[Air-L] Anyone studying Ingress or whole game play histories?

[Stacy Blasiola]

Hi Peter,

I study Ingress. I have a chapter that is co-authored with Miao Feng and
Adrienne Massanari in the book "Social, Casual, Mobile: The Changing Gaming
Landscpape" available at under creative commons license at
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/social-casual-and-mobile-games-the-changing-gaming-landscape/

There is another Ingress chapter in there too.

Best,
Stacy


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University of Illinois at Chicago
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Stephanie F. Hendrick <
Stephanie.Hendrick at mtsu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> I am. I'm currently studying a community of players that have formed from
> groups in three states in order to pull off mega fields. I'm interested in
> questions of identity and community building. The community aspect is
> strong in this game.
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> I also play, but am considering killing my account before I start
> interviewing the opposing faction. I feel I will get better interviews if
> they are not guarded by my belonging to the 'other team'.
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>
> --
> Steph Hendrick, PhD
> Assistant Professor, New Media
> Electronic Media Communication Department
> College of Media and Entertainment
> Middle Tennessee State University
> stephanie.hendrick at mtsu.edu<mailto:stephanie.hendrick at mtsu.edu>
> MTSU Twitter: cutecattheory
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Peter Timusk <peterotimusk at gmail.com>
> Date: 6/7/16 4:28 PM (GMT-06:00)
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] Anyone studying Ingress or whole game play histories?
>
> Interestingly Eve Online saves all one's 'in game' messages and chat logs
> to
> simple text files on the gamer's C drive on their PC. I saved all these
> files over multiple PC's I have played the game on. I have almost my whole
> game history in small text files. A toy big data problem as there are at
> least 500,000 files now.
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> Ingress a GPS cell phone  exercise game sends e-mail/gmail notifications
> when one's landmarks are attacked by the other team. I have 5,000 e-mails
> after a few months playing.
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> I have successfully compiled and parsed these files, the Eve game logs and
> the Ingress gmail notifications which can be a form of record of my entire
> game play.
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> I can look at my first days in Eve and the huge risks I took in game play
> not knowing these were risks. Risk is a nice topic in gaming because of
> gambling studies and the policy desire to help compulsive gamblers.
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> Anyone else analyzing whole game playing histories as data?
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> Would you have thoughts on tracing out behaviour in game playing log files?
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> Peter Timusk B.Math (statistics) B.A. (legal studies) graduate school
> certificate in systems sciences, Working in government statistics in
> Canada.
>
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