Game Platform Research Articles

Instructional educational games in pharmacy experiential education: a quasi-experimental assessment of learning outcomes, students’ engagement and motivation

BackgroundThis study aimed to determine the impact of implementing instructional educational games on attaining the intended learning outcomes mapped with the competencies of a pharmacy practice experience course, and to assess students’ attitudes towards motivation and engagement in this active learning activity.MethodsThis was a quasi-experimental study that utilized a pretest-posttest for the research groups. Students were divided into teams and challenged to answer different questions related to the case scenarios. Different gaming platforms as Gamilab, Wisc-Online, and Quizizz were accordingly used to create different questions that help students memorize medications’ brand names, and acquire the advanced community knowledge and skills. The attainment of the intended learning outcomes was assessed and compared between the experimental and control groups through the course total average of grades, and the subsequent averages of domains relating to the course competencies. Attitudes towards motivation and engagement in educational games activities were also assessed among the experimental group.ResultsA total of 233 students were enrolled in the study. The experimental group had significantly higher total posttest average compared to the control group (Beta = 7.695, 95% CI = 4.964–10.425, P < 0.001). The experimental group had also significantly higher averages of competency domains related to foundational knowledge (Beta = 1.471, 95% CI = 0.723–2.219, P < 0.001), pharmaceutical care (Beta = 1.650, 95% CI = 0.673–2.627, P < 0.001), essentials to practice and care (Beta = 1.838, 95% CI = 0.626–3.050, P < 0.003), and approach to practice and care (Beta = 2.736, 95% CI = 1.384–4.088, P < 0.001) averages. The experimental group reflected positive attitudes toward gamification engagement and motivation, with greater than 60% of the students recommend engage educational games to be part of the course.ConclusionIncorporation of educational games into pharmacy practice experiences resulted in better learning outcomes. This kind of active learning appears to be acceptable and motivational for students, and is recommended for further research in didactic courses in the pharmacy curriculum.

Exploring Gender Stereotypes among Filipina Gamers of Mobile Legends: A Phenomenological Study

In the present time, not only men but also women feel a lot of pressure to have skills and strengths that would fit into society's standards in the online gaming world. This study aims to investigate how Filipina gamers experience gender stereotyping and how they cope with the negative stereotypes they have encountered while playing Mobile Legends (ML). The study consisted of sixteen (16) Filipina participants coming from different places in the Philippines. A qualitative method was used through a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to better understand the common gender stereotypes experienced by Filipina ML players and their ways of coping. Based on the findings, the Filipina gamers of ML are being stereotyped as weak and incompetent because of their gender identity. They are also being underestimated and discriminated against as they are exploited as support hero characters, and lesbianism is being attributed to them due to their presence in the male-dominated game community. In terms of coping mechanisms, Filipina ML players tend to ignore these negative comments, dedication, and enthusiasm to play well, and their time of playing is limited. Future studies may consider the experiences of female players in other online gaming platforms and game categories to achieve varied results.

Data Analysis of the Wordle Game: Insights and Predictive Models Based on Twitter Data

In 2022, the game "Wordle" gained immense popularity worldwide as players faced the challenge of guessing a five-letter word within six attempts, accompanied by feedback. This paper presents an extensive analysis of "Wordle" based on data mined from Twitter during the period from January 7 to December 31, 2022. The primary objective is to explore the game's dynamics and player engagement comprehensively.To achieve this, a sophisticated time-series model was developed to effectively track the fluctuation in the number of players. The model highlights an initial upward trend, reaching its peak on February 3, followed by a gradual decline and eventual stabilization, reflecting the sustained allure of the game. Additionally, this paper leveraged an XGBoost model to predict the distribution of player attempts, exhibiting remarkable accuracy, particularly for attempts ranging from three to six. This research demonstrates the powerful impact of data science in decoding intricate game dynamics and player behavior. Moreover, it emphasizes the fusion of gaming, data analytics, and social media as an exciting frontier for future research. The study's findings provide valuable insights into the gaming community's preferences and the underlying mechanisms that drive user engagement in digital gaming platforms.

