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Touching is GoodGame Design for the Nintendo DS
Nick BaloghComputer Science Senior Project
Union CollegeProf. Burns
Nintendo DS
DS Game Design
Design Challenges
Question
•How do you design a “good” game for the DS??
My Approach
•Good Game Design Principles
•Game Development
•User Testing
•Evaluation of player feedback
Buttons vs. Stylus
My Game
Game cont…
Experiment•User plays with both control schemes
•Survey
• Challenge
• Rewarding
• Preference
• Score
• Mastery
• Learning Curve
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Stylus Buttons
•More challenging control scheme
•Rewarding on success
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Stylus Buttons
•Preference to play again
•Score better with
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Conclusions
•The touch screen controls provide a better way to interact and play the game
•DS Games in general
•Touching is Good!
Future Work
•Additional testing
• Different tests
•Expand Combos
• Complex actions
• Multiplayer
•Another game to test screen variations
Questions?
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