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Playtest

Known as: Play-testing, Playtesting, Playtests 
A playtest is the process by which a game designer tests a new game for bugs and design flaws before bringing it to market. Playtests can be run… 
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Review
2019
Review
2019
Exploring Game Design for the Financial Education of Millenials
The vast majority of Germans are reluctant to invest parts of their savings in the capital market, even though this is generally… 
Review
2018
Review
2018
When Students Design Their Own Games: A Failed Experiment In a First-Year Seminar
This paper compares indicators of student engagement across different sections of a firstyear seminar taught in Fall 2017. As… 
Review
2018
Review
2018
Rapid game jams with fluidic games: A user study & design methodology
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2015
Review
2015
Enhancing the CS1 student experience with gamification
Introductory courses offer several opportunities to inspire students to pursue a degree in STEM majors. Attracting and retaining… 
2015
2015
Quantifying Individual Differences, Skill Development, and Fatigue Effects in Small-Scale Exertion Interfaces
Game mechanics in sports video games for skills like running and throwing are nothing like those skills in real sports. Adding… 
2015
2015
Jumping the Gap: Indie Labour and the Imagined Indie Community
Due to the recent proliferation of free-to-use, professional-quality development tools, crowdsourced fundraising, and the… 
2010
2010
System and Context - On a Discernable Source of Emergent Game Play and the Process-Oriented Method
Mobile games are based on the physical movement of players in a game world, combining real world with virtual dimensions. As the… 
2008
2008
Designing a head-up game for children
Head-Up Games [19, 20] attempt to combine the technological benefits of modern electronic games with the social and physical… 
2008
2008
Talking with NPCs: Towards Dynamic Generation of Discourse Structures
Dialogue in commercial games is largely created by teams of writers and designers who hand-author every line of dialogue and hand… 
2006
2006
Resolving Conflicts in Educational Game Design through Playtesting
The multidisciplinary nature of educational game design requires multidisciplinary teams for product development. Typically such… 
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