Stéphane Bura

I've put online an article entitled "Emotion Engineering in Videogames, Toward a Scientific Approach to Understanding the Appeal of Videogames".

It's a theory about how to design game systems that can induce a chosen emotion in a player and, in fine, about how to find a certain type of abstract game design rules that are applicable to all videogames, across all genres. This is a more detailed model than the one I presented at Game Focus Germany 2008.

Here's, for instance, one way to induce hope in a player using only gameplay systems:

The article explains what this all means. Hopefully.

Hello and welcome to this blog.

I've made this small space on the net to share my ongoing work on the creation of a game design grammar.
Updates should be few and far between, so I'm grateful for rss feeds.

Also, I'm French.