Circle-Packing: Creating an Overview of Participation in UNT Scholarly Works

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The UNT Scholarly Works collection is home to materials from the University of North Texas community’s research, creative, and scholarly activities.  To encourage further participation by UNT community members, it’s helpful to know the degree to which different departments currently participate by depositing items in the collection.  You can view who is contributing to the… Read more »

Getting Started in Video Games

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Newcomers to the video game community have a high bar to entry. Video games are complex beasts of entertainment and art, often making them difficult to approach and hard to understand; heck, even skills learned in a certain type of video game aren’t transferable to another type of video game. And all of this is already ignoring… Read more »

Evaluating Video Games: What is a game?

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Introduction Video games have cemented themselves in modern culture as the kingpin of entertainment and art form. They are everywhere; in arcades, on our computers, on our phones; we even have dedicated computer systems devoted specifically as consoles for video games. It is hard to imagine someone living in western society that doesn’t play video… Read more »

How to Make a Let’s Play

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Introduction If you’re a fan of video games, chances are that you’re more than familiar with Let’s Play’s. These series of gameplay commentaries have gained massive success within recent years and now make up a large and thriving community on websites like YouTube. People everywhere are starting channels and producing these videos at an ever-increasing… Read more »