Designing for player experience: How professional game developers communicate design visions

Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 259-275

  Hagen, Ulf ^a  

^a SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Design practice; Design tools; Experience design; Game design; Player experience; Video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044801707     PISSN: 1757191X     EISSN: 17571928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1386/jgvw.3.3.259_1     Document Type: Article

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