University of Portsmouth (Organisational unit)

Howell, P. (Chair)
Neil Dansey (Member)
Wade, G. (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)

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 → …
Degree of Recognition	International

University of Portsmouth (Organisational unit)

Description of Activity

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Research outputs

Ambient role playing games: towards a grammar of endlessness

Schematically disruptive game design

An affordance based model for gameplay

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

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

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

City Block Cats

Ambient Quest: Pirate Moods

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

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Outlining a stratified game design research methodology

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

Emergently-persuasive games: how players of SF0 persuade themselves

A systemic domain model for ambient pervasive persuasive games

Story and recall in first person shooters

Mr Munchy

RADiODiTTY

Pixo's "All-Go!" Rhythm

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

Contextually-ambiguous pervasive games: an exploratory study

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

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

Disrupting the player’s schematised knowledge of game components

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

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

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

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

A systems approach to play for game design

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

Student theses

A grounded theory of emergent benefit in pervasive game experiences

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

An investigation of ambient gameplay