14.1.2025 Are Souls Games the Contemporary Myths? Dom Ford’s Approaching FromSoftware’s Souls Games as Myth reveals the Souls series as a modern mythology where gods fall, desires corrupt, and players become storytellers. #gameresearch #DarkSouls #EldenRing #Mythology Game Research Highlights
11.1.2025 Of claws and cuddles: Exploring Dark Cozy Games Cute, wholesome, safe....dark, heavy, violent? Let's talk about dark cozy games! Game Research Highlights
2.1.2025 From an imaginary world into the classroom. What is the benefit of roleplaying games in education? Rolling dice and calculating distances that are required to plunge and arrow into a well poisoning madmen isn’t something people would expect happening in a formal education setting. However, a study shows that incorporating play behavior into curriculum has notable, yet understudied benefits in classrooms. #roleplayinggames #education #gameresearch Game Research Highlights
24.12.2024 Not Just Fun, Rethinking Video Games Why do people play games? Just because it's fun? This research doesn't think so. Game Research Highlights
30.1.2024 Play, confront, and reconstruct: a guidebook to game analysis A fresh guidebook research to help you prepare for a game analysis. Game Research Highlights
11.12.2023 Do League of Legends players overestimate their skills – The ELO Hell phenomenon Research investigates, are low-ranked LoL players affected by Dunning-Krueger effect and blame failures on others Game Research Highlights
14.11.2022 Discovery of self through roleplay How can RPGs and LARP help trans people to explore and develop their identity? Josephine Baird's research of self-expression, exploration and embodiment investigates this question. Game Research Highlights
21.6.2021 Warming up to a new Concept – Hot and Cold Games What is the 'temperature' of different types of games, and how can this help us understand how they make us feel? #Researchhighlight #DearEsther #gameresearch Game Research Highlights
