evaluating transformational games
Designing Ethics Games-Schrier has examples of papers that have used each of these methods:
- Mixed Methods
- Pre / Post Game Activity
- Textual Analysis
- Design Research
- Focus groups or case studies
- Ethnographic approaches
- Designer reflection
Notes from Transformational_Framework-Culyba:
Levels of evaluation
- It seems reasonable
- Prior research shows it’ll probably work
- Experts say it will work
- Anecdotal data
- Formally researched
How to evaluate:
- Track player actions in game
- Track player actions irl
- Survey players about their intentions
- Survey stakeholders surrounding the players
- Test the player
Try to evaluate with the audience and context you would actually deploy in.
Players may themselves be interested in assessments, implicit or explicit
