http://www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net A Resource for Game Studies & Game Design Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:20:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An update after a long while, in case visitors still stumble upon this blog: After some year and a half at ITU in Copenhagen, I will be returning to Helsinki, Finland, to work full-time on the design and development of social games. This fits perfectly with my recent research focus, ... http://www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net/g2/2009/12/17/social-games-design-book-projects/ About a year after my defense, VDM Publishing from Germany approached me about publishing the dissertation - and here, after a couple of months, it is, fresh out of print. Here's a couple of links to Amazon: Amazon UK Amazon US http://www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net/g2/2009/05/19/available-in-print/ I'm about to start 'Stargazing at Game Designs', a newly inspired blog that will be available for your intellectual pleasure in both written and spoken form. http://www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net/g2/2008/11/28/update-your-bookmarks-feeds-to-mygamestudiescom/ I'm glad to say that I have accepted the position of Assistant Professor in Computer Game Design at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. I will be joining many long-time colleagues in the Computer Games Research Group from the start of September. This means that I will have a chance ... http://www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net/g2/2008/08/05/moving-to-itu/ I am in the process of directing my energy into other sites and projects. First of all, I started an ad hoc project about Grand Theft Auto IV. My aim is to blog through the experience of playing the game, which would then produce one type of detailed reading of ... http://www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net/g2/2008/05/10/gta-iv-project/ As promised earlier, here is the opening speech from my defense: ’All Rules Lead to Players’ by Aki Järvinen Lectio Praecursoriae, University of Tampere, Finland March 8th, 2008 Dear custodian, dear opponent, ladies and gentlemen. It is my task to open this event by speaking to you about my work, to be defended here today. I ... http://www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net/g2/2008/03/25/all-rules-lead-to-players-defense-speech/ It's me, my Professor Mikko Lehtonen, and my esteemed opponent Jesper Juul, giving his closing remarks of my 'hugely ambitious work, which puts a stake in the ground for game studies' :) I have levelled up!! I will post my opening speech, 'lectio', from the defense in the coming days. Then ... http://www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net/g2/2008/03/12/defense-over/ After close to 10 years of post-graduate studies, on and off, my thesis has been published in the electronic series of the University of Tampere. A link and an abstract can be found here: Games without Frontiers: Theories and Methods for Game Studies and Design This means that I will remove ... http://www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net/g2/2008/02/22/thesis-published/ I'm happy to say that my work on emotions and games reached seventh at the list of 'top ten research findings from academic game studies from the previous calendar year', presented by fellow scholars at GDC. Meanwhile, my final thesis version will appear as an electronic publication at the University ... http://www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net/g2/2008/02/21/7-at-the-game-studies-download-30/ During the coming weekend, I hope to correct the errata and maybe do a couple of structural changes before I'll send the package to my opponent. After that, I will try to find time for writing two book proposals based on the manuscript. Meanwhile, I try to gather forces and ... http://www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net/g2/2007/12/03/finalizing-the-phd/