Academic Ramblings: Avatar Identification
If you’ve ever played an RPG or really any game that allows you to customize your character you’ve likely shared a similar experience: you go through the sliders and try…
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Jargon Schmargon: Self Determination Theory
Read MoreIn this episode of Jargon Schmargon, we discuss Self-Determination Theory in the context of video game play motivations. Self Determination Theory, or SDT, is something I have talked about in…
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Video Games in a Post-COVID 19 World
Read MoreIn the months since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the general discourse about video games in the public and media seems to have shifted in relation to the uses and effects…
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Games for Change Student Challenge Partnership
Read MoreIn 2021, Take This was invited by Games for Change to create a theme on resilience for its annual Student Challenge. We are proud to partner with this fantastic organization…
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Academic Ramblings: Uses, Gratifications, & Motivations of Game Play
Read MoreThis month’s Jargon Schmargon was about game motivations, which is intimately tied to a theory we use quite a bit in game studies called uses and gratifications. Uses and gratifications…
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