Janne Paavilainen
ABSTRACT
This paper presents the first step in creating design and evaluation heuristics for social games which emerge from the domain of social media. Initial high level heuristics for social games are offered by reviewing four existing video game heuristic models and analyzing two social games design frameworks.
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- Critical review on video game evaluation heuristics: social games perspective
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