Game Design Publications

Publications in Game Design

Explore the most influential research papers and scholarly works that have shaped Game Design. Use the concept filter below to focus on a specific sub-area of research.

Game Design

29.5K

Publications

1.6M

Citations

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	Year	Citations
Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge David Silver, Julian Schrittwieser, Karen Simonyan, Nature Artificial IntelligenceGame AiCognitive ScienceEngineeringReward Hacking	2017	9K
Evolution and the Theory of Games John Maynard Smith Evolutionary Game TheoryMechanism DesignGame TheoryBusinessStatic Game Theory	1988	8K
From game design elements to gamefulness Sebastian Deterding, Dan Dixon, Rilla Khaled, Video Game DevelopmentEngineeringAlternate Reality GamesOnline GamingPervasive Game	2011	7.5K
What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy Education + Training Video Game DevelopmentGame TheoryEducationSimulation Video GameVideo Games	2004	6.7K
What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy James Paul Gee Computers in entertainment Video Game DevelopmentGame TheoryEducationSimulation Video GameVideo Games	2003	5.4K
Evolutionary games and spatial chaos Martin A. Nowak, Robert M. May Nature Evolutionary Game TheoryEvolution StrategySpatial ChaosEvolutionary BiologyGame Theory	1992	4.4K
Beware of q2! Alexander Golbraikh, Alexander Tropsha Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling EngineeringQuantum ComputingPost-quantum CryptographyLight-weight Linux DistributionHuman-computer Interaction	2002	3.6K
How to play ANY mental game Oded Goldreich, Silvio Micali, Avi Wigderson Game AiNeuropsychologyEngineeringGame TheoryCognition	1987	3.5K
A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play David Silver, Thomas Hubert, Julian Schrittwieser, Science Artificial IntelligenceAlphago Zero ProgramGame AiEngineeringGame Theory	2018	3.4K
Reexamination of the perfectness concept for equilibrium points in extensive games Reinhard Selten International Journal of Game Theory Equilibrium PointsMechanism DesignRepeated GameNon-cooperative Game TheoryPerfectness Concept	1975	3.3K
Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning Oriol Vinyals, I. Babuschkin, Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, Nature Artificial IntelligenceGame AiMulti-agent Reinforcement LearningEngineeringGame Theory	2019	3.3K
Two-Person Cooperative Games John C. Nash Econometrica Cooperation TheoryNegotiationNegotiation TheoryGame TheoryTwo-person Cooperative Games	1953	3.2K

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