A narrative-driven design approach for casual games with children

Proceedings - Sandbox 2010: 5th ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 19-24

  Duh, Henry Been Lirn ^a   Yee, Sharon Lynn Chu Yew ^a   Gu, Yuan Xun ^a   Chen, Vivian Hsueh Hua ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Children; Informant design; Narrative game design

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN; DESIGN APPROACHES; GAME DESIGN; INFORMANT DESIGN; MOBILE PHONE GAMES; USER TESTING;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MOBILE PHONES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

DESIGN;

EID: 77956292701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1836135.1836138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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