model “digital twins”. Discussion and Conclusion. The conducted research contributes to the development of ideas about the scale and depth of the problematic field of personal security. The materials of the article will be useful to a wide range of researchers and practitioners engaged in research and solving not only the aggravated “eternalˮ problems, but also new problems of ensuring the security of an individual that arise in the conditions of digitalization of the life of modern society.

Digital Games in Schools: A Qualitative Study on Teacher's Beliefs

Games are omnipresent for children and young people. In primary and secondary schools in Switzerland, however, games still eke out a niche existence. Topics such as Game Design, Serious Games, or the Game Culture in general offer enormous potential for teaching, and there are many ways for pupils to experience the world of games together. However, specific training programs for teachers are necessary. For many teachers, these topics are less tangible than they are for children. To develop a new curriculum for in-service teachers, this paper addresses the prerequisites for a transversal games-curriculum for primary and secondary schools in Switzerland. In this endeavour, first, links between games and the Swiss Curriculum 21 are presented. Second, recent literature on games in the school context is reviewed, and finally, interviews with teachers on their beliefs and ideas about digital games are analysed. The results show that although teachers often have a limited idea of games in the classroom, they consider the topic relevant and sometimes already use game-based approaches.

Hybrid game cross efficiency evaluation models based on interval data: A case of forest carbon sequestration

Cross-efficiency evaluation is an effective method for the ranking of decision-making units (DMUs) in data envelopment analysis, which is the performed method for peer-evaluation and self-evaluation. In most cross-efficiency evaluation methods, the peer evaluation result is completely constrained by the evaluator's optimal self-evaluation weights. DMUs are connected by a competitive relationship; therefore, they can be regarded as players in the game and the cross efficiency value can be regarded as payment because of this competition. DMUs need to consider the impact of their own weights on other DMUs to identify a set of weights for evaluating themselves. Based on the idea of non-cooperative games in the cross evaluation of DMUs, this paper considers the interval cross game efficiency of DMUs with the interval data. The interval data theory is combined, the best production state and the worst production state are taken as reference states, and four evaluation strategy models are proposed according to the opposition and coordination relationship. Then, the bijective and injective interval game cross models, as well as the algorithm corresponding to the four evaluation strategies are constructed. Moreover, the result of the self-evaluation is used as the initial parameter to prove the existence of the solution and the convergence of the algorithm. Based on the priority relationship of the evaluation results under different strategies, the interval entropy method is used to aggregate the results and obtain the final cross efficiency of the interval game. Furthermore, both the applicability and superiority of this model are exemplified by an example. Finally, based on the method of this paper, the efficiency of forest carbon sequestration in China are studied, seven natural regions in China are ranked by forest carbon sequestration efficiency values reasonably, and the current regions development of forest carbon sequestration in China are evaluated.

Development of Brief Video Intervention to Promote Physical Activity among Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

ABSTRACT Background Obesity and physical inactivity are serious public health concerns in the United States (US) and globally. COVID-19 restrictions are resulting in decreased physical activity (PA) levels among children. Purpose To determine barriers and challenges to PA promotion among children during COVID-19 and inform a PA promotion video. Methods An explanatory sequential mixed methods approach was used to collect data from adults who have influence over the PA levels of children. Analysis included descriptive statistics of the quantitative data and a rapid qualitative analysis of qualitative data. Results Quantitative and qualitative data indicated that space, eq\\uipment, and virtual learning environments, among others, were key barriers to PA promotion, and that movement activities, game ideas, and brain breaks would be helpful video content. Discussion Considering the content and features desired by participants, PA promotion video content can be used in various settings. Translation to Health Education Practice We developed an animated video to promote PA in children and made it freely available on a variety of social media sites. The video may be used to enhance children’s PA levels in remote learning, school, and family environments. Participation in movement will contribute to children’s overall wellbeing and help prevent obesity.

Raising Awareness about Cloud Security in Industry through a Board Game

Today, many products and solutions are provided on the cloud; however, the amount and financial losses due to cloud security incidents illustrate the critical need to do more to protect cloud assets adequately. A gap lies in transferring what cloud and security standards recommend and require to industry practitioners working in the front line. It is of paramount importance to raise awareness about cloud security of these industrial practitioners. Under the guidance of design science paradigm, we introduce a serious game to help participants understand the inherent risks, understand the different roles, and encourage proactive defensive thinking in defending cloud assets. In our game, we designed and implemented an automated evaluator as a novel element. We invite the players to build defense plans and attack plans for which the evaluator calculates success likelihoods. The primary target group is industry practitioners, whereas people with limited background knowledge about cloud security can also participate in and benefit from the game. We design the game and organize several trial runs in an industrial setting. Observations of the trial runs and collected feedback indicate that the game ideas and logic are useful and provide help in raising awareness of cloud security in industry. Our preliminary results share insight into the design of the serious game and are discussed in this paper.

