Game User Experience And Player-Centered Design

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Cognition and Player Psychology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. ERP Correlates of Working Memory Load in Excessive Video Game Players

      • Metehan Irak, Can Soylu, Özüm Karya Sakman, Gözem Turan

      Pages 3-20

   3. Integrate: A Digital Game for Testing Conformity in Decision Making

      • Jin H. Kim, Sidan Fan, Sonya I. McCree, Sercan Şengün

      Pages 21-42

   4. Investigation of Response Inhibition in Excessive Video Game Playing: An Event-Related Potential Study

      • Metehan Irak, Can Soylu, Ceyda Tümen, Gözem Turan

      Pages 43-62

   5. Four Pillars of Healthy Escapism in Games: Emotion Regulation, Mood Management, Coping, and Recovery

      • Mehmet Kosa, Ahmet Uysal

      Pages 63-76

   6. User Experience and Motivation of Professional Video Game Players: A Case Study of Esports in Turkey

      • Orhan Efe Ozenc

      Pages 77-120

3. Modelling and Measuring Player Experience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Revisiting Heuristics for Evaluating Player Experience in Different Gaming Platforms: A Multi-Modal Approach

      • Çakır Aker, Kerem Rızvanoğlu, Yavuz İnal

      Pages 123-161

   3. Developing Gaming Instinctual Motivation Scale (GIMS): Item Development and Pre-testing

      • Ai Ni Teoh, Divjyot Kaur, Roberto Dillon, Dayana Hristova

      Pages 163-182

   4. The Game Experience Model (GEM)

      • Tomi “bgt” Suovuo, Natasha Skult, Tapani N. Joelsson, Petter Skult, Werner Ravyse, Jouni Smed

      Pages 183-205

   5. Driven, Imaginative, and Casual Game Experiences

      • Jukka Vahlo, Aki Koponen

      Pages 207-229

   6. Physiological Measures in Game User Research

      • Ecehan Akan, Mehmet İlker Berkman

      Pages 231-249

4. Game Design and Player Experience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251

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   2. The Ethics of Game Experience

      • Sami Hyrynsalmi, Kai K. Kimppa, Jouni Smed

      Pages 253-263

   3. Death and Rebirth in Platformer Games

      • Edward F. Melcer, Marjorie Ann M. Cuerdo

      Pages 265-293

   4. Player-Centred Design in Role-Playing Game Branching Dialogue Systems

      • Leanne Taylor-Giles

      Pages 295-325

   5. Designing a CAD-Enriched Empathy Game to Raise Awareness About Universal Design Principles: A Case Study

      • Çetin Tüker, Güven Çatak

      Pages 327-346

5. Case Studies of Computer Games

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 347-347

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   2. The Relationship Between Cohesive Game Design and Player Immersion: A Case Study of Original Versus Reboot Thief

      • Ysabelle Coutu, Yangyuqi Chang, Wendi Zhang, Sercan Şengün

      Pages 349-359

This book provides an introduction and overview of the rapidly evolving topic of game user experience, presenting the new perspectives employed by researchers and the industry, and highlighting the recent empirical findings that illustrate the nature of it. The first section deals with cognition and player psychology, the second section includes new research on modeling and measuring player experience, the third section focuses on the impact of game user experience on game design processes and game development cycles, the fourth section presents player experience case studies on contemporary computer games, and the final section demonstrates the evolution of game user experience in the new era of VR and AR.

The book is suitable for students and professionals with different disciplinary backgrounds such as computer science, game design, software engineering, psychology, interactive media, and many others.

• Computer games
• User experience
• Gamer user experience
• Player experience
• Player-centered design
• Game user research methods
• Game design
• Player psychology
• Virtual Reality
• Augmented Reality
• Extended Reality
• Game Heuristics

• Department of Game Design, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

  Barbaros Bostan

Barbaros Bostan is an Associate Professor in the Digital Game Design department at the Bahcesehir University/Turkey. He has a Ph.D. in Information Systems (2007) from Marmara University, an M.B.A. (2003) from Yeditepe University, and a B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering (2001) from Istanbul Technical University. He worked as a post-doc researcher at IDM Institute, Games Lab of the National University of Singapore between 2008 and 2010. His research areas include computer games, presence, interactivity, gamer psychology, player motivations and player profiling. Bostan has teaching experience in the areas of game history and analysis, storytelling in games, player psychology, research methods and interactive narrative. He reviews journal articles and book chapters for various journals and publishers, local and international. He was the editor of Gamer Psychology and Behavior book published by Springer. He was also one of the section editors of Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games published by Springer. 

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