Heuristic evaluation for games
| Autor: | Nelson Wong, David Pinelle, Tadeusz Stach |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Game testing
Game mechanics Game art design Multimedia Pluralistic walkthrough Cognitive walkthrough Computer science Game design document business.industry ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING Usability inspection Usability computer.software_genre Usability lab Usability goals Game design Heuristic evaluation Usability engineering Game Developer business computer Web usability Component-based usability testing |
| Zdroj: | CHI |
| Popis: | Most video games require constant interaction, so game designers must pay careful attention to usability issues. However, there are few formal methods for evaluating the usability of game interfaces. In this paper, we introduce a new set of heuristics that can be used to carry out usability inspections of video games. The heuristics were developed to help identify usability problems in both early and functional game prototypes. We developed the heuristics by analyzing PC game reviews from a popular gaming website, and the review set covered 108 different games and included 18 from each of 6 major game genres. We analyzed the reviews and identified twelve common classes of usability problems seen in games. We developed ten usability heuristics based on the problem categories, and they describe how common game usability problems can be avoided. A preliminary evaluation of the heuristics suggests that they help identify game-specific usability problems that can easily be overlooked otherwise. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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