User experience on games development trends

Abstract

Game industries are emerging and growing rapidly. Developing good game is becoming more complicated today. It required to achieve user satisfaction and good interaction. Designer has to learn more about social aspects alongside technical aspects. These activities embodied as user experience (UX). In fact, UX and game cannot be distinguised each other. However, it is difficult to be understood. Initial survey had conducted in order to test the statement. Students of Informatics Engineering, UII choosen to take survey. Result revealed, even though students understand about UX and game development separately, they confused when asked about UX-based game development. Based on those problems, we conducted literature review on UX-based game development. 36 papers are reviewed and generated three main discussions. First, usability issues in UX-based game development. Second, virtual reality (VR) is becoming the most popular topic. Third, how to measure children as personas in game development. Briefly conclusion, UX and game development are coherent each other in order to achieve user sastisfaction and good interaction. Result of this study can be used as reference for students about the issues of UX-based game development. Even though, this study is not comprehensively produce method yet. It needs further study to strengthen the result and produce method.