Videogame Sciences and Arts 12th International Conference, VJ 2020, Mirandela, Portugal, November 26–28, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts, VJ 2020, held in Mirandela, Portugal, in November 2020.*

The 10 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. 

*The conference was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Esports Sponsorships: The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Having a Very Vocal Audience.- Recent trends in the Portuguese video game industry: 2016-2020.- Video games specialized media in Basque language.- It’s Crunch Time: Burnout, Job Demands and Job Resources in Game Developers.- Game Based Learning in Science Fiction.- Supporting the construction of game narratives using a toolkit to game design.- Reward-Mediated Individual and Altruistic Behavior.- Interviewing a Virtual Suspect: conversational game characters using Alexa.- SimpAI: Evolutionary Heuristics for the ColorShapeLinks Board Game Competition.- Reinforcement Learning in Tower Defense.