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:

Doruk Balcı

iGGi PG Researcher

Design & Development, Player Research

Toby Best

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Game AI, Design & Development, Player Research

Steph Carter

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Applied Games, Design & Development, Player Research, Accessibility, Game Data

Dr Tom Cole

iGGi Alum + Supervisor

Game AI, Design & Development

Prof. Richard Bartle

Supervisor

Design & Development, Game AI, Player Research

Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks

Supervisor

Game Audio, Player Research, Design & Development, Applied Games, Accessibility

Dr Guifen Chen

Supervisor

Creative Computing, Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Dr Mike Cook

Supervisor

Game AI, Design & Development, Creative Computing

Nirit Binyamini Ben Meir

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Applied Games, Design & Development, Creative Computing

Dr Terence Broad

iGGi Alum

Available for post-PhD position

Creative Computing, Design & Development

Karl Clarke

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Prof. Peter Cowling

Supervisor

Game AI, Applied Games, Design & Development

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

Towards an Ontology of Wargame Design

L Ouriques, CE Barbosa, J Kritz, G Xexéo

IEEE Access, vol. 13

Joshua Kritz

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When 1+ 1 does not equal 2: Synergy in games

Joshua Kritz, Raluca Gaina

arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.10304

Joshua Kritz

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"Leave our kids alone!": Exploring Concerns Reported by Parents in 1-star Reviews

L Winter, L Helsby, D Zendle

CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article No.: 1036, Pages 1 - 16

Lauren Winter

Laura Helsby

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Using Virtual Reality to Investigate the Influence of Sleep Deprivation on In-the-Moment Arousal During Exposure to Prolonged Threats

E Sullivan, C McCall, LM Henderson, M Croissant, G Schofield, S Cairney

JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH 33, 2024

Dr Maximilian Croissant

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Playing NetHack with LLMs: Potential & Limitations as Zero-Shot Agents

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

arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.00690, 2024

Dominik Jeurissen

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Climate Club: A Group-based Game to Support Sensemaking of Climate Actions

P Sandbhor, J Hook

FDG '24: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Article No.: 32, Pages 1 - 12, 2024

Prasad Sandbhor

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