Deep Dive: Refreshing the Crusader Kings III tutorial mode through optimized UX
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Here's how UX played a role in improving it. Telemetry data indicated the game's tutorial has a significant impact on retention rates.
UX Research in game development: an essential explainer
Game Developer
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
That’s where UX research comes into play. During game development, we’re a little in the dark about how players might experience and respond.
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The Art of the Game
MAY 24, 2023
Lately, I’ve been deepdiving into UX / UI – while I ‘can’ do graphic design, I’m much more of a get the idea out and its done. The post UX/UI appeared first on The Art of the Game. So, in the few moments I get here and there, I try and read what I can; usually in the pickup line at kiddo’s school.
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Crossroads Inn 2 - UI and UX
Indie DB
DECEMBER 20, 2023
In today’s dev blog, we’d like to share the main goals and inspirations for the UI/UX design in Crossroads 2. It's been a while since the announcement and we're ready to share some new details about the sequel to Crossroads Inn!
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Game UX Design – Why is UX important in 3D video game development?
Juego Studio
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
The quality and overall aesthetics of the user experience (UX) design is generally considered a distinguishing feature of successful titles. As games transition into immersive three-dimensional worlds, the complexity of interacting with these environments increases significantly.
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Why Gamification Makes Everything Else More Fun
Brand Game Development
JUNE 3, 2019
For that reason, I’ve brought in Sean Fallon, Founder & CEO of Smunchy Games and User Experience (UX) Designer extraordinaire. His background in UX has given him a keen sense of what motivates people to take action. Playtesting in this stage of game design is related to user research in UX design. A Practical Example.
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5 Dominant UX Design Principles Which Are Here To Stay
Logic Simplified
MAY 22, 2024
The Origin of UX Design The origin of User Experience (UX) design can be traced back to the 1940s, when Human Factors Engineering, or Ergonomics, emerged. This is when information architecture and interaction design became essential in UX practice. With UX taking centre-stage, could user-centered design be far behind?
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Rocket Science launches Atomic Theory
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 6, 2024
It will provide studios with in-game development and UI/UX engineering services. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Game developer Rocket Science has unveiled a new co-development firm, Atomic Theory. Read more
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Dungeon Inn - Demo Update 2
Indie DB
APRIL 20, 2024
Dungeon Inn - Demo Update: Changed UI/UX at 'Manage Inn' New Events, Fame, Inn Ability, New language Added(French)
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League of Geeks: "It's a very serious time for a studio of our size"
GamesIndustry.biz
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Kusters says League of Geeks wants to follow in Paradox's footsteps, making strategy games and their usually opaque UX "far more accessible." Read more
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Game Wisdom
JULY 9, 2024
Enhancing Experience: The Critical Role of UX in Online Betting Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com Online betting activities need to be user-friendly. Those who like to engage in live betting scenarios will find it difficult … The post Enhancing Experience: The Critical Role of UX in Online Betting appeared first on Game Wisdom.
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Game UI Database 2.0
Game From Scratch
AUGUST 6, 2024
We first covered the Game UI Database in April of 2023 and at the time it was one of the single best resources for game UI/UX designers, with a massive database of game user interface elements. GameFromScratch.com Game UI Database 2.0 Today, Game UI Database 2.0 appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
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The Basic Fundamentals of Game Design
Logic Simplified
AUGUST 1, 2023
UI/UX in Game Design User interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) are two critical aspects of game design that are often overlooked. Similarly, a good UX design ensures that players have a smooth and enjoyable experience while playing your game.
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BGFG acquires N4G, TechSpy and more
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 18, 2023
BGFG has promised to make UX fixes, performance tweaks and 'improved personalisation' to N4G, working with existing community manager Christopher Goodno. By Gamers For Gamers (BGFG) has acquired games media aggregator website N4G. It has also added FilmWatch, TechSpy and AnimeShinbun to its line-up of websites. Read more.
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Making A Better Card Feel Worse With UX
Tom Francis
AUGUST 12, 2019
I think you could make Slay’s power dramatically better purely with UX changes: – You’re dealt your normal 5 cards. ” With the existing UX that can never happen, since there’s no concept of which card is the ‘extra’ one. . – The extra card is shown in the center of the screen.
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Playground Games leaders form new AAA studio Maverick Games
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 10, 2023
Ben Penrose has joined the company as Art Director from Sharkmob (but was also a former Playground employee), and Elly Marshall has been named UX/UI Director, following her role as experience design director at EA. Running the studio itself is COO Harinder Sangha.
