University of Portsmouth (Organisational unit)

Howell, P. (Chair)
Dansey, N. (Member)
Gavin Wade (Member)
Turnbull, T. (Member)
Mark Eyles (Member)
Daniel Mcguire Pinchbeck (Member)
Higgins, M. (Member)
Turnbull, T. (Member)
Limpens, A. (Member)
Uddin, M. J. (Member)
De Lara, L. (Member)

Faculty of Creative & Cultural Industries

Activity: Membership types › Membership of network or group

Description of Activity

The Advanced Games Research Group has been running within the School of Creative Technologies at the University of Portsmouth since 2006.

A key feature of the research group is research-informed practice. The majority of our projects have a significant developmental aspect, with research directly feeding into the design, development, and release of a range of games, both commercial and free.

Period	2006 → …
Held at	University of Portsmouth
Degree of Recognition	International

University of Portsmouth (Organisational unit)

Description of Activity

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Research outputs

Facilitating creativity without restrictions: a pilot implementation of an idea generation game

Shock, horror? first-person gaming, horror, and the art of ludic manipulation

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

A first-hand account of Quicksilva and its part in the birth of the UK games industry, 1981–1982

Story and recall in first person shooters

A systemic domain model for ambient pervasive persuasive games

Postmortem: the Chinese Room's Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Dear Esther: an interactive ghost story built using the Source engine

Ambient Quest: Pirate Moods

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Contextually-ambiguous pervasive games: an exploratory study

Emergently-persuasive games: how players of SF0 persuade themselves

City Block Cats

Mr Munchy

RADiODiTTY

An analysis of persistent non-player characters in the first-person gaming genre 1998-2007: a case for the fusion of mechanics and diegetics

Ambient role playing games: towards a grammar of endlessness

Trigens can't swim: intelligence and intentionality in first person game worlds

A systems approach to play for game design

Pixo's "All-Go!" Rhythm

Ambient games, revealing a route to a world where work is play?

A theoretical framework of ludic knowledge: a case study in disruption and cognitive engagement

Disrupting the player’s schematised knowledge of game components

Outlining a stratified game design research methodology

Epistemological issues in understanding game design, play-experience, and reportage

Schematically disruptive game design

An affordance based model for gameplay

Conscientious objector: pacifism, politics and abusing the player in Doom 3

Entering an age of playfulness where persistent, pervasive ambient games create moods and modify behaviour

Student theses

Disruptive game design: a commercial design and development methodology for supporting player cognitive engagement in digital games

An investigation of ambient gameplay

A grounded theory of emergent benefit in pervasive game experiences