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  220.                            <h2 class="heading"><a href="https://research-053425.gifthub.news/post/6592048731">Exploring the Role of Gaze-Based Mechanics in VR Game Design</a></h2>
  221.                            <p class="info">This paper explores the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in predicting player behavior in mobile games. It focuses on how AI algorithms can analyze player data to forecast actions such as in-game purchases, playtime, and engagement. The research examines the potential of AI to enhance personalized gaming experiences, improve game design, and increase player retention rates.</p>
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  227.                                    <strong>Michael Davis</strong>
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  247.                            <h2 class="heading"><a href="https://research-053425.gifthub.news/post/3891605247">AI-Driven Game Design: Transforming the Mobile Gaming Landscape</a></h2>
  248.                            <p class="info">This paper applies semiotic analysis to the narratives and interactive elements within mobile games, focusing on how mobile games act as cultural artifacts that reflect and shape societal values, ideologies, and cultural norms. The study investigates how game developers use signs, symbols, and codes within mobile games to communicate meaning to players and how players interpret these signs in diverse cultural contexts. By analyzing various mobile games across genres, the paper explores the role of games in reinforcing or challenging cultural representations, identity politics, and the formation of global gaming cultures. The research offers a critique of the ways in which mobile games participate in the construction of collective cultural memory.</p>
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  254.                                    <strong>Kevin Stewart</strong>
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