Affordance Theory in Game Design

A Guide Toward Understanding Players

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

329 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

The book details topics to reflect on possible emotional outcomes of the player at the early stages of game design as well as the methodology for presenting questions to players in such a way as to elicit authentic feedback.This book is intended mainly for game designers, researchers, and developers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-03-26
Mått191 x 235 x 10 mm
Vikt228 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSynthesis Lectures on Games and Computational Intelligence
Antal sidor97
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031009952
OriginaltitelAffordance Theory in Game Design

Tillhör följande kategorier

Matematik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Teknik: allmänt inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Artificiell intelligens inom Data och IT
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Hamna Aslam received a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Computer Engineering from Bahauddin Zakariya University. She received an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. Presently, she is a Ph.D. student as well as an instructor at Innopolis University. She has published numerous peer-reviewed papers on the topic of human factors and game design.Joseph Alexander Brown received a B.Sc. (Hons.) with first-class standing in Computer Science with a concentration in software engineering, and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Guelph in 2014. He previously worked for Magna International Inc. as a Manufacturing Systems Analyst and as a visiting researcher at ITU Copenhagen in their Games Group. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of the Artificial Intelligence in Games Development Lab at Innopolis University in Innopolis, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a chair of the yearly Procedural Content Generation Jam (ProcJam), the proceedings chair for the IEEE 2013 Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games (CIG), and Vice Chair for the IEEE Committee on Games.

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Affordance Theory and Game Design.- A Focused Conversational Model for Game Design and Playtest.- A Designer's Reflection on Game Design Considering Players' Emotions.- Age and Play.- Gender and Play.- Player Perceptions of Odd-Shaped Dice for Dungeons & Dragons/ Dice Design and Player Preferences for Colors and Contrast.- Conclusions.- Bibliography.- Authors' Biographies.