Alisha Karabinus
ABSTRACT
Because professional game design processes and practices are often obfuscated, it is difficult for researchers to study how game design happens. In an effort to fill some of those gaps, this paper explores an amateur game design community with visible ongoing documentation practices. This research is meant to help establish cognates to professional game design practices in the service of building out the broader game design ecology. This discursive case study presents a way into a practice often closed off from technical communication scholars, UX specialists, and instructors attempting to train students in the daily work and technical communication practices of game design.
- Hadyn Taylor. 2017. Global gaming revenue on par with sports at $149bn for 2017. Retrieved November 30, 2017 from https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-11-28-global-gaming-revenue-on-par-with-sports-following-2017-estimates.Google Scholar
- Julia Mason. 2013. Video games as technical communication ecology. Technical Communication Quarterly 22, 3 (January 2013), 219--237.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Jason Schreier. 2017. Game designer says developers would be more candid if gamer culture wasn't so toxic. Retrieved November 9, 2017 from https://kotaku.com/game-designer-says-developers-would-be-more-candid-if-g-1818729507.Google Scholar
- Jennifer DeWinter and Stephanie Vie. 2016. Games in technical communication. Technical Communication Quarterly 25, 3 (May 2016), 151--154.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Ian Bogost. 2007. Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Video Games. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Cody Reimer. Dialogic, data-driven design: UX and League of Legends. In Liza Potts and Michael Salvo (eds), Rhetoric and Experience Architecture. Parlor Press. Anderson, SC. (241--257).Google Scholar
- Rudy McDaniel and Alice Daer. 2016. Developer discourse: Exploring technical communication practices within video game development. Technical Communication Quarterly 25, 3 (May 2016), 155--166.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Michael Anthony DeAnda and Carly A. Kocurek. 2016. Game design as technical communication: Articulating game design through textbooks. Technical Communication Quarterly 25, 3 (May 2016), 202--210.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Jim Kalbach. 2014. UX Debt: Borrowing From Your Users. Experiencing Information. Retrieved from https://experiencinginformation.com/2014/05/03/ux-debt-borrowing-from-your-users/Google Scholar
- Sergey Demyanov, James Bailey, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Christopher Leckie. 2015. Detection of deception in the Mafia party game. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '15). ACM Press, New York, NY, 335--342. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Matthew B. Miles, Michael Huberman, and Johnny Saldaña. 2013. Qualitative Data Analysis: A Method Sourcebook. Sage Publications, London.Google Scholar
- James P. Gee. 2014. How To Do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit. Routledge, Chicago, IL.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Games, UX, and the Gaps: Technical Communication Practices in an Amateur Game Design Community
Recommendations
Professional practice, amateur profile: mapping amateur game design communities
SIGDOC '19: Proceedings of the 37th ACM International Conference on the Design of CommunicationAmateur game design communities are fruitful spaces for research in professional and technical communication (PTC) [9, 10, 16]; these communities often mirror many professional practices such as iterative design and the creation of extensive ...
WEARPG: game design implications for movement-based play in table-top role-playing games with arm-worn devices
AcademicMindtrek '16: Proceedings of the 20th International Academic Mindtrek ConferenceCombining the physical and the digital is one of the most trending topics in game research in HCI. Augmenting the table-top role-playing games (TTRPG) by adding electronic devices is a growing research area, yet the introduction of new play styles is ...
Pleasures in Games: Conceptual Analysis of Fun and Its Constructs
Gaming, Simulation and Innovations: Challenges and OpportunitiesAbstractFun is a fundamental driver of games. In serious games, the expectation to fulfil the purpose is oftentimes prioritised over elements of fun. In this paper, we analyse the concept of fun across domains and distinguish it from its allied constructs ...
Comments