Is the News Cycle “Real”?

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.

Towards a Role-Playing Game Procedural Dungeon Generation Strategy to Help Developing Working Skills

2020 ◽  
pp. 274-296
Author(s):  
Esteban A. Durán-Yañez ◽  
Mario A. Rodríguez-Díaz ◽  
César A. López-Luévano
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
System Thinking ◽  
Procedural Content Generation ◽  
Proposal A ◽  
The Future ◽  
Role Playing Game ◽  
Playing Video Game ◽  
Content Generation

This chapter describes the insights towards a proposal to integrate a procedural content generation strategy in a computer role-playing usable and accessible learning video game for gaining replayability to encourage engagement and motivation in learners. In order to explain the contextual issues of the topic, the chapter includes a discussion on how computer role-playing video games impact the skills considered crucial for the work in the future—abstraction, system thinking, experimentation, and collaboration—emphasizing the importance of usability and accessibility to ensure effectiveness of the proposal. A first approach of a computer role-playing video game is presented to provide an illustrative example. The prototype will serve for future evaluations with people for usability and accessibility.

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

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

scholarly journals The Development of Video Game Enjoyment in a Role Playing Game

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 260-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Wirth ◽  
Fabian Ryffel ◽  
Thilo von Pape ◽  
Veronika Karnowski
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Role Playing Game

Harmonic Chains

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
T. J. Laws-Nicola ◽  
Brent Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Joint Attacks ◽  
Playing Video Game

Omega Quintet (Idea Factory International, 2014), a role-playing video game released for the Sony PlayStation 4, centers around the concept of weaponizing musical entities and apparatuses to combat threats in a dystopian universe. Omega Quintet weaponizes music literally, supernaturally, and economically, both inside and outside of the game narrative. In this article, we interpret these types of weaponization as an extended allegory for consumption. On one level, the surface narrative denotes sound as a murder tool, on another level the player enables violent consumption of these tools, and yet another level reveals the weaponization of agency within a gendered labor market. The story of Omega Quintet is set in a dystopian Japan overrun by monsters known as the BEEP. Protagonist Takt and his childhood friend, Otoha, join an organization that develops special idols known as Verse Maidens to fight the BEEP. Surviving members of humanity provide the fan base for the Verse Maidens. The Verse Maidens depend on fan support to fuel their powers. Battles in Omega Quintet feature an assortment of musical weaponization. Examples include Sound Weapons as the main conduit for physical attacks, Verse Maidens’ unique songs to play during extended attack sequences known as Live Mode, and special joint attacks known as Harmonic Chains. The battles take the commodification of idols to such an extreme that they are simultaneously consumed and used as weapons. Presented as a duality of fragility and strength, beauty and brutality, art and war, the Verse Maidens are consumed in a complex system of cultural and narrative implications.

Playing Chopin

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Gibbons
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Real World ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Frederic Chopin ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Mobile Game ◽  
Role Playing Game

This chapter explores two video games that feature the nineteenth-century pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin as the main character: the Japanese role-playing game Eternal Sonata and the mobile game Frederic: Resurrection of Music. The chapter begins by examining three mythic identities that have shaped audience’s understandings of Chopin and his music and that play a role in Eternal Sonata and Frederic: the salon composer, the Romantic composer, and the Slavic composer. To address the challenges of creating a compelling video game narrative about a real-world composer, both games employ innovative but problematic narrative strategies to transform Chopin into a more stereotypically heroic character. Moreover, both games include his music in ways designed to reinforce its musical greatness and increase the music’s appeal to younger audiences.

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

2014 ◽  
pp. 142-164
Author(s):  
Siu-Lan Tan ◽  
John Baxa ◽  
Matthew P. Spackman
Keyword(s):  
Remote Control ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Repeated Measures Design ◽  
Orientation Session ◽  
Multisensory Cues ◽  
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.

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

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siu-Lan Tan ◽  
John Baxa ◽  
Matthew P. Spackman
Keyword(s):  
Remote Control ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Repeated Measures Design ◽  
Orientation Session ◽  
Multisensory Cues ◽  
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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