A Unified Model of Game Design, Through the Lens of User Experience

In this paper, two cornerstone game design and research models — the Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics framework and the magic circle — are revisited and inspected through a lens of user experience design. This suggests two aspects that are missing from these models: a clear distinction between the intended and actual player experience, and the inclusion of transfer of knowledge, actions, and emotions between the game world and the real world, as part of the player experience. Based on these observations, a new unified model is proposed.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  CHI Extended Abstracts

• Publication date

  2021-05-08

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1145/3411763.3451778
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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