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Tag: Research

20 - Making Games Accessible for Everyone

Eelke Folmer is a promi­nent game researcher, con­cerned with game acces­si­bil­ity at the University of Nevada, Reno. At the Games For Health Conference 2009, he gave a talk about his areas of research and an intro­duc­tion to game acces­si­bil­ity in gen­eral. His argu­ment is that games as a major force of cul­ture should not exclude dis­abled indi­vid­u­als from [...]

17 - Creativity Techniques for Game Design and Game Idea Generation

Annakaisa Kultima is a game designer, game researcher, and very cre­ative per­son, who works at the Game Research Lab of the Finnish University of Tampere. She focuses among other things on game idea gen­er­a­tion with dig­i­tal games. She uses gen­eral lat­eral think­ing and idea engi­neer­ing approaches to develop game spe­cific ideas (sim­i­lar to the German company [...]