جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "بازی های دیجیتال" در نشریات گروه "علوم اجتماعی"

By becoming a cultural industry and having the possibility of conveying the message and concept and educational function, digital games require more serious attention in the field of policy-making. The current research aims to identify the effective factors and discover the challenges related to the consumption policies regarding digital games in the country in order to properly face the consumption in this industry. Qualitative method was used to conduct this research. The research was conducted in such a way that after conducting an in-depth interview with fourteen experts, we used the thematic analysis of the network approach to analyze the data. By analyzing the data, the type and manner of policy making, the player's access method, the formulation of intellectual property laws and its executive guarantee, and maintaining the rights of users as components; the inadequacy of existing policies, the quality of foreign products, the monotony of Metaverse products, and the lack of a final trustee and authority in the field of consumption monitoring as challenges; and digital games’ literacy, scientific exploitation of this industry and more integrated policymaking were identified as solutions in digital game’s consumption policy-making

Today, digital games have become a comprehensive, wealth-creating and culture-oriented industry and have been able to establish their position as an industry/art media and in fact the eighth art by using technical and artistic elements, psychology and sociology. As a cultural and creative industry, the digital games industry has also had a significant impact on the economy, culture and education. This study was conducted with the aim of identifying the challenges and local development strategies of this industry in Iran. In this research, by collecting library data, conducting in-depth and structured interviews, and using the thematic analysis method, the local development challenges of this industry, as well as solutions to overcome these obstacles, were identified and extracted, and in the next stages, these factors were reduced and categorized the basic, organizing, and all-encompassing topics and. Finally, the mentioned factors were evaluated and refined by analysis of the opinions of industry experts. The lack of knowledge of game makers in the field of issues related to production management and game project management were identified as the main challenges, and on the other hand, networking and attracting the participation of existing elements in digital games, empowering and developing the capabilities of game-maker experts, and also strengthening the supervisory and developmental responsibilities of governmental and regulatory institutions, were defined and classified as the most important policies for the development of digital games.

Digital games, also known as computer-based games, are one of the most popular areas of cyberspace. In a more modern conceptualization, they are viewed as a type of digital entertainment in which players interact with a digital interface and face different types of challenges based on the game design. The global market for computer-based games has experienced significant growth in recent years, with the projected market size for the industry expected to reach $129.93 billion by 2030. In Iran, the gaming population is estimated to be around 34 million people, with 59% of gamers being men and 41% being women. This indicates a significant potential for growth in the Iranian market for computer-based games. According to a survey conducted by our study, the average age of gamers is 23 years old, with 96% of them playing on smartphones, 25% playing on home video game consoles, and 19% playing on computers. Additionally, a study involving students found that 55% of them are computer-based game gamers, and the ratio of male to female gamers is nearly equal. In the literature, the relationship between computer-based games and physical, psychological, social, educational, cognitive, rehabilitation, and therapeutic benefits has been extensively investigated and confirmed. Thus, computer-based games are deemed to be of significant importance.

In this study, a systematic review of research in the field of digital and computer-based video games was conducted to examine the characteristics and potential of the gaming industry in Iran, including popular genres and types of games, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the relationship between computer-based games and physical, psychological, social, educational, cognitive, rehabilitation, and therapeutic components. The findings were presented in a structured and logical sequence to provide a comprehensive understanding of the current state of computer-based games in Iran and the potential for growth in this industry.
In order to search for foreign articles, scientific databases such as Science Direct, Elsevier, Scopus, Google Scholar, and PopMed were used, and SIVILICA, ISC, SID, Noormags, and Magiran were used for Persian articles. Moreover, reliable and important statistical databases related to the video game industry, such as The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), BroadbandSearch Database, Statista, and Digital Games Research Center were used. By analyzing scientific articles and positive aspects of foreign video games, potential improvements to the video game industry in Iran were investigated and discussed.

According to a survey conducted in Iran, the average daily gaming time per gamer has increased from 79 minutes in 2015 to 95 minutes in 2021. Furthermore, a study conducted among households with at least one gamer found that an average of 1.9 individuals play games in each household. The preferred gaming platforms among Iranian gamers under the age of 18, who make up a significant proportion of the gaming population, are smartphones (98%), personal computers (15.3%), and home gaming consoles (18.6%) with the smartphone being the most commonly used platform for gaming activities. Among Iranian gamers, the most popular genres include sports, puzzle, battle royale, strategy, driving, and simulation. Game development programs such as GDevelop, Autodesk, Stencyl, and Construct 2 are some of the top-notch options used by developers to create games. Moreover, C++ and Java are commonly used programming languages in the game development industry. Game development at a professional level is a complex and collaborative process that often involves a team of designers, programmers, artists, and other specialists working together to bring an idea to life.
In addition to the engineering aspect (programming, developing, and workflow in the software space), games have three other dimensions: aesthetic or graphics, psychological, and musical. All three dimensions require a specialized approach and skill. A well-designed game requires teamwork and workmanship in all four dimensions. The psychological aspect of game development is particularly important in games that pursue specific goals; a high-quality game is the result of collaboration and expertise in all these areas.

