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. Preface 6 Organization 9 Contents 13 Esports Sponsorships: The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Having a Very Vocal Audience • Bruno Duarte Abreu Freitas, Ruth Sofia Contreras-Espinosa, and Pedro Álvaro Pereira Correia 14 Recent Trends in the Portuguese Video Game Industry: 2016 – 2020 • Flávio Nunes, Pedro Santos, Patrícia Romeiro, and Camila Pinto 28 Video Game Specialized Media in Basque Language • Maitane Junguitu Dronda 46 It’s Crunch Time: Burnout, Job Demands and Job Resources in Game Developers • Joana Mendes and Cristina Queirós 59 Game Based Learning in Science Fiction • Néstor Jaimen Lamas 72 Supporting the Construction of Game Narratives Using a Toolkit to Game Design • Pedro Beça, Cláudia Ortet, Mónica Aresta, Rita Santos, Ana Veloso, and Sofia Ribeiro 85 Reward-Mediated Individual and Altruistic Behavior • Samuel Gomes, Tomás Alves, João Dias, and Carlos Martinho 97 Interviewing a Virtual Suspect: Conversational Game Characters Using Alexa • Gonçalo Baptista, Diogo Rato, and Rui Prada 111 SimpAI: Evolutionary Heuristics for the ColorShapeLinks Board Game Competition • Pedro M. A. Fernandes, Pedro M. A. Inácio, Hugo Feliciano, and Nuno Fachada 126 Reinforcement Learning in Tower Defense • Augusto Dias, Juliano Foleiss, and Rui Pedro Lopes 140 Author Index 141