Starting out as a minor form of amusement, the game industry has become one of the most lucrative andsuccessful in the entertainment business competing against giants such as television, movies and music.As the internal competition within the developer community grows companies work hard at discoveringnew ways to attract and keep customers. By having a playcentric approach focusing on user experiencethey hope to achieve that goal. This thesis describes the process of designing a game with focus on theplayer. We apply the concept of flow on game development and investigate through research throughdesign if we are able to create a game that keeps the player in flow.Play tests showed several elements such as control issues and too difficult challenges early in the game,affecting the possibility for players to experience flow while playing. These negative factors came to becalled flowleakers.

The objective of this project was to develop an application for mobile phones using the Android operating system. The main goal was, with the help of GPS, to pinpoint locations, measure distance traveled and illustrate the progress on a map. Functionalities for just showing the map, fetching addresses and saving to a database was also implemented. The result of the work was a proper application, called MeasureApp, that fulfills the goals set in the planning stages of the project. MeasureApp can be used to measure distances where accuracy is not a main factor, i.e walks or runs.

In this study we examine how much latency is required in an RTS-game (Real-Time Strategy) before the player quits the game. In the study latency is simulated in the games Age of Mythology and Starcraft: Brood War with the program WANem, and then the testplayers are asked ?Do you want to quit because of latency??. This data is then gathered and compiled into graphs to show the results. These results show that the limit for when players want to quit differs between the two games and that there are two factors that play into this.

Denna artikel är inriktad mot att integrera Facebook med Android applikationer. Artikeln kommer att hjälpa personer som försöker att integrera sin applikation med Facebook. De lösningar som jag tar upp är grundläggande för att integrera Facebook med Android med sättet jag valde för att utföra dessa lösningar är anpassade till applikationen ?MyWorld?, men kan även anpassas till vilken applikation som helst beroende på hur man vill att sin applikation ska se ut. Målet med arbetet var att ersätta vissa funktioner i MyWorld med Facebook, som till exempel inloggning, registrering och vän hantering.

Vi beskriver i denna rapport hur vi, som två studenter vidÖrebro universitet, utvecklade ett nätverksbaserat action-spel för datorer i Windows-miljösomsedanvarmed ochtävladei nordens största spelutvecklar-tävling, Swedish Game Awards. I spelet,som vi döpt till Battle of Life, tar sig spelaren an en farlig och oförlåtande värld och måste slåss mot andra spelareför att överleva. Vi förklarar i denna rapport hur vi, under tio veckors tid,utvecklar ett spel från grundenoch vilka verktyg och metoder vi använde oss av för att genomföra uppgiften. Vi beskriver projektets mot-och framgångar samt hur vi löste de problem vi komi kontakt med under utveklingens gång.Vi går in djupare på varför vi gjordevissa designbeslut och hur de påverkade vårt slutliga resultat.Avslutningsvis diskuterarviom utveklingsprocessen och spelets eventuella framtid, både från vårt eget perspektivsom utvecklaremen även från ett samhällsenligt perspektiv..

Denna rapport är inriktad på batteribesparing för platsbaserade applikationer i Android. Rapporten kommer att analysera och ge konkreta förslag på hur man på ett batterisnålt sätt implementerar lokalisering av Androidenhetersgeografiska position (latitud- och longitudkordinater) samt frekvent hämtning av data via HTTP från en back-end server. De lösningar som tas upp i den här rapporten är specifikt tillämpade för applikationen MyWorld men kan anpassas för vilken platsbaserad applikationen som helst med liknande behov. Målet är att förbättra och optimera utvalda områden som tidigare implementerats i den här applikationen. De nya optimerade lösningarna har genomgått två olika testscenarion där mätningarna visar att batteriförbrukningen har reducerats med 4,2% för applikationen då den aktivt körs och används samt 14,8% för applikationen då den är icke aktiv och enheten inte aktivt används..

To have motivated employees is important for companies so that they are able to keep valuable competence within the organization. This report treats a relatively new concept for increasing the motivation of employees. It is however, a concept that gets more and more attention. It is called gamification.Gamification is defined as ?using game design elements in non-gaming contexts?, i.e.

This study examines the players experience, environments and objects in the videogame World of Warcraft. The purpose of this study is to get more knowledge about the players experience in the game with the focus on factors contributing to some form of immersion or/and presence. The data for this study were gathered using interviews as method and then analyzed with relevant literature in the chosen field. A game content analysis and a group of questions are tested with the results of the study which is presented at the end in with an analytic discussion. .

