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Exploring design features for enhancing players' challenge in strategy games.

Shang Hwa Hsu1, Ming-Hui Wen, Muh-Cherng Wu

  • 1Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd. Hsinchu, Taiwan. shhsu@mail.nctu.edu.tw

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Player challenge in strategy games is optimized by balancing mental workload and physical effort. Too much or too little of either can decrease the experienced challenge for players.

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Published on: December 16, 2010

Area of Science:

  • Human-computer interaction
  • Game studies
  • Cognitive psychology

Background:

  • Player challenge is a key factor in engagement and enjoyment in strategic computer games.
  • Understanding the determinants of perceived challenge is crucial for game design.
  • Difficulty can be conceptualized through mental workload and physical effort.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how information availability and resource advantage influence perceived player challenge.
  • To determine the relationship between mental workload, physical effort, and experienced challenge.
  • To identify optimal levels of difficulty for enhancing player engagement.

Main Methods:

  • A 3x3 between-subjects factorial experiment was conducted with 45 male college and graduate students.
  • Independent variables included information availability and resource advantage.
  • Dependent variables measured were player mental workload, physical effort, and perceived challenge.

Main Results:

  • Information availability significantly impacted player mental workload.
  • Resource advantage significantly affected player physical effort.
  • Both mental workload and physical effort showed an inverted U-shaped relationship with experienced challenge.

Conclusions:

  • Optimal player challenge is achieved through a balance of mental workload and physical effort, not extremes.
  • Game designers can manipulate information availability and resource advantage to modulate difficulty and enhance player experience.
  • Further research could explore these factors across different game genres and player demographics.