@inproceedings{340012c337b1492aaf4f6709ea769413,
title = "GameFlow heuristics for designing and evaluating real-time strategy games",
abstract = "The GameFlow model strives to be a general model of player enjoyment, applicable to all game genres and platforms. Derived from a general set of heuristics for creating enjoyable player experiences, the GameFlow model has been widely used in evaluating many types of games, as well as non-game applications. However, we recognize that more specific, low-level, and implementable criteria are potentially more useful for designing and evaluating video games. Consequently, the research reported in this paper aims to provide detailed heuristics for designing and evaluating one specific game genre, real-time strategy games. In order to develop these heuristics, we conducted a grounded theoretical analysis on a set of professional game reviews and structured the resulting heuristics using the GameFlow model. The resulting 165 heuristics for designing and evaluating real-time strategy games are presented and discussed in this paper.",
keywords = "enjoyment, evaluation, flow, game design, games, heuristics, model",
author = "Penelope Sweetser and Daniel Johnson and Anne Ozdowska and Peta Wyeth",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1145/2336727.2336728",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450314107",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
booktitle = "Playing the System - IE 2012, Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment",
note = "8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Playing the System, IE 2012 ; Conference date: 21-07-2012 Through 22-07-2012",
}