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Journal articles on the topic "Video game designers"

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Benvenuti, Dario, Lauren S. Ferro, Andrea Marrella, and Tiziana Catarci. "An Approach to Assess the Impact of Tutorials in Video Games." Informatics 10, no. 1 (January 11, 2023): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/informatics10010006.

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Video games are an established medium that provides interactive entertainment beyond pure enjoyment in many contexts. Game designers create dedicated tutorials to teach players the game mechanisms and rules, such as the conventions for interaction, control schemes, core game mechanics, etc. While effective tutorial design is considered a crucial aspect to support this learning process, the existing literature approaches focus on designing ad hoc tutorials for specific game genres rather than investigating the impact of different tutorial styles on game learnability and player engagement. In this paper, we tackle this challenge by presenting a general-purpose approach aimed at supporting game designers in the identification of the most suitable tutorial style for a specific genre of video games. The approach is evaluated in the context of a simple first-person shooter (FPS) mainstream video game built by the authors through a controlled comparative user experiment involving 46 players.
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Jankowski, Filip. "The Presence of Female Designers in French Video Game Industry, 1985–1993." Games and Culture 15, no. 6 (April 15, 2019): 670–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555412019841954.

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Increasingly, more people do notice that female designers wrote their first games in the 1970s and 1980s. However, there was another country where women did also design games decades before the #GamerGate movement. This article examines the selected works of three French designers: Clotilde Marion, Chine Lanzmann, and Muriel Tramis. The analysis of those games took into account the self-representation of those designers—and women in general—within the game content. The conducted research has proven that within their games, Marion, Lanzmann, and Tramis included their everyday experiences as women. Using such techniques as simulated point of view and authorial signature, those women indicated their own role in the development and showed how females in general face male oppression against them. This means that the United States is not the only country with a long tradition of female game developers. Thus, video game history remains an undiscovered research field.
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Thomas, Christian. "Interview: Acclaimed Game Designer Ryan Kaufman Discusses Telltale Games, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and How Video Games Can Transform Us." Arts 10, no. 3 (July 8, 2021): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts10030046.

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Cunningham, Carolyn. "Girl game designers." New Media & Society 13, no. 8 (June 20, 2011): 1373–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444811410397.

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Educational programs designed to bridge the digital divide for girls often aim to increase girls’ technological literacy. However, little research has examined what aspects of technological literacy are highlighted in these programs. In this article, I provide a case study of a video game design workshop hosted by a girls’ advocacy organization. Through observations, interviews, and analysis of program materials, I look at how the organization conceptualizes technological literacy as contributing to gender equality. I compare this conceptualization to how technological literacy was taught in the classroom. Finally, I draw on situated learning theory to help explain how girls responded to the class. In the end, both the organization’s limited notion of how technological literacy could increase gender equality as well as gender and race differences between the teachers and the girls influenced girls’ participation in the workshop.
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Le Pelletier de Woillemont, Pierre, Rémi Labory, and Vincent Corruble. "Automated Play-Testing through RL Based Human-Like Play-Styles Generation." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 18, no. 1 (October 11, 2022): 146–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aiide.v18i1.21958.

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The increasing complexity of gameplay mechanisms in modern video games is leading to the emergence of a wider range of ways to play games. The variety of possible play-styles needs to be anticipated and taken into account by designers, through automated tests. Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a promising answer to the need of automating video game testing. To that effect one needs to train an agent to play the game, while ensuring this agent will generate the same play-styles as the players in order to give meaningful feedback to the designers. We present CARMI : a Configurable Agent with Relative Metrics as Input. An agent able to emulate the players play-styles, even on previously unseen levels. Unlike current methods it does not rely on having full trajectories, but only summary data. Moreover it only requires little human data, thus compatible with the constraints of modern video game production. This novel agent could be used to investigate behaviors and balancing during the production of a video game with a realistic amount of training time.
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Szymanski, Antonia, and Matthew Benus. "Gaming the Classroom Viewing Learning Through the Lens Self Determination Theory." International Journal of Game-Based Learning 5, no. 3 (July 2015): 62–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijgbl.2015070105.

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Educators, designers and curriculum creators are interested in developing educational experiences that replicate the fun aspect of video games to increase student intrinsic motivation. This aspect, which compels players to engage with the game and persist despite failing, has the potential to increase student academic success. Researchers used mixed-methods to investigate the results of an instructional design that attempted to replicate the fun aspect of video games in a remedial algebra class. The study offered insight on the ways in which student motivation might be better developed and refined in educational settings using game-based approaches. Results indicated that some students enjoyed the freedom of choosing their own quests to complete while others felt lost in the new environment. It is important to game and instructional designers to scaffold the transition from traditional classroom to a game-based classroom.
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Aditya, Christian. "The Development Of Visual Aspects In Video Games Over The Years." ULTIMART Jurnal Komunikasi Visual 7, no. 2 (November 12, 2016): 18–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.31937/ultimart.v7i2.385.

