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Touching is Good Game Design for the Nintendo DS

Touching is Good Game Design for the Nintendo DS. Nick Balogh Computer Science Senior Project Union College Prof. Burns. Nintendo DS. DS Game Design. Design Challenges. Question. How do you design a “good” game for the DS??. My Approach. Good Game Design Principles Game Development

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Touching is Good Game Design for the Nintendo DS

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  1. Touching is GoodGame Design for the Nintendo DS Nick Balogh Computer Science Senior Project Union College Prof. Burns

  2. Nintendo DS

  3. DS Game Design

  4. Design Challenges

  5. Question • How do you design a “good” game for the DS??

  6. My Approach • Good Game Design Principles • Game Development • User Testing • Evaluation of player feedback

  7. Buttons vs. Stylus

  8. My Game

  9. Game cont…

  10. Experiment • User plays with both control schemes • Survey • Challenge • Rewarding • Preference • Score • Mastery • Learning Curve

  11. Results • More challenging control scheme • Rewarding on success n= 15

  12. More Results • Preference to play again • Score better with n=15

  13. Conclusions • The touch screen controls provide a better way to interact and play the game • DS Games in general • Touching is Good!

  14. Future Work • Additional testing • Different tests • Expand Combos • Complex actions • Multiplayer • Another game to test screen variations

  15. Questions? ?

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