Categorizing Play Styles in Competitive Gaming
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11410%2F17%3A10366016" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11410/17:10366016 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/IJGCMS" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/IJGCMS</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/IJGCMS" target="_blank" >10.4018/IJGCMS</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Categorizing Play Styles in Competitive Gaming
Original language description
This article addresses the concept of play style, which has been insufficiently explored in research on video game players despite the diversity of empirically observable play styles in competitive gaming. The main proposition of this article is that play style is a pattern that predicts players' behavior, their perceptions and their interactions. A qualitative analysis was conducted to better understand the term "style" in gamer culture based on an extensive examination of players' texts and interviews with professional gamers and commentators. The results identify categories corresponding to seven general styles that relate to gamer terminology and play theory. The results also suggest a richness, dynamic interrelatedness and changeability of styles. Furthermore, there may be similarities among different play styles with regard to their activity components despite the different intentional patterns that direct players' behaviors.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations
ISSN
1942-3888
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
9
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
62-88
UT code for WoS article
000416994200004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85038430041