game design research paper

In this paper we present the MDA framework (standing for Mechanics, Dynamics, and Aesthetics), developed and taught as part of the Game Design and Tuning Workshop at the Game Developers Conference, San Jose 2001-2004 [LeBlanc, 2004a].

To achieve this, practice-based game design researchers need to adopt a critical approach in order to avoid a personal and subjective construction of knowledge. At times during the research, the game design researcher is also a game designer who produces the designed artifacts under consideration.

The complex interdisciplinary process in game development, the demand for specialized tools and systems, and the need to maintain creativity show the need for researching game development in...

Understanding game studies as design research potentially improves our understanding on game design and alleviates the bridging of the epistemic gap between the practice and academia.

Two of the papers propose changes in how knowledge is generated in relation to games, both in the context of the design process for individual games as well in a broader disciplinary context, while the other paper proposes an update to a well-established game design and analysis framework.

This paper argues that there is a gap in methodological support for game design, traces the nature of this gap by reviewing some of the better-known game design methods, highlights certain obstacles to game design practice resulting from the gap, and proposes a prescriptive foundational game design principle that can help improve the situation.

This paper reviews empirically grounded research on practices in game development with the intent to give a comprehensive overview of contemporary development practices used in the video game industry.

This paper presents a systematization over the contributions of researchers and designers towards conceptual and concrete tools. These efforts converge to two approaches: the build of a shared design vocabulary and a game design modeling language.

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Abstract. Using a transdisciplinary approach, this paper shows how creativity studies and game design research can complement each other and open new research avenues. In order to study the role of creativity in game designers’ practice, we first touch on the epistemological foundations of creativity studies and game design research.