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The User-Focused Storybuilding Framework for Competence Developing Games

Authors:
Johannes Alexander König
Veronika Völker
Martin R. Wolf

Keywords: CDG, Competence Developing Game, Serious Game, Video Game, Story, Narrative, Player Types, Player-Types, User-Focused Storybuilding Framework, UFoS

Abstract:
During the development of a Competence Developing Game’s (CDG) story it is indispensable to understand the target audience. Thereby, CDGs stories represent more than just the plot. The Story is about the Setting, the Characters and the Plot. As a toolkit to support the development of such a story, this paper introduces the User-Focused Storybuilding (short UFoS) Framework for CDGs. The Framework and its utilization will be explained, followed by a description of its development and derivation, including an empirical study. In addition, to simplify the Framework use regarding the CDG’s target audience, a new concept of Nine Psychographic Player Types will be explained. This concept of Player Types provides an approach to handle the differences in between players during the UFoS Framework use. Thereby, this article presents a unique approach to the development of target group-differentiated CDGs stories.

Pages: 98 to 106

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: March 25, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-616-3

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from March 25, 2018 to March 29, 2018