Master of the game: Assessing approachability in future game design

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3177-3182

  Desurvire, Heather ^a   Wiberg, Charlotte ^b  

^a Behavioristics Playability/Usability for Games Web Software   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Game approachability; Game design; Method development; Usability for video games

Indexed keywords

GAME APPROACHABILITY; GAME DESIGN; GAME DESIGNERS; GAME DESIGNS; GAME DEVELOPMENTS; HEURISTIC EVALUATIONS; LEARNING LEVELS; METHOD DEVELOPMENT; USABILITY FOR VIDEO GAMES; USABILITY TESTING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DESIGN; GALLIUM ALLOYS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOTIVATION;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 57049165464     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1358628.1358827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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