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A narrative-driven design approach for casual games with children
Citation
Duh, HB-L and Yee, SLCY and Gu, YX and Chen, VH-H, A narrative-driven design approach for casual games with children, Sandbox 2010: ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Proceedings, 28-29 July 2010, Los Angeles, California, pp. 19-24. ISBN 978-1-4503-0097-1 (2010) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Copyright 2010 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1836135.1836138
Abstract
This paper proposes a design approach to build casual games by
children for children. Children understand game narratives with
previously acquired schemata that is different from adults. Hence,
integrating narrative developed by children themselves into game
design may serve the children well. Using a narrative approach to
game design based on informant design methods, the proposed
approach aims to maximize the contribution of both children
informants and adult designers. It comprises of three major phases,
namely Narrative Design, Game Design and Design Moderation.
A mobile phone game was developed based on this approach.
User testing revealed that the children generally enjoyed the game
and that the proposed approach has promising potential in
empowering the child designers. Future work will focus on
further evaluation of the approach for refinement.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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Keywords: | Narrative game design, children, informant design |
Research Division: | Information and Computing Sciences |
Research Group: | Library and information studies |
Research Field: | Human information interaction and retrieval |
Objective Division: | Information and Communication Services |
Objective Group: | Information systems, technologies and services |
Objective Field: | Information systems, technologies and services not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Duh, HB-L (Professor Henry Duh) |
ID Code: | 90287 |
Year Published: | 2010 |
Deposited By: | Information and Communication Technology |
Deposited On: | 2014-03-31 |
Last Modified: | 2014-12-08 |
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