Emotional Challenge In Games-Bopp
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- AAA games are reviewed for their functional challenge - physical and cognitive challenge
Open ended questions and PX survey (PENS)
emotional challenge? It’s good.
used a list of emotions as codes.
- emotional challenge is triggered by difficult themes, tough decisions, and negative emotions.
- Multiplayer games also had emotional challenge in dealing with other players.
- Emotional challenge involves negative emotions that players appreciate.
- games can teach philosophy through interaction, and that might become stronger with relating to games.
- Avoid ham fisted themes.
- games demand interaction.
- Sometimes games presented moral temptations
- Future work could look at how emotional challenge interacts with functional challenge
- If the emotional challenge gets in the way of the functional challenge, players may get frustrated. In that way, functional challenge can subvert emotional challenges.
- players appreciate emotional challenge more.
- emotional challenge may be difficult to measure.
- there is skill in breaking down and dealing with an emotional challenge.
