Role In Game Design Research Articles

Statistical mathematics in video games

Abstract. Statistics play a crucial role in game design and development, with statistical mathematics being an essential element that developers must carefully consider. The paper introduces how statistical elements can be utilized to develop a creative gameplay mechanism that precisely aligns with the general requirements of players. Since the players gaming experience is considered the most important factor in a game, developers should be open to modifying their game based on feedback from dissatisfied players, which will enable the development team to provide an enhanced experience for all players. For multiplayer online games, the matching mechanism, which determines the teammates and opponents for each player, is just as crucial as the game's basic gameplay mechanism. Through statistical classification methods, we can improve the fairness of this matching process by analyzing players previous behavior and labeling them with their level. Overall, we can conclude that statistics can be used to design games by establishing a general framework and incorporating compelling elements. Additionally, statistics are essential for balancing game attributes and facilitating the perfect matching process.

Toxicity by Game Design: How Players Perceive the Influence of Game Design on Toxicity

Toxicity in online games refers to behaviors where players disrupt the gaming experience of others, leading to adverse outcomes such as depression and low self-esteem. Although scholars have identified various factors contributing to toxicity, ranging from individual motivations to team dynamics to cultural backgrounds, the role of game design has been less frequently discussed. To bridge this gap, we conducted an interview study to explore players' perceptions of how game design influences toxicity. Our research identified four game design elements that participants perceived as contributing factors to the emergency of toxicity in their experiences: team interdependency, fairness, interaction design, and privacy. These findings help us shed light on how game design unintendedly triggers toxic intentions, exposes players to vulnerability, making them potential victims, and affects player interactions which lead to toxicity. We further propose design implications that can mitigate toxicity in online games.

The Impact of Virtual Reality on Gaming

Virtual reality (VR) as an advanced technology has had a profound impact on the gaming industry. VR technology provides an immersive experience, allowing players to fully immerse themselves in the gaming environment. With the continuous development and maturation of VR hardware, an increasing number of game developers have begun incorporating VR elements into their works. This paper aims to thoroughly investigate the impact of VR on gaming, exploring its role in game design, user experience, and technological innovation, in order to further integrate the gaming industry with VR technology. The purpose of this study is to further explore the components presented by VR and the lasting impact of this technology on the gaming industry. The paper will analyze the immersion and social impact of games in VR environments, as well as investigate the accessibility and educational implications of games on VR platforms. Through comprehensive exploration of these aspects, this paper aims to provide theoretical support and practical guidance for the integration of the gaming industry with VR technology.

Feminism and procedural content generation: toward a collaborative politics of computational creativity

ABSTRACTGames now inhabit a space where creativity is no longer centered around human authorship. The use of procedural content generation has been embraced by industry, academics and fans as a means for reducing labor cost, providing additional replayable content for players, investigating computational creativity in a complex and multifaceted domain and enabling new kinds of playable experiences. This incorporation of computational creative labor confuses authorship, labor politics and responsibility for rhetoric embedded in the procedures by complicating the way in which the computer is portrayed to users, researchers and other developers. We can apply feminist methodologies attentive to questions of difference and power in systemic structures in order to better understand each of these questions in turn. This article presents an analysis of the post-anthropocentric phenomenon of computer creativity within games, via a feminist analysis of procedural content generating algorithms, its role in game design and its public portrayal.

Dynamic Game Difficulty Control by Using EEG-based Emotion Recognition

Computer games are steadily one of major way to enjoy leisure time. Main goal of game entertainment is to keep the player’s immersion. Thus, balance design taking game difficulty into account has an important role in game design. In recent years, a number of studies tried to adaptive difficulty by using various algorithms which detect player dependent difficulty. Most of these algorithms need customizing itself for each game. Measuring features which determine game difficulty is the major problem of these ways of game balancing. But, it can be easy by using the player’s immersion during playing games. And, player’s immersion is detected by analyzing electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. In this paper, we propose a dynamic game difficulty control system, by using this emotion recognition technique with PAD model by using players’ EEG signals during playing a rhythm game which has three different difficulty levels.