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Master of Arts in Game Design
IULM University
June 27 2018
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Games User Research: How to avoid the designer's facepalm
Designers have to tell in advance how gamers will comprehend, feel and interact with their games in order to craft successful gaming experiences and avoid frustration, doubts or uncertainty. And since user testing is a powerful tool to verify designers' intents and predictions, Games User Research is a powerful ally. In this workshop, I will show how the science of user testing made your favorite games perfect and I will provide attendees with takeaways they can use to improve their own projects.
Short Bio
Pietro Guardini is an independent Games User Researcher with a PhD in Experimental Psychology and 19 years of research experience. He started doing research on Human-Computer Interaction in 1999 in the academy and later he entered the gaming industry by introducing User Research activity in Milestone – the major videogame studio in Italy – and by supporting Management, Design and Marketing departments with research and testing on 20+ published titles. More recently he founded StopGuessing.it and today he assists several studios in developing their best gaming experience. He had the pleasure to present his work in several publications and talks, including the Game Developers Conference.
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Come Out & Play SF Festival and Exhibition 2012 games being played at a preview at Sunday Streets in the Excelsior neighborhood
Photo by Jackie Haasa
Game "Road Race" by CCA Students
Despite its boxy appearance, Utopia is a game of remarkable sophistication that incorporates systems thinking into its core mechanic.
Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/
BLIND & VR: UN POSTMORTEM
Un piccolo studio italiano avvia nel 2014 lo sviluppo di Blind, un’avventura narrativa in realtà virtuale che vedrà la luce nel 2018: dopo quattro anni di sviluppo e otto mesi dall’introduzione sul mercato, il fondatore e game designer Matteo Lana fa il punto della situazione, ripercorrendo le tappe fondamentali del progetto. In questa presentazione, Lana illustra il percorso travagliato tra tecnologie emergenti, imprevisti, successi e “quasi fallimenti", competitor inaspettati e un team di sviluppo a dir poco fluido, per arrivare a rispondere alla domanda che ogni game designer si pone praticamente tutti i giorni: Ne è valsa la pena?
Foto von Jan Kraus
An unserem Code&Play Stand konnte an drei Tagen ein buntes Workshop-Angebot wahrgenommen werden. Mit dabei waren:
senseBox, Junge Tüftler, NaWiTex-Schülerlabor, Technologiestiftung Berlin, Open Knowledge Foundation, Infosphere Aachen, Coder Dojos, Creative Gaming und das Game Science Center!
The Globaloria team travelled to San Jose, California to celebrate the 2014 Globeys Game Design Awards ceremony and award winning students with amazing prizes while conducting training to familiarize new teachers with the Globaloria program, how to implement it in their classrooms, and engage their students on their game design journeys.
11 Day Challenge. Part of the 11 day challenge series. You have 11 days to create a full-beta custom map.
Level Design is for L4D2 Scavenge and Survival modes.
Day 5: Texturing
Age of Empires III forces players to think strategically and adapt quickly to shifting battlefield conditions.
Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/
Palestra ministrada na UFRGS por Cássio Lemos, Thiago Rocha e eu.
Meia-lua pra frente e soco: experiências no desenvolvimento de jogos.
09/11/2010
Il 19 giugno 2019, gli studenti del Master of Arts in Game Design dell'Università IULM hanno presentato i loro progetti finali a un ospite di eccezione, Stefano Cozzi, di Ignition Software.
Stefano Cozzi si è unito a Riot Games nel maggio 2015 e fino al 2018 ha ricoperto la carica di responsabile alla guida del Publishing Team Europeo, occupandosi dell'Italia e di altre 15 nazioni in Europa. Ha iniziato la sua carriera nel 2005 a Milano, lavorando presso Digital Bros e da allora ha sempre lavorato nel settore gaming, spostandosi per l'Europa. Ha ricoperto la carica di Community Manager per diversi titoli AAA, come Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning (Dublino, GOA Games), World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo III, StarCraft II e Heroes of the Storm (Parigi, Activision Blizzard). Dopo dieci anni a Dublino, in Irlanda è rientrato a Milano e lavora per il publisher videoludico Ignition.
Lecturer at university of Lingue e Scienze della Comunicazione di Milano (IULM) and an expert in Publishing and Community Management with over 12 years of experience abroad in Activision Blizzard (World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Hearthstone, Diablo 3, Heroes of the Storm) and Riot Games (League of Legends), where his work consisted of creating and raising the performance of teams composed of professionals in the sector, as well as directly managing relationships with communities and influencers, with a particular emphasis on building communities and interactions directly between the developers and the public