Collect that Coin: Efficacy Testing of Platformer Game Mechanics with Adult Learners

Digital serious games for adult learning have become a more prominent topic for research in recent years, yet platformer genre games for learning remain underexplored. Despite this, many adults enjoy platformer games for entertainment which presents the question of what about platformer games makes them less prominent in adult education learning games. Platformer games often focus on simple mechanics such as collecting and race to the finish which map well to lower-order learning but require more effort to map to higher-order learning. To address this case, we rapidly designed and developed a 2D platforming game prototype called Biomes Rescue for use in a large general-education undergraduate Geography course. The game follows an Indiana Jones-style character who collects and aligns items to different biomes by evaluating items collected. The problem follows the slime-like creatures: the enemy representing pollution that has impacted Earth’s biomes. Three biomes have been disassembled by the enemies and the player must rescue all four biomes by critically thinking about the characteristics of each. We actively tested and adjusted Biomes Rescue over the last three years and focus this case on the latest implementation, which addresses the alignment of game mechanics to higher-order learning and Knowles principles of Andragogy combined with games-based learning. We hypothesized participants would have an unbalanced view of the dexterity-centered mechanics tied to fun more so than learning. Our mixed-methods exploratory study aims to understand what mechanics connect to fun and to learning from the learner’s perspective using a quiz score - a newly added measure, and Likert scale ratings on Enjoyment with open-ended feedback. Data analysis consisted of thematic analysis and group differences on the quiz scores. This study holds implications for designing platformers for adult learners with an understanding of the differences in game mechanics application for engaging critical thinking.

Tiles to Move: Investigating Tile-Based Locomotion for Virtual Reality

Tile-based locomotion (TBL) is a popular locomotion technique for computer, console, and board games. However, despite its simplicity and unconventional movement, the transfer of TBL to virtual reality (VR) as a game platform remains unexplored. To fill this gap, we introduce TBL for VR on the example of two techniques: a controller and a feet-based one. In a first user study, we evaluated the usability and acceptance of the techniques compared to teleportation and touchpad locomotion. In a second exploratory user study, we evaluated the user experience of both TBL techniques in a maze and a museum scenario. The findings show that both techniques provide enjoyment and acceptable usability by creating either a relaxing (controller-based) or a physically active (feet-based) solution. Finally, our results highlight that TBL techniques work particularly well for small, constrained spaces that allow users to focus on exploring details in the nearby environment (important for games) in contrast to large open spaces that require faster locomotion, like teleportation.

Using Games as an Effective Intervention for Supporting Families Living with Dementia

This paper explores the role of games in supporting dementia family caregivers during the pre- and early stages of the disease. It provides a comprehensive review of existing studies that focus on support mechanisms for both dementia patients and their caregivers, with a specific emphasis on games designed for this purpose. This paper outlines a research study conducted in two experiments. The first experiment involved conducting separate focus groups to explore how technology can assist older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Group A consisted of 9 participants from the UK, while Group B comprised 8 participants from Taiwan. The aim was to gather insights and perspectives from different cultural contexts. The second experiment of the study involved testing games with dementia family caregivers to assess their effectiveness and identify areas for refinement and improvement. A total of 20 participants took part in this experiment. By conducting focus groups and game testing with participants from different regions, this research aimed to gather diverse perspectives and insights, enhancing the validity and applicability of the findings. The findings of this project extend beyond the scope of dementia care and have implications for addressing various long-term health conditions. Games platforms have the potential to serve as effective tools for supporting communities that provide care for individuals with dementia. They offer opportunities for promoting self-understanding, accessing relevant resources, and facilitating informed decision-making within the context of health journeys.

