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Gaming Research: Strategies and Resources
a Taxonomy of Means and Ends
Kevin HamiltonAssociate Professor and Program Chair
New Media / School of Art and Design (FAA)
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Gaming Research: Strategies and Resources
as an Engineering Problem growing
Strategy $$$
as non-Engineering Disciplinary Work popular but shrinking
as Trespass or Hack meager, ephemeral
as Parasite meager, sustainable
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Gaming Research as an Engineering Problem
How to efficiently deliver and monetize interfaces to increasingly immersive virtual
spaces
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Gaming Research as an Engineering Problem
Console Gaming
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Gaming Research as an Engineering Problem
Virtual Worlds / MMOG
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Gaming Research as an Engineering Problem
Education and Training
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Gaming Research as an Engineering Problem
Education and Training
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Gaming Research as an Engineering Problem
Pervasive Games
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Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work
Interpretation and critique of games and their impact
Pursuit of disciplinary work within games
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Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work (Fine Art)
Cory Arcangel
Photoshop CS: 110 by 72 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Spectrum", mousedown y=1098 x=1749.9, mouse up y=0 x=4160 (2008)
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Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work (Fine Art)
Brody Condon
after Grunewald
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Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work (Fine Art)
Brody Condon
Twentyfive fold Manifestation
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Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work (Fine Art)
Jon Haddock
Isometric Screenshots
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Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work (Fine Art)
Scalable City
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Gaming Research as Trespass or Hack
Non-monetize-able misuse
Critical tourism
Protest
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Gaming Research as Trespass or Hack
Non-monetizeable Misuse
Radical Software Group
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Gaming Research as Trespass or Hack
Critical Tourism
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Gaming Research as Trespass or Hack
Protest
SimCopter Hack (@rtmark)
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Gaming Research as Trespass or Hack
Protest
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Gaming Research as Trespass or Hack
Protest
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Gaming Research as Parasite
Depends on industry structures for supportand distribution, but income merely covers the
cost of development.
Game as toy, catalyst to marginal ends.
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Gaming Research as Parasite
Elektroplankton
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Gaming Research as Parasite
Flow
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Gaming Research as Parasite
WTF
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Gaming Research as Parasite
Bloom
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Gaming Research as Parasite
Sodaconstructor