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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 Sarah West

Dr Sarah West

Supervisor

Player Research, Accessibility, Design & Development

Dr Oliver Withington

Dr Oliver Withington

iGGi Alum

Available for post-PhD position

Game AI, Creative Computing, Design & Development

Dr Matthew Whitby

Dr Matthew Whitby

iGGi Alum

Player Research, Design & Development

Dr Andrew James Wood

Dr Andrew James Wood

Supervisor

Applied Games, Design & Development, Game Data

Lauren Winter

Lauren Winter

iGGi PG Researcher

Design & Development, Player Research

Dr Poonam Yadav

Dr Poonam Yadav

Supervisor

Design & Development, Game Data, Esports

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

"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

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

Design Methods for Accessing the Pluriverse

Hadas Zohar, Nirit Binyamini Ben-Meir, Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, Danielle Barrios-O'Neill, Michal Pauzner, Oded Kutok, Laura Dudek, Erin Robinson

Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2024

Perceptual Distraction and its Effects on Difficulty and User Experience in Digital Games

M Frister

University of York, 2024

Playing nethack with llms: Potential & limitations as zero-shot agents

D Jeurissen, D Perez-Liebana, J Gow, D Cakmak, J Kwan

2024 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 1-8, 2024

Unveiling modern board games: an ML-based approach to BoardGameGeek data analysis

D Nguyen, J Kritz, RD Gaina, D Perez-Liebana

2024 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)

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