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

Supervisor

Player Research, Accessibility, Design & Development

Dr Oliver Withington

iGGi Alum

Available for post-PhD position

Game AI, Creative Computing, Design & Development

Dr Matthew Whitby

iGGi Alum

Player Research, Design & Development

Dr Andrew James Wood

Supervisor

Applied Games, Design & Development, Game Data

Lauren Winter

iGGi PG Researcher

Design & Development, Player Research

Dr Poonam Yadav

Supervisor

Design & Development, Game Data, Esports

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

A Conceptual Model for the Analysis of Investigation Elements in Games

Pedro Marques, Marcus Parreiras, Joshua Kritz, Geraldo Xexéo

arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10272, 2024

Joshua Kritz

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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

Dr 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.

Dr 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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