Pervasive game flow

Abstract

__________________________________________________________________________________________Player enjoyment is perhaps the most important issue in successful game design, but so far it has not been addressed in the area of pervasive games. Departing from the general gameflow model, this article presents an initial outline for a new model of pervasive player enjoyment, that is, the pervasive gameflow model, which is described and discussed in terms of additions and elaborations to the general gameflow model. It is intended to serve as a departure point for further empirical studies on player enjoyment in pervasive games.

Avaliação de jogos sérios casuais usando o método GameFlow

“…Seguindo essa linha, Jegers [7] avaliou jogos pervasivos utilizando como base o GameFlow, com alguns critérios excluídos e outros reformulados. Dessa forma, o método mostrou-se apropriado e promissor para entender a diversão nesse gênero de jogo.…”

Social Flow and Learning in Digital Games:A Conceptual Model and Research Agenda

“…Because survey items in prior gameflow research tend to focus on individual absorption in the game, new measures are needed to capture immersion in social interaction, for example, by studying the group interactions in multiplayer games. In pervasive games, in which players use mobile computing devices to engage in social learning in the virtual and physical worlds simultaneously, immersion should not be thought of as including loss of awareness of surroundings, but as the ability to switch focus seamlessly between the virtual and physical worlds (Jegers, 2007).…”

“…In particular, communities of practice theory elevates learning goals that are less focused on products that demonstrate mastery and more on processes: the ability to work intentionally, actively, and communally (Lave and Wenger, 1991). Scholars of social games suggest that players are drawn to them primarily by the lure of connection, cooperation, and competition with others Garzotto, 2007;Jegers, 2007;Lazzaro, 2004). Therefore, intrinsic enjoyment of group play seems to be an important prerequisite for learning from social games.…”

“…Researchers could test the specific game elements that , Jegers (2007), and suggest correspond to each of these dimensions of flow. Future studies in this vein should especially use experimental or quasi-experimental designs to manipulate formal features while controlling for contextual factors that influence players' experience, as did by varying the levels of goal interdependence and reward in a single game.…”

“…While most versions of gameflow theory focus exclusively on the relationship of the individual to the game, some scholars have begun to incorporate social interaction into their models of gameflow (Choi and Kim, 2004;Garzotto, 2007;Jegers, 2007;Jerome et al, 2006;. This is a response both to longstanding observations of how even single-player games are often played in a social context and to the rise of genres in which social play is central to the game, such as networked multiplayer games and pervasive games (which integrate play in the virtual and physical worlds, often among groups).…”