Design & Development

How might we advance game-making with new design and development insights, methods, tools, and techniques?

Project areas include:

Integrating the physical and the digital in games
Co-designing games with players who lack technical expertise
Designing and understanding the impact of persuasive games

iGGi >>> People <<< relevant to this Theme:

Dr Nathan John

iGGi Alum

Game AI, Design & Development

Joshua Kritz

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Game AI, Applied Games, Design & Development

Océane Lissillour

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Design & Development, Player Research

Dr Debbie Maxwell

Supervisor

Applied Games, Player Research, Design & Development

Cameron Johnston

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Design & Development, Creative Computing

Gorm Lai

iGGi PG Researcher

Creative Computing, Game AI, Design & Development

George Long

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Game AI, Design & Development, Game Data

Dr Mihail Morosan

iGGi Alum

Game AI, Design & Development, Player Research

Dr Ben Kirman

Supervisor

Player Research, Creative Computing, Design & Development, Applied Games, Esports

Nicole Levermore

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Accessibility, Player Research

Sarah Masters

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for post-PhD position

Applied Games, Design & Development, Player Research

Dien Nguyen

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Game AI, Applied Games, Design & Development, Creative Computing

iGGi >>> Publications <<< relevant to this Theme:

From Passive Viewer to Active Fan: Towards the Design and Large-Scale Evaluation of Interactive Audience Experiences in Esports and Beyond

Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Alistair Coates, Florian Block, Anders Drachen, James Alfred Walker, James Dean, Mark McConachie, Peter York

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, 2024

Dr Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat

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How To Save A World: The Go-Along Interview as Game Preservation Methodology in Wurm Online

F Smith Nicholls, M Cook

FDG24: 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Worcester MA USA, Article No 27, p. 1-16, 2024

Florence Smith Nicholls

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User-centred collecting for emerging formats

F Smith Nicholls, GC Rossi, I Cooke, L Clark, T Pyke

User-centred collecting for emerging formats. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 30(1–2), p. 114–128.

Florence Smith Nicholls

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Examining the effects of video game difficulty adaptation on performance and player experience

M Frister, P Cairns, F McNab

OSF, 2024

Dr Madeleine Frister

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"Journeys in the Dark"-Towards Game Master AI in Complex Board Games

T Best, S Lucas, R Gaina

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Entertainment, 2024

Toby Best

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Permalife of the Archive: Archaeogaming as Queergaming

F Smith Nicholls

FDG24: 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Worcester MA USA, Article No 66, p. 1-9, 2024

Florence Smith Nicholls

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