Abstract
Casual creators are a type of design tool identified by Compton & Mateas, characterised by an orientation towards enjoyable, intrinsically motivated creative exploration, rather than task-oriented designer productivity. In our experiments holding rapid game jams with Wevva, a casual creator for mobile game design, we have noticed, however, that users seem to vary considerably even within the context of using a casual creator. Some people focus on designing specific games, while others explore the design space extensively, or even focus exclusively on prodding the edges of the design space looking for its possibilities and limits. We hypothesise that the latter group of users is driven primarily by curiosity about a casual creator and its design space. This results in different patterns of behaviour to the former group (of design-oriented users), which may worth characterising and perhaps explicitly designing for.
DOI
10.1145/3235765.3235826
Publication Date
2018-08-07
Publication Title
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games
Embargo Period
2023-07-19
Organisational Unit
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Nelson, M., Gaudl, S., Colton, S., & Deterding, S. (2018) 'Curious users of casual creators', Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, . Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3235765.3235826