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This report investigates the importance of creating a realistic environment in order to create an immersive world in digital games. The discussion will start from the history of Digital game development until now, discussing on the limitations of gaming consoles from time to time, and how game designers nowadays keep pushing the boundaries of the visual aspects of their game. Then focusing the discussion on the technical and art aspect of digital game design. By doing the analysis in this report, we can conclude that there are several reason that affects the visual quality of video games, such as the technology of the game console, the limitation of game engine, and also the skill of the game artist itself. Key words : Video Games, Digital Games, Game Console, Environment, Game Engine.
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Purnomo, SF Luthfie Arguby, SF Lukfianka Sanjaya Purnama, Lilik Untari, Agung Prasetyo Wibowo, Nabil Aqib, and Yosse Vira Oktaviana. "Ludic Taunting: Does Taunting Work Differently in Video Games?" Journal of Language and Literature 22, no. 2 (September 26, 2022): 466–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/joll.v22i2.4197.

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Studies on taunting in video game context tend to mull over around how players taunt other players via online chat features. Studies on how taunting works in games with in-game taunt features are under investigated. Examining twenty-seven gamestory-wise and gameplay-wise games, we argue, through this sociolinguistic study, that taunting designed for game characters is better termed ludic taunting since it has different functions from that of taunting in games with online chat feature and in real life. Ludic taunting has two major functions namely narrative and mechanical. The former which refers to taunting for game story-bound purposes is classified into archetyping, cameoing, and mythopoesing. The latter, for game play-bound purposes, is classified into buffing, cosmeticizing, cueing, debuffing, hinting, and rewarding. Game designers and scholars could employ this study as a reference in designing games with in-game taunt features.
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Costello, Robert, and Jodie Donovan. "How Game Designers Can Account for Those With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) When Designing Game Experiences." International Journal of End-User Computing and Development 8, no. 2 (July 2019): 29–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijeucd.20190701.oa1.

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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disability among gamers where individuals belonging to this group of conditions have difficulty understanding non-verbal cues. Though game accessibility is a focal point in the games industry, there has been a keen focus placed on developing accessibility. Consequently, this study examines the perspective of video games from individuals who have autism to gain further insight into the needs of these individuals. The preliminary study is to discover if autistic users' difficulty reading non-verbal cues extends to their perception of a game environment and if these individuals can experience sensory distress while playing video games. A prototype was created to further understand the non-verbal cues to help shape the foundation of accessibility framework. The preliminary results concluded that autistic users frequently misread or fail to pick up on the non-verbal cues used by developers to drive game flow and narrative (e.g., sign-posting), in addition to experiencing sensory distress while playing video games.
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Qaffas, Alaa A. "An Operational Study of Video Games’ Genres." International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) 14, no. 15 (September 11, 2020): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v14i15.16691.

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This paper presents a study of the most successful games during the last 34 last years (1986 – 2019). We observed that the 100 most ranked games are represented by 16 genres (adventure, role-playing, shooter, platform, puzzle, strategy, hack and slash/beat 'em up, real time strategy, turn-based strategy, point-and-click, indie, racing, sport, fighting, arcade and simulator). These genres are then compares to show which genres are more attractive for players. As a result, we observed that 6 genres among the 16 represent the most ranked games (adventure, RPG, shooter, platform, puzzle, and strategy). They represent 0.83 of the successful games. This allowed us to recommend to combining the others genres with the 6 selected genres. Also, we analyzed the evolution of the 16 games genres during the last 34 years. We observed that some genres have a great success until the past decades, but they haven’t a success in this decade. Game designers and researchers in the field of games may rethink about how to add attractive elements in the genres non-successful in this decade. Also, we observed that some genres like the indie games haven’t a great success in the past decades, but they have an important increased success in this decade. This may encourage the decision makers and the game designer to invest on these genres.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Video game designers"

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Lemaitre, Juliette. "Vers une simplification de la conception de comportements stratégiques pour les opposants dans les jeux vidéo de stratégie." Thesis, Compiègne, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017COMP2343/document.

