Designer-inspired Maturity Framework for Sustainable Game Design Experiences - Nandhini Giri

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Date of this Version

5-19-2022

Keywords

Maturity Models, Games User Research, Experience Design, Enjoyability, Sustainability

Abstract

Game design professionals design memorable experiences for players. While games user research focuses on enhancing player experience, it is equally intriguing to study the experiences of professionals developing these games within the game development community. This presentation (1) summarizes factors that inspire and sustain professionals to design games, (2) highlights major challenges faced by professionals in the game industry and (3) proposes a design maturity framework that can help assess the maturity level of game development experiences. The design maturity framework measures various dimensions of game development in the key focus areas of game studio operations, game designer experiences, player experience research, quality of games as a product, and game design scholarship. The objective of the session is to present game design professionals and studio executives with frameworks that they can use to evaluate their own practices for an enjoyable and sustainable workplace experience. The concepts presented in this talk will help build positive experiences within the game studio, highlight some of the challenges faced by game developers in the industry and open discussions on what can be done to improve game design practices in the gaming community.

Comments

Presented at the Games UR Summit 2022 by International Game Developers Association - Games User Research SIG.

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This video was originally published on the Games User Research SIG YouTube channel and is reused here with permission under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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