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
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?
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 […]
Top 10 eSports Games – Show Off Your Competitive Skills
Competition has always been a major factor to playing videogames. Trying to finish the race first on Mario Kart Double Dash, or beating your friend on Street Fighter 2, we all have gone through that. A greater accessibility to videogames has highly favorised the rise of eSports and gaming competitions. Becoming a profesionnal player isn’t […]
10 games turning 20 in 2018!
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 […]
Hell yeah! We’re heading to London for the #gamesUR conference
London is on the way! We are delighted to confirm our participation to the #gamesUR conference in London, on 24th of November. Just a few weeks after the game connection in Paris, we are now heading to the most-famous English city. The conference aims to highlights various actors of the gaming industry, with a strong […]
We will exhibit at Barcelona Gamesworld!
We are delighted to confirm our participation to the Barcelona Gamesworld from 5th to 8th of October. As attendees last year, we could already observe the great success of the gamesworld. This year, the major gaming event in Barcelona is back for its second edition with even stronger ambitions. It’s just been a few weeks […]