On the harmfulness of secondary game objectives

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 30-37

  Andersen, Erik ^a   Liu, Yun En ^a   Snider, Richard ^a   Szeto, Roy ^a   Cooper, Seth ^a   Popović, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

A B testing; Analytics; Games; Secondary objectives

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICS; EXTENSIVE TESTING; FLASH GAME; GAME DESIGN; GAMES; PLAYER BEHAVIOR; SECONDARY OBJECTIVES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84858979036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2159365.2159370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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