Effects of Built-in Audio versus Unrelated Background Music on Performance in an Adventure Role-Playing Game

This article presents an empirical study of the role of video game audio on performance. Twenty participants played The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Wii console for a 45-minute session on five consecutive days. Employing a repeated measures design, the authors exposed players to one orientation session and four sound conditions, i.e., silence, remote control sounds, remote control and screen sounds, and unrelated music played on a boom-box, in a counterbalanced order. Performance was weakest when playing without sound, increasingly stronger with audio emitted by remote control only, and by remote-and-screen respectively. Surprisingly, the highest scores were earned when playing with music that was unrelated to players’ actions or events unfolding on screen. These findings point to the challenges of processing multisensory cues during the initial stages of an elaborate role-playing game, and suggest that the most effective players swiftly develop strategies incorporating task-relevant information conveyed by both sound and images.

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PENERAPAN FINITE STATE MACHINE UNTUK PENGENDALIAN ANIMASI PADA VIDEO GAME RPG NUSANTARA LEGACY

Jurnal Sistem Komputer Musirawas (JUSIKOM) ◽

10.32767/jusikom.v3i1.251 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Mustofa Mustofa ◽

Sidiq Sidiq ◽

Eva Rahmawati

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Video Game ◽

Finite State Machine ◽

Role Playing ◽

State Machine ◽

Game Development ◽

Development Life Cycle ◽

Finite State ◽

Role Playing Game

Perkembangan dunia yang dinamis mendorong percepatan perkembangan teknologi dan informasi. Dengan dorongan tersebut komputer yang dulunya dibuat hanya untuk membantu pekerjaan manusia sekarang berkembang menjadi sarana hiburan, permainan, komunikasi dan lain sebagainya. Dalam sektor hiburan salah satu industri yang sedang menjadi pusat perhatian adalah industri video game. Begitu banyaknya produk video game asing yang masuk ke dalam negeri ini memberikan tantangan kepada bangsa ini. Tentunya video game asing yang masuk ke negara ini membawa banyak unsur kebudayaan negara lain. Ini semakin membuat kebudayaan nusantara semakin tergeserkan dengan serangan kebudayaan asing melalui berbagai media. Maka dari itu peneliti mencoba untuk menerapkan Finite State Machine dalam merancang sebuah video game RPG (Role-Playing game) yang memperkenalkan kebudayaan. Dalam perancangan video game ini peneliti menggunakan metode GDLC(Game Development Life Cycle) agar penelitian ini berjalan secara sistematis. Dalam suatu perancangan video game tedapat banyak elemen, pada penelitian ini penulis lebih fokus pada pengendalian animasi karakter yang dimainkan pada video game ini. Dari perancangan yang dilakukan, disimpulkan bahwa Finite State Machine dapat digunakan untuk pengendalian animasi yang baik pada video game RPG. Diharapkan video game ini dapat menjadi salah satu media untuk mengenalkan kebudayaan nusantara

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Individuele verschillen in graaigedrag

Gedrag & Organisatie ◽

10.5117/2007.020.004.005 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Maaike Jongenelen ◽

Roos Vonk

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

High Power ◽

Role Playing ◽

Value Orientation ◽

Social Value ◽

Social Value Orientation ◽

Equal Share ◽

Power Scale ◽

Role Playing Game

Individual differences in money-grabbing: The role of entitlement, social value orientation, and misuse of power Individual differences in money-grabbing: The role of entitlement, social value orientation, and misuse of power M. Jongenelen & R. Vonk, Gedrag & Organisatie, volume 20, November 2007, nr. 4, pp. 369-381 This research investigates the role of individual differences in money-grabbing. Feelings of entitlement, high scores on the Misuse of Power scale and a pro-self focus were expected to lead to grabbing behaviour in high-power individuals. While playing a manager in a role-playing game, participants had the opportunity to grab more valuable points then their equal share. Results showed that pro-self participants grabbed more than pro-socials. Among the pro-self participants, feelings of entitlement led to higher Misuse of Power scores which, in turn, led to more grabbing. Entitlement en Misuse of Power had no effect on grabbing in pro-socials. It is concluded that power does not corrupt absolutely: Individual differences predict how a powerful person will behave. Implications for business settings are dealt with in the discussion.