The study results showed that many individuals, especially children, teenagers, and adolescents, are computer-based gamers. Further analysis of Iranian digital games found that they have low performance and errors in several aspects, including slow quality and graphics, many bugs and errors, lack of availability on common platforms, weakness in online game genres, and similarity to popular foreign games. Addressing these weaknesses requires a multi-disciplinary approach involving game development professionals, psychologists, graphic designers, and musicians familiar with game development. By analyzing the four dimensions of game programming and software, game psychology, graphics, and game music, more comprehensive and specialized studies can be conducted.

At present, the borders of the digital games market in the country have occupied a small area in the vast geography of the global digital games market compared to abroad. Expanding this area requires all stakeholders in this area to work together, by entering new realms and focusing on images obtained from futures studies activities. Therefore, this dissertation intends to take advantage of the Blue Ocean Strategy and applying Scenario planning and the library research, it identifies influencing factors, and possible scenarios for “the role of the IRIB in the Improvement of Iranian Digital Games Market.” Studying the research literature, implementing three rounds of Delphi with 27 experts and using Micmac and Scenario Wizard software, two key uncertainties of "launching a television game channel" and "regulator and regulation" with Possible situations for each of them has led to four scenario spaces, namely, “Paradise”, “Temple of Ammon”, “Hero of Empty”, and “Invisible Man”. Then, by combining quadripartite scenarios with quadripartite facility "ERRC", the strategic landscape of the movement of the IRIB organization towards the blue ocean was identified. The final results showed that the IRIB could, in a mutual benefit, take advantage of the capacities and opportunities gained from the digital gaming television channel, in addition to creating a new advantage to attract non-customers, By increasing the rate of game acceptance in the society, the proportion of everyone in enlarging the consumption basket of digital games, and following that, the development of the country's digital games market will be revealed.

After the September 11th incident, a widespread wave of media outlets in the world created to misrepresent the East and Muslims. Meanwhile, digital games were among the media that by entering in a new era of representation, introduced the East as other to the audiences around the world. The main issue of the current research is that how the East as a subject is represented in the games. Hence, we analyzed the most important representational games of the East which were based on a real narrative of the wars happened in the past two decades in the Middle East to portray the way of East representation. Considering the research issue, this study seeks to answer the question that what features of the East have been targeted in the most important American games which representing the East?For this purpose, the selected games were played continuously for 120 hours, while the video was captured during the playing. Using the Qualitative Content Analysis method (sequence, character, music, dialogue, etc. analysis), three units of Call of Duty series entitled "Modern Warfare", "Modern Warfare 2" and "Modern Warfare 3" were analyzed and the most important methods of representing the East with its features were extracted. We found that the game developers have used different ways to represent the East, particularly the Islamic countries as a negative subject. These are: 1.Political-military misrepresentations, 2.Cultural misrepresentations, 3.Religious misrepresentations (Islamophobia), 4.Race misrepresentations, 5.Cultural dominance over the East, and 6. Political-military dominance over the East.

Socratic Questioning is a systematic questioning that can be used to explore complex ideas, multiple goals, reach the truth of things, solve problems, identify assumptions, analyze concepts and specify what we know and what we do not know. The distinction between Socratic questioning and ordinary questioning is that Socratic questioning is methodical, systematic and deep and is also focused on the underlying concepts, principles, theories, topics, and problems. In digital game designing, children and adolescents can be trained the process of reasoning and evaluating thoughts of other people and how to think through the use of Socratic questioning and critical thinking tools, and exploration. In this study, due to the topic, a researcher-made questionnaire is made by data using a quantitative method, , and a questionnaire based on grounded theory or grounded theory of coding and coding of interviews. The statistical society is consisted of children and adolescents aged 10 to 12 years and 12 to 14 years old. The researcher interviewed and distributed a questionnaire and analyzed their critical behavior in the digital game of Clash of Clans and also in the next section of this paper, the results of deep interviews with university professors have been explored. Thus, in the paper, we concluded that in digital games, it is necessary to pay attention to critical thinking components in order to develop children's and adolescent questioning ability to solve problems and make decisions.

After September 11th incident, most of digital game developers commenced developing a variety of games with war theme. These games were inducing U.S. diplomatic and western attitudes toward players. Most of these games are about war and they include attractive designs and interactive features to immerse players; however, these games are transmitting political and ideological attitudes. The sales amount and audience of these games increased gradually in global scale which led to popularity among gamers in the past two decades. This paper is a qualitative analysis with meta-synthesis research method. In this method, after searching, we select 22 related papers among dimestic and international qualitative research in political and war digital games field. The criteria of classification in our research is based on opinion holders that the findings are coded in each class. Theoretical framework of this paper includes Cultural Imperialism and Orientalism approaches. The results of this research confirm that digital games, specifically action and first-person shooting genres with war theme are like enormous powerful media and diplomatic tools in the hands of game companies which are utilized to transmit their political messages to domestic and international players (audience), in order to orient their political, ideological and cultural attitudes, reproduce race, ethnic and religious stereotypes, and perpetuate inverse representation of East.

Character in digital games is the main core promoter of events and challenges in games. The existence of various characters with flexible identities and genders can be effective in selecting and continuing the game. These characters with specific characteristics which are intended in the design of the game, would be able to regenerate theirselves. However, this reconstruction differs from the real world which the identity and gender elements of the characters portray and change differently in the game world. The differences between the game world and the real world will be effective on the character building, Game analysis and even on the user interaction with the characters. In this paper, the authors try to analyse the characteristics of postmodern identity and gender of the game characters and identify the process of character building with flexibility of character structure in the game.