Towards Democratisation of Games User Research: Exploring Playtesting Challenges of Indie Video Game Developers

Alena Denisova; Steve Bromley; Pejman Mirza-Babaei; Elisa Mekler

doi:10.1145/3677108

Towards Democratisation of Games User Research: Exploring Playtesting Challenges of Indie Video Game Developers

Alena Denisova
, Steve Bromley
, Pejman Mirza-Babaei
, Elisa Mekler

Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Number of pages	25
Volume	8
Publication date	2024
Edition	CHI PLAY
Pages	1-25
Article number	343
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3677108
Publication status	Published - 2024
Event	Annual Symposium on Computer‑Human Interaction in Play - Tampere, Finland Duration: 14 Oct 2024 → 17 Oct 2024 https://chiplay.acm.org/2024/

Symposium

Symposium	Annual Symposium on Computer‑Human Interaction in Play
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Tampere
Period	14/10/2024 → 17/10/2024
Internet address	https://chiplay.acm.org/2024/

Keywords

Playtesting
Player experience,
PX
User experience
UX
Games user research
GUR
Indie
Challenges
Practices

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Denisova, A, Bromley, S, Mirza-Babaei, P & Mekler, E 2024, Towards Democratisation of Games User Research: Exploring Playtesting Challenges of Indie Video Game Developers. in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI PLAY edn, vol. 8, 343, pp. 1-25, Annual Symposium on Computer‑Human Interaction in Play, Tampere, Finland, 14/10/2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677108

Towards Democratisation of Games User Research: Exploring Playtesting Challenges of Indie Video Game Developers. / Denisova, Alena; Bromley, Steve; Mirza-Babaei, Pejman et al.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. Vol. 8 CHI PLAY. ed. 2024. p. 1-25 343.

Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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