A survey method for assessing perceptions of a game: The consumer playtest in game design

Game Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Davis, John P ^a   Steury, Keith ^a   Pagulayan, Randy ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

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