Psychology and methodology: prospects of co-organization

The proposed text recording of lectures given by a famous thinker-methodologist in March 1987 at one of the universities belongs to the last period of his amazingly productive work, namely to the creation of a working scheme of thought-activity, forms, means and conditions of its various reflexive elaboration and to the full formation of system-though-activity methodology as an innovative socio-cultural phenomenon in its intellectual environment – in the systematic hard work of the Moscow Methodological Circle. In addition, it is at this historical time that the idea of methodological games is mastered programmatically, organizationally and imitation-technically, and numerous organizational games are held in various problem-thematic areas of solving the most difficult scientific, industrial and covital situations. The s u b j e c t of the collective thought communication of the lecturer with the audience of professional psychologists, which unites the problem areas of the actualized polydialogical semantic landscape of thoughts, questions, answers, arguments, are the historical perspectives of the psychology development. The lecturer offers to abandon the Galilean model of science and Wundt’s model of psychological science, in particular because of their detachment from life and their functioning in their own artificial areas of laws and regularities as ideal abstractions. Therefore, he, unequivocally denying psychologism of any kind, supports not a natural-scientific strategy of empowerment of psychology, but an intelligible, reflexive-interpretive one, which is interested in explaining, constructing and describing true mental reality according to adequately defined goals and values, forms and methods, ways and means of carried out thought-activity. The basic thesis here is formulated very categorically; “outside the framework of methodological thought, no psychology can be.” This is argued by the fact that only methodological thinking allows thought-activity of any psychological content by appropriate means, methods, forms, adequate to a particular life situation. Besides, the projected enrichment of the psychology’s subject field in the coming decades will be determined not by the available material and not by ontological content, but by a methodological approach or a full-fledged philosophical methodologem, though “thinking itself cannot be studied psychologically.” The optimal form of organization and an integral condition for the development of collective thought-activity, in particular in the field of psychology, is organizational game, which at the same time, on the principle of three “s”, provides self-activity, self-organization and self-development of its participants, that operate in a simulated, but real, problem-conflict situation.

Design Space Cards

The potential space of game designs is astronomically large. This paper shows how game design theories can be translated into a simple, tangible card deck that can assist in the exploration of new game designs within a broader "design space." By translating elements of game design theory into a physical card deck, we enable users to randomly sample a design space in order to synthesize new game design variations for a new play platform ("Lumies"). In a series of iterative design and testing rounds with various user groups, the deck has been optimized to merge relevant game theory elements into a concise card deck with limited categories and clear descriptions. In a small, controlled experiment involving groups of design students, we compare the effects of brainstorming with the card deck or the "Directed Brainstorming" method. We show that the deck does not increase ideation speed but is preferred by participants. We further show that our target audience, children, were able to use the card deck to develop dozens of new game ideas. We conclude that design space cards are a promising way to help adults and children to generate new game ideas by making it easier to explore the game design space.

Towards the Automatic Generation of Fictional Ideas for Games

The invention of fictional ideas is often a central process in the creative production of artefacts such as poems, music, paintings and games. Currently, fictional ideation is being studied by the Computational Creativity community within the WHIM European project. The aim of WHIM is to develop the What-If Machine, a software system capable of inventing, evaluating and presenting fictional ideas with cultural value. In this paper we explore the potential applications of the What-If Machine in the context of games. Specifically, we propose ways in which the What-If Machine can be used as an assistant for the design of games, by providing ideas about characters, the environment, etc., as well as a creative system during gameplay, through interesting interactions with the player.

Research on optimal path Modeling based on DP Model

Nowadays, the emergence of all kinds of games greatly enriches our life and enlightens our wisdom; As a vehicle of enlightenment, the game itself involves the choice of a variety of strategies and the choice of routes and solutions. In the case of multiple constraints, the core idea of strategy choice games is to make the optimal solution to a certain problem, and such a choice plan needs the support of a variety of theories, such as game theory dynamic programming, the application of operations research, and so on. In this case, it is essentially a given condition of the game, using the above known mathematical model to find the optimal solution, that is, under the condition of meeting the safety of the end, the most money is leftWhen the weather is known and the map is known, we can make the most optimal solution; by using the DP model and the correlation of the TSP problem, we have found a certain rule: give priority to choosing the mine that can bring us income, and then replenish the resources when there is a problem with the resources, so as to plan the best route. For the calculation of money, we take the reverse program to calculate and deduce, and find that level 1 and level 2 can finally make money, and give the specific value in the detailed explanation of their respective problems. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to know the changes of the weather in the future, so it is necessary to make different analyses for different weather conditions every day; here, we assume a certain strategy, that is, to accept the relatively non-optimal solution with a certain probability, and then through the increase of the number of iterations, we finally retrieve the optimal solution in this hypothesis.