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Cette thèse aborde la problématique de la création d’intelligences artificielles (IA) contrôlant la prise de décision haut-niveau dans les jeux de stratégie. Ce type de jeux propose des environnements complexes nécessitant de manipuler de nombreuses ressources en faisant des choix d’actions dépendant d’objectifs à long terme. La conception de ces IA n’est pas simple car il s’agit de fournir une expérience pour le joueur qui soit divertissante et intéressante à jouer. Ainsi, le but n’est pas d’obtenir des comportements d’IA imbattables, mais plutôt de refléter différents traits de personnalités permettant au joueur d’être confronté à des adversaires diversifiés. Leur conception fait intervenir des game designers qui vont définir les différentes stratégies en fonction de l’expérience qu’ils souhaitent créer pour le joueur, et des développeurs qui programment et intègrent ces stratégies au jeu. La collaboration entre eux nécessite de nombreux échanges et itérations de développement pour obtenir un résultat qui correspond aux attentes des designers. L’objectif de cette thèse est de proposer une solution de modélisation de stratégies accessible aux game designers en vue d’améliorer et de simplifier la création de comportements stratégiques. Notre proposition prend la forme d’un moteur stratégique choisissant des objectifs à long terme et vient se placer au dessus d’un module tactique qui gère l’application concrète de ces objectifs. La solution proposée n’impose pas de méthode pour résoudre ces objectifs et laisse libre le fonctionnement du module tactique. Le moteur est couplé à un modèle de stratégie permettant à l’utilisateur d’exprimer des règles permettant au moteur de choisir les objectifs et de leur allouer des ressources. Ces règles permettent d’exprimer le choix d’objectifs en fonction du contexte, mais également d’en choisir plusieurs en parallèle et de leur donner des importances relatives afin d’influencer la répartition des ressources. Pour améliorer l’intelligibilité nous utilisons un modèle graphique inspiré des machines à états finis et des behavior trees. Les stratégies créées à l’aide de notre modèle sont ensuite exécutées par le moteur de stratégie pour produire des directives qui sont données au module tactique. Ces directives se présentent sous la forme d’objectifs stratégiques et de ressources qui leur sont allouées en fonction de leurs besoins et de l’importance relative qui leur a été donnée. Le module stratégique permet donc de rendre accessible la conception du niveau stratégique d’une IA contrôlant un adversaire dans un jeu de stratégie
This PhD thesis addresses the topic of creating artificial intelligence (AI) to control high-level decision-making in strategy games. This kind of game offers complex environments that require the manipulation of a large number of resources by choosing actions depending on long-term goals. This AI design is not simple because it is about providing to the player a playful and interesting experience. Hence, the aim is not to create unbeatable behaviors, but rather to display several personality traits allowing the player to face diverse opponents. Its creation involves game designers who are responsible of defining several strategies according to the experience they want to provide to the player, and game developers who implement those strategies to put them into the game. The collaboration between them requires many exchanges and development iterations to obtain a result corresponding to game designers’ expectations. The objective of this PhD thesis is to improve and simplify the creation of strategical behaviors by proposing a strategy model intelligible to game designers and that can be interfaced easily with developers’ work. For game designers, a strategy model has been created to allow them to express rules guiding the choice of goals and their allocated resources. These rules make it possible for game designers to express which goal to choose according to the context but also to choose several of them and give them relative importance in order to influence the resource distribution. To improve intelligibility we use a graphical model inspired from finite state machines and behavior trees. Our proposition also includes a strategy engine which executes the strategies created with the model. This execution produces directives that are represented by a list of selected strategical goals and the resources that have been allocated according to the importance and needs of each goal. These directives are intended for a tactical module in charge of their application. The developers are then responsible for the implementation of this tactical module. Our solution enables game designers to directly design the strategical level of an AI and therefore facilitates their cooperation with game developers and simplifies the entire creation process of the AI
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Mader, Stéphanie. "Le "game design" de jeux thérapeutiques : Modèles et méthodes pour la conception du gameplay." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CNAM1011/document.

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Cette thèse propose des modèles, méthodes et outils destinés aux game designers de jeux thérapeutiques. Le problème de conception le plus fondamental des jeux thérapeutiques est le gameplay, c'est-à-dire des objectifs de jeu et des actions que le joueur doit effectuer pour atteindre ces objectifs. Dans un jeu thérapeutique, le gameplay doit à la fois produire l'effet thérapeutique et motiver le patient à suivre son protocole. Les problèmes sous-jacents de celui-ci sont l'évaluation médicale et ludique du jeu, et l'échange de connaissances entre game designers et experts santé. Nous proposons une méthode de game design de jeu thérapeutique allant de la définition du problème à l'évaluation. Cette méthode intègre les autres solutions que nous proposons, notamment le modèle player/game/therapy et une méthode de formalisation du gameplay
This PhD thesis explores the field of therapeutic games in order to propose methods and tools for the game designer of such games. The most fundamental design problem of therapeutic games is the gameplay, ie. the game objectives and the actions the player does to address the objectives. In therapeutic game, the gameplay must, at the same time, provide the therapeutic effects and motivate the patient to follow his protocol. The sub-problems of this are 1. the two-fold evaluation (medical and motivation), 2. the exchange of knowledge between game designers and health experts. We propose a therapeutic game design method which begins with the problem definition and ends with the two-fold evaluation. This method integrates the other solutions we propose, particularly the player / game / therapy model and a method to formalize the gameplay
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Bomström, H. (Henri). "Improving video game designer workflow in procedural content generation-based game design:a design science approach." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201812063237.

