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Game Usability: Advice from the Experts for Advancing UX Strategy and Practice in Videogames

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This book introduces the basics in game usability and overall game UX mindset and techniques, as well as looking at current industry best practices and trends. Fully updated for its second edition, it includes practical advice on how to include usability in already tight development timelines, and how to advocate for UX and communicate results to higher-ups effectively.

The book begins with an introduction to UX strategy considerations for games, and to UX design, before moving on to cover core user research and usability techniques as well as how to fit UX practices into the business process. It provides considerations of player differences and offers strategies for inclusion as well as chapters that give platform and context specific advice. With a wealth of new interviews with industry leaders and contributions from the very best in game UX, the book also includes brand new chapters on:

  • Accessibility

  • Mobile Game Usability

  • Data Science

  • Virtual and Augmented Reality

  • Esports

This book will be vital reading for all professional game developers and game UX advocates, as well as those students aspiring to work in game development and game UX.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 1280g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Mar 2022
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780367624248

About

Katherine Isbister is Professor of Computational Media at UCSCs Engineering School where she directs the Social Emotional Technology Lab https://setlab.ucsc.edu/. Her research team creates interactive experiences at the intersection of HCI and Games/Play to heighten social and emotional connections and wellbeing with over 100 peer-reviewed publications and games shown at IndieCade (Yamove! and SceneSampler) and other public venues. Her most recent book from MIT Press is How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design winner of an American Library Association award. Isbister is a Founding Fellow of the Higher Education Video Games Alliance a recipient of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovator Award and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. http://www.katherineinterface.com/Celia Hodent holds a PhD in psychology and has over ten years of experience in the development of UX strategy and processes in video game studios. Through her work at Ubisoft LucasArts and as Director of UX at Epic Games (Fortnite) she has contributed to many projects across multiple platforms from PC to consoles mobile and VR. Celia is also the founder of the Game UX Summit and advisor for the GDC UX Summit. She is the author of The Gamers Brain: How Neuroscience and UX can Impact Video Game Design and of The Psychology of Video Games. She currently works as an independent game UX consultant.Twitter: @CeliaHodentBlog: celiahodent.com

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