What is Digital Games

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Based on advanced computer and internet technology and upon a virtual platform, the games which let the individuals interact with each other individually or collectively and turning gamers to more active individuals. Learn more in: Digital Entertainment Culture and Generation Y: An Evaluation on Social Network Games in Turkey

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A digital game is an interactive program for one or more players, meant to provide entertainment at the least, and quite possibly more. Learn more in: Use of Game-Based Teaching and Learning to Foster Intercultural Communication in English Language Education

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Game is defined as a “system in which players engage in artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome” ( Salen & Zimmerman, 2004 , p. 80). A digital game is a game that integrates digital technology. Learn more in: Digital Mobile Games in Education

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Games that are played on televisions, computers, laptops, consoles (such as Playstation, Xbox, and Wii), smartphones, and tablets. Learn more in: Digital Games for Diagnostic Assessment of Cognitive Skills and Competences: Literature Review and Framework

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The terms, digital game or video game, often refers to a game which users play through audiovisual platform with contents on the basis of a story created from historical or fantasy themes. The concept of digital games as represented in existing game studies literature focuses on game itself, narrative (story), interactivity, and play. Learn more in: What Do Facebook Users Feel About Facebook Advertising?: Using an Experience Sampling Method (ESM) to Explore Their Digital Advertising Experiences

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They are games that can be played through any device that is technological. Learn more in: Homo Aestheticus' Search for Violence: An Examination on the Aestheticization and Reception of Violence in Digital Games

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A blanket term covering video, computer, mobile and social-media games. Learn more in: Playfulness and Seriousness: The Power of Video Games to Teach and Enhance Cultural Intelligence (CQ)

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A game played using an electronic device, either online or stand-alone. Learn more in: Using Game Development to Teach Programming

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Refer to computer, console, mobile, and any other games that a person will interact with digitally (Kerr, 2006). Learn more in: The Perceived Appropriateness of Digital Games From ELL Teachers

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Used here as a generic term to include all electronic games which can be played in arcades, on game consoles, hand-held consoles, PCs, and over the Internet. Learn more in: The Process Model of Gameplay to Understand Digital Gaming Outcomes

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A digital game is an interactive program for one or more players, meant to provide entertainment at the least, and quite possibly more. Learn more in: Digital Games and Orientalism: A Look at Arab and Muslim Representation in Popular Digital Games

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For the purposes of this chapter, the project team defines digital games as games that are played on a touch screen tablet device, allowing children to manipulate characters and objects through tactile movement rather than through the use of a keyboard and/or mouse. Learn more in: Developing Preschoolers' Computational Thinking Skills Through Digital Gameplay

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Refer to computer, console, mobile, and any other games that a person will interact with digitally (Kerr, 2006). Learn more in: Perceived Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Games

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Digital games are kind of games which are structured around an artificial intelligence, animation, graphics, and game engine software. Learn more in: Anxiety of the Avatar: Relation of Character Design to Reception in Transmediatic Games

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Games that essentially require hardware and software to be executed, and which contain the following characteristics: Rules; Variable and quantifiable result; Valuing the result; Effort of the player; Bond of the player to the result and negotiable consequences. Learn more in: Integration of Digital Games Into Pedagogical Practice: Contributions and Challenges to Teacher Training

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An interactive system on a digital device that is rule-based, played by one or more players, with variable or quantifiable outcomes that are ranked. Learn more in: Application of Gamification to Blended Learning in Higher Education