Last month, the book Multiplayer: Social Aspects of Digital Gaming was released. The book looks at the social aspects of multiplayer gaming, both online and when played together in the same room (co-located). It features chapters by Richard Bartle (the father of MUD gaming) and Mark Griffiths (the games addiction expert) among others, and was…
read moreI should say upfront that this article will contain no spoilers, in case you haven’t finished The Last Of Us yet! I’ve written before about the importance of trophy and achievement design and
read moreGamification at Work is a new book designed for practitioners to introduce people to implementing gamification on an enterprise level in the workplace. Through promoting best practises from user research, the book aims to avoid the bad design which apparently will cause 80% of current gamified applications to fail. Here’s what I thought.
read more“Will people like my game?” is a hard question for user researchers. This is doubly so when asking “Will children like my game?” In this article I look at why this is the case, and what games user researchers can do about it.
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