Make-Believe in Gameful and Playful Design

Christoph Sebastian Deterding

Make-Believe in Gameful and Playful Design

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

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Abstract

Gameful and playful design aspire to make existing activities and systems more engaging by infusing them with the engaging qualities of games and toys. One such quality is make-believe, the constitution of fictional “as ifs”. While frequently evoked, actual work on make-believe in gameful and playful design has remained quite scarce and scattered. This chapter therefore draws on neighbouring fields to break out five major design aspects of make-believe: theming; storification; scripting, ruling, and framing; role-play; and their integration in unified experiences. For each, the chapter presents explanatory theories; psychological and behavioural effects; design elements and strategies used to evoke said effects; and existing empirical studies. The chapter closes in summarizing how and why playful make-believe design differs from current gamification in form (often artistic one-offs) and technology (often audio); and what limitations future research should try to overcome.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Digital Make-Believe
Place of Publication	Basel
Publisher	Springer
Pages	101-124
Publication status	Published - 28 Apr 2016

Publication series

Name	Human-Computer Interaction
Publisher	Springer

Bibliographical note

Paper was submitted and accepted by publisher with open access self-archiving addendum.

Keywords

make-believe
gameful design
playful design

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Paper was submitted and accepted by publisher with open access self-archiving addendum.
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Cowling, P. I. (Principal investigator), Austin, J. (Co-investigator), Cairns, P. A. (Co-investigator), Holliman, N. S. (Co-investigator), Hook, J. D. (Co-investigator), Marsden, E. (Co-investigator), Murphy, D. T. (Co-investigator), Petrie, H. (Co-investigator), Reed, D. J. (Co-investigator), Richards, J. D. (Co-investigator), Ursu, M. (Co-investigator), Wade, A. (Co-investigator), Baier, H. (Researcher), Beale, G. (Researcher), Block, F. O. (Researcher), Deterding, C. S. (Researcher), Devlin, S. (Researcher), Drachen, A. (Researcher), Kasprowicz, R. E. (Researcher), Smith, D. P. (Researcher) & Williams, D. A. H. (Researcher)
EPSRC
1/10/15 → 30/09/22
Project: Research project (funded) › Research

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