Adele assisted GScalE members with research and social media/website coordination. Her main topics of research were visual scale in games, and comparative data on video game ports.

[Preprint] Discussing the Effects of Visual Scaling on Games

Written by Noel Brett, Dr. Jacques Carette, Adele Olejarz, Geneva Smith, and Sasha Soraine with Gabriel Dalimonte
June 10, 2019

We are interested in a systematic understanding the effect of visual scaling — changing the size of the screen, while holding other factors constants — on gameplay. Through examples, we illustrate the effects that arise. We investigate scaling up as well as down, and find that the effects are quite different. We give a first classification of the underlying causes...