Research Guides: Video Game Development: Databases and Journals

Game Design and Development Journals

These are just a few academic journals and other sources that publish articles and reports in the field of computer and video game design and development. The section below on "General Databases for Video Game Design Articles" will point you toward places to search for more related articles.

The Computer Games Journal
The Computer Games Journal is a worldwide, peer-reviewed publication providing knowledgeable, well-written articles from academics and practitioners that are relevant to the games industry. It aims to encourage and promote research into games development and the games industry as a whole.
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Serious Games
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Serious Games is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on serious games applications, serious games technology, serious games analytics, user experience design and more.
Entertainment Computing
Entertainment Computing publishes original, peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of digital entertainment, new media, entertainment computing, gaming, robotics, toys and applications among researchers, engineers, social scientists, artists and practitioners.
IEEE Transactions on Games
The IEEE Transactions on Games (T-G) publishes original high-quality articles covering scientific, technical, and engineering aspects of games.
International Journal of Computer Games Technology
The overall aim of the International Journal of Computer Games Technology is to bring together both the...
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research and development aspects of games technology covering the whole range of entertainment computing and interactive digital media.

General Databases for Video Game Design Articles

These databases include links to several full text articles and journals pertaining to computer and video game design and development, including programming, graphics, sound, and other related subjects.

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, standards and online courses, plus related e-books.
INSPEC This link opens in a new window
Covers the world-wide literature (mainly journal articles and conference proceeding papers) in astronomy, physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers and control, and information technology.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
International multi-disciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Covering 12,000+ scholarly journals, plus selected books and published conference proceedings in all academic disciplines, the Web of Science Core Collection combines seven citation indexes which permit searching for articles that cite a known author or work, as well as searching by subject, author, journal, and author address.

Recommended Search Terms for Databases

General

Video games

Videogames (one word)

Electronic games

Computer games

Gaming

Internet games

Online games

Game Design/Programming

Computer games AND design

Video games AND design

Computer games AND programming

Computer games AND development

Video games AND development

Computer games AND graphics

Video games AND graphics

Searching in Databases

For more information on how best to search through the databases where computer and video game design and development articles are located, please see the "Finding Articles" sections of the Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering Libguides.