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A Focused Conversational Model for Game Design and Play-Tests

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Ludic examinations are close in scope to appreciations in other fields such as art criticism, which has utilized methods, such as focused conversations in order to derive the truth from several viewpoints. Best practices of lesson planning, such as that based off of the Context-Activity-Reflection-Documentation (CARD) model, requires a reflective stage of development. The Focused Conversation Model or ORID question model are both examined with the application to a playtesting case study in order to encourage the application of lesson planning to the field of games appreciation and design.

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  1. Artificial Intelligence in Games Development Lab, Innopolis University, Innopolis, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia

    Joseph Alexander Brown

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  1. University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    Antonios Liapis

  2. University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    Georgios N. Yannakakis

  3. National Research Council of Italy, Palermo, Italy

    Manuel Gentile

  4. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany

    Manuel Ninaus

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Brown, J.A. (2019). A Focused Conversational Model for Game Design and Play-Tests. In: Liapis, A., Yannakakis, G., Gentile, M., Ninaus, M. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11899. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34350-7_43

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