Emotions are key to the player experience (PX) and interest in the potential of games to
provide unique emotional, sometimes uncomfortable experiences is growing. Yet there has …

Persuasive games exist for a wide variety of objectives, from marketing, to healthcare and
activism. Some of the more socially-aware ones cast players as members of disenfranchised …

Recent work introduced the notion of emotional challenge as a means to afford more unique
and diverse gaming experiences. However, players' experience of emotional challenge has …

Recent work has highlighted that emotion is key to the user experience with data stories.
However, limited attention has been paid to negative emotions specifically. This work …

In this paper we present Immersive Speculative Enactments (ISEs), a novel concept that
extends conventional Speculative Enactments to Virtual Reality. Through ISEs, participants …

Self-determination theory posits that satisfaction of basic psychological needs is essential for
well-being. Empirical evidence for the distinction between need frustration and need …

Sexual consent has undergone a transformation toward an “enthusiastic” feminist model that
emphasizes consent as an ongoing and voluntary process of negotiation and affirmation …

Gameplay frequently involves a combination of positive and negative emotions, where there
is increasing interest in how to design for more complex forms of player experience …

Emotionally impactful game experiences have garnered increasing interest within HCI
games research. Yet the perspectives of designers have, to date, remained largely …

This article documents how players report the positive discomfort of playing the third-person
military shooter Spec Ops: The Line (Yager Entertainment, 2012), and analyses their …