1. Touching is Good Game Design for the Nintendo DS Nick Balogh Computer Science Senior Project Union College Prof. Burns

2. Nintendo DS

3. DS Game Design

4. Design Challenges

5. Question How do you design a “good” game for the DS??

6. My Approach Good Game Design Principles Game Development User Testing Evaluation of player feedback

7. Buttons vs. Stylus

8. My Game

9. Game cont…

10. Experiment User plays with both control schemes Survey Challenge Rewarding Preference Score Mastery Learning Curve

11. Results More challenging control scheme Rewarding on success n= 15

12. More Results Preference to play again Score better with n=15

13. Conclusions The touch screen controls provide a better way to interact and play the game DS Games in general Touching is Good!

14. Future Work Additional testing Different tests Expand Combos Complex actions Multiplayer Another game to test screen variations

15. Questions? ?