In multiplayer online games, players from different cultural backgrounds come together to
cooperate and compete in real time. Although these games are enjoyed by billions of …

The vision of a playful approach to teaching and learning, mediated by game elements, has
been acquiring vast relevance in recent years in educational research, crystallizing in the …

Emotional creativity (EC), which constitutes a main aspect of the general creativity concept,
is often shown to be substantially related to positive emotional experiences, effective …

At a time of severe political, economic, environmental, security, technological, and
identitarian challenges, global media studies can make important contributions to an …

Currently in game studies there is a gap in frameworks for comparatively researching game
cultures. This is a serious shortcoming as it ignores the transcultural and transnational …

The Covid-19 pandemic has influenced people's views on work, and a significant portion of
the global game industry converted to remote work during the pandemic. To explore the …

This chapter addresses the notion of the peripheral in computer game production.
Peripheral contexts of cultural production and consumption may be portrayed as lagging …

This paper discusses cross-cultural online game jams in a game educational setting,
drawing on the experience gained from the project" Games Now! Online Jam"(henceforth" …

With eSports and video games rapidly gaining popularity, we are witnessing a rise of semi-
autonomous gaming communities. I propose using Alexander's civil sphere theory and my …

This paper reports the research method of the “Game Expats Story (GES)” project that used
qualitative longitudinal research (“QLR”) incorporated with art-based research (“ABR”) in the …