Heidi Rautalahti

"An Experience That Could Not be Found Anywhere Else": Resonance as an Explanatory Concept for Player Experience Research and Game Design

One central goal of game designers is to make games that resonate with players. Yet, within HCI games research, resonance is used vaguely as an everyday notion. In this work, we draw on psychological research on resonance to conduct a qualitative survey (n = 110) to explore how players characterize game experiences th…