Gamasutra Feature Articles: Intuition, Expectations and Culture: Learning from Psychology to Build Better Game Interfaces

Gamasutra Feature Articles Gamasutra Feature Articles

Intuition, Expectations and Culture: Learning from Psychology to Build Better Game Interfaces Apr 4th 2012, 04:00 [In this Game Developer Magazine reprint, designer Ara Shirinian discusses affordances -- how interfaces suggest what they let people accomplish versus what they actually let people accomplish -- and how that affects game players.] One peculiarity of video games is that we often think of them in terms of "games we are able to play" and "games we are not able to play." Much like a sport, and unlike most other forms of consumer entertainment, ...