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The time and money spent on video games are rapidly increasing, as the annual U.S game industry consumer spending has reached 23.5 billion dollars. The cost of producing video game content has grown in accordance with the consumer demand. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been suggested as a way to scale production costs with the demand. In addition to lowering content production costs, AI enables the creation of new forms of gameplay that are not possible with the current toolbox of the industry. The utilization of AI in game design is currently difficult, as it requires both theoretical knowledge and practical expertise. This thesis improved game designer workflow in PCG-based game design by explicating the necessary theoretical frameworks and practical steps needed to adopt AI-based practices in game design. Game designer workflow in PCG-based game design was improved by utilizing the design science research method (DSR). The constructed artefact was determined to be a method in accordance with the DSR knowledge contribution framework, and it was evaluated by using the Quick & Simple strategy from the FEDS framework. The risks related to artefact construction were assessed in accordance with the RMF4DSR framework. The metrics used to measure the performance of the artefact were determined by employing the GQM framework. Finally, the proposed method was evaluated by following it in constructing a simple PCG-based game with an accompanying AI system. The evaluation was performed by utilizing the FEDS framework in an artificial setting. After gathering and analysing the data from the artefact construction and evaluation, the method was modified to address its shortcomings. The produced design method is the main contribution of this thesis. The proposed method lowers the threshold for adopting PCG-based game design practices, and it helps designers, developers, and researchers by creating concrete and actionable steps to follow. The necessary theoretical frameworks and decision points are presented in a single method that demystifies the process of designing PCG-based games. Additional theoretical knowledge has been contributed by studying the topic from a practical perspective and extracting requirements from an actual design process. The method can be used as a practical cookbook for PCG-based projects and as a theoretical base for further studies on PCG-based game design. Future research tasks include evaluating the proposed method in an organizational context with real users. An organizational context also warrants means to managing risks in PCG-based game design projects. Finally, generator evaluation and explicit guidance on generator control are important future research topics.
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Behrmann, Erika M. "Simulated Social Justice? Paradoxical Discourse and Decision-Making Within Educational Video Games Designed For Social Change." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1491499376185639.

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Pons, Lelardeux Catherine. "Real-time virtual collaborative environment designed for risk management training : communication and decision making." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOU30146/document.

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Les facteurs humains figurent parmi les causes originelles de trop nombreux accidents, dans les transports, l'industrie ou encore dans les parcours de soins. Dans ces contextes sociotechniques complexes et dynamiques, le risque de survenue d'incidents est permanent. La formation des équipes interprofessionnelles à la gestion des risques dans un environnement reproduisant fidèlement le contexte professionnel est un enjeu majeur. La motivation de cette thèse est de proposer un environnement virtuel multi-joueurs destiné à la formation à la gestion des risques liés à des défauts de communication ou de prises de décision. Pour cela, une méthode de création de scénarios interactifs destinés à la formation à la gestion des risques a été présentée. Un système de communication, un système collaboratif de prise de décision et un modèle de description d'objectifs complexes composés d'actions, de communications et de décisions sont présentés. L'environnement multi-joueurs interactif s'appuie sur cet ensemble cohérent. Ces systèmes et modèles proposés octroient une relative liberté aux équipes pour gérer la situation professionnelle présentée au sein de l'environnement virtuel. Ils permettent aussi le contrôle de la situation pédagogique dans son ensemble. Une méthode à forte valeur d'innovation a aussi été proposée pour structurer le débriefing d'une formation à la gestion des risques. Cela permet notamment d'automatiser la production de débriefing personnalisé, individuel et collectif à l'issu des séances de formation
Many accidents in transport, industry or healthcare result from a causal chain of events where inadvertent human errors have not been corrected in time. In such socio-technical and dynamic systems where complexity and unpredictability widespread, training teams to risk management in real-life like situations is crucial. This thesis aims to provide a virtual multi-player environment designed for inter-professional team training to risk management. To that end, a method to design risk management interactive and controlled scenario has been described. A communication system, a group decision making system and a team tracing model have been created. They all together enable the virtual team to be free enough to manage the educational situations. These coherent and innovative environment allows us to control the team activity and automate the edition of a personalized, individual and corporate debriefing at the end of a team training session
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Chabot, Pierre-Luc. "De l’immersion à l’engagement, la perspective des concepteurs de jeux vidéo sur l’expérience de jeu." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/8953.