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Everything you never wanted to know about burnout
GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 18, 2023
He was followed by Spry Fox lead game designer Alicia Fortier, Blizzard Entertainment lead content designer Osama Dorias, and The Outsiders lead UX designer Anna Brandberg sharing their own experiences with occupation burnout and what they've learned from the ordeal. Read more
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Adapting your game's vision to benefit your players
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 21, 2023
At Devcom's keynote today, Funcom's lead UX designer Anna Brandberg made a case for taking the time to truly understand players.
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The Game UI Database
Game From Scratch
APRIL 19, 2023
GameFromScratch.com The Game UI Database The Game UI Database is the ultimate resource for game UI/UX designers. It is a database of user interface elements from over 1,100 games from a wide variety of genres and platforms.
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Customer Experience Optimization: Enhancing User Journeys on Your Magento Store
Logic Simplified
JULY 2, 2024
Customer Experience Optimization or UX optimization ensures a business does that and increases customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy. A website's user experience or UX plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. Contrary to good UX, a poor user experience can negatively impact a company's reputation and finances.
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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish
Mircosoft Game Dev
NOVEMBER 6, 2021
All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.4 , after more than 6 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 release, many contributors and users want a robust and mature 3.x
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She Got Game on cultivating a thriving environment for female game developers
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Robin had an idea for an educational game and needed a graphics and UX designer, which Lucia happened to be. “It Lúcia is the co-founder of Pestrorosso Games and serves as the studio’s graphic and UI/UX designer, focusing on game interfaces and visual materials. She was introduced to her co-founder Robin by a mutual friend.
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A classic trick-taking card game
Logic Simplified
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
UI/UX Artist - 1. The UI/UX must be designed in such a way that players can be absorbed in the game without feeling stressed. Interactive UI/UX. Complete Project Details. Game Genre. App Platform. iOS and Android. Time Duration of Project. Our Team on Project. Project Manager - 1. Quality Analyst - 1. Tester - 1. About Kushtena.
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The Importance of User Experience Testing in Game QA
iXie gaming
MAY 24, 2024
Chances are, it suffered from poor user experience (UX) design. Stumbles in UX can sabotage player satisfaction and a game’s long-term success. Enter user experience (UX) testing. Let’s explore how UX testing transforms games from frustrating to unforgettable. How can UX testing improve game balance?
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Rival guilds and a dragon landlord all contribute to the rowdy charm of Dungeon Inn
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Lee focuses on art direction, UI/UX design and related programming tasks, while Kim takes charge of illustrations, adventurer designs and animations. Since there are only a few of us, each person is taking on multiple roles, Ko explains. He handles programming, system and level design and storytelling.
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You’ve said before that modern games, even single player, will track player data. What sorts of things are actually logged? What do you think are some of the things players would least expect to be tracked?
Ask a Game Dev
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
I think most players don't really understand how much tracking we do for UI/UX. We spend a huge amount of time and effort tracking all that information because we want to know what the players are spending their time doing in order to figure out what kind of new content we think they will like.
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Game art vs game design: What is the difference?
Logic Simplified
AUGUST 8, 2023
UI/UX artist A UI/UX artist creates the visual aspects of a game’s user interface, menus, icons and other interactive components. Their primary responsibility is to develop realistic and aesthetically pleasing environments for gamers to explore.
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Recall your childhood with online version of classic Ludo game
Logic Simplified
AUGUST 1, 2022
UI, UX Artist - 2. The game offers multiplayer gaming modes with fantastic UI, UX interface and design. Attractive UI and UX. The graphics and the UI/UX keep the users hooked to the game. Complete Project Details. Game Genre. Board Game. App Platform. iOS and Android. Time Duration of Project. Our Team on Project.
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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1
Mircosoft Game Dev
AUGUST 10, 2022
Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates. apply_theme().
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“Put that planet to the left!”
Played with Fire
DECEMBER 4, 2021
So today we’re going to talk about UX (user experience) in virtual reality games and tell you about the most interesting solutions we used in our game Stargaze! Good UX practices for VR. That’s why we gathered all the best UX practices we know, all based on the example of Stargaze. Stargaze – cosmic VR game.
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Scene and Prefab file format documentation
Cocos
MARCH 4, 2024
My purpose is to make a simple ai model to make UI/UX just by explaining the needs. I need a full description of these 2 files to train a model for making a declarative language model.
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How Much Does It Cost To Develop a 2D Online Teen Patti Mobile Game App?
Logic Simplified
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
When developing an app, UI UX designers ensure that the user interface is appealing as well as intuitive. As the Teen Patti online mobile app involves many distinct elements, the ultimate price will vary based on those factors such as design, features, region, functionalities, UI/UX design, etc.
What Is Functionality Testing and Why Is it Crucial for the Success of Your Game?
iXie gaming
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Testing the end product is crucial to ensure it delivers a seamless user experience (UX) and meets the industry requirements & standards. However, as time-consuming as it may be, it is crucial to ensure your game meets industry requirements while preventing UX pitfalls. Therefore, it determines its success in the market.
