Empirical review of challenge design in video game design

Michael Brandse; Kiyoshi Tomimatsu

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39473-7_80

Empirical review of challenge design in video game design

Michael Brandse, Kiyoshi Tomimatsu

Department of Industrial Design

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine the concept of challenge in video games and argue that the current way of defining challenge is faulty in nature. Since challenge should be considered a core component to any digital video game, it is of importance that we understand the concept of challenge in-depth while designing games. With challenge being generally defined by its level of difficulty, we propose to define challenge by how challenge should be designed instead and have defined six characters by which a proper challenge should adhere. The goal of this paper is to clarify the concept of challenge and to redefine it according to the way challenge is created, not through the height of its difficulty.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HCI International 2013 - Posters' Extended Abstracts - International Conference, HCI International 2013, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	398-406
Number of pages	9
Edition	PART I
ISBN (Print)	9783642394720
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39473-7_80
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2013 - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: 2013 Jul 21 → 2013 Jul 26

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Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Number	PART I
Volume	373
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929

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Other	15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2013
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas, NV
Period	13-07-21 → 13-07-26

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Computer Science(all)
Mathematics(all)

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Brandse, M., & Tomimatsu, K. (2013). Empirical review of challenge design in video game design. In HCI International 2013 - Posters' Extended Abstracts - International Conference, HCI International 2013, Proceedings (PART I ed., pp. 398-406). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 373, No. PART I). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39473-7_80

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HCI International 2013 - Posters' Extended Abstracts - International Conference, HCI International 2013, Proceedings. PART I. ed. Springer Verlag, 2013. p. 398-406 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 373, No. PART I).

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