Critical review on video game evaluation heuristics

Paavilainen, Janne

doi:10.1145/1920778.1920787

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“…However, there were concerns about relying on game reviews as the data sources (Köffel et al, 2010;Paavilainen, 2010). Paavilainen (2010) questioned the quality of game reviews from those who were not usability evaluators. In addition, the sampled articles were all from one website and were exclusively written for PC games.…”

Section: Online Reviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Lexical Approach to Study Computer Games and Game Play Experience via Online Reviews

Zhu

Fang

2015

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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This article proposes a revised lexical approach to understand characteristics of computer games and user experience in game play by analyzing online game reviews. The lexical approach was originally used by psychologists to study personality traits. It was based on a lexical hypothesis stating that personality traits are reflected in the adjectives people have been using to describe personality over a long time. A factor analysis was then conducted to identify the patterns of personality related adjectives (i.e., personality traits). The argument here is that game players have used natural languages to describe computer games and their experiences over time and that the most important characteristics of computer games and game play experience would be reflected in player language. Therefore, the traits of computer games and user experience during game play can be studied by examining the adjectives used by players in online reviews. Based on 696,801 reviews downloaded from three major game websites, the lexical approach was adapted to analyze textual content pertaining to computer games. In two consecutive studies, the most important factors concerning traits of computer games and game play experience were discovered and analyzed. The implications of the revised lexical approach and findings from this project were discussed.

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Section: Online Reviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Lexical Approach to Study Computer Games and Game Play Experience via Online Reviews

Zhu

Fang

2015

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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“…[32] A set of heuristics that consider specific issues related with group play over a network. [30] Created from a critical review of video game evaluation heuristics GameFlow [39,40] A comprehensive heuristic set designed as a tool to evaluate player enjoyment. …”

Section: Game Approachability Principles (Gap)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Heuristic Evaluation for Gameful Design

Tondello

Kappen

Mekler

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts

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Despite the emergence of many gameful design methods in the literature, there is a lack of evaluation methods specific to gameful design. To address this gap, we present a new set of guidelines for heuristic evaluation of gameful design in interactive systems. First, we review several gameful design methods to identify the dimensions of motivational affordances most often employed. Then, we present a set of 28 gamification heuristics aimed at enabling experts to rapidly evaluate a gameful system. The resulting heuristics are a new method to evaluate user experience in gameful interactive systems.

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“…Moreover, heuristics can also be used as design guideline rules in the development phase of a software product. This will results in effective and efficient software product [21].…”

Section: B Heuristic Evaluation On Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…His heuristics is specifically focused on game usability and it was based on a structured analysis of usability problem from a large number of games. Paavilainen [21] Proposed first heuristics for social games. This list was consist on 10 heuristics.…”

Section: B Heuristic Evaluation On Gamesmentioning

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Evaluation of mobile games with playability heuristic evaluation system

Soomro¹,

Ahmad

2014

2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)

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Heuristics evaluation is proved to be an efficient and effective method for inspecting usability of application software and game. However, it is reported in literature that negative usability results may cause failure to the product. In large projects usability evaluation in time consuming and due to time constraints project may fail. There is a need of improving method of conducting heuristic evaluation. Therefore, a motivation is raised to improve the method of conducting heuristic evaluation by automation the process. An automated heuristics evaluation tool empower users to focus on inspecting more usability problems within time constraints and reduce manual efforts. In this study, a playability heuristic evaluation system (PHES) is designed and developed to automate the process of conducting heuristics evaluation for games. To ensure the functionality of this systems, several tests were conducted. The results of this study advocates that with the help of playability heuristic evaluation system (PHES) more playability problems can be identified with in short time.

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Critical review on video game evaluation heuristics

Cited by 43 publications

References 22 publications

A Lexical Approach to Study Computer Games and Game Play Experience via Online Reviews

A Lexical Approach to Study Computer Games and Game Play Experience via Online Reviews

Heuristic Evaluation for Gameful Design

Evaluation of mobile games with playability heuristic evaluation system

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