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Hello, can I ask how difficult is for developers to add accessibility features to games? I am aware it probably varies by type. Recently, I asked if a sound only minigame in one video game could be reworked to add visual cues, as I am deaf. Lot of other fans harped on me its too much work for little gain, too difficult, that it takes away precious developers time, etc. So now I wonder how complicated such thing actually is and how devs view it. Thank you.
Ask a Game Dev
MAY 20, 2024
These kinds of UX changes can be expensive if we decide to do it after the fact, but if it's something we decide is important to us from the jump we can compensate for those costs by creating efficient and smart solutions early.
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Let’s say someone becomes a game developer, but realizes the gaming industry is not for them for whatever reason. What opportunities there for game developers, particularly designers, outside of the video game industry? I imagine one of them is your former job at the gambling industry.
Ask a Game Dev
DECEMBER 22, 2023
You are correct in that it is possible to transfer that body of knowledge over to the other gaming industry that is casino machines. Beyond that, here are some other roles that game design skills could transfer to. Tabletop, board, or card game design. It's still game design, just not in video games.
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Video game mechanics: A Beginner’s Guide
Logic Simplified
JULY 31, 2023
Work closely with User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) designers to improve the player interface. Create and maintain detailed documentation (like design sketches, visual mock-ups and diagrams) that describes the triggers, interactions and subsequent events of certain gameplay elements or components.
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Feature Request / Editor: Dropdown Menu "Last 5 searches" & better 'dependencies' & 'referencing files' searches
Cocos
JUNE 21, 2024
Feature Request: CC Editor Stuff => Search related… First one: A drop-down menu with “ Last 5 searches ” or even simply a “ repeat last search ” would improve the UX a lot. Maybe even a “bookmarks” menu? Or maybe just two < > icons for forward/backward search results?) Second one: the " find UUID usages " is pretty broad.
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Feature Request / Editor: Dropdown Menu "Last 5 searches" & better 'dependencies' & 'referencing files' searches
Cocos
JUNE 21, 2024
Feature Request: CC Editor Stuff => Search related… First one: A drop-down menu with “ Last 5 searches ” or even simply a “ repeat last search ” would improve the UX a lot. Maybe even a “bookmarks” menu? Or maybe just two < > icons for forward/backward search results?) Second one: the " find UUID usages " is pretty broad.
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Ten highlights from Nordic Game this Week
Game Daily
MAY 21, 2023
These are the questions that Laura Donahue will be tackling in It’s Dangerous to Go Alone: Do UX Research. Sogn’s talk will focus on “the thought processes and philosophy behind [making] a believable game world” Tips for effective user research How important is user research, and what are the most effective methods?
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Automating LQA for video game localization
Game Global
MAY 4, 2022
Primarily, it focuses on linguistic testing and translation quality review but also covers UI/UX evaluation, compliance testing, culturalization, internationalization, functional tests, and more. Localization quality assurance (LQA) is the last stage in the game localization process. Which LQA process is right for your game?
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It seems in competitive games with a healthy pro/esport community, balance is often different between the pro and casual levels. E.g. Class A tends to dominate Class B at the pro level, but Class B tends to dominate Class A at the casual level. If you try to make Class A relatively more powerful to make the experience better the majority of players, it will only exacerbate the imbalance among the minority of pros (which damages the health of the pro community). How do you prioritize/negotiate?
Ask a Game Dev
DECEMBER 28, 2023
I might make UX modifications to encourage the player to choose the right move to use in the given situation. For example, if we wanted to make Class A from your example perform better against Class B at the casual level, we don't necessarily have to modify the power of Class A or Class B.
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What are common keywords any game design resume should include?
Ask a Game Dev
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Here are some examples: Common Experience, craft, create, live, season, update, content, schedule, create, design, team, player, UX. We want to see key words for common tasks that those kind of designers have done.
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When mass layoffs happen, how is it decided who gets the axe and who gets to stay?
Ask a Game Dev
OCTOBER 2, 2023
There's usually some number of each specific discipline that will get stays of execution - server engineer, UI/UX designer, tech artist, QA, and so on. For everybody else, there's the group quotas and value ranking. Each remaining employee is judged on the decision-maker's criteria, and this is where things generally get subjective.
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How to Get Started with Board Game Conventions as a Board Game Creator, Part 2
Brand Game Development
JUNE 18, 2018
There will often be lectures on anything from animation, illustrations, UI/UX design, game development, design, and self-publishing depending on the conference. It is also a great chance to meet up with and network with other industry people. Conferences are the best for networking and also honing your trade, whatever that trade is.
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