Category: games

Gamification in the New Semester

I’m starting back to the blog a little later than usual this academic year.  You see, this is the dreaded final tenure push, so most of my time has been redirected toward pushing studies out...

Multiplayer Really Is More Fun: New Research

Most academic research on video games studies them as single player experiences – a single individual, alone in a room with a game console.  Study on massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) is also growing.  However, much (and...

Games Defined: A New Taxonomy of Game Elements

In a new article appearing in Simulation & Gaming, Bedwell and colleagues ((Bedwell, W., Pavlas, D., Heyne, K., Lazzara, E., & Salas, E. (2012). Toward a taxonomy linking game attributes to learning: An empirical...