Published by Oxford University Press, the Games User Research book is the first major text on the modern commercial application of player data in game development. I contributed two chapters on playtest lab design and player research methods.
There were remarkably few talks or resources on the commercial realities of games user research: What does a typical day look like? What’s the workload to be expected?
At GamesUR SF 2017 I co-presented a talk on GamesUR foundations with Ubisoft Researcher Lanie Dixon to answer commonly-asked questions from the community.
Four years after Player Research’s foundation it was acquired by Keywords Studios in a deal worth 1.3m GBP.
What advice do hiring managers have for prospective applicants in games user researchers?
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In this talk from 2016 I shared lessons from designing Player Research’s large-format playtest labs in Brighton.
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The Develop Awards spotlight the best of video game development across the world, highlighting studios, service providers, games and their developers. Player Research won the ‘Services’ award in 2016.
During the heady launch period of Pokémon Go I published a teardown of its UX design. Could the learnability and usability of the game have been improved with some rudimentary UX know-how?
In 2015 I co-chaired the first games user research conference in Europe. The American edition had been running annually since 2009, bringing hundreds of Researchers to San Fran. The first event was a collaboration between the volunteer community and the IGDA.
