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What do stories in games have in common with political narratives? This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and social life. They have »many faces«, displays and interfaces. They occur as texts, recipes, stories, dramas in three acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of heroes, but also as rewarding stories in games and as narratives in society - such as a career from rags to riches, the concept of modernity or market economy. Below their surface, however, narrative mechanics are a particular type of motivational design - of game mechanics.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- Computer Games. --- Culture. --- Digital Media. --- Game Design. --- Game Studies. --- Media Aesthetics. --- Media Studies. --- Media. --- Popular Culture. --- Games; Game Studies; Game Design; Media; Culture; Popular Culture; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Digital Media; Media Studies

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"While all media are part of intermedial networks, video games are often at the nexus of that network. They not only employ cinematics, embedded books, and in-world television screens for various purposes, but, in our convergence culture, video games also play a vital role in allowing players to explore transmedia storyworlds. At the same time, video games are frequently thematized and remediated in film, television, and literature. Indeed, the central role video games assume in intermedial networks provides testament to their significance in the contemporary media environment. In this volume, an international group of contributors discuss not only intermedial phenomena in video games, but also the intermedial networks surrounding them. Intermedia Games--Games Inter Media will deepen readers' understanding of the convergence culture of the early twenty-first century and video games' role in it."--

Video games --- Multimedia systems. --- Design. --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Intermediality. --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Game Design (Design) --- Game Design (Film & Media) --- Game Studies --- Computer games --- Design

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This Special Issue of Arts explores the art and practice of adaptation in several different mediums with a focus on film and video games. The topics covered include experimental game design, narrative design, film and trauma, games adapted from literature, video game cinema, film and the pandemic, film and the environment, film and immigration, and film and culture.

Mulan --- adaptation --- Disney --- Orientalism --- cultural authenticity --- cultural palimpsest --- Chinese cinema --- science fiction --- The Wandering Earth --- patricide --- patrilineality --- nationalism --- media --- mass culture --- film --- digital games --- film adaptation --- experimental game design --- game design process documentation --- T.S. Eliot --- Prufrock --- remediation --- comic strip --- animated film --- split screen --- video poem --- YouTube dramatic monologue --- photographic montage --- Contagion --- propaganda --- pandemic --- premediation --- Steven Soderbergh --- Scott Z. Burns --- transit --- migrants --- empathy --- liminal spaces --- Bildungsroman --- modernity --- videogames --- Shakespeare --- Tale of a Forest --- biodiversity --- documentary --- ecocriticism --- environmental narrative --- forest --- nature photography --- nostalgia --- species --- video games --- game studies --- Star Wars --- George Lucas --- game reviews --- criticism --- thematic analysis --- Japanese video games --- game localization --- cultural adaptation --- localization approaches --- localization strategies --- domestication --- foreignization --- reception --- trauma --- origin --- psychoanalysis --- repetition --- impossibility --- loss --- representation --- extremity --- writing --- image --- failure --- memoir --- missed experience --- creative writing studies --- screenwriting --- video game narrative design --- interactive writing --- horror film --- horror video games --- survival horror --- character development --- sci-fi --- thriller --- genre --- tropes --- methodology --- n/a

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This book, entitled “Gamification and Advanced Technology to Enhance Motivation in Education”, contains an editorial and a collection of ten research articles that highlight the use of gamification and other advanced technologies as powerful tools for motivation during learning. Motivation is the driving force behind many human activities, especially learning. Motivated students are ready to make a significant mental effort and use deeper and more effective learning strategies. Numerous studies indicate that playing promotes learning, since when fun pervades the learning process, motivation increases and tension is reduced. Therefore, games can be very powerful tools in the improvement of learning processes from three different and complementary perspectives: as tools for teaching content or skills, as an object of the learning project itself and as a philosophy to be taken into account when designing the training process. Each contributions presented in this book falls into one of these categories; that is to say, they all deal with the use of games or related technologies, and they all study how playing enhances motivation in education.

gamification --- active methodologies --- secondary education --- evaluation rubric --- evaluation criteria --- Thomas W. Malone --- game --- design --- Sebastian Deterding --- Nick Pelling --- learning by doing --- serious games --- game design --- human computer-interaction --- HCI education --- entrepreneurship education --- FLIGBY --- Flow --- positive psychology --- higher education --- MOOC --- fun --- social networks --- virtual learning communities --- video games --- collaborative learning --- education --- teacher --- attitudes --- primary education --- technology --- ICT --- Likert scale --- game elements --- online learning --- MOOCs --- empirical studies --- systematic literature review --- university --- serious video games --- game-based learning --- professors --- video games design --- knowledge --- skills training --- digital technologies --- automated learning --- serious game --- usability --- game engagement --- virtual reality --- rubric --- capability approach --- capacity building --- enabling tools --- mental images --- motivation

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Research on intelligent agents and multi-agent systems has matured during the past decade, and many effective applications of this technology are currently being deployed. Although computational approaches for multi-agent systems have mainly emerged in the past few decades, scholars have been prolific with regard to the variety of methods proposed to solve this paradigm. Different communities have emerged with multi-agent systems as their main research topic. Multi-agent systems allow the development of distributed and intelligent applications in complex and dynamic environments. Systems of this kind play a crucial role in life, evidenced by the broad range of applied areas involved in their use, including manufacturing, management sciences, e-commerce, and biotechnology. There are many reasons for the interest of researchers in this new discipline. Firstly, computational systems have gradually shifted towards a distributed paradigm where heterogeneous entities with different goals can enter and leave the system dynamically and interact with each other. Secondly, new computational systems should be able to negotiate with one another, typically on the behalf of humans, in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements. As a consequence, autonomy, interaction, mobility, and openness are key concepts studied in the area. The purpose of this book is to document some of the advances made in this paradigm and attempt to show the current state of this technology by analyzing different aspects in addition its possible application in various domains. This review of the current state-of-the-art does not intend to make an exhaustive exploration of all the current existing works but, rather, to try to give an overview of the research in agent technology, showing the high level of activity of this area.

multi-robot --- consensus problem --- formation control --- noise --- time delay --- unmanned surface vehicles --- multi-agent system --- training system --- genetic-based fuzzy rule learning --- intelligent autonomous control --- modeling and simulation --- multi-agent systems --- smart city development --- spatiotemporal modeling --- actor–network theory --- geoparticipation --- social interactions --- simulation model --- photovoltaic energy --- parameter fine-tuning --- self-reported behaviour --- predictive model --- multi-agent planning and scheduling --- potential game --- equilibrium selection --- interoperability --- multiagent systems --- organizational models --- agent-based collective intelligence --- multi-agent complex systems --- scale-free properties --- power law distribution --- biologically inspired approaches and methods --- collective foraging --- physics-based simulation --- methodologies for agent-based systems --- multi-robot simulation --- discrete event simulator --- agent and multi-agent applications --- classification --- prediction --- multi-agent --- wisdom-of-crowds --- Hollywood --- feature-extension --- collective-intelligence --- swarm --- educational games --- game design --- situated psychological agents --- education --- competences --- decision support system --- agent based modeling and simulation --- production scheduling --- green coffee supply chain --- agent-based modeling --- agent-based simulation --- decision support