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Game Design and Development

A guide to Game Design Art and Game Design Engineering resources

Journals and Articles

Databases

A multidisciplinary database of periodicals and scholarly journal publications, especially useful for current-affairs research.

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Encyclopedias

Discover encyclopedia articles, full-text journal and magazine articles, primary sources, multimedia, and other unique resources and tools.

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The full 26-volume digital edition of the World Book Encyclopedia. A great place to start for general, well-researched information such as: biographies, geography and maps, animal anatomy, politics, and history. Includes rich multimedia content.

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Open Access Journals

A journal dedicated to the academic and popular study of games containing a substantial analog component.

An open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on serious games applications, serious games technology, serious games analytics, user experience design and more. The journal publishes research articles, review articles, commentaries, editorials, technical articles, and short communications with a biannual frequency.

A non-profit, open-access, crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research. Their primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games.

A non-profit, peer-reviewed, open-access journal which strives to be a producer of feed-forward approaches to video games criticism with a focus on influencing gamer culture, the design and writing of video games, and the social understanding of video games and video games criticism.

Loading: The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association is a forum for publishing original and interdisciplinary academic research on video games. They accept work from a variety of perspectives: from research on video game cultures and industries to educational approaches to the study and development of digital games, and from computer science driven papers on designing and testing games to psychological research on video games and their effects.