Designing game idea generation games

Kultima, Annakaisa; Niemelä, Johannes; Paavilainen, Janne; Saarenpää, Hannamari

doi:10.1145/1496984.1497007

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“…VNA cards (Kultima et al, 2008) are another example for a card-based design game. Similar to PLEX, they are used to create initial game design ideas.…”

Section: Ideation Cardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing Ideation Cards for Mixed Reality Game Design

Wetzel¹,

Rodden²,

Benford³

2017

ToDIGRA

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Mixed reality games (MRGs) encompass a variety of gaming genres such as pervasive games, location-based games, and augmented reality games. They enrich the physical world with technology to create new and exciting possibilities for games – but at the same time introduce new challenges. In order to make the vast design space of MRGs easily accessible we have developed our Mixed Reality Game Cards. These are a deck of ideation cards that synthesize design knowledge about MRGs and enable collaborative design in a playful manner. In this paper, we describe the iterative development of the Mixed Reality Game Cards over the course of six studies. The final version of the cards constitutes a helpful tool for future designers of MRGs both for rapid idea generation as well as for more in-depth idea development. We achieve this by utilizing different types of domain-specific cards (Opportunities, Questions, Challenges) as well as promoting the inclusion of domain-extrinsic Theme cards and suggesting different rules for interacting with the cards.

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“…VNA cards (Kultima et al, 2008) are another example for a card-based design game. Similar to PLEX, they are used to create initial game design ideas.…”

Section: Ideation Cardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing Ideation Cards for Mixed Reality Game Design

Wetzel¹,

Rodden²,

Benford³

2017

ToDIGRA

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“…A game equals people for the time of its duration. Congruently gaming is considered a fundamental component in skill development and adaption, knowledge acquisition and transfer [9] [12]. Subsequently games that advance over pure entertainment are considered Serious Games.…”

Section: Games For Cultural Awarenessmentioning

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Bohn

Eibl

Berger

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Workshop on Serious Games

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“…Similar kinds of idea generation games have been developed for design cards, such as the VNA Cards and GameSeekers Cards by Kultima et al [25].…”

Section: The Plex Cards Techniquesmentioning

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Applying the PLEX framework in designing for playfulness

Arrasvuori

Boberg

Holopainen

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces

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In addition to functionality and usability, interactive products are increasingly expected to provide pleasurable experiences to their users. Playfulness is a part of these experiences. However, playfulness can manifest in many different ways as humans are inherently playful by nature. This poses challenges for designing for playfulness. To tackle this broad field, we have developed the Playful Experiences (PLEX) framework. The two-fold purpose of the PLEX framework is to be a conceptual tool for understanding the playful aspects of user experience (UX), and be a practical tool for designing for such experiences through established user-centered design (UCD) methods. In this paper we present an overview of our work during 2008--2010 on designing for playful experiences. After introducing and summarizing previous studies, we motivate the reasons for designing for playfulness by framing PLEX within the domains of user experience and emotional experience. Then, we briefly discuss the creation and evaluation of the PLEX Cards and its associated techniques as practical design tools based on the PLEX framework, followed by a concrete design case where these tools have been used. We also present the development of the PLEX Design Patterns for actual design solutions for playfulness. Based on this work, we propose the PLEX framework as a powerful tool for understanding playful experiences, and for providing inspiration to design interactive products that elicit playfulness

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Designing game idea generation games

Cited by 44 publications

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Developing Ideation Cards for Mixed Reality Game Design

Developing Ideation Cards for Mixed Reality Game Design

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