Emotionally evocative games hold great potential for both industry and our basic
understanding about human affect. The question of how best games elicit and respond to …

Background Recreational, seated video gaming (gaming) has become a favorite pastime of
children, adolescents, and adults (gamers) in developed countries. Some engage in gaming …

Survival horror games played in virtual reality can trigger intense fright and anxiety in the
players. Such unique characteristics can thus be exploited not only as a source of …

Fear is a basic human emotion that can be triggered by different situations, which vary from
person to person. However, game developers usually design horror games based on a …

Game atmosphere and game audio are critical factors linked to the commercial success of
video games. However, game atmosphere has been neither operationalized nor clearly …

How much music contributes to player experience (PX) in virtual reality (VR) games remains
unclear in the games user research literature. A core factor of PX in VR games that has not …

To understand the impact of emotionally driven games on player experience, we developed
a procedural horror game (Vanish) capable of run-time level, asset, and event generation …

Serious games are steadily becoming a powerful tool for educational purposes as their
challenging characteristics are suggested to make them particularly appealing to learn with …

Video gaming is now available as a fully immersive experience that creates responsive
inputs and outputs concerning the user, and some experimental developers have integrated …

Why would anyone want to play a game designed to scare them? We argue that an alliance
between evolutionary theory and game studies can shed light on the forms and …