Two Axes for Game Design Philosophies. How does a playable medium elicit, process, and represent player inputs? How does the medium entice participation and produce materials for experiences as a result? .

Game Research - The art, business, and science of video games. Most popular since 1st of this month.

A textbook and an overview of current research. Julian Togelius, Noor Shaker, Mark J. Julian Togelius and Noor Shaker. Constructive generation methods for dungeons and levels. Noor Shaker, Antonios Liapis, Julian Togelius, Ricardo Lopes and Rafael Bidarra. Fractals, noise and agents with applications to landscapes and textures. Noor Shaker, Julian Togelius and Mark J. Julian Togelius, Noor Shaker and Joris Dormans.

Consultant - Game and Experience Design - Game Writing and Worldbuilding - Public Speaking. Toward a Scientific Approach to Understanding the Appeal of Videogames - a theory about how to design game systems that can induce a chosen emotion in a player. This is a more detailed model than the one I presented at Game Focus Germany 2008. This article has been published on Gamasutra. I was part of the.

Wilkommen, bienvenue, welk ó. These webpages serve as a portfolio about myself, my work, my research and my interests. Feel free to look around. I also used to have a few pages where I kept a bit of a blog, but over the past years it became obvious that I really do not have time to update my pages regularly, so the blog has been dropped.

Studies in Games and Performance. The good fortune of bad design. I teach into an introductory course on game studies, from a culture and design perspective.