2024
DOI: 10.1145/3677100
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Questions without Answers: Enjoyment of Irresolution in Mystery Player Experience

Emmi L. K. Kärnä,
Jaakko Väkevä,
Heidi Rautalahti
et al.

Abstract: Mysteries are an engaging form of fiction, capturing audiences with curiosity, uncertainty, and ambiguity. However, mysteries in games have presented a challenge for research since the word mystery may be understood as 1) detective mysteries with clear-cut answers or 2) as mysteries which are unsolvable and incomprehensible. This paper focuses on the latter kind of mysteries. To investigate what constitutes a mystery player experience, in what ways mystery games provide answers to players and how to design the… Show more

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