International Journal of Role-playing 14 -- Full Issue -- IJRP

IJRP 14: Full Issue&#x0D; Table of Contents&#x0D; Evan Torner, Sarah Lynne Bowman, and William J. White -- "Editorial: Transformative Play Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Heritage, and Culture"&#x0D; This special issue is the second of a two-part series collecting the short articles presented during the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar, held at Uppsala University Campus Gotland in Visby, Sweden on October 20-21, 2022.&#x0D; "Statement by Mohamad Rabah"&#x0D; The statement reveals why the keynoter from Palestine was unable to attend the seminar in Visby due to a delayed visa approval by the Swedish Embassy in Israel. The statement emphasizes the importance of play as a tool for hope for young children, but also its limitations in the face of oppression.&#x0D; Weronika Szatkowska, "The People: A Serious Role-playing Game Designed to Address a Humanitarian Crisis"&#x0D; This article presents a case study of a serious role-play game called The People. The game was created as a response to the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border in cooperation with an engaged collective of researchers and groups of activists.&#x0D; Tadeu Rodrigues Iuama, "Towards the Post-Modern Art Week: Anthropophagic Reflexes in the Brazilian Larp Scenes"&#x0D; This article reflects on larp using the concept of anthropophagy. The metaphor, created by Oswald de Andrade in 1928 in Brazil, is characterized by the de-hierarchization of the hegemonic places of culture and by the critical digestion of the Other.&#x0D; Rian Rezende and Denise Portinari -- "Playing with Wonders: Objects, Role-Playing Games, and the Cultural Legacy of Bispo do Rosário for the City of Rio de Janeiro"&#x0D; This work focuses on an art object called “The Presentation Cloak.” The cloak forms a central element of micro role-playing games created to encourage people to experience stories linked to Brazilian cultural heritage.&#x0D; Yuqiao Liu --"Experiencing China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in Role-playing Games: Comparative Studies between MMORPGs and Larps"&#x0D; Using case studies from MMORPGs and Jubensha, this article explores the great potential role-playing games have to promote the learning of intangible cultural expres sions and traditions of China and make them available to a wider public.&#x0D; Bálint Márk Turi and Mátyás Hartyándi -- "Playing With The Fictitious “I”: Early Forms of Educational Role-playing in Hungary, 1938-1978"&#x0D; This article analyzes various sources to determine what forms of transformative play were present at the Bánk vacation program in Hungary (1938-1978). The authors discuss the program as a unique heritage of educational role-playing.&#x0D; Evan Torner -- "Jeppe and Maria Bergmann Ham-ming’s Literary-Musical Larp Adaptations"&#x0D; This article addresses analog RPG authorship through an analysis of three music-based blackbox larps by Jeppe and Maria Bergmann Hamming. The larps bear a unique signature, using aesthetic idealism and high culture to explore themes of decadance and downfall.&#x0D; Josephine Baird -- "Larp as a Potential Space for Non-Formal Queer Cultural Heritage"&#x0D; This article argues that larp design seeking to reflect and represent queer cultural production in social and performance spaces may allow for non-formal education on LGBTQIA+ lives and heritage, as well as personal (gender) expression, exploration, and embodiment.&#x0D; Hilda Levin -- "Bridging Historical and Present-Day Queer Community Through Embodied Role-playing"&#x0D; This article argues that in the affirmative space of larp, playing queer personality traits that might be suppressed can offer opportunities for personal growth and community building. Such impacts are especially possible with metareflection and integration.&#x0D; Henry Korkeila and J. Tuomas Harviainen -- "Gaming Capital in Contemporary Role-playing Game Platforms"&#x0D; This study approaches the formation of gaming capital within both Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) and Dungeons &amp; Dragons (1974), emphasizing information flow and social space perspectives.

Gaming Capital in Contemporary Role-playing Game Platforms

Gaming capital: a fifteen-year-old theory detailing how one’s gaming knowledge can be conceptualized into something tangible. In her book Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Video Games, Consalvo (2007) presented the term gaming capital to give a name and meaning to the collective understanding of both the individual player and the communities that entail the discussions about the game, genre, or the platform – including topics like knowledge, experience, and skill. Yet, there has not been much scholarly attention given to where one would situate gaming capital between cultural and symbolic capital, and where social capital would influence the transformation of knowledge to gaming capital. The discussion about gaming capital has been more about what it is, and what can be or cannot be gaming capital, but what steers gaming capital as an entity at their disposal has not been studied enough yet. The world of gaming has moved massively forwards in fifteen years, and the whole concept of what “gaming” is has subsequently changed, not only within the online multiplayer video game scene, but within analogue role-playing games too. Both mediums have their ways of accumulating and spending capital, and not everything is different in terms of gaming capital. Therefore, this study approaches the formation of gaming capital within both Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) and Dungeons &amp; Dragons (1974) through information flow and social space perspectives.

