Designing for the dichotomy of immersion in location based games

The interaction design of mixed reality location based games typically focuses upon the digital content of the mobile screen, as this is characteristically the primary navigational tool players use to traverse the game space. This emphasis on the digital over the physical means the opportunity for player immersion in mixed reality games is often limited to the single (digital) dimension. This research seeks to redress this imbalance, which is caused, in part, by the requirement for the player?s attention to be systematically switched between the two worlds, defined in this research as the ?Dichotomy of Immersion?. Using different design strategies we propose minimising the reliance of the player upon the mobile screen by encouraging greater observation of their physical surroundings. Using a ?research through design? approach for the mixed reality game PAC-LAN: Zombie Apocalypse, we illustrate design strategies for increasing immersion in location based games, which we believe will aid designers in enabling players to more readily engage with the physical context of the game and thus facilitate richer game experiences

Designing Sugaropolis:digital games as a medium for conveying transnational narratives

In this paper, the authors present a case study of ‘Sugaropolis’: a two-year practice-based project that involved interdisciplinary co-design and stakeholder evaluation of two digital game prototypes. Drawing on the diverse expertise of the research team (game design and development, human geography, and transnational narratives), the paper aims to contribute to debates about the use of digital games as a medium for representing the past. With an emphasis on design-as-research, we consider how digital games can be (co-)designed to communicate complex histories and geographies in which people, objects, and resources are connected through space and time

A game based approach to improve traders' decision-making

Purpose: The development of a game based approach to improving the decision-making capabilities of financial traders through attention to improving the regulation of emotions during trading. Design/methodology/approach: The project used a design-based research approach to integrate the contributions of a highly inter-disciplinary team. The approach was underpinned by considerable stakeholder engagement to understand the ‘ecology of practices’ in which this learning approach should be embedded. Findings: Taken together, our 35 laboratory, field and evaluation studies provide much support for the validity of our game based learning approach, the learning elements which make it up, and the value of designing game-based learning to fit within an ecology of existing practices. Originality/value: The novelty of the work described in the paper comes from the focus in this research project of combining knowledge and skills from multiple disciplines informed by a deep understanding of the context of application to achieve the successful development of a Learning Pathway, which addresses the transfer of learning to the practice environment Key words: Design-based research, emotion-regulation, disposition–effect, financial traders, serious games, sensor-based game

Games Design Research through Game Design Practice

Whilst many game design academics are also game designers, their research is often presented through the lens of other disciplines (philosophy, media theory, human computer interaction [HCI], etc.) and practice-based design research is arguably underrepresented in the games research community. Although game design research espouses to open an inclusive community, at present, research approaches and the presentation of results is dominated by those inherited from either the social sciences or HCI. This dominance of loaded and prescriptive academic frameworks is arguably why many of those creating games outside academia feel such research is unrepresentative of their own practices

ENGLISH GUESSING PICTURES GAME FOR 4TH GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS USING MACROMEDIA FLASH 8

This research was purposed to produce and examine the appropriateness of English Guessing Pictures Game for 4th Grade Elementary School Students. This game contains about english vocabularies for 4th grade students, that was expected to help students in knowing and learning about english vocabularies. This game developed by using Macromedia Flash 8. This research use Research and Development (R&D) was developed by Lee and Owen. The steps in this research were consist of analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation. Analysis was break into two parts needs assessment and front-end analysis. Needs assessment was for collecting whole datas, front-end analysis was for analyze all datas that were collected. Its analysis were audience analysis, technology analysis, media analysis, and extant-data analysis. Design consist of material collecting, made storyboard and flowchart. Development consist of game building, experts judgement and revision. Before doing experts judgement, performed former examine use black box testing method to know mistakes that were in game. Experts judgement performed by media experts and material experts, this examination called by alpha testing. Implementation was step which examination according to user (students) or well known as beta testing. This examination was done in SD N Caturtunggal 7 which involving 33 of 4th grade students. Data collecting method was using questionnaires. Data analysis uses analysis descriptive by changing evaluation total scores into appropriateness percentage interval. Results of data analysis show that appropriateness by media experts got 85,75% which included in high appropriate category. Result value from material experts got 86,25% which included in high appropriate category. Result of data analyzing from field try out (beta testing) by students got 87,14% which included. So then, can be concluded that english guessing pictures game for 4th grade elementery school student was appropriate to be used. Keywords: English, Educational game, Guessing Picture

Assessment of co-creativity in the process of game design

We consider game design as a sociocultural and knowledge modelling activity, engaging participants in the design of a scenario and a game universe based on a real or imaginary socio-historical context, where characters can introduce life narratives and interaction that display either known social realities or entirely new ones. In this research, participants of the co-creation activity are Malaysian students who were working in groups to design game-based learning resources for rural school children. After the co-creativity activity, the students were invited to answer the co-creativity scale, an adapted version of the Assessment Scale of Creative Collaboration (ASCC), combining both the co-creativity factors and learners’ experiences on their interests, and difficulties they faced during the co-creativity process. The preliminary results showed a high diversity on the participants’ attitudes towards collaboration, especially related to their preferences towards individual or collaborative work