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De nos jours, la notion d’immersion est largement utilisée, voire galvaudée, par l’industrie du jeu vidéo pour décrire les nouvelles expériences de jeu vécues par les joueurs, notamment lorsqu’ils utilisent des contrôleurs de mouvement. Il est donc intéressant de comprendre comment cette notion s’insère dans le processus de conception des jeux vidéo et comment les concepteurs de jeux vidéo mobilisent cette notion. Pour essayer de comprendre comment les concepteurs de jeux vidéo conçoivent leurs expériences de jeu dans ce contexte, nous avons réalisé une série de cinq entrevues avec des concepteurs de la région montréalaise. Nous avons porté une attention particulière à recueillir le discours de concepteurs indépendants et de concepteurs œuvrant dans de grands studios afin d’obtenir une diversité dans le type d’approches. Nous avons relevé que les concepteurs de jeux vidéo sont loin de partager la même définition de la notion d’immersion. Qui plus est, cette notion n’est souvent pas directement mobilisée par les concepteurs. En effet, les résultats de notre recherche ont démontré que les concepteurs recherchent plutôt à intéresser les joueurs par des stratégies d’engagements plutôt que de les « immerger ». Selon nos concepteurs, un joueur engagé signifie qu’il éprouve un plaisir sincère dans l’acte même de jouer.
Nowadays, the concept of immersion is widely used or overused by the video game industry to describe new gaming experiences for players, especially when using motion controllers. It is therefore interesting to understand how this concept fits into the process of designing video games and how game developers mobilize this notion. To try to understand how video game designers design their gameplay experiences in this context, we conducted a series of five interviews with designers in the Montreal area. We paid particular attention to interview independent developers and designers working in major studios to obtain a diversity of approaches. We found that game developers are far from sharing the same definition of immersion. Furthermore, this notion is often not directly mobilized by the designers themselves. Indeed, the results of our research have shown that designers use strategies of engagement rather than "immersion". According to our designers, an engaged player means he feels a sincere pleasure in the act in itself of playing.
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Stojnić, Slavko. "The Difference in Differentness: Low-Risk, High-Budget versus Innovation and Creativity : An exploratory view from a game-designer’s perspective." Thesis, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38022.

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With what seems like decades of debate behind us, low-risk, high-budget, high exposure releases are still seen as a threat to creativity, innovation and health of the game industry as a whole. This exploratory pilot study aims to evaluate methods and create instruments which can be used to measure and compare the levels of differentness contained within the AAA and Indie releases. The case studies and surveys performed within this study are assessed as viable instruments for future, confirmatory studies, but with serious limitations outside of the chosen data sample.
Med vad som verkar som årtionden av debatt bakom oss, spel som publiceras med lågrisk, hög-budget och hög exponering fortfarande betraktas som ett hot mot kreativitet, innovation och hälsan av hela spelindustrin. Denna utforskande pilotstudie syftar till att utvärdera metoder och skapa instrument som kan användas för att mäta och jämföra skillnadsnivån (olikhet) inom AAA och Indie spel. Fallstudier och enkäter som utfördes inom denna studie bedöms som genomförbara instrument för framtida, bekräftande studier, med allvarliga begränsningar utanför den valda datamängden.
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Books on the topic "Video game designers"

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Ham, Ethan. Tabletop game design for video game designers. Burlington, Massachusetts: Focal Press, 2015.

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Brathwaite, Brenda. Challenges for game designers. Boston, MA: Course Technology/Cengage Learning, 2009.

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Ian, Schreiber, and Charles River Media (Firm), eds. Challenges for game designers. Boston, MA: Course Technology/Cengage Learning, 2009.

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Egan, Jill. How video game designers use math. New York, NY: Chelsea Clubhouse, 2010.

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How video game designers use math. New York, NY: Chelsea Clubhouse, 2010.

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Barton, Matt. Honoring the code: Conversations with great game designers. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Video game designer. New York: PowerKids Press, 2014.

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Video game designer. Ann Arbor, MI: Cherry Lake Pub., 2009.

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Video game designer. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Cherry Lake Publishing, 2016.

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Video game designer. New York: Rosen Central, 2000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Video game designers"

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Slack, Joe. "How to Avoid Overdoing Your Overview Video." In The Board Game Designer's Guide to Getting Published, 63–66. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003334828-14.

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Jost, Patrick, and Monica Divitini. "From Paper to Online: Digitizing Card Based Co-creation of Games for Privacy Education." In Technology-Enhanced Learning for a Free, Safe, and Sustainable World, 178–92. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86436-1_14.

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AbstractEducation is rapidly evolving from co-located settings to remote and online learning. However, many proven educational tools are designed for collaborative, co-located classroom work. Effective sketching and ideating tools, such as card-based workshop tools, cannot be applied in remote teaching.This paper explores how the paper-based card and playboard metaphor can be digitized for remote student co-creation via video call sessions. Therefore, a card-based toolkit for co-creating educational games is transformed into a digital representation for remote application. In a between-subject trial with two university student groups (n = 61), it is investigated how users perceive ideation/balancing support and applicability of the technology-enhanced card toolset compared to the paper-based variant. Both groups thereby created an analytic game concept for privacy education.The results remarkably revealed that remote co-creation using the technology-enhanced card and playboard in video call sessions was perceived as significantly more supportive for ideation and game concept balancing. Students also felt more confident to apply the digitized card toolset independently while being more satisfied with their created game concepts. The designed educational game concepts showed comparable patterns between the groups and disclosed the students’ preferences on how games for privacy education should be designed and when and where they would like to play them. Conclusively, design implications for digital card ideation toolsets were synthesized from the findings.
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Akyaman, Serefraz, and Ekrem Cem Alppay. "A Critical Review of Video Game Controller Designs." In Springer Series in Design and Innovation, 311–23. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65060-5_25.

