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Game Design and Development: Find articles

This guide is designed for students in the Game Design and Development A.A.S. (Associate in Applied Science) program.

UCNJ Libraries Databases

Link to the UCNJ Libraries Research Guide for Academic Search Premier

ScienceDirect--Domain: Computer Science "is a website which provides subscription-based access to a large database of scientific and medical research. It hosts over 12 million pieces of content from 3,500 academic journals and 34,000 e-books." Subscription database from Elsevier, some titles are freely available in the UCNJ Libraries catalog.

ACM Digital Library Computing Literature MANY VIDEOS in this database (for example searching for computer graphics has about 30,000 video results)  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Watch the 2 videos below for great search tips.

Open Access Sources

Science Online--Computer Science--Game Design

arXiv.org has many useful scientific papers from the computer science field.

CiteSeerX "is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science."

Journals

Computer Graphics World--Articles, review articles and commentary on various aspects of computer graphic modeling and creation. The leading magazine devoted to the broad spectrum of computer graphics technology.

Computers in Entertainment--Features video interviews with leading professionals and research papers on a wide range of theoretical and practical computer applications in the field of entertainment.

Eludamos--Journal for Computer Game Culture

Entertainment Computing--"Entertainment Computing publishes original, peer-reviewed research articles and serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods and tools in all aspects of digital entertainment, new media, entertainment computing, gaming, robotics, toys and applications among researchers, engineers, social scientists, artists and practitioners. Theoretical, technical, empirical, survey articles and case studies are all appropriate to the journal."

Game Studies--The international journal of computer game research

International Journal of Computer Games Technology--Publishes original research on the research and development aspects of games technology covering the whole range of entertainment computing and interactive digital media.

International Journal of Virtual Reality--Dedicated to the cooperative development and application of diverse technologies associated with virtual reality.

Journal of Games Criticism--"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--A Canadian journal about digital game studies.

3D World Magazine--Art and Design Inspiration

Keyword searching in a journal, and doing a journal run

Watch this 3 minute video for tips on how to find journal titles by a keyword search and how to find journals and articles that interest you.

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