The qualities of patients interested in using a game-based digital mental health intervention for depression: a sequential mixed methods study

BackgroundDigital interventions are typically evaluated by their effectiveness and engagement, while the characteristics of patients who perceive them to be attractive have remained poorly understood. This challenges user-centered intervention development but also presents an avenue to improve intervention efficacy and engagement. Our objective was to characterize people to whom game-based interventions appeal to with a focus on their mental health backgrounds and prior digital game experiences.MethodsWe performed a sequential mixed methods study with adults suffering from major depressive disorder (MDD) who participated in a randomized controlled clinical trial studying the effectiveness of a game-based digital intervention for depression. First, randomly chosen participants were interviewed (N = 22), and the transcribed data were analyzed inductively. Then, focusing on the themes established through the interview data, we triangulated the findings using complementary questionnaire data (N = 445).ResultsThe interview data yielded four themes that we illuminated with quantified questionnaire data. (T1) The participants had enduring and diverse psychiatric symptomology: 73% had been diagnosed with a comorbid disorder in addition to depression. (T2) Participants had received at least some treatments that had not led to full remission of depression. 92% currently received therapeutic support, psychiatric medication, or both. (T3) Many participants had close relationships with digital gaming and played actively: on average, for 13 h a week on various gaming platforms and in various genres. (T4) Some participants used gaming to manage their psychiatric symptoms, and 76% found that playing helped them feel better.ConclusionsIdentifying and characterizing people attracted to game-based therapeutic interventions can catalyze intervention development and improve their efficacy. We found that game-based interventions have appealing potential across diverse psychiatric symptoms and for people with prior or existing treatments. Game-based interventions may appeal particularly to active players and offer a promising alternative to the self-treatment usage of entertainment games.

Examining Consumer Motivations for Play-to-Earn Gaming: Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process Analysis

This study aims to explore the participation preferences of players in Play-to-Earn (PTE) games, a topic of growing relevance as PTE games gain increasing attention. These games offer players the unique opportunity to earn real-world rewards through virtual gameplay activities. By examining the factors that drive players’ decision-making in PTE games, we deepen our understanding of the intersection between virtual economies and real-world financial needs. The insights from this study can provide game developers and policymakers with valuable information to design and implement effective strategies that support individuals seeking alternative income sources and new economic models in the face of unprecedented challenges. To determine the prioritization of motivating factors among PTE game players, we utilized the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) analysis as part of a three-stage process: a literature review (Stage 1), expert evaluation (Stage 2), and AHP analysis (Stage 3). The study derived 12 critical factors in PTE gameplay from literature review, divided into three primary elements, each with four sub-factors. These primary factors include Gaming Experience (comprising Fun factor, Game Quality, Game Genre, and Challenge), Financial Outcomes (consisting of Tokenomics, ROI, Game Company Reliability, and Coin Price), and PTE Game Awareness (including Management, Game Entry Timing, Game Platform, and Community). This study uncovers the three primary factors that encourage participation in PTE games, with Gaming Experience emerging as the most critical, followed by Financial Outcomes and PTE Game Awareness. This finding underlines the need for game developers to prioritize the gaming experience to ensure the development and sustainability of PTE games.

DESIGNING ROGUELITE PLATFORMER GAME “BONE AND SOUL” BASED ON WINDOWS

The game "Bone and Soul" is a roguelite platformer game that tells the journey of a character who has been deceived by the Demon King. After being deceived, the only thing that remain is bones and half of his soul. Therefore, the main character will climb the Demon King's Tower to fight against him and reclaim his lost half soul. The Demon King's Tower is composed of various rooms and are procedurally generated. As the game progresses, the main character will acquire other characters to help him defeat the demon king. Bone and Soul is a 2D pixelated game created using the Unity game engine and can be played on the PC platform.

Design of the Integrated Cognitive Perception Model for Developing Situation-Awareness of an Autonomous Smart Agent

This study explores the potential for autonomous agents to develop environmental awareness through perceptual attention. The main objective is to design a perception system architecture that mimics human-like perception, enabling smart agents to establish effective communication with humans and their surroundings. Overcoming the challenges of modeling the agent's environment and addressing the coordination issues of multi-modal perceptual stimuli is crucial for achieving this goal. Existing research falls short in meeting these requirements, prompting the introduction of a novel solution: a cognitive multi-modal integrated perception system. This computational framework incorporates fundamental feature extraction, recognition tasks, and spatial-temporal inference while facilitating the modeling of perceptual attention and awareness. To evaluate its performance, experimental tests and verification are conducted using a software framework integrated into a sandbox game platform. The model's effectiveness is assessed through a simple interaction scenario. The study's results demonstrate the successful validation of the proposed research questions.

