Experience requirements in video games definition and testability

Callele, David; Dueck, Philip; Wnuk, Krzysztof; Hynninen, Peitsa

doi:10.1109/re.2015.7320449

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“…Traditional software products, called "productivity applications", are designed to accomplish one or more tasks as necessary elements of a non-entertainment endeavour (e.g. business endeavours) [6]. On the other hand, a game is more than software as it must enthrall the user with its mechanics, despite its foundation relying on a well-written software [7].…”

Section: A Game Testing and Its Particularitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Games have different types of requirements [6]. Traditional test planning methods cannot satisfy the fun (entertainment and excitement) requirements [13].…”

Section: A Game Testing and Its Particularitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In game development, software working according to its functional requirements is not enough; the game must be appealing for the user [30]. This appeal involves balancing the gameplay, which is unique in game development and a challenge for the developers [6].…”

Section: B Game Testing Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In December of 2020, the game "Cyberpunk 2077" 1 was released after seven years of development 2 , hundreds of millions of dollars 3 , multiple delays 4 , and high expectations. Upon release, it immediately received strong criticism for its "buggy state" and, no long after, it was even removed from the PlayStation Store 5 because it was not delivering the expected experience to its users, causing revenue loss and other collateral effects, like loss of prestige and good-will for the company CD Projekt Red 6 .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Survey of Video Game Testing

Politowski¹,

Petrillo²,

Guéhéneuc³

2021

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Video-game projects are notorious for having dayone bugs, no matter how big their budget or team size. The quality of a game is essential for its success. This quality could be assessed and ensured through testing. However, to the best of our knowledge, little is known about video-game testing. In this paper, we want to understand how game developers perform game testing. We investigate, through a survey, the academic and gray literature to identify and report on existing testing processes and how they could automate them. We found that game developers rely, almost exclusively, upon manual play-testing and the testers' intrinsic knowledge. We conclude that current testing processes fall short because of their lack of automation, which seems to be the natural next step to improve the quality of games while maintaining costs. However, the current game-testing techniques may not generalize to different types of games.

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Section: A Game Testing and Its Particularitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Games have different types of requirements [6]. Traditional test planning methods cannot satisfy the fun (entertainment and excitement) requirements [13].…”

Section: A Game Testing and Its Particularitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B Game Testing Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Survey of Video Game Testing

Politowski¹,

Petrillo²,

Guéhéneuc³

2021

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“…Callele et al 18 captured game mechanics and their associated experience requirements, which were treated as functional requirements.…”

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Implementing game requirements using design patterns

Paschali

Volioti

Ampatzoglou

et al. 2021

J Software Evolu Process

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Game mechanics are high‐level descriptions of common game requirements; however, they do not provide any guidance on their code implementation. Nevertheless, their implementation involves high volumes of essential complexity, which in turn leads to the introduction of accidental complexity (long methods, code repetition, etc.). A possible solution to this problem is to map game mechanics to design patterns, in order to provide template instantiations that handle structural complexity. The aim of this study is twofold: (a) introduce template instantiations of game mechanics with Gang of Four (GoF) patterns and (b) evaluate such mappings in terms of extendibility and reusability. To achieve these objectives, we developed an online repository of mappings between GoF patterns and game mechanics and conducted an experiment to explore the benefits of the mapping. The results of the study suggest that the implementation of game mechanics with GoF patterns is beneficial, because the time to extent the current implementation or reuse code chunks is not prolonged, whereas the implementations are less faulty. Finally, the suggested mapping will equip game mechanics with sample implementations (that adhere to good design principles—ensuring extendibility) that can be reused, acting as a starting point for source code development.

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Striving for balance: A look at gameplay requirements of massively multiplayer online role-playing games

Daneva

2017

Journal of Systems and Software

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Experience requirements in video games definition and testability

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

A Survey of Video Game Testing

A Survey of Video Game Testing

Implementing game requirements using design patterns

Striving for balance: A look at gameplay requirements of massively multiplayer online role-playing games

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