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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More Results

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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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