Making Sense of Abstract Board Games: Toward a Cross-Ludic Theory

Danilovic, Sandra; Voogt, Alex de

doi:10.1177/1555412020914722

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“…Mancala games are a favorite, especially in Africa, where it is not rare that different game rules for the same name or different names for the same game within a relatively small area are used. However, these games show only minor changes throughout many borders, cultures, and years, which proves their high abstract characteristics, the reproducibility, and transferability, independent from a particular cultural influence [46,47].…”

Section: History Of the Gamementioning

confidence: 93%

Review of Kalah Game Research and the Proposition of a Novel Heuristic–Deterministic Algorithm Compared to Tree-Search Solutions and Human Decision-Making

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The Kalah game represents the most popular version of probably the oldest board game ever—the Mancala game. From this viewpoint, the art of playing Kalah can contribute to cultural heritage. This paper primarily focuses on a review of Kalah history and on a survey of research made so far for solving and analyzing the Kalah game (and some other related Mancala games). This review concludes that even if strong in-depth tree-search solutions for some types of the game were already published, it is still reasonable to develop less time-consumptive and computationally-demanding playing algorithms and their strategies Therefore, the paper also presents an original heuristic algorithm based on particular deterministic strategies arising from the analysis of the game rules. Standard and modified mini–max tree-search algorithms are introduced as well. A simple C++ application with Qt framework is developed to perform the algorithm verification and comparative experiments. Two sets of benchmark tests are made; namely, a tournament where a mid–experienced amateur human player competes with the three algorithms is introduced first. Then, a round-robin tournament of all the algorithms is presented. It can be deduced that the proposed heuristic algorithm has comparable success to the human player and to low-depth tree-search solutions. Moreover, multiple-case experiments proved that the opening move has a decisive impact on winning or losing. Namely, if the computer plays first, the human opponent cannot beat it. Contrariwise, if it starts to play second, using the heuristic algorithm, it nearly always loses.

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Section: History Of the Gamementioning

confidence: 93%

Review of Kalah Game Research and the Proposition of a Novel Heuristic–Deterministic Algorithm Compared to Tree-Search Solutions and Human Decision-Making

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“…The absence of a commercial game set of that game is one clue, but also statements which indicate that the game has a history in that culture, that it is generally learned from other people, the fact that similar games have been documented in neighbouring regions, or that when asked to play a game people know it and do not need to be taught it, are ways to approach this. For example, the game Jekab, observed in the Marshall Islands in 2017 is played as part of cultural festivals on the islands, and is a part of daily life as it is commonly played in public places 7 .…”

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Data Note: The Digital Ludeme Project Database

Browne,

Stephenson,

Crist

2023

Open Res Europe

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This document outlines the types of data collected for the Digital Ludeme Project, an ERC-funded research project that aims to improve our understanding of the development of games throughout human history through computational analysis of the available (partial) historical data of games. This document outlines how this data is collected, formatted and stored, and how it can be accessed. It is the aim of the Digital Ludeme Project to provide a data resource of unprecedented depth and scope for the benefit of historical games researchers worldwide. Special attention is paid to the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship.

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“…About the a priori analysis, "[...] the choices made control the students' behaviors and the meaning of these behaviors. For this, it is based on hypotheses; it will be the validation of these hypotheses that will be, in principle, indirectly in play in the confrontation [...]" (Danilovic & de Voogt, 2021;Wu et al, 2021), entering in confrontation with the fourth phase (a posteriori analysis).…”

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How can "gamification" help in the teaching of arithmetic operations as a didactic tool and digital technology?

Santiago,

2023

DPJPM

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This article is a teaching proposal concerning arithmetic problems of mathematics to help teachers in initial training in mathematics and teaching mathematics in the classroom with the use of Gamification. Thus, the objective of this article is to investigate what contributions didactic engineering and digital technologies using gamification in full-time high school teaching can be helpful with the contents of basic operations. The methodology applied with the games was based and structured on the Didactic Engineering research methodology, being exploratory research of a qualitative nature to familiarize the mathematical problems with the use of Digital Technologies. The results were categorized based on the phases of preliminary analysis, a priori analysis, experimentation, and a posteriori analysis and validation. Conclusions that the use of applied problems brought out the validation of the strategies applied in the classroom. Therefore, the expected results were positive in the teacher's view of the way the two games were planned in Google Presentations and in supporting the students in the teaching and learning processes of Mathematics.

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Making Sense of Abstract Board Games: Toward a Cross-Ludic Theory

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Review of Kalah Game Research and the Proposition of a Novel Heuristic–Deterministic Algorithm Compared to Tree-Search Solutions and Human Decision-Making

Review of Kalah Game Research and the Proposition of a Novel Heuristic–Deterministic Algorithm Compared to Tree-Search Solutions and Human Decision-Making

Data Note: The Digital Ludeme Project Database

How can "gamification" help in the teaching of arithmetic operations as a didactic tool and digital technology?

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