The Squares Family is a game developed as a learning aid in mathematics. With its graphical representation of the decimal system, the four basic arithmetic operations and positive and negative numbers together with a learning agent as pedagogical approach, the game?s primary purpose is to motivate students in their learning of mathematics. Although the game is strictly based on mathematical rules it attempts to encourage students to play and work with math without experiencing it as mathematics as this is initially not obvious. The game being internationally tested on normal performing students, this project introduced the game to six Swedish students who experience low motivation for and/or difficulties in mathematics.

This work aims to improve our knowledge about Swedish video game journalists, a new occupation in a quickly expanding business. Through a survey sent out to over 50 Swedish video game journalists, the result indicate some unexpected facts. Men largely dominate the profession; just 10 % of the work forces are females. This relation was notable in our survey, as well as in earlier studies. Video game journalists between 26 and 35 years old seems to be the largest age group, which we think is a bit surprising considering how new this form of journalism is, and the fact the internet provides opportunities for every enthusiastic video game writer.

The objective of this thesis is to examine the capital structure of Swedish small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Accounting data from Swedish game developers, combined with the result from a survey, is used to examine their financial conditions and capital structure decisions. We find that non-debt tax shield, firm size, growth opportunities and age are, to various extents, the determinants of capital structure in the game industry, while effective tax rate and asset structure have marginal effects. Our study also implicates that most of the existing capital structure theories can explain SMEs leverage decisions to some extent; however, some adaptation is needed to fit these theories into the SME context. Additionally, we find the existence of a financial gap in the game industry which might need efforts from both demand side and supply side to eliminate..

Genom att använda ett multiplattformsutvecklingsverktyg kan utvecklare distribuera applikationer till flera olika plattformar. Problemet är att dessa verktyg inte är lika välanvända eller dokumenterade som de dedikerade (t.ex. Android SDK) och det kan vara svårt för enskilda utvecklare eller företag att veta vilket verktyg de ska välja. Efter en grundlig kartläggning av flera multiplattformsutvecklingsverktyg valdes slutligen Corona SDK och PhoneGap ut för vidare utvärdering. Utvärderingen utfördes genom att skapa en applikation som sparar, raderar och visar noter i båda verktygen liknande en utvecklad med Android SDK.

Syftet med detta projekt ar att undersoka mojligheten attkommunicera med en militar GPS-mottagare via serieportsgranssnittetRS-232 fran en mobil enhet. Malet ar att endastanvanda existerande hardvara som inte kraver att enhetensfasta programvara eller operativsystem byts ut. Smarttelefoneroch pekplattor har blivit allt vanligare och de erbjuderi regel hogre grad av barbarhet och battre batteritidan traditionella barbara datorer, samtidigt som derasberakningskapacitet ar likvardig. De tva storsta systemenpa marknaden idag ar Android och iOS. Jag valde darforatt undersoka deras mojligheter att anslutas till kringutrustninggenom RS-232.

This bachelor´s thesis analyzes the video game Red Dead Redemption and the historical use of the environment and atmosphere in the game. The theory and method used is media research and social memory studies. Two questions were asked: how does Red Dead Redemeption convey and produce the historical environment and the historical atmosphere. Furthermore subqueries/criterias were used to help answer the main questions.The analysis was divided into two parts, the first part we analyze and discuss the games historical environment and the second part analyzes and discusses the historical atmosphere of the game.The conclusion is that both the historical environment and the historical atmosphere is present in the game through picture and sound, the text only works as a guide. The picture and sound live in a symbiotic relationship and depend on each other to fully immerse the player to the game.

The aim of this studyhas been to capture preschool children's strategies, when they include and exclude each other in play. My aim was also to find out how children choose to integrate into an already existing game. My questions were: What strategies are used by the children at the preschool when they want to exclude or include each other? How to integrate the children when they want to be involved in an ongoing game and how they will be received during the time of play? My theoretical starting points are from Vygotsky's theory of proximal development zone, and Michel Foucault's perspective on power, and also research on the subject.The empirical study was conducted using the observations at two preschools. The children I observed were between four to five years old.The results show that children used different strategies, and when the strategy did not work so the child could switch to another.