{"id":1937,"date":"2026-04-29T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:23:54","slug":"my-first-scholarly-article-control-mechanisms-in-computer-and-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/2026\/04\/my-first-scholarly-article-control-mechanisms-in-computer-and-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"My first scholarly article: control mechanisms in computer and video games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My first scholarly article has finally come out! It&#8217;s called <a href=\"https:\/\/paidia.de\/control-mechanisms-in-computer-and-video-games\/\">\u201cPress ( ) to jump\u201d: control mechanisms in computer and video games<\/a> and is meant to be a definitive overview of control mechanisms in games and a starting point for more thorough research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The magazine, Paidia, is usually in German, but they feature the odd English article and were happy to take this one in its English original form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I originally wrote it with a specific publisher in mind, but it turned out that it was not suited for the specific content they expected. Since there are only limited publishing possibilities for non-scholars, that meant I had to go on an extended search for a new home that eventually ended with finding reasonable enthusiasm at Paidia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might be aware that publishing in the academic world involves extensive editing and this was no exception. Especially adapting the formatting to the needs of this internet magazine took a lot of time. I first mentioned that I had finished the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/2024\/12\/muds-as-a-field-of-academic-interest\/\">almost one and a half years ago<\/a>, to give you a rough idea (though in all fairness, I should mention that there was also some measure of procrastination).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, if you are interested in the history of gaming or in gaming itself from a technical perspective, then maybe check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The featured image uses the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/white-computer-keyboard-on-marble-surface-4523022\/\">cover photo from the article<\/a> by Polina Tankilevitch on Pexels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first scholarly article has finally come out! It&#8217;s called \u201cPress ( ) to jump\u201d: control mechanisms in computer and video games and is meant to be a definitive overview of control mechanisms in games and a starting point for more thorough research. The magazine, Paidia, is usually in German, but they feature the odd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}