5 Facts about Video Game Events

Few days ago we talked about How to Maximize the Outcome of Video Game Events, that idea came after having visited some of the most important, local or specialized game events. There are plenty of them and as a next post we wanted to talk about it, About Game Events. We started thinking about recommending […]

A Player’s Guide to Think Aloud Comments

What are “Think Aloud Comments”? Play test feedback plays a major role in user experience (UX) development, and one of the best proven methods for player feedback are think aloud comments, or the active communication of a player’s thoughts as they interact with an interface or game. This feedback style is sometimes described as “eavesdropping on someone’s thinking”, and though this method provides insightful feedback to developers […]

How to Maximize the Outcome of Video Game Events

Maximize the outcome of Video Game Events

Get the most out of your next Video Game Event A new event is approaching, the whole team put a lot of effort to make it great and it is going to be an inflexion point for your project. After some exhausting weeks polishing your game, spending days designing your Booth and arranging your travel […]

How to Provide Written Feedback: Best Practices for Answering Post-Game Surveys

How Written Feedback Helps Post-game surveys are a great way for developers to understand a player’s opinions/experiences of a game, then use that feedback to create a more enjoyable player experience. Player feedback is an important part of developing an enjoyable and appealing game, so it is also important that players try their best to […]

The Psychological Benefits of Video Games

Psychology and video games: background Video games have been notoriously popular for what seems like forever. But why? What is it about video games that makes them so compelling? The United States has the largest video game presence in the entire world, and in 2017, the video game industry earned an astounding $108.9 billion (Strickland […]

User Experience in Video Games: Why it Matters

Various profiles define our identity. Among them, Joan Costa, UX researcher at Sekg, highlights the importance of user experience analytics in the video game industry, and, more specifically, how to implement it in game development processes. Background Joan grew up in Catalonia and has always been passionate about video games. It is when he turned […]

Understanding Gamer Psychology: Why Do People Play Games?

Understanding Gamer Psychology: Why Do People Play Games

Games have been played for a long, long time now. Remember those countless hours we spent playing Pacman on the arcades or playing Pokemon on our Gameboy Colors as children? For sure we do . While a lot of research has been done concerning the possible negative health effects of video gaming, it is not often […]

10 games turning 20 in 2018!

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Do you feel like video games have been part of our culture since recent times? Indeed, it is the case. Still, despite being a rather young industry, some games will already be celebrating their 20th birthday this year and it does not make us feel young yet. 1998 was a major milestone for the gaming […]

Why biometrics is the next level of game analytics

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Recently, SEKG was invited to give a contribution to the American media Gamesauce regarding the use of biometrics in the videogame industry. This is the re-post of the original article. Video games certainly have evolved over the years and are different from one to another. However, there is one thing they have in common: the […]

A New World of Video Games: Viewers

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Last time we talked about a new realm of video gaming called streaming, and explored why we stream and what we like about it.Today, we’re discussing the other side of livestreaming: the audience or video game viewers Why do we like to spend hours and hours watching livestreams? What makes us do it in the first […]

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