Game Design and Gamer Psychology

Bostan, Barbaros; Tıngöy, Özhan

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29904-4_7

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“…This study is, first of all, based on 21 semi-structured interviews with players of two fantasy AAA 4 single-player, role-playing videogame franchises – The Witcher and Dragon Age . These two franchises were chosen due to their carefully designed characters and emotional impact on players (Bostan and Tingoy, 2016; Jørgensen, 2010). Moreover, both franchises fall in the same fantasy genre, they presently have an equal number of releases (three), and they are translations of, or have been translated from, novels.…”

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Post-human encounters: Humanising the technological Other in videogames

Coanda

Aupers

2020

New Media & Society

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Whether we are talking about Alexa, chat bots or a videogame character, technological artefacts are increasingly being developed to mimic different aspects of being human. However, research on people’s experience with such technologies and the cultural imaginations of what makes them human remains underdeveloped. Guided by a reexamination of the sociocultural concept of the Other, this article empirically studies how and why players humanise non-playable videogame characters. The analysis is based on 21, online and offline, semi-structured interviews with players of two single player, role-playing videogames – The Witcher and Dragon Age – and other players’ anonymous posts on various websites. The analysis illustrates the different ways in which players humanise non-playable videogame characters (NPCs) and the ways these impede on their offline relationships. Finally, the analysis shows that the meaningful interactions with videogame characters affect players’ human relationships and, thus, blur the boundaries between humans and nonhumans, and reality and virtuality.

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Post-human encounters: Humanising the technological Other in videogames

Coanda

Aupers

2020

New Media & Society

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“…These types of motivations discriminate games from more linear forms of entertainment such as television or reading books [42]. Playing games is thereby considered an active engagement whereby players constantly have to make decisions [43]. Therefore, one central issue that makes motivational elements in games important is the constant confrontation of a player with conflicting goals.…”

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Behavioural Effects of Spatially Structured Scoring Systems in Location-Based Serious Games—A Case Study in the Context of OpenStreetMap

Westerholt

Lorei

Höfle

2020

IJGI

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Location-based games have become popular in recent years, with Pokémon Go and Ingress being two very prominent examples. Some location-based games, known as Serious Games, go beyond entertainment and serve additional purposes such as data collection. Such games are also found in the OpenStreetMap context and playfully enrich the project’s geodatabase. Examples include Kort and StreetComplete. This article examines the role of spatially structured scoring systems as a motivational element. It is analysed how spatial structure in scoring systems is correlated with changes observed in the game behaviour. For this purpose, our study included two groups of subjects who played a modified game based on StreetComplete in a real urban environment. One group played the game with a spatially structured scoring system and the other with a spatially random scoring system. We evaluated different indicators and analysed the players’ GPS trajectories. In addition, the players filled out questionnaires to investigate whether they had become aware of the scoring system they were playing. The results obtained show that players who are confronted with a spatially structured scoring system are more likely to be in areas with high scores, have a longer playing time, walk longer distances and are more willing to take detours. Furthermore, discrepancies between the perception of a possible system in the scoring system and corresponding actions were revealed. The results are informative for game design, but also for a better understanding of how players interact with their geographical context during location-based games.

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“…Abend & Harvey, 2017;Gupta & Devillers, 2017;Cook, 2020), draw on principles of user interface or user experience design, or engage with the burgeoning literature from VR and game design on provoking feelings of presence and immersion in an alternative worldview to experience place (e.g. Bostan & Tingoy, 2016). The lack of contributions focused on the intersection of these various digital media and data-embedded practices and mapping practice seems a missed opportunity, as they sit at the core of knowledge production.…”

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Mark Gillings, Piraye Hacıgüzeller and Gary Lock. Re-Mapping Archaeology: Critical Perspectives, Alternative Mappings (London: Routledge, 2020, 324pp., 76 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-1-138-57713-8, eBook ISBN 978-1-351-26772-4)

Opitz

2020

Eur. j. archaeol

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Game Design and Gamer Psychology

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Post-human encounters: Humanising the technological Other in videogames

Post-human encounters: Humanising the technological Other in videogames

Behavioural Effects of Spatially Structured Scoring Systems in Location-Based Serious Games—A Case Study in the Context of OpenStreetMap

Mark Gillings, Piraye Hacıgüzeller and Gary Lock. Re-Mapping Archaeology: Critical Perspectives, Alternative Mappings (London: Routledge, 2020, 324pp., 76 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-1-138-57713-8, eBook ISBN 978-1-351-26772-4)

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