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Experiments and experimental designs in psychology The role of experiments in gathering evidence – demonstrating cause and effect; Alternative explanations; Features of the true experiment; Simple experimental designs (Independent samples design, Repeated measures design, Matched-pairs design); Single participant or small n design

Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology ◽

10.4324/9780203769669-6 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 66-90

Keyword(s):

Repeated Measures ◽

Experimental Designs ◽

Matched Pairs ◽

Cause And Effect ◽

Repeated Measures Design ◽

Small N ◽

True Experiment

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The Right Kind Of Telling

International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations ◽

10.4018/ijgcms.2015040101 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 1-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

David Hatfield

Keyword(s):

Network Analysis ◽

Role Playing ◽

Learning Gains ◽

Professional Experiences ◽

Epistemic Games ◽

Epistemic Frame ◽

Role Playing Game ◽

The Right ◽

Virtual Internship

Epistemic network analysis provides a useful method for measuring the development of meaningful skills and ways of thinking for participants in epistemic games. This study compares the development of an epistemic frame in a journalism epistemic game, science.net, a role-playing game modeled on authentic journalism practice in which students take on the role of journalists and interact with fellow students and mentors, with a professional journalism practicum. Analyzing the discourse produced by both the game and the practicum through epistemic network analysis (ENA) shows how the virtual internship produced the same type of mentor feedback as the professional practicum on which it was modeled. Players also were able to learn different aspects of journalistic professional expertise as a result of playing the game, and these learning gains continued to be present months after the game was over. Participants in both the simulation and practicum demonstrated significant increases in journalism performance as measured through ENA. Epistemic games, like science.net, have the potential to reproduce key training practices of professional experiences and develop the components of epistemic frames of particular communities. ENA is a valuable tool for assessing the ability of epistemic games to produce these results.

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The Development of Video Game Enjoyment in a Role Playing Game

Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking ◽

10.1089/cyber.2012.0159 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 260-264 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Werner Wirth ◽

Fabian Ryffel ◽

Thilo von Pape ◽

Veronika Karnowski

Keyword(s):

Video Game ◽

Role Playing ◽

Role Playing Game

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Is the News Cycle “Real”?

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Media Fandom - Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3323-9.ch015 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 270-286

Author(s):

Emory S. Daniel, Jr. ◽

Gregory P. Perreault ◽

Michael G Blight

Keyword(s):

Video Game ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Daily Life ◽

Role Playing ◽

Polling Systems ◽

Setting Process ◽

Role Playing Game ◽

Playing Video Game

This chapter features a game from the Shin Megami Tensei series called Persona 5. This chapter examines how the case of role playing video game Persona 5 depicts agenda setting through the use of an in-game audience-oriented polling systems and comment system in order to understand to a greater degree the ways in which games contribute to our understanding of media processes and explores the idea of fandom as integral to the agenda setting process. The case chapter addressed in this manuscript represents a unique narrative featuring a daily life simulator, a turn-based Japanese role-playing game (JRPG), and complex in-game media vehicles to drive the story.

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Experiments and experimental designs in psychology The role of experiments in gathering evidence – demonstrating cause and effect; Alternative explanations; IVs, DVs and features of the true experiment; Simple experimental designs; Participant variables and non-equivalent groups; Repeated measures design, Matched-pairs design; Single participant and small n design

Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology ◽

10.4324/9780203769836-11 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 77-103

Keyword(s):

Repeated Measures ◽

Experimental Designs ◽

Matched Pairs ◽

Cause And Effect ◽

Repeated Measures Design ◽

Small N ◽

True Experiment

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Effect of Manipulated State Aggression on Pain Tolerance

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/16.02.20.pr0.111.4.311-321 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 111 (1) ◽

pp. 311-321 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Richard Stephens ◽

Claire Allsop

Keyword(s):

Video Game ◽

Repeated Measures ◽

Emotional Response ◽

Pain Perception ◽

Cold Pressor ◽

Underlying Mechanism ◽

Pain Tolerance ◽

First Person ◽

Repeated Measures Design ◽

First Person Shooter

Swearing produces a pain lessening (hypoalgesic) effect for many people; an emotional response may be the underlying mechanism. In this paper, the role of manipulated state aggression on pain tolerance and pain perception is assessed. In a repeated-measures design, pain outcomes were assessed in participants asked to play for 10 minutes a first-person shooter video game vs a golf video game. Sex differences were explored. After playing the first-person shooter video game, aggressive cognitions, aggressive affect, heart rate, and cold pressor latency were increased, and pain perception was decreased. These data indicate that people become more pain tolerant with raised state aggression and support our theory that raised pain tolerance from swearing occurs via an emotional response.

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Effect of Role-Inducing Instructions on Performance on a New Test of Creative Thinking

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1970.27.3.919 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 919-924

Author(s):

Alan D. Price

Keyword(s):

Repeated Measures ◽

Creative Thinking ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Validity Data ◽

Repeated Measures Design ◽

Instructional Set

The Modified Bennett Test (MBT) is briefly described and preliminary reliability and validity data are provided by a report of the results of a study in which it was used to test the effects of role-inducing instructions on creative thinking. Ss came for 2 sessions in which they were given an instructional set to assume the role of either an unregulated character or a regulated character. Subsequent to the role-inducing instructions, Ss responded to half of the items of the MBT. The role-inducing instructions and the items of the MBT were counterbalanced in a repeated measures design with each S serving as his own control. It was hypothesized that the responses given in the unregulated condition would, in general, be more creative than those given in the regulated condition. The hypothesis was confirmed.

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