TY - CHAP
T1 - Exploiting players? Critical reflections on participation in game development
AU - Gerling, Kathrin
AU - Wallner, Guenter
AU - Mirza-Babaei, Pejman
AU - Shearer, John
AU - Linehan, Conor
AU - Hicks, Kieran
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
PY - 2017/10/15
Y1 - 2017/10/15
N2 - Player involvement in the process of game development has become a de-facto standard in both industry and academia. Participation is intended to empower players, while helping designers create better games. However, participation also introduces uncertainty regarding players' and designers' relative roles, and creates new concerns over the exploitation of players, marginalization of designers, and the quality of game design outcomes. In this workshop, we invite the games research community to critically reflect on methods used to facilitate player participation, with the goal of establishing dialogue around meaningful and constructive player involvement.
AB - Player involvement in the process of game development has become a de-facto standard in both industry and academia. Participation is intended to empower players, while helping designers create better games. However, participation also introduces uncertainty regarding players' and designers' relative roles, and creates new concerns over the exploitation of players, marginalization of designers, and the quality of game design outcomes. In this workshop, we invite the games research community to critically reflect on methods used to facilitate player participation, with the goal of establishing dialogue around meaningful and constructive player involvement.
KW - Game analytics
KW - Game design
KW - Games user research
KW - Methodology
KW - Participatory design
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85034775304
U2 - 10.1145/3130859.3131441
DO - 10.1145/3130859.3131441
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85034775304
T3 - CHI PLAY 2017 Extended Abstracts - Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
SP - 653
EP - 655
BT - CHI PLAY 2017 Extended Abstracts - Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 4th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2017
Y2 - 15 October 2017 through 18 October 2017
ER -