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The Challenge of Evaluating Player Experience in Tabletop Role-Playing Games

Tabletop Role-Playing GamDave EngOctober 16, 2024Tabletop Role-Playing Games (TTRPGs), players, imaginary gameworldsComment

My Zelda Cane: Strategies Used by Blind Players to Play Visual-Centric Digital Games

My Zelda Cane: Strategies Used by Blind Players to Play Visual-Centric Digital Games

gamesDave EngAugust 10, 2024games, players, designComment

Storifying a Serious Mobile Game: Exploring Players’ Perception of Storification Features, Narrative Engagement, and Behavioral Intentions

playersDave EngMarch 12, 2024players, storytelling, engagementComment

Pay to Win or Pay to Cheat: How Players of Competitive Online Games Perceive Fairness of In-Game Purchases

gamingDave EngFebruary 25, 2024gaming, players, designComment

Daily Quests or Daily Pests? The Benefits and Pitfalls of Engagement Rewards in Games

playersDave EngFebruary 24, 2024players, rewards, motivationComment

Close but Not Too Close: Distance and Relevance in Designing Games for Reflection

reflectionDave EngFebruary 14, 2024reflection, game, playersComment

Inscrutable Games: How Players Respond to Illegible or Opaque Game Design

GamesDave EngFebruary 4, 2024games, players, designComment

Learning by doing: Intrinsic Integration directs attention to increase learning in games

Games, Intrinsic MotivationDave EngSeptember 20, 2023Learning, integration, games, educational, players, designers, researchComment

Videogames in and beyond the L1 classroom

Videogames in and beyond the L1 classroom

Video GamesDave EngAugust 12, 2023Videogames, classroom, players, student, youth, gaming, researchComment

The Gift That Keeps on Giving: Generosity is Contagious in Multiplayer Online Games

The Gift That Keeps on Giving: Generosity is Contagious in Multiplayer Online Games

Multiplayer GamesDave EngJuly 12, 2023Games, multiplayer, online games, social, behaviors, players, researchComment

Validation and Prioritization of Design Options for Accessible Player Experiences

Validation and Prioritization of Design Options for Accessible Player Experiences

Gameplay, Players, gamesDave EngApril 25, 2023Gameplay, design, games, players, data, vocabulary, researchComment

Enhancing exercise visitors’ behavioral engagement through gamified experiences: A spatial approach

Enhancing exercise visitors’ behavioral engagement through gamified experiences: A spatial approach

Gamification, VisitorDave EngApril 5, 2023Digital games, video games, flow, players, gameplay, academics, game-learning design, research]Comment

Science Gamers, Citizen Scientists, and Dabblers: Characterizing Player Engagement in Two Citizen Science Games

Science Gamers, Citizen Scientists, and Dabblers: Characterizing Player Engagement in Two Citizen Science Games

learning gamesDave EngFebruary 15, 2023Gamification, science, players, gamers, questions, survey, researchComment

"It's Like I Would Die as Well": Gratifications of Fearful Game Experience

"It's Like I Would Die as Well": Gratifications of Fearful Game Experience

GamificationDave EngFebruary 11, 2023Gamification, game experience, players, researchers, future, emotional, researchComment

Difference in gaze control ability between low and high skill players of a real-time strategy game in esports

Difference in gaze control ability between low and high skill players of a real-time strategy game in esports

Starcraft, Gaze Control, RTSDave EngJanuary 25, 2023Games, esports, strategy game, experts, players, playing games, researchComment

Predictive Psychological Player Profiling

Predictive Psychological Player Profiling

video gamesDave EngSeptember 28, 2021Video games, players, motivationComment