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Games User Research

Games User Research

Games User Research makes video games more fun. In this book, experts share crucial knowledge on how to understand players and create better games.

2018

Anders Drachen (Editor), et al.

Anders Drachen (Editor), Lennart Nacke (Editor), et al.

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Bootcamp

The secret language of game environments

How to use composition and cues in game UX to guide the player

Jul 19

Light is a great way to guide a player along a path as shown here in the game The Last of Us.

Jul 19

Juicy damage UI feedback in games

How to use UI iconography, text size, colour coding, timing, and audio to show impactful player damage feedback in your combat designs.

Jul 31

Juicy damage UI feedback in games

Jul 31

Published in
Bootcamp

Your 5 keys to player observation

How to really understand your players

Jul 26

An image depicting a gamer with a white-knuckled grip on the controller, showing intense concentration. Another part of the image captures the triumphant moment with a fist pump after nailing an impossible level. The setting is a cozy gaming room with a gaming console, a monitor displaying the game, and various gaming paraphernalia around.

Jul 26

Published in
Bootcamp

A game designer’s guide to UI accessibility

How to label unfamiliar icons in video game UIs

Jul 21

A screenshot of the UI of the video game Destiny.

Jul 21

Your 4 levels of research strategy

The secret to 10x your research impact: Building your scientific strategy pyramid

Jul 18

Jul 18

I Tripled My Paper’s Readership with This Title-Writing Strategy

Want to get your research paper noticed? It all starts with a kick-ass title.

Jun 19

I Tripled My Paper’s Readership with This Title-Writing Strategy

Jun 19

I discovered the one secret to captivating academic writing

Storytelling is changing the research game

Apr 26

A comic with the title: How to make your academic writing read like a bestseller: Tell a research story.

Apr 26

Published in
The Acagamic Tip Tuesday

Don’t Spook the Newbies: Unveiling 5 Proven Game Onboarding Techniques

Welcome to issue 53 of The Acagamic Tip Tuesday. In today's newsletter, I'll show you how to make a good onboarding process for your game…

Apr 5, 2023

Don’t Spook the Newbies: Unveiling 5 Proven Game Onboarding Techniques

Apr 5, 2023

7 Challenges To Write Research Papers Faster (& How To Overcome Them)…

I want to address seven challenges to writing research papers faster in this issue of my writing newsletter (which I am republishing here…

Feb 2, 2023

7 Challenges To Write Research Papers Faster (& How To Overcome Them)…

Feb 2, 2023

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The Acagamic Tip Tuesday

The Acagamic Tip Tuesday #21: Avoid Menu Clutter

In today’s issue of The Acagamic Tip Tuesday, we learn that the cognitive processing capabilities of our users are limited to four items in…

Jul 6, 2022

The Acagamic Tip Tuesday #21: Avoid Menu Clutter

Jul 6, 2022

Lennart Nacke

Lennart Nacke

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I share effective strategies for better UX research, game design, and writing. University Research Chair & Tenured Full HCI Professor.

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