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9781568815824

On the Way to Fun: An Emotion-Based Approach to Successful Game Design

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    9781568815824

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    1568815824

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2010-03-08
  • Publisher: A. K. Peters

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Summary

In On the Way to Fun, Roberto Dillon (DigiPen Singapore) provides game designers with a useful tool to understand how to craft an immersive gameplay by engaging players emotionally to deliver an exciting and fun experience. He goes back to the roots of gaming and shows how early games, as well as modern indie productions, captivated generations of players without the need for fancy graphics and effects, relying instead on basic emotions and instincts.

Author Biography

Roberto Dillon holds a Masters and Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy. Dillon worked as a programmer/analyst before moving to Stockholm, Sweden as a guest researcher at the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing within the Royal Institute of Technology. In 2005, he moved to Singapore where he taught at Nanyang Technological University and Nanyang Polytechnic before joining DigiPen Singapore as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science/Game Software Design and Production department.

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