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Manipulating Game Design Elements to Explore the Influence of Difficulty on Videogame Experiences.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Manipulating Game Design Elements to Explore the Influence of Difficulty on Videogame Experiences./
Author:	Tan, Ryan.
Description:	1 online resource (109 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-05B.
Subject:	Affect (Psychology). -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798380725293

Manipulating Game Design Elements to Explore the Influence of Difficulty on Videogame Experiences.
Tan, Ryan.

Manipulating Game Design Elements to Explore the Influence of Difficulty on Videogame Experiences. - 1 online resource (109 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Research on videogames has highlighted numerous player-centered antecedents to perceptions and outcomes of gameplay. However, few studies have focused on the specific game design elements that facilitate and create these gameplay experiences for the players. Additionally, research on videogame difficulty often conflates the experience of expending effort to overcome obstacles with the obstacles themselves as well as player perceptions of how difficult the gameplay experience was. In this dissertation, a bespoke game stimuli platform was developed to manipulate specific challenges and feedback frames to test the effects of difficulty, on player experiences of enjoyment, meaningfulness, flow, and well-being. A three (difficulty level: low, high, dynamic) by two (feedback framing: success-focused, failure-focused) between-subject experiment was therefore conducted to explore these relationships. Results suggest that difficulty levels (manipulated by challenge) are important antecedents to the more hedonic effects of enjoyment and flow, serially mediated by players' performance against those challenges and their perceptions of their own performance. More eudaimonic effects were not facilitated through manipulations of challenge, and feedback was not found to have significant effects on player perceptions. Limitations, extensions, and a critical analysis of the employed method are discussed.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380725293Subjects--Topical Terms:

1473649
Affect (Psychology).
Subjects--Index Terms:

Videogames Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Manipulating Game Design Elements to Explore the Influence of Difficulty on Videogame Experiences.
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