//Title: Play in the Museum: Design and Development of a Game-Based Learning Exhibit for Informal Science Education
Resource: Academic Paper
Authors: Jonathan P. Rowe, Eleni V. Lobene, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester
This paper investigates the effects of game-based learning in a museum environment. It looks into ways to guide the game design in an effort to improve the amount of learning that occurs in these situations.
//Title: Validating Game-based Measures of Implicit Science Learning
Resource: Academic Paper
Authors: Elizabeth Rowe, Jodi Asbell-Clarke, Teon Edwards, Michael Eagle, Drew Hicks, Tiffany Barnes, Rebecca Brown
This paper investigates whether implicit science learning was occurring in students playing an optics related game. It also looks into better ways to measure this and practices to encourage it.
//Title: Generating Levels for Physics-based Puzzle Games with Estimation of Distribution Algorithms
Resource: Academic Paper
Authors:Lucas Ferreira, Claudio Toledo
Link to Paper on Researchgate.net
“This paper presents an estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) to generate levels for physics-based puzzle games with the Angry Birds mechanics” from the abstract.
This can serve as a foundation for generating meaningful and interesting content for physics-based games
//Title: Replayability of Video Games
Resource: Academic Paper
Authors: Timothy Frattesi, Douglas Griesbach, Jonathan Leith, Timothy Shaffer
This is a comprehensive paper that breaks down replayability in video games. These different elements can be analyzed to determine which factors I want to focus my research on to narrow the scope.
//Resource – Research Paper
Title: Predictive Physics Simulation in Game Mechanics
Authors: Perttu Hämäläinen, Xiaoxiao Ma, Jari Takatalo, Julian Togelius
This paper explores using innovations with software and increasing technology and how to apply them to games as a game mechanic. This specifically targeted the increased ability of computers to process physics simulations as a predictive measure for the player to interact with. In the simplest explanation it can break down fast paced physics-based actions into a turn by turn type game or simulation.
//Thesis Resource – Book
Title: Game Feel: A Game Designer’s Guide to Virtual Sensation
Author: Steve Swink
This was a resource suggestion from Tony Rowe that breaks down games and how they are played into their most basic elements. The chapters specifically targeted at individual games show promising parameterization of player controllers that could be effectively applied to my future research.
//Thesis information