Aki Järvinen

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Aki Järvinen commented on Stargazing - Emotional Game Analysis & Design Method Hi Nicole, I use the term in a metaphorical sense to describe the method, i.e. I make the analogy between a night sky with countless stars, and a game with various elements and features - and, when those stars/elements align into certain constellations, something special happens. In terms of player experiences, their emotional constituens can be conceptualised as the elements being aligned (and continuously aligning) into particular states, and my method tries to get at how those states can be identified and designed. The metaphor then extends to how we as players monitor the game goals in various ways, both via perceptual and/or other means, and how this play behavior tends to build up to an emotional sequence. I guess there is a start for a metrics there, as you suggest! -Aki 7 months ago