@inproceedings{Whitby:2023:10.1145/3611051,
author = {Whitby, MA and Iacovides, I and Deterding, S},
doi = {10.1145/3611051},
pages = {833--855},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)},
title = {“Conversations with pigeons”: capturing players’ lived experience of perspective challenging games},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3611051},
year = {2023}
}

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Video games are increasingly designed to provoke reflection and challenge players’ perspectives. Yet we know little about how such perspective-challenging experiences come about in gameplay. In response, we used systematic self-observation diaries and micro-phenomenological interviews to capture players’ (n=15) lived experience of perspective challenges in purposely sampled games including Hatoful Boyfriend, The Stanley Parable, or Papers, Please. We found a sequence of trigger, reflection, and transformation constituting perspective-challenging experiences, matching Mezirow’s model of transformative learning. Most of these were game-related or ‘endo-game’, suggesting that medium self-reflection could be an overlooked part of everyday game reflection and appreciation. Reflections were accompanied by a wide range of emotions, including frequent epistemic emotions, and emotions could change drastically even during short gameplay experiences. Actual perspective change or transformation was rare. We construct a model of granular types of triggers, reflections, and transformations that can aid reflective game design.
AU  - Whitby,MA
AU  - Iacovides,I
AU  - Deterding,S
DO  - 10.1145/3611051
EP  - 855
PB  - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
PY  - 2023///
SN  - 2573-0142
SP  - 833
TI  - “Conversations with pigeons”: capturing players’ lived experience of perspective challenging games
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3611051
UR  - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3611051
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/105749
ER  - 

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