The Engagement Design Model and Applied Cases

Zagalo, Nelson

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37085-5_6

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“…Narrative Design has only emerged in the game design world in the last decade (Brunette, 2014;Jubert, 2017), as a way to bring story writing and game design together (Batchelor, 2019;Heussner, Finley, Hepler, & Lemay, 2015;McRae, 2017). The complexity of this merger arises from the fact that they are both integral systems for generating human experience, and as such, when brought together they collide by the force with which they attract to themselves the control of experiences (Zagalo, 2020b). We are therefore still facing a process in the search of solidification in ways of doing (Heussner, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Beats & Units: A story-game design framework

Zagalo¹,

Oliveira²,

Cardoso³

et al. 2023

IJFMA

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There are no recipes or rules to develop games, any more than there are to develop stories. When we try to define a game system that not only has to create a balanced experience, but also has to tell a story, which can engage players in creating empathy and meaning, everything gets complicated. We faced this problem when we had to develop a serious game with the goal of promoting discussion and awareness among children around nutrition: FlavourGame. In this regard, we needed not only to design game mechanics that would feel complete and progressive, but also to create a narrative that provided meaning to the game experience, in order to ensure an underlying layer to the context of nutrition. For that, we had to develop a framework that could help the team in guiding the telling of the story while designing the progression of the game. In this article, we present the full framework as a story-game design approach to be employed in the creation of serious narrative games.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%