RT Book, Section
SR 00
ID 10.1145/3027063.3053209
A1 Denisova, A.
A1 Guckelsberger, C.
A1 Zendle, D.
T1 Challenge in Digital Games: Towards Developing a Measurement Tool
YR 2017
FD 2017
SP 2511
OP 2519
K1 Challenge; Difficulty; Digital Games; Questionnaire; Player Experience; Survey
AB Challenge is arguably the most important experience that players seek in digital games. However, without a measure of how challenged players feel during the act of play, it is hard to design games that are neither too easy nor too hard and, therefore, truly enjoyable. Especially in industry, challenge is dominantly assessed by means of manual play testing in ad-hoc trials. The aim of this research is to create a more systematic, complete, and reliable instrument to evaluate the level of players' experienced challenge in games in the form of a questionnaire. This paper presents the key results from an extensive literature survey which will inform further development. We survey definitions of challenge, challenge types, and their relation to player experience based on the observations of game designers. We furthermore draw from empirical findings in a diverse range of fields such as game studies, human-computer interaction (HCI) and artificial intelligence (AI).
NO © 2017, the authors.
T2 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB ACM Press
PP New York, USA
SN 9781450346566
AV Published
LK https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/21356/