Simulation & Gaming (October 2023)

Simulation & Gaming 54, 5 (October 2023) is now available (paywalled).

Editorial

• Improving resilience through gaming
  • Marlies P. Schijven and Toshiko Kikkawa

Article

• “The Synaptic Board Game” Improves Health Sciences Students’ Learning on Synaptic Transmission
  • Guilherme Salgado Carrazoni, Amanda Dalla’Corte Chaves, Lucas Gazzani Araujo Silva, Claudio Felipe Kolling da Rocha, and Pâmela Billig Mello-Carpes

Research Articles

• Communication Challenges in Social Board Games 
  • Michael Crabb and Michael Heron
• Typologies and Features of Play in Mobile Games for Mental Wellbeing 
  • Emma Reay, Minhua Ma, Tanya Krzywinska, Gabriela Pavarini, Siobhan Hugh-Jones, Anna Mankee-Williams, Anton Belinskiy, and Kamaldeep Bhuie
• Sports: Digital Games and Its Future From the Traditional Athletes’ and eSports Players’ Perspectives
  • Tuğçe Örsoğlu, Betül Yüzbaşıoğlu, and Hacı Ahmet Pekel
• Your Move: An Open Access Dataset of Over 1500 Board Gamer’s Demographics, Preferences and Motivations 
  • Liam Cross, Andrea Piovesan, Micael Sousa, Peter Wright, and Gray Atherton

Short Research Article

• Assessing the Impact of Immersion on Learning in Medical Students: A Pilot Study Comparing Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Virtual Simulation 
  • Lucy Bray, Sebastian Spencer, Emma Pearson, Katerina Meznikova, and David Hepburn