Guidelines for personalizing the player experience in computer role-playing games

Vanhatupa, Juha-Matti

doi:10.1145/2159365.2159372

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“…For example, the player will walk repeatedly into the same inn, talk to the same vendors and receive the same dialog choices every time. Most interactions are not yet personalized according to the player's appearance, race, class, or quest results [Vanhatupa 2011]. Exceptions to this rule tend to be labor-intensive since they usually rely on scripting, and thus require additional design and QA effort to anticipate potential player choices.…”

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Evaluating perceived trust from procedurally animated gaze

Normoyle

Badler

Fan

et al. 2013

Proceedings of Motion on Games

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Adventure role playing games (RPGs) provide players with increasingly expansive worlds, compelling storylines, and meaningful fictional character interactions. Despite the fast-growing richness of these worlds, the majority of interactions between the player and non-player characters (NPCs) still remain scripted. In this paper we propose using an NPC's animations to reflect how they feel towards the player and as a proof of concept, investigate the potential for a straightforward gaze model to convey trust. Through two perceptual experiments, we find that viewers can distinguish between high and low trust animations, that viewers associate the gaze differences specifically with trust and not with an unrelated attitude (aggression), and that the effect can hold for different facial expressions and scene contexts, even when viewed by participants for a short (five second) clip length. With an additional experiment, we explore the extent that trust is uniquely conveyed over other attitudes associated with gaze, such as interest, unfriendliness, and admiration. AbstractAdventure role playing games (RPGs) provide players with increasingly expansive worlds, compelling storylines, and meaningful fictional character interactions. Despite the fast-growing richness of these worlds, the majority of interactions between the player and non-player characters (NPCs) still remain scripted. In this paper we propose using an NPC's animations to reflect how they feel towards the player and as a proof of concept, investigate the potential for a straightforward gaze model to convey trust. Through two perceptual experiments, we find that viewers can distinguish between high and low trust animations, that viewers associate the gaze differences specifically with trust and not with an unrelated attitude (aggression), and that the effect can hold for different facial expressions and scene contexts, even when viewed by participants for a short (five second) clip length. With an additional experiment, we explore the extent that trust is uniquely conveyed over other attitudes associated with gaze, such as interest, unfriendliness, and admiration.

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Evaluating perceived trust from procedurally animated gaze

Normoyle

Badler

Fan

et al. 2013

Proceedings of Motion on Games

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“…A representation of game levels is described in Park and Park [61] in terms of event/state/action graphs in order to minimize design anomalies while Vanhatupa [62] presents guidelines for RPG games. Thong [63] investigates effectiveness of role-playing videogames as a learning experience emphasizing storyline and characters;…”

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Affective level design for a role-playing videogame evaluated by a brain–computer interface and machine learning methods

2016

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Game science has become a research field, which attracts industry attention due to a worldwide rich sell-market. To understand the player experience, concepts like flow or boredom mental states require formalization and empirical investigation, taking advantage of the objective data that psychophysiological methods like electroencephalography (EEG) can provide. This work studies the affective ludology and shows two different game levels for Neverwinter Nights 2 developed with the aim to manipulate emotions; two sets of affective design guidelines are presented, with a rigorous formalization that considers the characteristics of role-playing genre and its specific gameplay. An empirical investigation with a brain–computer interface headset has been conducted: by extracting numerical data features, machine learning techniques classify the different activities of the gaming sessions (task and events) to verify if their design differentiation coincides with the affective one. The observed results, also supported by subjective questionnaires data, confirm the goodness of the proposed guidelines, suggesting that this evaluation methodology could be extended to other evaluation tasks

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“…This is a problem, when considering replayability [22]. As the replayability value of a (story oriented) game can be increased by storyline variations based on player behavior [29], similarly variations in technology trees on different times a game is run make the game more interesting and replayable. Having such variable technology trees is, however, extremely rare.…”

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Technology trees in digital gaming

Heinimäki

2012

Proceeding of the 16th International Academic MindTrek Conference

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Technology trees have been used in the digital game industry for over two decades. They are in very common use at least in strategy and role-playing games. However, the academic interest towards the matter seems to be almost nonexistent. Although the basic concept may be rather simple and well-understood as far as the industrial points of view are considered, we believe that it would be beneficial to study the issue also academically. In this survey we discuss using technology trees in digital games and present classification criteria for facilitating further studies.

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Guidelines for personalizing the player experience in computer role-playing games

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

Evaluating perceived trust from procedurally animated gaze

Evaluating perceived trust from procedurally animated gaze

Affective level design for a role-playing videogame evaluated by a brain–computer interface and machine learning methods

Technology trees in digital gaming

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