Loading... attempts to provide a mixed-methods approach to the study of digital games, and therefore invites not only traditional academic papers, but may reprint 'classic' works in the field, as well as provide a forum for machinima, new and open-source innovative code, product reviews, blogs, program descriptions and course outlines for games studies and 'conversations' within and across the trajectories of inquiry and activity that constitute Canadian Games Studies now and into the future.
A print-based and online journal, Loading... publishes empirical, theoretical, and design-based research on the multifaceted, multimodal, interdisciplinary subject of digital games. It invites papers which approach research and scholarship in the field of game studies from its many angles: social, cultural, technical, theoretical, procedural, artistic...
The journal aims to support current and future interdisciplinary, multi-method and multimodal approaches to the study of digital games. Its principal goal is to support both the established and fledgling work of Canadian scholars, to give them a voice on the international scene of game studies, and to establish a uniquely Canadian voice in a field that is currently described as a polarization of perspectives between the United States and Europe. Loading... will support the valuable contribution of Canadian scholarship in directing and shaping this burgeoning field.
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Obtaining Loading...'s Special 2011 Print Issue |
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Vol 6, No 9 (2012)
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Introduction
| Editorial-Issue 9, Volume 6 |
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Jerremie Clyde |
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Guest editor Jerremie Clyde introduces our Spring 2012 issue...
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Dimensions of Design
| Beyond the “Historical” Simulation: Using Theories of History to Inform Scholarly Game Design. |
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Jerremie Clyde, Howard Hopkins, Glenn Wilkinson |
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The authors of this paper present a case for a gamic mode of history that focuses on the construction of the historical narrative via procedural...
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| Designing Digital Games to Teach Road Safety: A Study of Graduate Students’ Experiences |
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Qing Li, Richard Tay, Robert Louis |
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In this paper, we present a framework for designing digital educational games to teach road safety rules specific to Alberta. The framework is...
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Probes and Enquiries
| Playing Attention: The Hermeneutic Problems of Reading Ico Closely |
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Peter Douglas McDonald |
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This article argues that paying attention to the specifics of a videogame involves a difficult problem of interpreting the meaning of repeated...
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| The practical and theoretical implications of flow theory and intrinsic motivation in designing and implementing exergaming in the school environment |
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Dwayne P Sheehan, Larry Katz |
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Helping children develop a positive attitude toward being active for life is a primary objective for physical educators. The cultivation of an...
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| A Comparison of Exergaming Interfaces for Use in Rehabilitation Programs and Research |
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Kazumoto Tanaka, J.R. Parker, Graham Baradoy, Dwayne Sheehan, John R. Holash, Larry Katz |
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Exergames or active video games are video games with interfaces that require active involvement and the exertion of physical force by participants....
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Reflection and Review
| The Dreamcast, Console of the Avant-Garde |
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Nick Montfort, Mia Consalvo |
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We argue that the Dreamcast hosted a remarkable amount of videogame development that went beyond the odd and unusual and is interesting considerd...
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| To Automaticity and Beyond: Narrative Interpretation in Game and Novel |
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Margaret Mackey |
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Common wisdom often posits that game-playing is the enemy of reading, that it offers one of a plethora of “distractions” that seduce people...
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Abstracts
| Abstracts from the 2011 Exergaming Symposium, University of Calgary. |
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Larry Katz, Jerremie Clyde |
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Recent work being conducted on exergaming in the field of Canadian game studies...
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This publication has been generously supported by Simon Fraser University through the Research Opportunities Committee, Faculty of Education and through a serial publications fund grant awarded by the University Publications Committee.
ISSN 1923-2691
