HEURISTICS!
**Posted by Hellray at 1:52 PM
Hi there,
For the remaining two weeks of class-time, you will be researching your choice from one of two games - using heuristics.
Heuristics just means rules or techniques which have been worked out from real-world experience. Games companies now routinely use heuristic questionnaires to evaluate gameplay.
Your choices are between the following two games:
1) America's Army - http://www.americasarmy.com
2) World of Warcraft (WoW) - us.battle.net/wow/
Here are your rules of engagement:
1) You will be playing your game-choice for the remainder of term (about ten days).
2) As soon as you have created a character, you must screenshot them and submit an explanation of your character details on the blog.
3) You must play no less than ten hours of gametime (the evidence for this will be provided by submitting details of the level you reached at the end of week 12).
4) You can select between any of the three heuristics questionnaires that you are provided. You need to survey yourself and AT LEAST two others who are playing the same game as you...I recommend that you form a guild-group before you start gameplay.
WHERE ARE THE HEURISTICS QUESTIONNAIRES?
In the GOODIES box on the right of the BLOG, you'll find:
a) An excel spreadsheet with the HEP and PLAY questionnaires pre-made for you.
b) Two pdfs which have paper versions of the same
c) In the READINGS you will find the original published papers that the research teams first wrote about these questionnaires!
Have fun playing =]
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