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Screen captures showing the original single health bar (a) and the segmented health bar (b)
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Health mechanisms in games evoke strong emotions in players, which can affect their overall perception and experience with a game. We undertook a pilot study (N=32) to examine what affect a change from a single health bar to a segmented health bar would have on player's perception and game preference. We designed a segmented health bar for the game...
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... designed and implemented a modified version of BrowserQuest [7] that used a segmented health bar instead of the single health bar, Figure 1. The new health bar required changes to the game's behavior in order to implement a wider variety of reactions in the avatar in response to different injuries it may suffer during the game. ...
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... was creating the image sprite for CSS. BrowserQuest uses CSS rules to render the health bar based on the health points it calculates, so the image sprite of a single bar had to be changed so that instead of the CSS code attempting to render a single health bar from the image sprite it would instead render the segmented health bar shown in Fig. ...
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... punctuation, lives, resources. Segmented health bar...) [2,16,23,24,25,35,40,55]; 4. The game outcomes are fair in terms of the challenges solved [1,25]; 5. Turn the players' score/status visible [1,24,25]; 6. Ease the process of obtaining information about its surroundings [24]; 6. Use sound to provide meaningful feedback [1,24,30,49] Game experience and aesthetics: Encourage fun and replay [1,2,11,21,24,25,27,35,36,37,42,49]; and Provide a positive game-based and learning experience [26,27,29,42]; Outcome -Reward/Punishment: Reward the player by increasing their capabilities (power-ups) and expanding their skills and resources [1,2,18,26,39]; AI (Artificial Intelligence): Provide different levels of AI depending on the level design and players' play (novice & experts) [2,36,47,49,51]; Level design: Adjust the game challenges to the players' skills [2,23,24,27,33,35,38,39,42,51]; and Provide different levels of difficulty [1,2,11,18,24,25,33,35,36,39,48,49]; Gameplay and rules: Encourage a sense of control from the player relative to their avatar and the impact of their actions onto the game world [23,25,27,30,36,39]; Match players' movements to on-screen actions [2,5,19,20,30,46] and monitor information related with the game activity [21,27,28,36,47,53]; Feedback: Provide immediate in-game feedback [1,16,23,24,25,26,28,30,47,49,52,54] and; Provide information on players' game status and players' performance in the game [2,15,24,35,37,47]. ...
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