Video Game Development Processes that Generate Engagement in the Players: A Case Study of Don’t Starve

2021 ◽  
pp. 212-227
Author(s):  
Raquel Echeandía Sánchez ◽  
Sara Cortés Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development ◽  
Development Processes

Bridging Game Development and Instructional Design

2011 ◽  
pp. 464-479
Author(s):  
James Belanich ◽  
Karin B. Orvis ◽  
Daniel B. Horn ◽  
Jennifer L. Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Instructional Video ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development ◽  
Video Game Design ◽  
Development Processes

Instructional video game development is occurring in both the commercial game development and the instructional design/development communities, but regularly in isolation from one another. While many proclaim that game-based learning offers an instructional revolution, the empirical results on instructional effectiveness have been mixed. These mixed findings may be due to the contrasting approaches utilized within these two communities. These communities differ with respect to prioritizing goals and design/development processes. However, the creation of an effective instructional video game—one that both motivates and teaches—is dependent on the successful partnering of these communities. Accordingly, this chapter elucidates the commonalities and differences in the development goals and approaches of these communities and discusses how best practices of each community should be blended for optimal instructional video game design. This chapter also includes relevant experiences from an instructional PC-video game development project, illustrating challenges faced and new opportunities afforded via a collaborative development effort.

Bridging Game Development and Instructional Design

2009 ◽  
pp. 1088-1103 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Belanich ◽  
Karin B. Orvis ◽  
Daniel B. Horn ◽  
Jennifer L. Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Instructional Video ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development ◽  
Video Game Design ◽  
Development Processes

Instructional video game development is occurring in both the commercial game development and the instructional design/development communities, but regularly in isolation from one another. While many proclaim that game-based learning offers an instructional revolution, the empirical results on instructional effectiveness have been mixed. These mixed findings may be due to the contrasting approaches utilized within these two communities. These communities differ with respect to prioritizing goals and design/development processes. However, the creation of an effective instructional video game—one that both motivates and teaches—is dependent on the successful partnering of these communities. Accordingly, this chapter elucidates the commonalities and differences in the development goals and approaches of these communities and discusses how best practices of each community should be blended for optimal instructional video game design. This chapter also includes relevant experiences from an instructional PC-video game development project, illustrating challenges faced and new opportunities afforded via a collaborative development effort.

scholarly journals Towards a “Filipino” Video Game: Teaching Filipino Culture and Identity for Video Game Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoffer Mitch C. Cerda
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Filipino Culture ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Game Developers

This paper uses the author’s experiences of teaching the Filipino module of a multidisciplinary video game development class as a case study in teaching Filipino culture and identity as an element of video game development. A preliminary definition of “Filipino video game” as having Filipino narratives and subject matter, made by Filipino video game developers, and catering to a Filipino audience, is proposed. The realities and limitations of video game development and the video game market in the Philippines is also discussed to show how the dominance of Western video game industry, in terms of the dominance of outsource work for Filipino video game developers and the dominance of non-Filipino video games played by Filipino players, has hindered the development of original Filipino video games. Using four Filipino video games as primary texts discussed in class, students were exposed to Filipinomade video games, and shown how these games use Filipino history, culture, and politics as source material for their narrative and design. Issues of how video games can be used to selfexoticization, and the use of propaganda is discussed, and also how video games can be used to confront and reimagine Filipinoness. The paper ends with a discussion of a student-made game titled Alibatas, a game that aims to teach baybayin, a neglected native writing system in the Philippines as a demonstration of how students can make a Filipino video game. The paper then shows the importance of student-made games, and the role that the academe plays in the critical understanding of Filipino video games, and in defining Filipino culture and identity.

scholarly journals Holistic data-driven requirements elicitation in the big data era

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aron Henriksson ◽  
Jelena Zdravkovic
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Requirements Elicitation ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Continuous Generation ◽  
Video Game Development ◽  
Requirements Discovery

AbstractDigital transformation stimulates continuous generation of large amounts of digital data, both in organizations and in society at large. As a consequence, there have been growing efforts in the Requirements Engineering community to consider digital data as sources for requirements acquisition, in addition to human stakeholders. The volume, velocity and variety of the data make requirements discovery increasingly dynamic, but also unstructured and complex, which current elicitation methods are unable to consider and manage in a systematic and efficient manner. We propose a framework, in the form of a conceptual metamodel and a method, for continuous and automated acquisition, analysis and aggregation of heterogeneous digital sources that aims to support data-driven requirements elicitation and management. The usability of the framework is partially validated by an in-depth case study from the business sector of video game development.

scholarly journals The perils of project-based work: Attempting resistance to extreme work practices in video game development

Organization ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Peticca-Harris ◽  
Johanna Weststar ◽  
Steve McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Reader Comments ◽  
Game Developers

This article examines two blogs written by the spouses of game developers about extreme and exploitative working conditions in the video game industry and the associated reader comments. The wives of these video game developers and members of the game community decry these working conditions and challenge dominant ideologies about making games. This article contributes to the work intensification literature by challenging the belief that long hours are necessary and inevitable to make successful games, discussing the negative toll of extreme work on workers and their families, and by highlighting that the project-based structure of game development both creates extreme work conditions and inhibits resistance. It considers how extreme work practices are legitimized through neo-normative control mechanisms made possible through project-based work structures and the perceived imperative of a race or ‘crunch’ to meet project deadlines. The findings show that neo-normative control mechanisms create an insularity within project teams and can make it difficult for workers to resist their own extreme working conditions, and at times to even understand them as extreme.

“All bets are off”: Flexible engagement with music-listening technologies by autistic adults

2020 ◽  
pp. 030573562097103
Author(s):  
Michael Matsuno ◽  
Deon Auzenne ◽  
Leanne Chukoskie
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
New Music ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Personal Taste ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development ◽  
Autistic Adults

This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to explore daily experiences with music among a convenience sample of 12 autistic adults interning at a video game development lab. Our analysis indicates that music technologies enabled autistic individuals to explore new music and to engage reflexively with personal taste and self-curation. We also show that participants used music to accompany a range of cognitive and emotional tasks. These findings are consistent with broader sociological literature on music-listening habits of typically developing adults and indicate that autistic adults use music to meet their personal needs. Our cohort also described expressly creative and proactive engagement with music, suggesting that habits with music may differ among unique sub-populations of autistic individuals.

scholarly journals Video Game Development in a Rush: A Survey of the Global Game Jam Participants

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Borg ◽  
Vahid Garousi ◽  
Anas Mahmoud ◽  
Thomas Olsson ◽  
Oskar Stalberg
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Global Game ◽  
Video Game Development
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