Visual Analysis of FPS Gameplay Data: From Game Design to Player Behavior

Li, Quan; Qu, Huamin

Visual Analysis of FPS Gameplay Data: From Game Design to Player Behavior

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Date

2014

Authors

Li, Quan
Qu, Huamin

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Gameplay data analysis has already become an important method for analyzing player behavior in games. Visualization is a promising way to explore and gain insight into the data. In this paper, we work closely with the game designers and user experience engineers to develop a visual analytic system to help them explore the gameplay data for a novel FPS (First-Person Shooter) game specific in the mainland China. We first come up with task specifications for such a system. After that, we propose a set of design goals for our system. VisFPS, is thus developed iteratively through a complete use-centered design process. The system is divided into two parts: Macro-View to deal with the overall gameplay data to discover patterns, and Micro-View to focus on a specific game match to recreate the game scene and use it to study player behavior and verify the game design intent.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/pgs.20141263
,
booktitle = {Pacific Graphics Short Papers
},
editor = {John Keyser and Young J. Kim and Peter Wonka
},
title = {{Visual Analysis of FPS Gameplay Data: From Game Design to Player Behavior
}},
author = {Li, Quan and 
Qu, Huamin
},
year = {2014
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-73-6
},
DOI = {/10.2312/pgs.20141263
}
}