Games User Research 1st edition Anders Drachen

Games User Research – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198794844,0198794843

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198794843
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198794844
• Author(s): Anders Drachen

Games live and die commercially on the player experience. Games User Research is collectively the way we optimise the quality of the user experience (UX) in games, working with all aspects of a game from the mechanics and interface, visuals and art, interaction and progression, making sure every element works in concert and supports the game UX.

This means that Games User Research is essential and integral to the production of games and to shape the experience of players. Today, Games User Research stands as the primary pathway to understanding players and how to design, build, and launch games that provide the right game UX.

Until now, the knowledge in Games User Research and Game UX has been fragmented and there were no comprehensive, authoritative resources available. This book bridges the current gap of knowledge in Games User Research, building the go-to resource for everyone working with players and games or other interactive entertainment products. It is accessible to those new to Games User Research, while being deeply comprehensive and insightful for even hardened veterans of the game industry. In this book, dozens of veterans share their wisdom and best practices on how to plan user research, obtain the actionable insights from users, conduct user-centred testing, which methods to use when, how platforms influence user research practices, and much, much more.

Table contents:

1. Introduction to Games User Research, Anders Drachen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Lennart Nacke

2. Games User Research as part of the Development Process in the Game Industry: Challenges and Best practices, Veronica Zammitto

3. It’s All About Process, David Tisserand

4. Post-launch in Game User Research, Ian Livingston

5. A GUR Maturity Model, Graham McAllister

6. Designing A Games User Research Lab From Scratch, Sebastian Long

7. User experience maturity levels: Evaluating and improving Game User Research practices, Michael C. Medlock

8. A Framework for Player Research, Graham McAllister and Sebastian Long

9. Surveys in Games User Research, Florian Bruhlmann & Elisa D. Mekler

10. Interviewing Players, Steve Bromley

11. Observing the Player Experience, Mirweis Sangin

12. The Think Aloud Protocol, Tom Knoll

13. The Rapid Iterative Test and Evaluation Method (RITE), Michael C. Medlock

14. Heuristic Uncovered for Game User Researchers and Game Designers, Heather Desurvire and Dennis Wixon

15. Heuristic Evaluation of Playability: Examples from Social Games Research and Free-to-Play Heuristics, Janne Paavilainen

16. Introduction to Biometrics Measures for Game User Research, Lennart Nacke

17. Developing actionable biometric insights for production teams: case studies and key learnings, Pierre Chalfoun, Jonathan Dankoff

18. Reporting User Research Findings to the Development Team, Pejman Mirza-Babaei

19. Game Analytics for Game User Research, Anders Drachen and Shawn Connor

20. Punching Above Your Weight: How small studios can leverage data for an unfair advantage, Lysiane Charest

21. Affordable and Data-Driven User Research for Indie Studios, Pejman Mirza-Babaei and Thomas Galati

22. Play as if you were home, Guillaume Louvel

23. Dissecting the Dragon: GUR for Dragon Age: Inquisition, James Berg

24. Running User Tests with Limited Resources and Experience, Julien Huguenin

25. Starting from Scratch: Pragmatic and Scalable Guidelines to Impactful Games User Research, Johan Dorell and Bjorn Berg Marklund

26. Strategies for Understanding and Researching Mobile Games in Context, Steven Schirra and Brooke White

27. Involving Players With Special Needs in Games User Research, Kathrin Gerling, Conor Linehan and Regan Mandryk

28. Gamer Motivation Profiling: Uses and Applications, Nick Yee and Nicolas Ducheneaut

29. Social Network Analysis in Games User Research, Johanna Pirker

30. A short guide to user testing for simulation sickness in Virtual Reality, Ben Lewis-Evans

31. Front lines in Games User Research, Anders Drachen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Lennart Nacke

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