Player-driven game analytics: The case of guild wars 2

J Pfau, M Seif El-Nasr - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Video game analytics are widely adopted within academia and industrial development–yet,
the player's perspective is rarely considered as a driving factor, even though vast …

Flawless victory! Investigating search and experience qualities as antecedent predictors of video game success

S Heidenreich, F Handrich, T Kraemer - Electronic Markets, 2023 - Springer
In recent years, video games have been on the rise as entertainment goods, leading to a
growing interest by practitioners, researchers, and, of course, consumers alike. While a few …

On video game balancing: Joining player-and data-driven analytics

J Pfau, M Seif El-Nasr - ACM Games: Research and Practice, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Balancing is, especially among players, a highly debated topic of video games. Whether a
game is sufficiently balanced greatly influences its reception, player satisfaction, churn rates …

From Teams to Games: Connecting Game Development to Game Characteristics

E Lundedal Hammar, A Canossa, MS Debus… - … Conference on Human …, 2023 - Springer
The objective of this paper is to explore potential associations between development teams
and the characteristics of the games they produce. Through a production study of Danish …