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Curious users of casual creators

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Mark J. Nelson,

Sebastian DeterdingAuthors Info & Claims

FDG '18: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

Article No.: 61, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/3235765.3235826

Published: 07 August 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Casual creators are a type of design tool identified by Compton & Mateas, characterised by an orientation towards enjoyable, intrinsically motivated creative exploration, rather than task-oriented designer productivity. In our experiments holding rapid game jams with Wevva, a casual creator for mobile game design, we have noticed, however, that users seem to vary considerably even within the context of using a casual creator. Some people focus on designing specific games, while others explore the design space extensively, or even focus exclusively on prodding the edges of the design space looking for its possibilities and limits. We hypothesise that the latter group of users is driven primarily by curiosity about a casual creator and its design space. This results in different patterns of behaviour to the former group (of design-oriented users), which may worth characterising and perhaps explicitly designing for.

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Kreminski M(2023)“Generator’s Haunted”: A Brief, Spooky Account of Hauntological Effects in the Player Experience of Procedural GenerationProceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games10.1145/3582437.3587213(1-3)Online publication date: 12-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3582437.3587213
BV SPatel JNaik AButala YSharma SChhaya N(2022)Towards Enabling Synchronous Digital Creative Collaboration: Codifying Conflicts in Co-ColoringCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts10.1145/3491101.3519789(1-7)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491101.3519789
Colton SMcCormack JBerns SPetrovskaya ECook M(2020)Adapting and Enhancing Evolutionary Art for Casual CreationArtificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design10.1007/978-3-030-43859-3_2(17-34)Online publication date: 9-Apr-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43859-3_2

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Kreminski M(2023)“Generator’s Haunted”: A Brief, Spooky Account of Hauntological Effects in the Player Experience of Procedural GenerationProceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games10.1145/3582437.3587213(1-3)Online publication date: 12-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3582437.3587213
BV SPatel JNaik AButala YSharma SChhaya N(2022)Towards Enabling Synchronous Digital Creative Collaboration: Codifying Conflicts in Co-ColoringCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts10.1145/3491101.3519789(1-7)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491101.3519789
Colton SMcCormack JBerns SPetrovskaya ECook M(2020)Adapting and Enhancing Evolutionary Art for Casual CreationArtificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design10.1007/978-3-030-43859-3_2(17-34)Online publication date: 9-Apr-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43859-3_2

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