Size and Shape of the Playing Field: Research Through Game Design Approach

2016 ◽  
pp. 67-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Bedö
Keyword(s):  
Game Design ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Playing Field

Gerontoludic Design

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob De Schutter
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
Physical Decline

Considering the popularity of digital games among older adults and the challenge of population ageing, this article identified a need for an integrated game design framework aimed at older audiences. An analysis of the literature on play in later life demonstrated how the literature is dominated by two themes, i.e., the benefits of playing digital games and the issue of accessibility. While this underlying model has been demonstrated to contribute to successful designs, it also risks reducing games to its motivational characteristics and ageing to cognitive and physical decline. The author therefore reviewed the literature on game design and later life to develop a design approach that considers the multi-faceted nature of ageing as well as the intrinsic value of digital games. The resulting “Gerontoludic Design Framework” sets meaningful play as the intended outcome of game design for older adults, identifies iterative player-centered design as its preferred design approach, and extends the MDA framework by suggesting age-specific aesthetics and mechanics.

scholarly journals Game Design for Emotions: a practicebased research on the design of game emotional experience

2020 ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Rafael Lucio de Mattos
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Emotional Design ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Final Questionnaire ◽  
Motivation Profiles ◽  
Game Environment

This research focuses on the development of emotionally directed gaming experiences demonstrating how the same game, when subjected to targeted audiovisual changes that do not affect its rules, objectives, and mechanics, can provide different emotional experiences. These experiences are related to the psychological and player motivation profiles of each individual. To this end, the research was structured into four main parts. The first, theoretical-conceptual, explored game design, seeking to find structures and elements that make up a game and the experience it proposes. A bibliographic review was carried out on: the study of emotions, including different classification approaches; a study on the relationships established between player, avatar, and game environment; and the concept of emotional design, proposed by Don Norman. The second part, analytical-investigative, consisted of the case study of three games (Journey, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and Thomas Was Alone) with different gaming experience proposals. They were analyzed using a methodology based on game design elements and their relationship with the levels of emotional design. In this way, it was possible to understand how the design of each game contributes to the creation/development of different emotional experiences. In the third part, a field research was carried out to collect the psychological (Big Five) and player motivation (Quantic Foundry) profiles, through the application of questionnaires. The participants were then divided into groups according to their profiles (psychological and player motivation) to participate in the second part of this stage. Based on the information gathered by the previous steps, a short game was developed. From it, changes in its design were made to generate modified versions that, maintaining the game structure and essential rules, proposed different experiences to the players. All games had a player performance information collection system developed specifically for the research. The games were then made available to participants from the previous stages, who answered a final questionnaire. The responses, as well as information about the players’ performance, were used both to assess how each game affected the perception and to verify whether the psychological and motivation profiles of the player help to understand the emotional experiences of the game. Thus, the fourth part consisted of putting the knowledge into practice and testing the hypotheses developed from the previous steps and listed below. The research showed that 1) the visual and sound aesthetic influence of a game can have a considerable impact on the experience of playing, even if it does not affect the game mechanically; 2) The Big Five psychological profile and the player motivation profile are related to the emotional gaming experiences and can be used to better understand them.

Case Study of an Epistemic Mathematics Computer Game

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-56
Author(s):  
Chantal Buteau ◽  
Eric Muller
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Real World ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Computer Game ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Educational Game

E-Brock Bugs is a serious educational game (SEG) about probability which was created based on Devlin's design principles for games whose players adopt identities of mathematically able persons. This kind of games in which “players think and act like real world professionals” has been called epistemic. This chapter presents an empirical study of 16-year-old students' (n=61) experience playing E-Brock Bugs as part of their mathematics data management course. Results suggest that most students engaged in the game's mathematics and experienced a mathematical in-game identity. No gender difference was observed, but the students' self-identified mathematical capability (which was not correlated with their mathematics grades) seems to differentiate the extent to which they experience a mathematical in-game identity. E-Brock Bugs contributes to validate Devlin's game design approach to epistemic mathematics SEGs.

scholarly journals STUDIO ANIMASI DI BANJARMASIN

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-84
Author(s):  
Yuni Annisa Ulfatana ◽  
Prima Widia Wastuty
Keyword(s):  
Game Design ◽  
Simulation Method ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Real Situation ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
Interactive Animation ◽  
Production Site

An animation studio is an animation production site. However, their products and functions are still not widely known by the public, so there are still few users of their services. The animation is not only entertainment media but also as an intermediary media that can facilitate an activity. So an attractive and interactive animation studio is needed. The solution offered is to use a simulation method that aims to make it easier for people to understand animation. Simulation is a method that shows something in a simulant form that is similar to the real situation. This method uses the Triadic Game Design approach that has three aspects, namely play, meaning, and reality. These three aspects are used as references in the animation studio.

The Design, Play, and Experience Framework

2009 ◽  
pp. 1010-1024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian M. Winn
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Formal Approach ◽  
Games For Learning ◽  
Formal Design

This chapter introduces a framework for the design of serious games for learning, called the design, play, and experience framework. The author argues that the great potential of serious games will not be realized without a formal design approach. To that end, the author presents and thoroughly explains the design, play, and experience framework which provides a formal approach to designing the learning, storytelling, game play, user experience, and technology components of a serious game. The author concludes by detailing how the framework provides a common language to discuss serious game design, a methodology to analyze a design, and a process to design a serious game for learning.

Case Study of an Epistemic Mathematics Computer Game

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-55
Author(s):  
Chantal Buteau ◽  
Eric Muller
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Real World ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Computer Game ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Educational Game

E-Brock Bugs is a serious educational game (SEG) about probability which was created based on Devlin's design principles for games whose players adopt identities of mathematically able persons. This kind of games in which “players think and act like real world professionals” has been called epistemic. This article presents an empirical study of 16-year-old students' (n=61) experience playing E-Brock Bugs as part of their mathematics data management course. Results suggest that most students engaged in the game's mathematics and experienced a mathematical in-game identity. E-Brock Bugs contributes to validate Devlin's game design approach to epistemic mathematics SEGs.

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