The Game Studies Download is compiled annually by Jane McGonigal, Ian Bogost, and Mia Consalvo for the Game Developers Conference.
It's a summary of the top ten research findings from academic game studies from the previous calendar year.
Our main criteria for selecting studies is simple: the direct relevance of the researchers' insights to the future innovation of game design and development.
2. Who We Are Ian Bogost, Ph.D. Mia Consalvo, Ph.D. Jane McGonigal, Ph.D.
3. Why Game Studies? Game researchers are very smart people who care a lot about games the people who play them, and the future of the medium . They have targeted expertise in: HCI, economics, computer science, psychology, narrative, anthropology, artificial intelligence, architecture, and more.
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5. #10 Top Research Finding The best content understands exactly how the player likes to play -- and makes it slightly harder.
6. “ How do you keep players at the very edge of performance?” Julian Togelius, Renzo De Nardi and Simon M. Lucas, University of Essex