Integrating Physical Card Games with Digital Video Games through RFID Tagging

Integrating Stereoscopic Video in 3D Games

Recent advances in commercial technology increase the use of stereoscopy in games. While current applications display existing games in realtime rendered stereoscopic 3D, future games will also feature S3D video as part of the virtual game world, in interactive S3D movies, or for new interaction methods. Compared to the rendering of 2D video within a 3D game scene, displaying S3D video includes...

Axioms for card games

We axiomatize two di erent game states for card games, the state where cards have been dealt over players but where they haven't picked up their cards from the table yet, and the state where they have picked up their cards. The rst is mainly interesting for its use in indirect description proofs. The second is extensively illustrated by the example of three players and three cards. We prove tha...

Digital games in medical education:Key terms, concepts, and definitions

Background: Game-based education is fast becoming a key instrument in medical education. Method: In this study, papers related to games were filtered and limited to full-text peer-reviewed published in English. Results: To the best of researchers’ knowledge, the concepts used in the literature are varied and distinct, and the literature is not conclusive on the definition of educational...

Virtual environmental enrichment through video games

Motivation, Engagement and Learning through Digital Games

Digital games can be powerful learning environments because they encourage active learning and participation within “affinity groups” (Gee, 2004). However, the use of games in formal educational environments is not always successful (O’Neil et al., 2005). There is a need to update existing theories of motivation and engagement in order to take recent game-related developments into account. Unde...