Collaborative and Cooperative Games: Facts and Assumptions
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
Collaboration and cooperation are fundamental activities and processes for humans. There has been a recent rise in the interest in collaborative and cooperative processes in several fields of study and an increasing popularity of commercial collaborative games. In this paper, we aim to identify how are collaboration and cooperation processes studied and promoted in the field of game research, with emphasis in digital games. To that end, we systematically analyzed two sets of data: academic publications on collaborative games and reviews of commercial collaborative games. From this examination, we acknowledge the important relationship between games and the cultural context, and we identify three main areas of study for this type of games (learning environments, interaction, and in-gameplay experience), which serve as a landscape for the investigation on collaborative and cooperative games.
Recommended Citation
Sedano, C. Islas; Carvalho, M. B.; Secco, N.; and Longstreet, C. Shaun, "Collaborative and Cooperative Games: Facts and Assumptions" (2013). Center for Teaching and Learning Research and Publications. 14.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/ctl_leadership/14
Comments
Published as part of the proceedings of the conference, 2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2013: 370-376. DOI.