Worldplay Research Initiative : Project Overview

Welcome to Worldplay Research Initiative (WRI) -- a collaborative research project that explores the issues associated with cross-cultural interactions in virtual worlds. Our goal is to identify creative ways that players, game developers, and industry professionals can nurture and extend transnational cooperation in virtual worlds. Spearheaded by approximately nine communication researchers, this project grew out of a Trinity University college seminar offered in Fall 2009. (An archival copy of the old course page is accessible via this page's footer.)

In the interests of reciprocity, we are opening up our research process to the broader community of gamers and games researchers.

From here, you can:

» Learn more about this project and investigate our research methods
» View a two minute video that explains this project
» Share your thoughts anonymously via our open-ended survey. The survey is currently available in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
»View updated PDF containing raw data from English-speaking players (n=200) and discuss the results in our forums. This file was last updated on December 8, 2009.
» Examine the course syllabus.
» Share suggestions via e-mail.