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Game History Annual Symposium – Montreal, June 27-28

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Pleased to announce the upcoming Game History Annual Symposium to be held June 27 & 28, 2014 at Grande Bibliothèque, Montréal, 475, boulevard De Maisonneuve Est, Montréal, QC.
The 2014 edition of the symposium features panels on the many communities and social practices that define the history of video games: the role of engineers, game designers and store owners, the retro gaming phenomenon, user generated content, marginal themes and the place of minorities, etc. It is …

Social Network Games Research & Results

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For the last two years, Mia Consalvo and I have been doing research on social network games and families, and Mia and Irene Serrano have been working on SNG’s and cheating (predominantly Facebook at the moment). We have each presented our work at different conferences, and (finally) published the results of our work – references and links below for anyone interested =)
Pre-print Journal articles:
Boudreau, K., & Consalvo, M. (2014). Families and social network games. Information, Communication & …

Montreal International Games Summit – Day 2

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The second day at MiGS was pretty good. I attended a session called “Every Click Counts” by David Sirling. Following the idea that the less clicks a player has to make to enter (or play) a game, the better – more engaging/interactive – the player experience will be. The bulk of the presentation was pre-recorded demonstrations of games that had too many clicks (Resident Evil 5, Burnout) in comparison to examples of games that had …

Montréal International Games Summit – Day 1

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After getting a late start heading out the door this morning, and a few bureaucratic glitches upon registration, I am happy to report that I attended a full afternoon of interesting sessions, had a few good conversations and drank lots of coffee. I tried my best to take some notes and thought I would share what I did manage to write down.