Keywords: Diegetic Motives, RPG, Player-Character Connection, Systems, Immersion, Engagement — INTRODUCTION: Systems created to invoke diegetic motives from players enhance player-character connections, especially in RPGs. RPG, short for role-playing game, is a game in which the player takes on the role of a character in a fictional world. RPGs with diegetic motives are important because this is when the player selects…

Keywords: Affordance, Affordance Advertisements, Anchors, Recall, Recognition — INTRODUCTION: From an Ecologist’s perspective, affordances are what you perceive you can do. These affordances have anchors and advertisements. Anchors are the entities over which they apply, while advertisements are the feedback whose perception entails the affordance. This tool provides designers with an easy way to give mechanical awareness to the…

KEYWORDS: Event Cues, Knowledge Cues, Awareness, Situational Awareness, Visual Semantics INTRODUCTION: Knowledge Cues are a great way to tell players what actions can be taken to succeed in events and when events have started vs been completed. This Cue can be displayed as Visual Semantics, Speech, and/or Language. …

Keywords: Perception, Monocular Cue, Contrast, Atmospheric, Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics, Goals, Feedback, Interpretation INTRODUCTION: Monocular Cues in games can be a great tool for giving players the knowledge of how far certain landmarks or obstacles are in the distance specifically when looking at the Monocular Cue: Atmospheric. …

Keywords: Monocular Cue, Perception, Light, Darkness, Contrast — INTRODUCTION: Monocular Cues in games can be crucial in assisting the players with navigation. Many games use lighting as an effective design tool to lead players to certain items, obstacles, and pathways. …

Design a side mission for Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. This new side quest must support the game’s overall core experience of exploration and discovery. The current game has great pacing with these highly intense moments of combat and low moments of investigation/exploration. Create both a high intense and low-intensity moment. New Mission Idea: …

The goal and focus of this research was to find what made a successful adventure game using the Focus Group Method. Date of Test: 02/08/2022 Date of Report: 02/09/2022 Research Location: Zoom Game Name: No game tested, only adventure genre Research Script: I created a zoom link for everyone to…

Game features that allow you to manipulate or change the character you are playing visually can create a more immersive game experience. As you tend to look at your main character throughout most of the game having a feature that allows you to control what the main character looks like…

Many games have a lot of things running at once such as ambiance music, the sound of player movement, and more noises. This can make it hard to focus on what the characters in the game are saying. Having all of these noises and feedback for the player furthers the…