What is an app store? The software engineering perspective

W Zhu, S Proksch, DM German, MW Godfrey… - Empirical Software …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract “App stores” are online software stores where end users may browse, purchase,
download, and install software applications. By far, the best known app stores are …

Flawless victory! Investigating search and experience qualities as antecedent predictors of video game success

S Heidenreich, F Handrich, T Kraemer - Electronic Markets, 2023 - Springer
In recent years, video games have been on the rise as entertainment goods, leading to a
growing interest by practitioners, researchers, and, of course, consumers alike. While a few …

Games and Software Engineering: Engineering fun, inspiration, and motivation

A Bucchiarone, KML Cooper, D Lin, EF Melcer… - ACM SIGSOFT …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Games are a popular form of entertainment and, due to their nature (ie, interactive,
immersive, etc.), strongly lend themselves for use beyond this original intent. Serious games …

Application of meta-gaming concept to the publishing platform: Analysis of the steam games platform

MN Rizani, MNA Khalid, H Iida - Information, 2023 - mdpi.com
The digital marketplace has rapidly grown, transitioning the market of video games from
physical localized experiences to more networked, expanded, virtual spaces. With a highly …

How to Measure Game Testing: a Survey of Coverage Metrics and an Implementation on the iv4XR Framework

S Manzi - 2024 - webthesis.biblio.polito.it
With the increase in their popularity, video games have evolved to become highly complex
products that require ever larger funds and huge, diverse teams to be developed. Due to the …

The Tower of Babel Game Developers Built: A Tertiary Literature Review into Why Multidisciplinary Teams Struggle to Collaborate in the Games Industry

T McKenzie, S Hoerrman, S Lukosch… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
In size, revenue, and global impact, video game development (VGD) is atower'in the
entertainment industry. Yet most studios struggle to succeed because of challenges in …

Unveiling Success Drivers in Gaming: A Machine Learning Study Across Steam, Twitch, and Metacritic

J Ma - authorea.com
This study examines the roles of Steam, Metacritic, and Twitch in influencing video game
success, integrating data from these platforms to uncover key predictors of revenue. Using …

[PDF][PDF] Videopelien käyttäjäkokemussuunnittelu ja sen vaikutukset

A Aho - 2023 - oulurepo.oulu.fi
Videopelien pelaajien määrä kasvaa jatkuvasti, ja erilaisiin demografisiin ryhmiin kuuluvat
käyttäjät tulee ottaa huomioon. Videopeleillä pyritään näille ihmisille tuottaa erilaisia …