Video Game Accessibility: A Legal Approach

Using Legal Definitions to Increase the Accessibility of Legal Documents

Access to legal documents has been hampered by the lack of attention for specific user groups accessing such documents. In this article, we focus on one of these user groups (legal professionals), who can benefit from specific types of cross-lingual information retrieval for, e.g., comparative law research. We propose to use legal definitions as anchor points in legal documents. Through the bod...

Repurposing Video Game Software for Musical Expression: A Perceptual Approach

The text exposes a perceptual approach to instrument design and composition, and introduces an instrument that combines acoustic sound, digital sound, and digital image. We explore disparities between human perception and digital analysis as creative material. Because the instrument repurposes software intended to create video games, we establish a distinction between the notion of “flow” in mu...

A Hierarchical MdMC Approach to 2D Video Game Map Generation

In this paper we describe a hierarchical method for procedurally generating 2D game maps using multi-dimensional Markov chains (MdMCs). Our method takes a collection of 2D game maps, breaks them into small chunks and performs clustering to find a set of chunks that correspond to high-level structures (high-level tiles) in the training maps. This set of high-level tiles is then used to re-repres...

Changes in a Service Oriented Enterprise: A Game Theory Approach

Service Oriented Enterprises (SOEs) are subject to constant change and variation. In this paper, the changes are considered from an economic perspective based on service culture notion. Once a change is implemented, the costs of some member services may increase, whereas the costs of some other services may reduce. We construct a game theoretic model trying to capture the possible conflicting i...

Genre and game studies: Toward a critical approach to video game genres