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Jost, Patrick, and Andreas Künz. "Cards and Roles: Co-designing Privacy Serious Games with an Online Role-Playing Boardgame." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 187–97. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92182-8_18.

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AbstractThe increasing digitalisation of daily routines confronts people with frequent privacy decisions. However, obscure data processing often leads to tedious decision-making and results in unreflective choices that unduly compromise privacy. Serious Games could be applied to encourage teenagers and young adults to make more thoughtful privacy decisions. Creating a Serious Game (SG) that promotes privacy awareness while maintaining an engaging gameplay requires, however, a carefully balanced game concept. This study explores the benefits of an online role-playing boardgame as a co-designing activity for creating SGs about privacy. In a between-subjects trial, student groups and educator/researcher groups were taking the roles of player, teacher, researcher and designer to co-design a balanced privacy SG concept. Using predefined design proposal cards or creating their own, students and educators played the online boardgame during a video conference session to generate game ideas, resolve potential conflicts and balance the different SG aspects. The comparative results of the present study indicate that students and educators alike perceive support from role-playing when ideating and balancing SG concepts and are happy with their playfully co-designed game concepts. Implications for supporting SG design with role-playing in remote collaboration scenarios are conclusively synthesised.
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Mariotti, Samanta. "What if “Lara Croft” Becomes a Video Game Designer? When Archaeologists “Dig” Serious Games." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 395–400. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63464-3_37.

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Gerber, Andreas, Markus Ulrich, and Patrick Wäger. "Review of Haptic and Computerized (Simulation) Games on Climate Change." In Simulation Gaming Through Times and Disciplines, 275–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72132-9_24.

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AbstractClimate change imposes tremendous, complex challenges on humanity. Thoughtfully designed games can support solving them. This article presents a review of climate games and thereby updates the review conducted by Reckien and Eisenack in 2011. It provides an overview of published climate games and reveals the development of the field over the last years. A total of 119 climate games were found whereof 52 were already part of the review of 2011. The broad variety of discovered games indicates a lively community and different settings where such tools are being applied. A substantial number of games addressed topics such as international climate conferences, global impacts of global decisions, and effects of individual decisions on their local environment. Other topics, however, were largely absent. They included - amongst others - the connection between climate change and health, and games that bride local and global levels. Furthermore, the game types “video games” and “alternate reality games” were not applied frequently. Both, the absent topics and the scarcely used game types open up possibilities to develop the field. Forty-six per cent of the games listed by Reckien and Eisenack seem to have disappeared and could not be found for this review, an observation that may need further attention.
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McCreery, Michael P., P. G. Schrader, S. Kathleen Krach, Jeffrey R. Laferriere, Catherine A. Bacos, and Joseph P. Fiorentini. "Examining Designed Experiences: A Walkthrough for Understanding Video Games as Performance Assessments." In Advances in Game-Based Learning, 105–19. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15569-8_6.

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Augusto Bordini, Rogério, and Oliver Korn. "Gamification and Mobile Apps: Allies in Reducing Loneliness Among Young Adults." In Mental Health | Atmospheres | Video Games, 87–102. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839462645-009.

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The isolation measures adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic brought light to discussions related to the importance of meaningful social relationships as a basic need to human well-being. But even before the pandemic outbreak in the years 2020 and 2021, organizations and scholars were already drawing attention to the growing numbers related to lonely people in the world (World Economic Forum, 2019). Loneliness is an emotional distress caused by the lack of meaningful social connections, which affects people worldwide across all age groups, mainly young adults (Rook, 1984). The use of digital technologies has gained prominence as a means of alleviating the distress. As an example, studies have shown the benefits of using digital games both to stimulate social interactions (Steinfield, Ellison & Lampe, 2008) and to enhance the effects of digital interventions for mental health treatments, through gamification (Fleming et al., 2017). It is with these aspects in mind that the gamified app Noneliness was designed with the intention of reducing loneliness rates among young students at a German university. In addition to sharing the related works that supported the application development, this chapter also presents the aspects considered for the resource's design, its main functionalities, and the preliminary results related to the reduction of loneliness in the target audience.
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Heuser, Svenja, Béatrice Arend, and Patrick Sunnen. "Reading Aloud in Human-Computer Interaction: How Spatial Distribution of Digital Text Units at an Interactive Tabletop Contributes to the Participants’ Shared Understanding." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 117–34. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60117-1_9.

