CIS 3000: Introduction to Computer Game Design

Design Workshop 9
Player Experience

This design workshop is a continuation of Dan Cosley's presentation from Wednesday. In this class, you will get some hands on experience with the ideas that he covered in class. The slides for this class are available on line.

Preparation

In preparation for this workshop, you should write a 5-10 minute test plan. This plan should include the following elements:

  • Your artifacts
  • Welcome script
  • Task or two
  • A couple of questions to ask

To help you in writing your material, you might want to look at the following online material:

Testing The Design With Users
This is a chapter from an online text about the basic principals of user testing
Cognitive Walkthrough
This wikipedia entry describes a basic tenant of user testing.

Activities

In clase, we will swap people between groups for testing. We will do this twice.