What makes a game high-rated?

Ullmann, Gabriel C.; Politowski, Cristiano; Guéhéneuc, Yann‐Gaël; Petrillo, Fábio

doi:10.1145/3524494.3527628

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“…Previous studies have taken advantage of the app store specific information to help software developers [106][107][108]. For example, Ullmann et al [109] leveraged records of rating statistics and downloaded information to study the factors in developing successful video games. Another study leveraged analytic information collected by the app store to identify incompatible builds of application and physical devices [110].…”

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What is an app store? The software engineering perspective

Zhu,

Proksch,

German

et al. 2024

Empir Software Eng

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App stores" are online software stores where end users may browse, purchase, download, and install software applications. By far, the best known app stores are associated with mobile platforms, such as Google Play for Android and Apple's App Store for iOS. The ubiquity of smartphones has led to mobile app stores becoming a touchstone experience of modern living. App stores have been the subject of many empirical studies. However, most of this research has concentrated on properties of the apps rather than the stores themselves. Today, there is a rich diversity of app stores and these stores have largely been overlooked by researchers: app stores exist on many distinctive platforms, are aimed at different classes of users, and have different end-goals beyond simply selling a standalone app to a smartphone user.The goal of this paper is to survey and characterize the broader dimensionality of app stores, and to explore how and why they influence software development practices, such as system design and release management. We begin by collecting a set of app store examples from web search queries. By analyzing and curating the results, we derive a set of features common to app stores. We then build a dimensional model of app stores based on these features, and we fit each app store from our web search result set into this model.

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Section: App Store Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

What is an app store? The software engineering perspective

Zhu,

Proksch,

German

et al. 2024

Empir Software Eng

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“…We now explain the six-step approach we proposed in a previous work [11], summarized in Figure 2 and used in this paper in a slightly modified version. Steps 1 to 3 are performed manually.…”

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“…In the original implementation of the approach [11], we read and resolved each of the unresolved include paths manually. However, repeating this operation for thousands of paths is time-consuming and error-prone.…”

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Visualising Game Engine Subsystem Coupling Patterns

C. Ullmann,

Guéhéneuc,

Petrillo

et al. 2023

Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2023

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Game engines support video game development by providing functionalities such as graphics rendering or input/output device management. However, their architectures are often overlooked, which hinders their integration and extension. In this paper, we use an approach for architecture recovery to create architectural models for 10 open-source game engines. We use these models to answer the following questions: Which subsystems more often couple with one another? Do game engines share subsystem coupling patterns? We observe that the Low-Level Renderer, Platform Independence Layer and Resource Manager are frequently coupled to the game engine Core. By identifying the most frequent coupling patterns, we describe an emergent game engine architecture and discuss how it can be used by practitioners to improve system understanding and maintainability.

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Application of Meta-Gaming Concept to the Publishing Platform: Analysis of the Steam Games Platform

2023

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The digital marketplace has rapidly grown, transitioning the market of video games from physical localized experiences to more networked, expanded, virtual spaces. With a highly competitive business market, platform governance policy allows for the emergence of rapidly growing publishing platforms for digital video games such as the Steam platform. This study demonstrated the importance of the meta-gaming of a platform based on the Steam platform; 18,658 Steam-listed games were acquired and analyzed from the Steam Store, Steam Spy, and Steam achievement databases. A detailed analysis was conducted where key research questions were formulated concerning the game information. This study found that digital badging (i.e., achievements) increases players’ engagement with the publishing platform with good auxiliary data (such as types, rating, releases, and prices). Based on such findings, an opportunity for a new business model is envisioned.

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What makes a game high-rated?

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

What is an app store? The software engineering perspective

What is an app store? The software engineering perspective

Visualising Game Engine Subsystem Coupling Patterns

Application of Meta-Gaming Concept to the Publishing Platform: Analysis of the Steam Games Platform

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