Volume 2, Issue 3: September 2024

In this issue we cover topics of burnout, immersive game techniques, ai and our first technical blog post

August 12, 2024,

Issue

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The Trouble with Burnout

Burnout sadly remains an evergreen topic in the games industry, with the current historic wave of layoffs adding major stress for almost everyone.

Raffael Boccamazzo

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‘Jumping Out from the Pressure of Work and into the Game’

This paper focuses on understanding how players can maximise this effect by strategically leveraging the immersive potential of digital games.

Jonathan Mella, Jo Lacovides, Anna Cox

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Broomrocket

We present Broomrocket, an open source text-to-3D algorithm for 3D concept art.

Sanja Bonic, Janos Bonic, Stefan Schmid

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Feel the Rhythm

The focus of this paper is one specific problem in games accessibility, which is the challenge of providing visually impaired players with access to the rhythm game genre.

Matt Mrazik, Khatib Firas

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Affective Uplift During Video Game Play: A Naturalistic Case Study

Do video games affect players’ well-being? In this case study, we examined 162,325 intensive longitudinal in-game mood reports from 67,328 play sessions of 8,695 players of the popular game PowerWash Simulator.

Matti Vuorre, Nick Ballou, Thomas Hakman

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Performance and Navigation Behavior of using Teleportation in VR First-Person Shooter Games

How the use of teleportation affects the performance and navigation behavior of its users, especially in competitive first-person shooter environments is unknown, yet it could have a significant effect on gameplay design.

Aniruddha Prithul, Hudson Lynam, Eelke Folmer

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What Are the Points of Concern for Players about VR Games

We conduct an in-depth study of 1362 VR games and 484070 reviews on the Steam platform.

Jiong Dong, Kaoru Ota, Mianxiong Dong

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An Empirical Study of VR Head-Mounted Displays Based on VR Games Reviews

We investigate the evolutionary trends of HMDs based on VR games.

Yijun Lu, Kaoru Ota, Mianxiong Dong

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Adventures in avoiding DAIS buffers

Baktash discusses optimizations for Deferred Attribute Interpolation Shading (DAIS).

Baktash Abdollah-Shamshir-saz

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