Curious users of casual creators

Mark J. Nelson; Swen E. Gaudl; Simon Colton; Sebastian Deterding

doi:10.1145/3235765.3235826

Curious users of casual creators

Mark J. Nelson, Swen E. Gaudl, Simon Colton, Sebastian Deterding

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG'18
Editors	Steve Dahlskog, Sebastian Deterding, Jose Font, Mitu Khandaker, Carl Magnus Olsson, Sebastian Risi, Christoph Salge
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450365710
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3235765.3235826
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	Curiosity in Games - An Interdisciplinary Workshop 2018 - Malmo, Sweden Duration: 14 May 2018 → 14 May 2018 https://groups.google.com/access-error?continue=https://groups.google.com/g/computational-creativity-forum/c/pGJ7Bjicp-E

Conference

Conference	Curiosity in Games - An Interdisciplinary Workshop 2018
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Malmo
Period	14/05/18 → 14/05/18
Internet address	https://groups.google.com/access-error?continue=https://groups.google.com/g/computational-creativity-forum/c/pGJ7Bjicp-E

Keywords

Casual creator
Curiosity
Design space
Game design

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Nelson, M. J., Gaudl, S. E., Colton, S., & Deterding, S. (2018). Curious users of casual creators. In S. Dahlskog, S. Deterding, J. Font, M. Khandaker, C. M. Olsson, S. Risi, & C. Salge (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG'18 Article 61 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3235765.3235826

Nelson, Mark J. ; Gaudl, Swen E. ; Colton, Simon et al. / Curious users of casual creators. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG'18. editor / Steve Dahlskog ; Sebastian Deterding ; Jose Font ; Mitu Khandaker ; Carl Magnus Olsson ; Sebastian Risi ; Christoph Salge. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018.

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Nelson, MJ, Gaudl, SE, Colton, S & Deterding, S 2018, Curious users of casual creators. in S Dahlskog, S Deterding, J Font, M Khandaker, CM Olsson, S Risi & C Salge (eds), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG'18., 61, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, Curiosity in Games - An Interdisciplinary Workshop 2018, Malmo, Sweden, 14/05/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3235765.3235826

Curious users of casual creators. / Nelson, Mark J.; Gaudl, Swen E.; Colton, Simon et al.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG'18. ed. / Steve Dahlskog; Sebastian Deterding; Jose Font; Mitu Khandaker; Carl Magnus Olsson; Sebastian Risi; Christoph Salge. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. 61.

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