This paper frames the process of designing a level in a game as a series of model transformations. The transformations correspond to the application of particular design principles, such as the use of locks and keys to transform a linear mission into a branching space. It shows that by using rewrite …

Ooit gehoord van Le Poème Electronique? Dit excentrieke bouwwerk werd door de Franse architect Le Corbusier (in opdracht van Philips) in 1958 gebouwd voor de World Expo in Brussel. Samen met zijn assistent Xenakis en de componist Varèse werd een experience ontworpen die volgens velen gezien wordt als …

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger and malnutrition. On 26 November 1991 the European Union became the 161st Member of FAO, trough Resolution 7/91 which allowed Regional Economic Integration Organisations (REIOs) to accede as …

On the basis of an empirical analysis of the recent emergence, spread and transformation of No Holds Barred fighting contests, it is argued that Norbert Elias's model of sportization provides a fruitful but insufficiently differentiated framework for understanding the development of sports and sport-like …