An Approach to Entertainment Tuning in RPGs: Case Study Using Diablo III and Trails of Cold Steel

Autor:	Abu-Bakar Nordin, Ying Peng, Shuo Xiong, Hiroyuki Iida
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Engineering Focus (computing) Role playing game business.industry Game refinement theory ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING Entertainment Weapon system Human–computer interaction Factor (programming language) Key (cryptography) business computer Simulation computer.programming_language
Zdroj:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN: 9783319501819 GALA
Popis:	This paper proposes a novel method to tune the entertainment impact of Role-playing-game (RPG) with a focus on three bottlenecks of the current RPG: (1) weapon trading system, (2) linear turn-based battle system, and (3) game rhythm and time, i.e., level-up system. We have chosen Diablo III and Trails of Cold Steel as benchmarks, and game refinement measure is employed for the assessment. It reveals that a reliable level up system is the key factor to make the players feel more exciting and adventurous. It then confirms the effectiveness of the proposed method which enables to numerically identify the components that need to be enhanced to improve the game and help creators design a more attractive game by the paradigmatic rules. Future works include the application of the proposed method in other domains such as serious games.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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