jakedx6

jakedx6

Joined Member # 3090764
3 Posts 3 Replies 319 Reputation

Interesting, It surprises me that UX hasn't changed the game development industry much yet. With the epic fails of games the past few years. A user centric approach would match up very well with the way games are starting to involve players in on the development early. I was looking at the RTS build flows posted not long ago and it reminds me very much of the work I do day to day. Getting user feedback is great but a UX person could interpret the user feedback and data and help provided c

6 Replies 94,881 Views

I work for a software company in Chicago as a UX Director. I was wondering how game development processes handles User Experience? Do you staff UX professionals? Is it typical to have discussions around what the best gaming experience would be? Just curious how the the game development industry is different than traditional UX in software. Thanks for any insight!

6 Replies 94,881 Views

I work for a software company in Chicago as a UX Director. I was wondering how game development processes handles User Experience? Do you staff UX professionals? Is it typical to have discussions around what the best gaming experience would be? Just curious how the the game development industry is different than traditional UX in software. Thanks for any insight!

1 Replies 436 Views

I have always enjoyed being able to draw on the map when playing with friends. It's a lot easier to say "build defense line a here" and then drawing a defense line. Or maneuver your unites along this path and then being able to draw a line on the map showing the proposed path. It becomes even more useful when random maps are in play because its much harder to describe verbally a map that you haven't played before. I think the Spring engine had this feature. Just wanted to thro

0 Replies 593 Views