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Abstract This paper is concerned with how the spatial distribution of written informings in a serious game activity at an interactive tabletop (ITT) induces participants to read aloud interactionally relevant information to each other in the process of co-constructing a shared understanding. Engaging in an unfamiliar game activity, the participants are all equally dependent on written informings from the interface that serve as a game manual and provide crucial information for jointly achieving the game task(s). When it comes to making use of these written informings, we find the participants to read them aloud, making them accountable within the group. Our findings from multimodal video analysis of two reading-aloud cases suggest that the written informing’s directionality and distribution (here, either designed as ‘distributed’ or ‘shared’ among the interface) regulate the participants’ access to information. And that participants who cannot visually access the information they are interested in reading (aloud) co-organize fine-grained joint successive actions build on and actualized by read-aloud utterances. These joint actions allow them to align their orientation and share their understanding of game activity-relevant content.
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Olsen, Sophus Béneé, Emil Rosenlund Høeg, and Cumhur Erkut. "Embodied and Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments: Tactics and Exemplars." In Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments, 219–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04021-4_7.

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AbstractAs the next generation of active video games (AVG) and virtual reality (VR) systems enter people’s lives, designers may wrongly aim for an experience decoupled from bodies. However, both AVG and VR clearly afford opportunities to bring experiences, technologies, and users’ physical and experiential bodies together, and to study and teach these open-ended relationships of enaction and meaning-making in the framework of embodied interaction. Without such a framework, an aesthetic pleasure, lasting satisfaction, and enjoyment would be impossible to achieve in designing sonic interactions in virtual environments (SIVE). In this chapter, we introduce this framework and focus on design exemplars that come from a soma design ideation workshop and balance rehabilitation. Within the field of physiotherapy, developing new conceptual interventions, with a more patient-centered approach, is still scarce but has huge potential for overcoming some of the challenges facing health care. We indicate how the tactics such as making space, subtle guidance, defamiliarization, and intimate correspondence have informed the exemplars, both in the workshop and also in our ongoing physiotherapy case. Implications for these tactics and design strategies for our design, as well as for general practitioners of SIVE are outlined.
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Conference papers on the topic "Video game designers"

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Pausch, Randy, Rich Gold, Tim Skelly, and David Thiel. "What HCI designers can learn from video game designers." In Conference companion. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/259963.260220.

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Foch, Charline, and Ben Kirman. "“The game doesn't judge you”: game designers’ perspectives on implementing failure in video games." In FDG22: 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3555858.3555868.

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Sahibgareeva, Gulnara Faritovna, and Vlada Vladimirovna Kugurakova. "Branched Structure Component for a Video Game Scenario Prototype Generator." In 23rd Scientific Conference “Scientific Services & Internet – 2021”. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.20948/abrau-2021-10-ceur.

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The task of automating the routine work of computer game writers, narrative designers, set forth in earlier works, has been continued in the presented work. The issues of visualization of branching narrative structures of computer games are considered, the analysis of various approaches to visualization of the plot and other important components of a video game, such as, for example, automatic balancing of quantitative parameters, is carried out. The paper presents the chosen technological stack and gives specific solutions for storage in the form of a structured scenario, allowing the generation of continuing story branches and testing the narrative prototyping stage using the automatically generated text novel.
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Sahibgareeva, Gulnara Faritovna, Vlada Vladimirovna Kugurakova, and Edward Sergeevich Bolshakov. "Video Game's Mechanics Generation and Balancing." In 24th Scientific Conference “Scientific Services & Internet – 2022”. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20948/abrau-2022-6.

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. This article is a continuation of the idea about developing a gaming prototype generator from natural language text. Game balance theme, which mentioned in previous authors' papers, fully opens up from theoretical and practice standpoints. Many expert opinions and definitions were analyzed to understand the identity of that problem. As a result, a full understanding of the problem was formed and challenges were listed, which exists in this direction. The purpose of the research is automation of game-designers routine in the prototyping stage. For this, the problem of generation of game balance from text documents is solved, so a number of scientific papers are considered, which offer algorithms, optimizing and automating approaches and computer games balance. The functionality of the dynamic balance editor Machinations is presented in detail, and the principle of operations is illustrated. To check the availability of approaches in the overall collection of the prototype generator work, a number of experiments were provided. They prove effective work with exhaustive diagrams and saves important development team resources. In addition, a particular problem of formalization and visualizing connection between gameplay and plot was solved, which is justified by the context dependence of the game balance. In conclusion, plans for the further development of a full-featured tool for the game scriptwriters and designers are given. As a conclusion, we state that automatic correction of the game balance is possible as well as its generation based on text.
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Tavares, Amanda C. R., Rosilane Ribeiro da Mota, and Walter Melo. "Self-reflection in Games - The Representation of the Individuation Process in Celeste and Persona 2: Innocent Sin." In Anais Estendidos do Simpósio Brasileiro de Games e Entretenimento Digital. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/sbgames_estendido.2021.19640.

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Video games are popular nowadays, possessing the potential to positively impact people by alleviating unpleasant emotions, giving them leisure and empowerment. Understanding psychological factors can aid in building meaningful and engaging gameplay, resulting in more beneficial impacts on players and desirable video games. This work analyzes how the games Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Celeste use core concepts from Analytical Psychology mixed with the Hero’s Journey to build compelling narratives and gameplay. Game designers should not recognize these ideas as fixed rules but as an inspiration to create meaningful video game experiences and, consequently, aid the player’s transformation.
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Alonso, Eloi, Maxim Peter, David Goumard, and Joshua Romoff. "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Navigation in AAA Video Games." In Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-21}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/294.

