Levelling Up the Narrative Testing Practices of Indie Video Game Developers

提高独立视频游戏开发者的叙事测试实践水平

• 批准号: 2882127
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2882127
• 关键词: Levelling; Up; Narrative; Testing; Practices

Narrative testing is a specialised games user research (GUR) practice that requires resources and knowledge that is not easily accessible to indie developers. Therefore, indie developers are disadvantaged compared to their larger AAA counterparts. Thus, this work proposes the direct study of indie developers to level the playing field by democratising narrative testing best practices and empowering non-research team members to conduct GUR activities. The work aims to achieve this goal by defining best practices, identifying key challenges, co-designing and evaluating narrative testing prototype(s), and disseminating GUR knowledge. The successful completion of this work will profoundly impact how indie studios conduct narrative testing, leading to the creation of better games and, in turn, greater economic success for the UK gaming industry.

叙事测试是一种专门的游戏用户研究（GUR）实践，需要独立开发人员不易获得的资源和知识。因此，独立开发者与他们的大型AAA同行相比处于不利地位。因此，这项工作提出了对独立开发人员的直接研究，通过民主化叙事测试最佳实践和授权非研究团队成员进行GUR活动来公平竞争。这项工作旨在通过定义最佳实践，确定关键挑战，共同设计和评估叙事测试原型以及传播GUR知识来实现这一目标。这项工作的成功完成将深刻影响独立工作室如何进行叙事测试，从而创造更好的游戏，进而为英国游戏行业带来更大的经济成功。