Top Research Papers on Game Development

GADIS-A is the first successfully validated questionnaire to assess ICD-11 GD in adolescents and can significantly contribute to reliably identify affected adolescents in clinical and research settings.

When a government agency considers tightening a standard on a pollutant, the agency often takes into account the proportion of firms that are able to meet the new standard (what we refer to as the industry’s “voluntary adoption level”) because a higher proportion indicates a more feasible standard. We develop a novel model of regulation in which the probability of a stricter standard being enacted increases with an industry’s voluntary adoption level. In addition, in our model, the benefit of a new green technology is both uncertain and correlated across firms, and firms’ decisions exhibit bot...

This study showed a prevalence measure of addicted gamers as 1.2 percent, male gender was associated to problematic and addictive gaming, and loneliness was associated with both engaged-, problem- and addictiveGaming.

The evolutionary game theory method has been widely used in the research works about different kinds of energy utilization fields, especially the clean energy utilizations which can facilitate the sustainable energy development. This paper presents a research review of the evolutionary game theory (EGT)-based studies on different energy-related aspects, including the traditional energy utilizations, energy saving and carbon emission reduction, new energy utilizations, new energy vehicles, electric power market, distributed energy systems, micro-grid, smart grid and energy storage. Typical rese...

Abstract Games are a unique art form. Game designers don’t just create a world; they create who you will be in that world. They tell you what abilities to use and what goals to take on. In other words, games work in the medium of agency. This book explores what games have to teach us about our own rationality and agency. We have the capacity for a peculiar sort of motivational inversion. For some of us, winning is not the point. We take on an interest in winning temporarily, so that we can play the game. Thus, we are capable of taking on temporary and disposable ends. At the center of this boo...

Agriculture in developing countries is a vulnerable sector and is subsidized. Environmental restrictions on agriculture sector are minimal. The excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides has caused serious non-point source water pollution. Although previous studies have focused on agricultural water pollution, the cooperation between agricultural and industrial sectors in water pollution mitigation has not been thoroughly discussed. In this context, this paper introduces a cross-sectoral water pollution dynamic model. We studied the feedback (subgame perfect) equilibrium of the non-c...

The impact of gamification on planning students’ perception of learning, engagement and teamwork is explored and it is contended that gamification is particularly well suited for planning education.

Prefabricated residential buildings (PRBs) have drawn worldwide attention over the past few decades because of growing evidence of sustainability improvements for the building sector. However, the development of PRBs in China did not turn out as expected under the influence of PRB stakeholders' behavioral strategies. Previous studies have ignored the quantitative analysis of the existing benefit games among PRB stakeholders. Based on evolutionary game theory, this research explored evolutionary decision-making behaviors and stable strategies of the three stakeholders involved in the PRB indust...

How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The traditional academic imperative to “publish or perish” is increasingly coupled with the newer necessity of “impact or perish”—the requirement that a publication have “impact,” as measured by a variety of metrics, including citations, views, and downloads. Gaming the Metrics examines how the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced radically new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The contributors show that the metrics-b...

Abstract For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries—not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or even the Soviet Union—has ever reached 60 percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the United States. What does China want, does it have a grand strategy to achieve it, and what should the United States do about it? The Long Game draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades’ worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, as well as careful analys...

Abstract Carbon emission is a global issue, and China is facing many problems to resolve it, especially in emission‐generating companies (EGCs). To maintain sustainable development, it is necessary to reduce carbon emissions for the well‐being of society, and carbon neutrality can play an important role. With China targeting the goal of carbon neutrality to reduce carbon emissions, this research aims to bridge the gap in the literature by considering carbon neutrality instruments in a duopoly market. The study sets up a mathematical model of the duopoly game to achieve desired objectives and t...

Serious games are digital games that have an additional goal beyond entertainment. Recently, many studies have explored different quality criteria for serious games, including effectiveness and attractiveness. Unfortunately, the double mission of serious games, that is, simultaneous achievement of intended effects (serious part) and entertainment (game part), is not adequately considered in these studies. This paper aims to identify essential quality criteria for serious games. The fundamental goal of our research is to identify important factors of serious games and to adapt the existing prin...

HMD-VR health games are promising tools for engaging clients in highly immersive experiences designed to address diverse health contexts, however, more in-depth and structured attention to how HMD-VR health games are designed as game experiences is needed.

A major new direction developed in the book is that game theory can be extended by incorporating behavioural mechanisms, including mechanisms of reinforcement learning, which can successfully describe important phenomena like social dominance in group-living animals that previously have been difficult to model.

The Role of the Game Designer and the Design Document: Understanding the Game Industry and Selling Yourself and Your Ideas to the Game industry.

Due to the variability in diagnostic approaches, knowledge users should interpret the wide IGD prevalence ranges with caution. In addition to further research on GD, consensus on the definition of IGD and how it is measured is needed, to better understand the prevalence of these conditions.

Although most companies consider the current toolbox for Kp,uu,brain assessment and its validation satisfactory for drug discovery and early development, areas of improvement and future research to better understand human brain pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics translation have been identified.

Efficient utilization of the clean coal and adoption of clean energy are key points to promote energy structure transformation in the context of carbon neutrality. Considering the influence of decision makers' subjective preferences on energy structure transformation, we introduce prospect theory and psychological account theory into the evolutionary game analysis, construct an evolutionary game model with the participation of government regulators and energy consumers, and analyze the dynamic evolution of each game subject. The results of the study show that the share of coal and clean energy...

The findings show that learning with the adaptive educational computer game, called AutoThinking, significantly improved students’ computational thinking related to both conceptual knowledge and skills.

A review of the serious games found through a systematic literature review confirms that serious games can be used effectively to raise awareness, create empathy, and teach new strategies to address both bullying and cyberbullying.