Workshop

Emotional Game Design: Emotional Journeys with Meaningful Choices

Workshop
Emotional Game Design: Emotional Journeys with Meaningful Choices

Emotional Game Design: Emotional Journeys with Meaningful Choices

Time: 15:00-19:00

How do games evoke emotions? In games, players make their own choices and experience the consequences. Game designers utilize this simple structure to create emotional changes. By compelling the player to make meaningful choices, they can lead them on the emotional journey they intend.

This workshop will explore how games can elicit emotions through meaningful choices. We will not only discuss the theories behind it but will also put them into practice. We will specifically focus on game concepts such as rules, choices, consequences, objectives, and flow, which have the potential to evoke emotions that aren't possible in other mediums. We will demonstrate emotional game elements through various games and then move on to collective game design exercises on paper. Through this hands-on approach, we will explore how we can elicit emotions by directing players to make meaningful choices in game design.

Zeynep Burcu Kaya is a game designer and researcher. As a lecturer, she teaches Player Experience Design, Game Studies, and Augmented Reality Projects at Bahçeşehir University and İstinye University. Her research interests include original game aesthetics, the impact of body-based interaction on player experience, and representation in games. As part of the doctoral program in Communication Sciences at İstinye University, she is writing her thesis on the production of identity with digital avatars in games. As a doctoral researcher, she investigates the impact of dynamic wind simulation on perceived realism in games and virtual reality experiences. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from MSGSÜ and a Master's in Game Design from Bahçeşehir University. As an Unreal Authorized Trainer and an Independent Ambassador for Women in Games, she strives to design and develop original game experiences, change gender representation in games, and support women in the game industry.

* To attend this workshop, you can register by using the "Register" button on the page and receive your free event invitation. Registrations will open 3 days before the event date (08.05.2024, at 15:00) and the "Register" button will become visible then. Participation is limited to a quota of 20 people.

11 May 2024 Saturday 15:00

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