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In video games, \non-player characters (NPCs) are used to enhance the players' experience in a variety of ways, e.g., as enemies, allies, or innocent bystanders. A crucial component of NPCs is navigation, which allows them to move from one point to another on the map. The most popular approach for NPC navigation in the video game industry is to use a navigation mesh (NavMesh), which is a graph representation of the map, with nodes and edges indicating traversable areas. Unfortunately, complex navigation abilities that extend the character's capacity for movement, e.g., grappling hooks, jetpacks, teleportation, or double-jumps, increase the complexity of the NavMesh, making it intractable in many practical scenarios. Game designers are thus constrained to only add abilities that can be handled by a NavMesh. As an alternative to the NavMesh, we propose to use Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) to learn how to navigate 3D maps in video games using any navigation ability. We test our approach on complex 3D environments that are notably an order of magnitude larger than maps typically used in the Deep RL literature. One of these environments is from a recently released AAA video game called Hyper Scape. We find that our approach performs surprisingly well, achieving at least 90% success rate in a variety of scenarios using complex navigation abilities.
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Kessing, David, and Manuel Löwer. "Evaluation of Systematically Developed Gamification Strategies with Game-Balance Simulation Tools." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001517.

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is a modern method of motivational design. It aims to motivate people to perform Desired Actions in a specific context. The development of successful gamification strategies requires a consistent, systematic approach. This consists of context and user analysis, technology ideation, and mechanics design. Ultimately, in the practical application, the so-called testing, it must be examined what influence the gamification strategies actually have in order to make eventual adjustments before the implementation takes place in the target context. A prior, objective evaluation possibility does not exist and is therefore often limited to the empirical experience of gamification designers. The balancing of video games can be tested with digital simulation tools (e.g. machinations.io), which show the described relationships in flow charts. This research work shows that gamification strategies for products can be mapped and evaluated with the help of game balancing simulation tools to make better statements about the probability of success. Conclusions and requirements for the general simulation of gamification strategies with game balancing tools are drawn from an exemplary application. A structured process with instructions for the implementation of gamification strategies in game-balance simulation tools helps gamification developers in practical applications.
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Moshirnia, Andrew. "The Educational Potential of Modified Video Games." In InSITE 2007: Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3130.

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As the popularity of video game playing has increased, educators have sought to co-opt video games as an instructional tool. However, educational games have made little impact in either the commercial market place or the average game player’s home library. The modification, or modding, of video games using in-game editors may be used by instructors to introduce educational content to professionally designed video games. This paper examines the effectiveness of a modified video game, Civilization IV, in improving the comprehension and retention of historical knowledge of 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students. Students exposed to the modified video game significantly improved their immediate recall of knowledge level history items. Students expressed interest in future educational game playing and felt that they had a better understanding of application level history items. While these results are encouraging, the small sample size of this experiment prevents generalization and necessitates further study.
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Li, Peiyi, Peilin Li, John Morris, and Yu Sun. "A Context-Aware and Immersive Puzzle Game using Machine Learning and Big Data Analysis." In 5th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (COMIT 2021). Academy and Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/csit.2021.111717.

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Recent years, video games have become one of the main forms of entertainment for people of all ages, in which millions of members publicly show their screenshots while playing games or share their experience of playing games [4]. Puzzle game is a popular game genre among various video games, it challenges players to find the correct solution by providing them with different logic/conceptual problems. However, designing a good puzzle game is not an easy task [5]. This paper designs a puzzle game for players of all age ranges with proper difficulty level, various puzzle mechanics and attractive background setting stories. We applied our games to different players to test play and conducted a qualitative evaluation of the approach. The results show that the pace of puzzle games affects play experience a lot and the difficulty level of the puzzles affects players' feelings to the game.
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Fairhurst, Stuart R., Logan C. McCool, Kristin M. Scheel, Crystal L. Stien, Charlotte M. Brenteson, Andrew H. Hansen, Gary D. Goldish, Gregory O. Voss, and John E. Ferguson. "Development of a Rehabilitation Game for Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Using a User-Centered Design Process." In 2018 Design of Medical Devices Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/dmd2018-6932.

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The use of video games during exercise, exergaming, has been shown to increase energy expenditure without increasing perceived exertion [1]. This suggests that exergaming may be an effective way to engage a patient during rehabilitation and increase adherence to a rehabilitation regime. Existing exergame systems are designed with able bodied users in mind and often combine hand controlled game play while using lower limbs for aerobic exertion, making current systems inaccessible to individuals with spinal cord injuries and others without lower limb function. Our earlier work on increasing exercise accessibility includes developing an ergometer for supine use for patients who have recently had a flap procedure [2]. The goal of the present project was to create an engaging, interactive video game designed for use during arm ergometry by individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) in either the supine or seated position.
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