{"id":108034,"date":"2020-01-24T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/357166"},"modified":"2020-01-24T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T20:56:00","slug":"video-a-game-devs-guide-to-the-ux-of-engagement-and-immersion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/24\/video-a-game-devs-guide-to-the-ux-of-engagement-and-immersion\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: A game dev&#8217;s guide to the UX of engagement and immersion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2017 GDC talk, UX designer Celia Hodent discusses the UX challenges of retention and how to use cognitive science&nbsp;and the scientific method to make your game enjoyable and engaging in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>Hodent&#8217;s talk was rich with practical advice and useful examples, as well as insights gleaned during her time at Epic Games working on games like&nbsp;<em>Fortnite<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It was a practical and useful talk, especially if you&#8217;re passionate about how good design can make players&#8217; lives better, and now it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CozTtfhwPX0\">free to watch over on <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WtDPNoVGZIw\">the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>&nbsp;and its accompanying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC&nbsp;already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2017 GDC talk, UX designer Celia Hodent discusses the UX challenges of retention and how to use cognitive science&nbsp;and the scientific method to make your game enjoyable and engaging in the long term. Hodent&#8217;s talk was rich with practical advice and useful examples, as well as insights gleaned during her time at Epic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}