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When You Wish Upon a Character Banner: An Exploratory Discourse Analysis of a Genshin Impact Player Community

Al-Nawasreh, Sophia; Andersson, Alex

2022.

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What Aspects of Gacha Games Keep the Players Engaged?

George-Gabriel, Rentia; Anastasia, Karaseva

2022.

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Parameterizing Emotions For Procedurally Content Generated Game Levels: A Case Study of the Game To the Skies!

Svärd, Oliver; Köhn, Ludvig; Carter, Aulden

2022.

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I'll Be Missing You: The Dynamic Influence of Spread in First-Person Shooters

Eriksson, George; Burt, Daniel; Lyevyentsov, Valentyn

2022.

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Creating a model for the process of designing a character that the player may form an attachment to

Kholod, Ivan; Laiho, Teemu

2022.

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A Musical Rare-vival: Comparative analysis of audio content in the games Banjo-Kazooie and Yooka-Laylee

Kallin, Arvid; Rabe, Mathilda

2022.

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Designing for Replayability: Designing a game with a simple gameplay loop for the purpose of being replayable

Hammar, Nicolas; Persson, Jonathan

2022.

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Fighting Games under the Queer Gaze: An analysis on the characters of Street Fighter V

Wilund, Mio

2022.

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How do players experience a gacha game depending on their perspective as a starting or a veteran player?: A case study of Genshin Impact

Jėčius, Dominykas; Frestadius, Alexander

2022.

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Avatar Selection in the Metaverse: How users choose their digital persona in VRChat

Dudoglo, Andrej; Ritter, Florian

2022.

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The effect of red-light sources on the player experience of a horror game level

Andersson, Irma

2022.

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A Close Reading of Two Invisible Survival-Horror Characters:: A comparison between the Kaernk from Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the Walrider from Outlast

Morgana, Ariana; Lilja, Ricky

2022.

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Colours and context: A study on how colour expectations change depending on the narrative context

Pranke, Klara; Jensen, Theodor

2022.

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Understanding temporal frames as a mechanic and narrative device in video games: An analysis of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

Håkansson, Diana; Salomonsson, Sunniva

2022.

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Intentionally Designing a Game to Help Alleviate Symptoms of Depression: A Formal and Textual Analysis of Mental Health Representation and Game Design Iteratio

Çunoti, Pandi

2022.

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What do queer gamers think of Monster prom

Röjarsvärd, Pixie

2022.

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Toxicity in the game World of Tanks: A participant observation ethnography, thematic analysis, content analysis and autoethnography

Dzigurski, Sasa

2022.

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Thrill vs. Cybersickness: A study on camera settings’ impact on immersion and cybersickness in VR Racing Games.

Fomenko, Ivan; Kaewpankan, Taninwat

2022.

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Meaningful Choices: A closer look at the choice design of Detroit: Become Human

Zeidan Mellqvist, Simon; Kappler, Elena

2022.

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COVID-19 case study: The effects of distance education on the game design practices of students at Uppsala University in 2022

Lyu, Diwei; Schmoll, Kiana Geno

2022.

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Designing Game Narrative to Evoke Players’ Empathy

Guo, Yu

2022.

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How do different visual representations of a player avatar in Virtual Reality affect player arousal?

Tawbi, Jad; Sandstedt, Axel

2022.

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Moral Philosophies Mechanised in Fallout: New Vegas

Norén, Sarah; Jägerbrand, Elin; Mathiesen, Peter

2022.

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Varför vi hoppar och hur vi faller (för det): En översikt av konceptet av hopp som en spelmekanik och hur det påverkar spel

El Idrissi, Christoffer; Ettehag, Eskil

2022.

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Grand Strategy Spel och Ekonomier: Effekten av Komplexitet på Gameplay

Nevill, Mikhail; Sahlén, Ludvig

2022.

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How to help players navigate anxiety using metaphorical game as a tool

Wu, Yifan

2022.

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An Analysis of The Impact of Escapism on Players

Gan, Yuhui; Hansen, Andreas

2022.

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The Nemesis System: How games create stories

Parosu, Ioana; Hage, Elin; Magnusson, Sofie

2022.

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What makes a cozy game?: A study of three games considered cozy

Wäppling, Alva; Walchshofer, Lovisa; Lewin, Rebecka

2022.

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How do the mechanics of honor systems in competitive games facilitate or hinder a toxic game aesthetic?

Larsson, Lukas; Johnsson, Anton Kim

2021.

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Kubernetes for Game Development: Evaluation of the Container-Orchestration Software

Lundgren, Jonas

2021.

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The reasons that contributed to the different success stories of space RTS games Homeworld and O.R.B.

Paulauskas, Rokas

2021.

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Worldspace Heatmaps

Krishnan Sherly, Rishi; Guo, Mengwei; Liu, Guanting

2021.

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SIMULATING A SYSTEM: Using video games as tools to promote self-directed learning

Hallros, Per; Pålsson, Niklas

2021.

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The Relationship Between Survival Mechanics and Emergent Narrative

Sidén, Maya; Cohen, Amanda

2021.

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Representing Lower Socioeconomic Class Struggles through Prosocial Game Design

Minkeviciute, Greta; Taillefer, Dana (Levi)

2021.

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An Evaluation of the Unity Machine Learning Agents Toolkit in Dense and Sparse Reward Video Game Environments

Hanski, Jari; Biçak, Kaan Baris

2021.

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Pyramids, Cats, and Arabian Nights: Contemporary Egypt in Call of Duty Black Ops 3 and The Race 2

Saleh, Amr

2021.

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The 40 Seconds Rule and Points of Interest in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Jaber, Maher; Cojanu, Andrei

2021.

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Gamers with the Purpose of Language Resource Acquisition: Personas and Scenarios for the players of Language Resourcing Games-With-A-Purpose

Droutsas, Nikolaos

2021.

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A PUGs Life: A study on social interactions in Classic and RetailWorld of Warcraft Pickup Groups.

Gårdh, Emil; Åberg, Felix

2021.

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More than four-legged vehicles?: The representation of horses in Dragon Age: Inquisition and Star Stable 1: Autumn Riders

Isaksson, Hanna; Wahlberg, Tove

2021.

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Volitional Vanity: A study on the players of Path of Exile and their premium purchases

Singh Martinez, Mauricio; Tang, Sini

2021.

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Evaluation of Procedural Content Generators for Two-Dimensional Top-Down Dungeon Levels

Naußed, David; Sapokaite, Ruta

2021.

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Emergent Player-Driven Narrative in Blades in the Dark and Dungeons & Dragons: A Comparative Study

Svan, Oscar; Wuolo, Anna

2021.

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Conceal, don't feel: Representing emotional suppression through deep game design

Kokkinidis, Alexandros; Berghäll, Adam; Österlund, Emma; Paulsen, Hampus

2021.

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Architecture as Narrative in First Person Level Design: A Reading of Mirror’s Edge Catalyst

Hemberg, Max; Josefsson, Ludwig

2021.

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Narrative structure in Persona 5: Limiting narrative paradoxes

Forsberg, Liam; Östman, Simon

2021.

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Applying Principles of Game Design to User Interface

Venngren, Evelina

2021.

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Making Room for Play: A play-centric workshop proposal for increasing girls' game literacy and access to games

Bassenge, Leoni

2021.

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