The access control double bind: How everyday interfaces regulate access and privacy, enable surveillance, and enforce identity

Access controls are an inescapable and deceptively mundane requirement for accessing digital applications and platforms. These systems enable and enforce practices related to access, ownership, privacy, and surveillance. Companies use access controls to dictate and enforce terms of use for digital media, platforms, and technologies. The technical implementation of these systems is well understood. However, this paper instead uses digital game software and platforms as a case study to analyze the broader socio-technical, and often inequitable, interactions these elements regulate across software systems. Our sample includes 200 digital games and seven major digital gaming platforms. We combine close reading and content analysis to examine the processes of authentication and authorization within our samples. While the ubiquity of these systems is a given in much academic and popular discourse, our data help empirically ground this understanding and examine how these systems support user legibility and surveillance, and police identities in under-examined ways. We suggest changes to the policies and practices that shape these systems to drive more transparent and equitable design.

Consumer and critic reception of video game platforms: Trends from 2002–2022

For the last 21 years, there have been four dominant video game platforms: personal computer (PC), Playstation, Nintendo, and Xbox. This paper compares the most satisfying “basket” of games each platform provided as determined via quantile regression, as well as the sheer number of “top-shelf” games each platform provided as determined via bootstrap inference. Trends in gamer satisfaction for each platform are analyzed, and which and when each platform delivered the most well-received gaming experience is identified. Furthermore, this paper analyzes the reception of games that were ported to multiple platforms to provide a very direct cross-platform comparison as determined via ordinary linear regression. Reception was measured by review scores from professionals and users as aggregated by website Metacritic. The results suggest that PC and Nintendo platforms provided fairly consistently satisfying games from 2002–2022, whereas Playstation and Xbox appear to have deteriorated in that sense, and gaming as a whole appears to have declined according to users. PC had the most top-shelf games, and Nintendo the fewest. Xbox had most well-received ports. Generally, users tended to be less charitable in their assessments than professionals, and that difference increased over time.

Development and Implementation of a Smartphone Application for Tsunami Evacuation

Soft countermeasures help to reduce casualties in the event of tsunami, and the present study proposes the use of a smartphone application to aid with a smooth evacuation. The application, developed via Unity3D, which is a well-known game platform engine, aims to accurately reproduce the area of interest by showing the location of refuge places within the natural and constructed environment. A GPS-positioning system was incorporated in the application, such that users could easily identify their location and that of the designated refuge sites. This can be helpful for coastal areas that are popular sightseeing destination, especially for visitors who are unfamiliar with the region. The effectiveness of the smartphone application was further investigated by conducting evacuation experiments using human participants in Kamakura city, which is an area vulnerable to earthquake-induced tsunamis. Two groups were tested to compare the effectiveness of the developed smartphone application: One control group without the application, and the other with the application. The results revealed that the participants that were using the smartphone application took shorter evacuation times, travelled slower, were less likely to pay attention to tsunami evacuation signs, and covered less distance to arrive at the designated refuge places.

Adding a Web-Based Virtual Reality Classroom Experience to a Hybrid, Blended Course Modality

The blended classroom is a unique space for face-to-face (F2F) interaction and online learning. The blended classroom has three distinct interaction types: in-person synchronous, virtual synchronous, and virtual asynchronous; each of these modalities lends itself to different forms of extended reality. This case study looks at using a virtual reality (VR) classroom for an online synchronous weekly meetings for three upper-division or advanced (junior and senior level) higher education design classes at a university. The use of social web VR for a classroom can offer a collaborative, real-time environment that bridges the gap between virtual video conferences and gaming platforms. This paper examines how to use social web VR in a virtual classroom. Mixed methods were used to collect usability data at the end of the semester survey. The system usability scale (SUS) and several qualitative questions gathered student feedback. Overall, the students enjoyed using the VR classroom, but audio issues seemed to be the most significant pain point. While the overall response was positive, this study will address several areas for improvement from both the student and instructor perspectives. Social, web-based VR offers promising potential. Designing a human-centered virtual environment and considering all participants’ total user experience is critical to a successful learning tool.

Employing Metaverse Marketing Through Gaming And Its Impact On Customer Experience: Evidence From Multiple Online Gaming Platforms

Employing Metaverse Marketing Through Gaming And Its Impact On Customer Experience: Evidence From Multiple Online Gaming Platforms

Use of an online gaming tool, the Veterinary DialogueTrainer, for teaching clinical communication skills to bovine veterinary practitioners.

