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

Daneva, Maya

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2017.08.009

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“…He provides solutions and features that are not currently available in game as well as suggestions that can better cater to the community. These findings align with studies done by Daneva (2017) and Jenkins (2006b). Thus, his commentary addresses the needs within the game.…”

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“…Fans are individuals who have an "intense emotional investment in media text" and "who engages with the larger fandom" (Jenkins, 2006c, par.8). Developers have acknowledged that fans know the work even better than developers do (Daneva, 2017;Jenkins, 2006b). Players in World of Warcraft have spent a collective "5.93 million years" in the game and compiled thousands of Wikipedia pages on the MMORPG (McGonigal, 2010).…”

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“…"The games industry… has been eager to broaden consumer participation" as the shape of an MMORPG does not only require the input of designers but also players (Jenkins, 2006b). This involvement occurs within and even outside the game's boundaries as the needs of an MMORPG differs in terms of design and processes compared to traditional approaches to games in famous design books (Daneva, 2017;Jenkins, 2006b). Game designers must have intimate knowledge of the game as players themselves and would view this as a "process… between game creators and players" (Daneva, 2017, p.61-64).…”

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“…The above studies focused on several aspects of games and software engineering, such as software engineering practices applied in game development [19,20,28,44,46,61], limitations of game development [1,30,42], game testing [6,29], empirical insights on game development for game developers [34][35][36][37][38], user views of games [13,15], and potential software engineering research opportunities in games [2,33,54].…”

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Building the perfect game – an empirical study of game modifications

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Prior work has shown that gamer loyalty is important for the sales of a developer's future games. Therefore, it is important for game developers to increase the longevity of their games. However, game developers cannot always meet the growing and changing needs of the gaming community, due to the often already overloaded schedules of developers. So-called modders can potentially assist game developers with addressing gamers' needs. Modders are enthusiasts who provide modifications or completely new content for a game. By supporting modders, game developers can meet the rapidly growing and varying needs of their gamer base. Modders have the potential to play a role in extending the life expectancy of a game, thereby saving game developers time and money, and leading to a better overall gaming experience for their gamer base.In this paper, we empirically study the metadata of 9,521 mods that were extracted from the Nexus Mods distribution platform. The Nexus Mods distribution platform is one of the largest mod distribution platforms for PC games at the time of our study. The goal of our paper is to provide useful insights about mods on the Nexus Mods distribution platform from a quantitative perspective, and to provide researchers a solid foundation to further explore game mods. To better understand the potential of mods to extend the longevity of a game we study their characteristics, and we study their release schedules and post-release support (in terms of bug reports) as a proxy for the willingness of the modding community to contribute to a game. We find that

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“…4,7 Additionally, in the last years, the game development software engineering process: (a) adopts more agile practices, because the players are involved in the development stages through play testing; and (b) is iterative as well as on-going, in the sense that community feedback plays a crucial role in games' improvement and assessment. 7,8 We note that in Figure 1, we simplify the process (for illustration purposes) and present an isolated view of the cross-functional and interdisciplinary teamwork, in a waterfall-like manner (despite the more agile, but complex practices that are used in practice). So suppose a game designer that first decides the type of game that is going to be developed ( game genre)-for example, sports game; next, he/she needs to explore existing successful games of this genre (e.g., FIFA© and PRO Evolution Soccer©) to "borrow" ideas, tentative requirements, and good practices.…”

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Implementing game requirements using design patterns

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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

Cited by 8 publications

References 51 publications

– The Asian Conference on Media, Communication & Film 2020: Official Conference Proceedings

– The Asian Conference on Media, Communication & Film 2020: Official Conference Proceedings

Building the perfect game – an empirical study of game modifications

Implementing game requirements using design patterns

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