Horror games represent a very specific genre specifically designed to elicit fear. These
games provide a tremendous emotional experience balanced between stress and …

The sounds that a player hears while immersed in a game can have dramatic effects on that
person, opening up a considerable, far-reaching field of research. Game Sound Technology …

„Achtung!“, ruft die vermummte Wache und zeigt auf Lara Croft, die gerade eine von Feinden
wimmelnde Ruine auskundschaftet.„Ach du Scheiße!“, kommentiert der Spieler Sarazar und …

Survival horror has an intrinsic relationship with story and storytelling media. The horror
video game, as Bernard Perron (2006) observes, is a largely story-driven genre; Tanya …

This chapter provides a theoretical foundation for the study of how emotions are affected by
game sound as well as empirical evidence for determining how to promote fear, suspense …

Virtual environments (VEs) can evoke and support emotions, as experienced when playing
emotionally arousing games. We theoretically approach the design of fear and joy evoking …

This paper undertakes a meta-synthesis of fifty-nine qualitative and humanistic studies in
order to comprehensively examine the research on agency in the field of game studies. By …

A life story's ability to evoke the emotion experienced by a protagonist is crucial to its
success. Authors of interactive life stories sometimes strategically alter the interactive …

Video game addiction is a term that describes games that dominate a person most of the
time. However, the degree of addiction and the amount of time spent playing vary from one …

Obeying an urgent summons contained in a mysterious letter, the narrator approaches his
destination on a “dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds …