Understanding video game developers as an occupational community

Online Community Building Techniques Used by Video Game Developers

Online fan communities are an important element in the market success of a videogame, and game developers have begun to recognize the importance of fostering online communities associated with their games. In this paper we report on a study that investigated the techniques used by game developers to maintain and promote online communities within and around their games. We found that game develo...

Video Games: A New Interface for Non-Professional Game Developers

New environments and technologies allow nonprofessional users to produce and share media content in a variety of environments. One such environment is video games. This paper describes Virtuoso, a multi-user programming environment built using Valve's Source engine that functions as a tool to allow non-professional users to create interactive educational video games.

Understanding the Video Bloggers' Community

Aussie women game developers

Women are underrepresented in the digital games industry all over the world. In Australia, women’s level of contribution to game development is much lower than the USA, Canada, and UK. Reviewing literature from the areas of computer science, information technology, and digital games, this study focuses on the impact of social, structural and cultural aspects, and how these factors might influen...

Understanding Developers’ Needs on Deprecation as a Language Feature

Deprecation is a language feature that allows API producers to mark a feature as obsolete. We aim to gain a deep understanding of the needs of API producers and consumers alike regarding deprecation. To that end, we investigate why API producers deprecate features, whether they remove deprecated features, how they expect consumers to react, and what prompts an API consumer to react to deprecati...