Developing Playability Heuristics for Computer Games from Online Reviews

摘要

This paper demonstrates a revised lexical approach for developing game playability heuristics by examining a large number of online game reviews. Game usability, which is better labeled as playability, has been receiving attention from researchers in the areas of HCI and Game Studies. Despite some early research efforts on this topic, most studies are generally qualitative in nature and don't cover a wide range of games. Inspired by the lexical approach used in personality psychology, we employed a revised method to investigate playability by analyzing players' languages. In our previous research, 6 factors were extracted about essential characteristic of game play experience [39]. This study aims to develop playability heuristics rules based on adjectives converging on factor perceived as playability, the top factor among the six.