Values at Play is a research project investigating how social, moral, and political values can inform the design of digital games. For example, how can designers create games that affirm, explore, and/or interrogate values like peace, justice, patriotism, and tolerance. One project activity has been the development of a curriculum introducing university students to values conscious design. We use this term to describe an approach wherein designers consider the social, political, and moral resonances of design features in a systematic way. The curriculum has been used and evaluated in leading American game design programs. Here, we discuss the results of a focus group study and analysis of student design documents. Students experienced si...
This thesis is about the design values of digital role-playing games. Design values is an underresea...
Designers play an important role in shaping the society and should take responsibility for their act...
The following article considers the case for integrating students’ personal values into the work pro...
Values at Play is a research project investigating how social, moral, and political values can infor...
Can a set of articulated and tested methodologies be created whose endpoint is the reliable capacity...
Significant work in the IT, philosophy, and communications communities has focused on designing syst...
Over the past three decades, youth has been observed to be increasingly disengaged from politics and...
Significant work in the gaming and HCI communities has focused on systems that support human values ...
The vision and aim of this research is to combine digital game design theories with decision-making ...
This chapter introduces critical gameplay design as a technique for creating digital games that offe...
Currently, we see an increased focus on the social and environ-mental responsibilities of designers ...
This paper describes a teaching methodology whereby students can gain practical experience of ethica...
There is an increasing awareness of the importance of considering values in the design of technology...
We can see an uprising trend in various initiatives around the world in order to increase awareness ...
Video games have a unique ability to engage, challenge, and motivate, which has led teachers, psycho...
This thesis is about the design values of digital role-playing games. Design values is an underresea...
Designers play an important role in shaping the society and should take responsibility for their act...
The following article considers the case for integrating students’ personal values into the work pro...
Values at Play is a research project investigating how social, moral, and political values can infor...
Can a set of articulated and tested methodologies be created whose endpoint is the reliable capacity...
Significant work in the IT, philosophy, and communications communities has focused on designing syst...
Over the past three decades, youth has been observed to be increasingly disengaged from politics and...
Significant work in the gaming and HCI communities has focused on systems that support human values ...
The vision and aim of this research is to combine digital game design theories with decision-making ...
This chapter introduces critical gameplay design as a technique for creating digital games that offe...
Currently, we see an increased focus on the social and environ-mental responsibilities of designers ...
This paper describes a teaching methodology whereby students can gain practical experience of ethica...
There is an increasing awareness of the importance of considering values in the design of technology...
We can see an uprising trend in various initiatives around the world in order to increase awareness ...
Video games have a unique ability to engage, challenge, and motivate, which has led teachers, psycho...
This thesis is about the design values of digital role-playing games. Design values is an underresea...
Designers play an important role in shaping the society and should take responsibility for their act...
The following article considers the case for integrating students’ personal values into the work pro...