Play, watch, analyze, repeat: How do players develop competitive gaming skills?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14330%2F25%3A00140424" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14330/25:00140424 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875952124002763" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875952124002763</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2024.100908" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.entcom.2024.100908</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Play, watch, analyze, repeat: How do players develop competitive gaming skills?

Original language description

Players usually have a strong desire to improve their game-specific skills to perform well in a game. A desire which has been further reinforced by the increase of multiplayer games and the rise of competitive gaming. While research on learning through games is extensive, work on how players gain expertise in competitive games is less common. This paper presents an exploratory mixed-methods study examining how players learn to play video games across three competitive game genres and which factors influence their self-efficacy. Our results show that the approaches to learning as well as influential factors on self-efficacy are largely independent across the investigated genres. Moreover, learning to play extends beyond the act of play itself and is strongly reflective and social. Based on the results, we discuss high-level characteristics of learning and self-efficacy which can serve as a starting point for future research and design interventions aimed at supporting learning processes of players.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10200 - Computer and information sciences

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Entertainment Computing

ISSN

1875-9521

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

52

Issue of the periodical within the volume

52

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1-14

UT code for WoS article

001386465700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85211616824