Homo Ludens: The Changing Meaning and Function of Game from Traditional Life to Culture Industry ‘Squid Game’ Example by Ferhat Kaçar

“…As a result, it is understood that children's games in the series have lost their innocence by breaking away from their real ties with the capitalist system.…”
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Process for modeling competencies for developing serious games by Arturo Barajas Saavedra, Francisco Javier Álvarez Rodríguez, Jaime Muñoz Arteaga, Ana Cecilia Oviedo de Luna

“…The results obtained in this research are the successful identification of six competencies and 19 areas of knowledge, and the production of 50 short serious games based on the identified competencies and areas of knowledge. …”
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Stackelberg Game for Product Renewal in Supply Chain by Yong Luo, Yamin Lou, Shizhao Wang

“…Based on the model, the decision-making plane consisting of two variables was divided into four areas. Since the process of product renewal was divided into two stages, Stackelberg-Nash game model and Stackelberg-merger game model could be built to describe this process. …”
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Kurdish Language Learning Tool in Serious Game by Gulala Ali Hama Amin, Karzan Hussein Sharif

“…In this era, technology has a great impact on the educational system as they have on the other different areas of today’s life, for instance, smartphone devices are the best examples. …”
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Multi-level agent architecture for war games by YU Xiaohan, YUAN Duo, YAO Changhua

“…To address this, this paper proposes a multi-level agent architecture for military strategy games based on the "Intent-Task-Action" framework, aiming to integrate various technical strengths for intelligent agent modeling in these games. …”
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VISUAL AVATAR IDENTIFICATION ON ONLINE GAME PLAYERS by Bunga Fefiana Mustikasari, Nuril Kusuma Wardani, Rachma Yulia Nisa

“…This research aims to learn what kind of visual design avatar is preferred by online game players, which will provide an overview for game designers to create avatars in the game. …”
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Reception games of Dušan Taragel (the non-actor) by Peter Darovec

“…The study focuses on the various forms of a specific postmodernist literary game, whose framework and rules are primarily determined by the conventions of pop culture genres. …”
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Declarative Terrain Modeling for Military Training Games by Ruben M. Smelik, Tim Tutenel, Klaas Jan de Kraker, Rafael Bidarra

“…Military training instructors increasingly often employ computer games to train soldiers in all sorts of skills and tactics. …”
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Neural networks utilization in the video game industry by V. V. Godin, A. E. Terekhova, D. N. Bulatov, I. А. Zaremba

“…The impact of this technology on the computer games development process has been analyzed, the efficiency of its application in this area noted. …”
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Sustainability in IT education: A game-based approach by Benedicte H. Gangstø, Monica Divitini

“…Previous research has found the use of games to teach sustainability promising, and in this paper, we present SustainIT, a 3D collaborative game for IT students. …”
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Enhancing Artificial Intelligence on a Real Mobile Game by Fabio Aiolli, Claudio E. Palazzi

“…However, creating this component is particularly complex as classic search AI algorithms cannot be employed by limited devices such as mobile phones or, even on more powerful computers, when considering imperfect information games (i.e., games in which participants do not a complete knowledge of the game state at any moment). …”
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Volunteerism and international sport organisations: XVII. Mediterranean Games by Hulya Unlu, Melike Esentas, Pinar Guzel, Selhan Ozbey

“…After the recent candidacy process and while the Olympic Games are going on to be a dream, very important and large-scale organizations are continuing to be done in our Country. …”
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LEARNING ABOUT REFUGEE LIFE WITH EDUCATIONAL VIDEO GAMES by Elena Shliakhovchuk

“…The promising results of the research show that a video game can address serious social issues by creating a simplified but still dynamic scale model of refugee reality. …”
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CYBERPUNK – GAME – POETRY: Rostislav Amelin’s “SimStab” by Daniil Leiderman, Mark Lipovetsky

“…Thus, in “SimStab” the ludic algorithmic with its procedural rhetoric (Ian Bogost) creates spaces of formlessness which repeats the liberatory promise of cyberpunk literature. …”
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Equitable forms of participation on a gaming-adjacent platform by Fredrik Rusk, Matilda Ståhl, Isac Nyman

“… To connect with youth online, a non-profit organization in Finland is organizing a youth center on a server on the gaming-adjacent social platform, Discord. We focus on the infrastructuralized platform and study ethnographically how the labor of moderation and technical competencies that platforms require on the part of the youth workers. …”
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In search of values. Reading The Hunger Games in an African context by W. Domeris

“…Brown’s (2016) study of honour in the USA provides the lens for a shame and honour reading of Suzanne Collins’ (2008-2010) The hunger games trilogy. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Serious Games in Health Professions by Francesco Ricciardi, Lucio Tommaso De Paolis

“…This type of training can be very useful for health professions because it improves learning outcomes creating a learner oriented approach and providing a stealth mode of teaching. …”
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A New Methodology of Design and Development of Serious Games by André F. S. Barbosa, Pedro N. M. Pereira, João A. F. F. Dias, Frutuoso G. M. Silva

“…Furthermore, we present a serious game, called “Clean World”, created using this new methodology.…”
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Rockstar Games, Red Dead Redemption, and Narratives of “Progress” by Esther Wright

“…Usually bound up with other loaded terms such as “civilization” (and its implicit antithesis, “savagery”), popular culture that falls under the broader umbrella of the Western genre has often used the idea of progress and development, from past to future, as a cornerstone of their stories and messages. This article uses game developer Rockstar Games and the company’s popular and commercially successful Red Dead Redemption franchise (2010-2018) to examine how narratives of “progress” have been used by the company not only to create their own representations of US history but, moreover, to prop up the promotional discourses that the company uses to brand themselves and sell their products. …”
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Game as a Way to Enhance Students’ Cognitive Activity by E. F. Gladkaya

“…Properly organized game allows to create a favorable for learning emotional background and establish psychological contact between all participants of communication. …”
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