This is video game play: video games, authority and metacommunication

This is video game play: video games, authority and metacommunication

Gregory Bateson claims that all play acts should be primarily understood as meta-communicative. In other words, playing a game implies being able to transmit and receive the metamessage ‘this is play’, which establishes a psychological frame among the players. I will propose a radical reading of Bateson’s theory in the context of video games; specifically, I will attempt at analysing the charac...

The Effect of Video Game Play Technique on Pain of Venipuncture in Children

Background The present study was designed and conducted to determine the effect of video game play on pain of venipuncture in 3-6 year-old children. Materials and Methods This randomized controlled trial study was conducted on 80 hospitalized children with pain of venipuncture procedures. Playing a video computer game for children during the venipuncture procedures was the intervention for the ...

This is your brain on violent video games: Neural desensitization to violence predicts increased aggression following violent video game exposure

Learning to Play 2D Video Games

Our goal in this project is to implement a machine learning system which learns to play simple 2D video games. More specifically, we focus on the problem of building a system that is capable of learning to play a variety of different games well, rather than trying to build a system that can play a single game perfectly. We begin by encoding individual video frames using features that capture th...

Play Education Video Games on Their Terms

It is imperative when utilizing educational video games in K-12 classrooms that student preferences with regard to game play, purpose, and design be considered in order to maximize game play efficiency for learning. As Web 2.0 content infiltrates our educational medium, student customization is key. This manuscript intends to share customization requests gleaned during an 18-week experimental s...