Numbers game: How I fell in love with statistics

How I Fell in Love with Japan.

I fell in love at the Dulwich golf club.

How I learned to love the Brits

As a child I grew up in awe of an English accent. That was not unusual for an American because so many movie stars spoke with an English accent. All during my high school and college days I instinctively believed that anyone who spoke with an Oxford or BBC accent was an authority. And even professors and intellectuals who adopted the Harvard version of an English accent held me in awe. Several ...

Q3osc or: How I Learned to Stopworrying and Love the Bomb Game

q3osc is a heavily modified version of the open-sourced ioquake3 gaming engine featuring an integrated Oscpack implementation of Open Sound Control for bi-directional communication between a game server and one or more external audio servers. By combining ioquake3’s internal physics engine and robust multiplayer network code with a full-featured OSC packet manipulation library, the virtual acti...

Why I Love This Online Game: The MMORPG Stickiness Factor

With the rapid growth of the gaming industry, keeping gamers loyal is the quintessential issue. Thus, our paper focuses on loyalty towards Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs). Our study incorporates the social identity theory, the theory of reason of action and gamer emotions into the equation of loyalty. An empirical study of 160 subjects was conducted to test our model. ...