Serious games developed for learning have gained popularity due to their promise for better
learning outcomes. However, designing these games can be costly, take a long time, and …

Underneath their compelling audiovisual surface, games require players to carry out
mundane interaction work, such as pointing, typing, or steering. However, many of these …

Focusing on game mechanics as a narrative mode, rather than considering story and game
as two separate but related experiences, allows narrative designers to take a more …

Game mechanics, the affordances they create for players, and the agency experienced by
players as a result of interacting with those mechanics are all, indisputably, intertwined. This …

Game system models introduce abstractions over games in order to support their analysis,
generation, and design. While excellent, models to date leave tacit what they abstract over …

Video game development is a multidisciplinary process that requires both technical and
artistic knowledge. Even though there are tools to ease the creation of video games, they are …

Video games have become very popular over the last couple of decades and the popularity
is increasing year by year. Imagine a world where video games didn't exist. Yes, the world …

In this thesis, we discuss the video game design concept of orthogonality and provide its
operationalization. Our focus is on combinatorial puzzle games—puzzle games in which …

Video game development is a highly technical practice that traditionally requires
programming skills. This serves as a barrier to entry for would-be developers or those …

Physical inactivity remains a significant global health challenge, affecting approximately
81% of adolescents and a third of the adult population worldwide. Particularly in developing …