The Struggle is Spiel: On Failure and Success in Games

Autor:	Frommel, Julian, Klarkowski, Madison, Mandryk, Regan L., Fowler, Allan, Pirker, Johanna, Canossa, Alesandro Alessandro, Arya, Ali Ali, Harteveld, Casper, Sub Multimedia, Multimedia
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	difficulty Computer Networks and Communications Repeated failure ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING failure Human-Computer Interaction Competence (law) failing challenge Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Psychology success Social psychology Software games
Zdroj:	FDG Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2021. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2021
DOI:	10.1145/3472538.3472565
Popis:	Experiencing the thrill of success is one of digital gaming's pleasures, but often also involves the crush of repeated failure. To explore success and failure in play, we conducted a mixed-methods study in which 182 participants described scenarios of success and failure and their experiences therein. Our results suggest that success and failure should be considered in relation to the players' goals, that failure should be differentiated into temporary and perpetual failure, and that temporary failure (the struggle) is integral to the experience of success (overcoming the struggle). We further show that although success is generally more enjoyable than failure, players who enjoy a challenge are more likely to experience competence and find enjoyment within experiences of failure. Our findings contextualize what players perceive as failure and success, and that, for many players, success is overcoming the struggle of failure.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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