Effective clinical communication is essential for bovine veterinary practitioners to establish and maintain positive client relationships. When applied properly in herd health consultancy, it increases client satisfaction and adherence to veterinary advice, and improves patient health and welfare. Although communication skills are often taught by providing feedback on simulated conversations, this has limitations, including time constraints, subjective assessments, and cost. The Veterinary DialogueTrainer (VDT) is an online serious game platform using 'digital role-play' with avatars, recently developed to enhance and assess learning outcomes, improve use of learned skills, and increase cost-effectiveness of communication training. The objective was to evaluate its suitability and applicability. Finnish (n = 24) and Swedish (n = 21) bovine veterinarians participated in communication training using VDT for training and assessment. Participants completed the provided scenario at least twice. After playing a bovine health communication simulation, participants received their scores and feedback on selected conversation options. VDT scores measured multiple aspects of communication on a 0-100% scale, based on motivational interviewing methodology and Calgary-Cambridge guidelines. Mean (±SD) number of attempts participants played the scenario was 4.1 (±2.6, Finland) and 3.9 (±1.3, Sweden), with highest total score reached after a mean of 3.5 (±2.1, Finland) and 3.1 (±1.1, Sweden) attempts. On the first attempt, 39 participants (87%) scored <50% of the highest possible score, whereas most (n = 34, 76%) achieved a higher score on the second attempt. Mean total score increased from 15 (±14) to 77% (±33) for Finish participants and from 40 (±22.0) to 87% (±19.4) for Swedish participants. The majority (n = 33, 73%) of participants reached a score >80% after 4.0 (±1.6, Finland) or 2.8 (±1.0, Sweden) attempts. Net Promoter Score of the training was +89 (Finland), +88 (Finland) and + 83 (Sweden) on a scale from -100 to +100, indicating that most participants were very likely to recommend the training to other veterinarians. Use of VDT increased communication skills scores but whether it will improve communication skills in practice requires further study. We concluded there is a likely benefit of using the VDT in teaching and monitoring veterinary communication competencies and preparing for offline role-plays and real-life conversations in veterinary practice.

Threat Construction for Dynamic Enemy Status in a Platformer Game using Classical Genetic Algorithm

Digital game genres such as Action-Platformer is widely popular among buyers on a platform like Steam. The non-playable character enemies in the game are important in action games. Unfortunately, they usually have static attributes like health point, damage, and enemy movement. Using procedural content generation with a classical genetic algorithm, we drive the threat value of a platform to construct the enemy status resulting in more dynamic enemies. We use the threat value as an input parameter calculated from the enemies’ stats in every platform, such as total damage that the enemy might produce, the player’s health point, and the enemy’s movement speed. We conclude that using a classical genetic algorithm may produce dynamic enemy status through desired threat or danger set by the game designer as an input parameter. Moreover, the game designer may limit the generation with constraints.

Evaluation of Stratified K-Fold Cross Validation for Predicting Bug Severity in Game Review Classification

Steam review data provided a lot of information for the game development team, either positive or negative review. It contained an essential point that negative and positive reviews provide crucial information and 7% of positive reviews contained bug reports. These bug reports occurred after the game was released, and many reports of common incidents still exist. If players found an issue in the game, they could report it directly through the review feature provided by the online game platform. Nevertheless, the development team took a long time manually analyzing and categorizing the game review. This study proposed a new approach to automatically categorizing game reviews on Steam based on the bug severity level. Hence, to solve this problem, we suggested introducing a solution based on the research background indicated above. For this experiment, we analyzed reviews on two popular game titles namely, FIFA 23 and Apex Legends. We implemented three different classifiers namely, KNN, Decision Tree, and Naïve Bayes, which would be used to train a dataset to classify the bug severity level. Due to an imbalanced dataset, we performed cross-validation to reduce bias in the dataset. Performance in this model would be evaluated using accuracy rate, precision, recall, and F1 score. As a result, the experiment showed that game reviews of different game titles achieved different accuracy scores. The game review classification for FIFA 23 performed better than the game review classification for Apex Legends. The mean accuracy score of FIFA 23 was 72% with Decision Tree and Apex Legend was 64% with KNN.