17/02/2025
Games User Research (GUR)
In this session we learnt about GUR methods and how this can help us in preparation for our playtest next week.
What is GUR?
- Academic area to understand what motivates players, how their actions can be explained or predicted, or find new ways to capture and use data about players to help game design
- It merges different fields: psychology, human factors and ergonomics, UX, interaction design, etc.
GUR method examples:
20/02/2025
Unfortunately I wasn’t here for this session but Izzy sent over on the discord what our team were working on and potential things I needed to do next.
Izzy suggested to focus on the first three on this list she made so that is what I’ll be doing!