PaceMaker: A Practical Tool for Pacing Video Games
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| author | Geheeb, Julian Dyrda, Daniel Geheeb, Sebastian |
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| contents | Designing pacing for video games presents a unique set of challenges. Due to their interactivity, non-linearity, and narrative nature, many aspects must be coordinated and considered simultaneously. In addition, games are often developed in an iterative workflow, making revisions to previous designs difficult and time-consuming. In this paper, we present PaceMaker, a toolkit designed to enable common design workflows for pacing while addressing the challenges above. We conducted initial research on pacing and then implemented our findings in a platform-independent application that allows the user to define simple state diagrams to deal with the possibility space of games. The user can select paths on the directed graph to visualize a node's data in diagrams dedicated to intensity and gameplay category. After implementation, we created a demonstration of the tool and conducted qualitative interviews. While the interviews raised some concerns about the efficiency of PaceMaker, the results https://info.arxiv.org/help/prep#commentsdemonstrate the expressiveness of the toolkit and support the need for such a tool. |
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| spellingShingle | PaceMaker: A Practical Tool for Pacing Video Games Geheeb, Julian Dyrda, Daniel Geheeb, Sebastian Human-Computer Interaction Designing pacing for video games presents a unique set of challenges. Due to their interactivity, non-linearity, and narrative nature, many aspects must be coordinated and considered simultaneously. In addition, games are often developed in an iterative workflow, making revisions to previous designs difficult and time-consuming. In this paper, we present PaceMaker, a toolkit designed to enable common design workflows for pacing while addressing the challenges above. We conducted initial research on pacing and then implemented our findings in a platform-independent application that allows the user to define simple state diagrams to deal with the possibility space of games. The user can select paths on the directed graph to visualize a node's data in diagrams dedicated to intensity and gameplay category. After implementation, we created a demonstration of the tool and conducted qualitative interviews. While the interviews raised some concerns about the efficiency of PaceMaker, the results https://info.arxiv.org/help/prep#commentsdemonstrate the expressiveness of the toolkit and support the need for such a tool. |
| title | PaceMaker: A Practical Tool for Pacing Video Games |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15001 |