A board game proposal for teaching informatics related topics in Early Childhood Education

This paper presents an idea of a board game designed for teaching informatics related topics to kindergarteners, as part of an undergraduate thesis. The idea emerged through a course about game-based learning and popular board game ideas were examined. Based on a brainstorming session, the appropriate format of the board was selected. Then, the topics were selected, addressing the issue of internet use by young children. The subtopics identified were that of safety while accessing the internet, proper computer use, technological matters and functional potential (all explained in detail in the paper). The game idea, mechanics and design are presented in this paper.

Time-inconsistent stochastic optimal control problems and backward stochastic volterra integral equations

An optimal control problem is considered for a stochastic differential equation with the cost functional determined by a backward stochastic Volterra integral equation (BSVIE, for short). This kind of cost functional can cover the general discounting (including exponential and non-exponential) situations with a recursive feature. It is known that such a problem is time-inconsistent in general. Therefore, instead of finding a global optimal control, we look for a time-consistent locally near optimal equilibrium strategy. With the idea of multi-person differential games, a family of approximate equilibrium strategies is constructed associated with partitions of the time intervals. By sending the mesh size of the time interval partition to zero, an equilibrium Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB, for short) equation is derived, through which the equilibrium value function and an equilibrium strategy are obtained. Under certain conditions, a verification theorem is proved and the well-posedness of the equilibrium HJB is established. As a sort of Feynman–Kac formula for the equilibrium HJB equation, a new class of BSVIEs (containing the diagonal valueZ(r,r) ofZ(⋅ , ⋅)) is naturally introduced and the well-posedness of such kind of equations is briefly presented.

Financial Security Analysis of E‐Commerce Platform Based on Supply Chain for Heterogeneous Network Location Verification

The development of supply chain finance, its pricing strategy for bilateral business cooperation between e‐commerce, banking institutions, and fourth‐party logistics services providers has gained the attention of researchers. This paper combines the heterogeneous network location verification technology, starting from information asymmetry and Rubens bargaining game ideas, and combines it with game theory methods to provide a reference for bilateral cooperation decision‐making on e‐commerce platforms. The experiment results indicated the pricing decisions of e‐commerce platforms which are affected by the efforts of the other party and the ability of bargaining. The quoted price increases with the decrease of the bank’s ability and the increase of the service provider’s ability. The pricing decisions of banks and service providers are only affected by the direct proportion of their respective business costs. When considering the introduction of incentive mechanism conditions, it is found that appropriate incentive conditions can increase the quotation of the e‐commerce platform. The price quoted by the e‐commerce platform that chooses to bargain with the bank is higher than the price quoted by the bank after negotiating with the service provider, which will help to better realize the benefits. Finally, the paper numerically analyzes the results of the bargaining game between e‐commerce platforms and banks and fourth‐party logistics service providers, and the numerical results verify the better performance.

A card-based internet of things game ideation tool for museum context

The increasing deployments of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies create new opportunities for game design for museums. Previous studies have highlighted the difficulty that designers face in generating ideas for IoT serious games. This paper proposes a card game solution that synthesises design knowledge for IoT serious games in museum with the aim of guiding non-experts in rapid idea generation for IoT serious games. It also helps designers design for in-depth visitor engagement to cater for the changing role of museums. We achieve this through different types of domain-specific cards (Asset, Engagement, Serious Game, IoT and Possible Issue). The card game, consisting of 90 cards for idea generation, was developed and evaluated through two iterative series of user workshops involving Human Computer Interaction (HCI) students. Results show that the card game was useful as a way to aid concept ideation for HCI designers and practitioners, with museums and their content used as a useful test case. We further discuss the strengths and limitations of the ideation tool.

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Equilibrium analysis of general N-population multi-strategy games for generation-side long-term bidding: An evolutionary game perspective

Founded on bounded rationality and limited information, evolutionary game theory can well describe the evolution rule of population behavior and predict individuals’ decision-making behavior. Therefore, this paper focuses on the general N-population multi-strategy evolutionary games, and uses them to investigate the generation-side long-term bidding issues in electricity market. First, the long-term equilibrium characteristics of typical two-population and three-population two-strategy evolutionary game scenarios are thoroughly investigated through theoretical analysis and dynamic simulation, where novel relative net payoff parameters are completely defined for these games in engineering. Research shows that the long-term evolutionary stable equilibria are only determined by the relative net payoff parameters, so that an expected evolutionary stable equilibrium can be obtained by adjusting these parameters. Second, the modeling idea of general N-population multi-strategy evolutionary games is elaborated based on replicator dynamics. In the case study, the evolutionary stable equilibrium of generation-side long-term bidding is investigated for a supply-side market involving different generator populations. This case effectively verifies the evolutionary dynamics of the general N-population multi-strategy evolutionary games built in this paper. Lastly, future investigations of evolutionary game theory are prospected. Overall, this paper explores the long-term equilibrium characteristics of the general N-population multi-strategy evolutionary games, which can provide some inspirations and theoretical reference for researches on complex long-term dynamic interactive decision-making problems of group participants with bounded rationality in some relevant fields, especially in the economics, management, and engineering fields.