Category: Game Research

Error prevention is one of Norman Nielsen’s fundamental heuristics. Developed more than 20 years ago, they continue to provide a foundation for creating useful digital products. For games, this heuristic has an additional bottom. In this post, I will describe how the universal heuristic to prevent player error is of additional importance in the gaming… Continue reading Game UX Heuristycs #4: Error prevention

In this post, I will describe how the game should support the player through broadly understood personalization and its consequences. Players’ habits Different players have different habits. The settings allow you to minimize the barrier between the player and the game world. In this way, we will enable decisions to be made at the “attack”… Continue reading Game UX Heuristics #3: Personalization

Accessibility in games is being talked about more and more, but still not enough in my opinion. As game developers we have full access to tools that will minimize accessibility issues for our products. But still the topic is underestimated. Why? Why accessibility in games is important One in five gamers has a major or… Continue reading Game UX Heuristics #2: Accesibility

In this post I’ll write about why consistency, should be a key principle when designing in-game experiences. It applies to both interferers and controls. Although it seems the easiest to implement, even the biggest productions don’t have bugs in this plane. Consistency – the essence of positive UX The faster a player masters a game’s… Continue reading Game UX Heuristics #1: Control & Consistency