Reading 03

 

(image taken from RefWorks of my 4 readings)

This week for my reading that I had to find and select 4 academic papers on my topic, dimensions of a game world. I searched through quite a few papers and found 4 that I would focus on this week and saved them in RefWorks. I made sure to read the abstracts and conclusions so that the papers are relevant to my topic.

I'm still finding it a little difficult to find some suitable papers but the ones I've found so far are similar enough to what I'm looking for. They are:
  • Defining the Physical Dimension of a Game Setting - Ernest Adams Gamasutra
  • Dimensions of video game behavior and their relationships with personality - Narnia C Worth, Angela S Book
  • The Geology of Minecraft - Georg Kleinschmidt
  • Authoring Adaptive Game World Generation - Ricardo Lopes, Elmar Eisemann and Rafael Bidarra
I went through these 4 papers highlighting what I found to be important and commenting the main points I took from the papers. I then got started on an annotated bibliography and summarized my main points from the 4 papers. It took me quite a while to get the hang of it but I'm slowly getting more used to it until hopefully I'll fly through this process in the future!

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