## News - **Course Registration (Webreg)** Register for the course [via **Webreg**](https://www.ida.liu.se/webreg-beta/TDDE20-2025-1/PRA1). **Only register if you are taking the course**. **Register in working groups**. - **Course starts:** August 9, 13:15--15:00, **FE243 Fysikhuset** - **Lecture slides:** [Available here](./lit/TDDE20.pdf) --- ## Submission Deadlines Teams must upload: 1. **Game project** 2. **Screencast URLs to repo** (do not store videos at gitlab, only links in the readme) 3. All materials to their **GitLab repository** **Final submission before Christmas**, either: - **December 16**, or - **January 14** (team's choice) --- ## Changes from 2024 - **Theme:** Designing for **motivation of daily habits** - No major changes from 2022 except the theme --- ## Technical Platform **Only allowed platform:** **Godot** (open source) Chosen for compatibility with the research group's continued development. **Why Godot?** - Open source, easy to use - Comparable to Unity; - Good for apps/games needing rich visuals and graphics - Short learning curve from web-only backgrounds; very similar to Unity --- ## 2024 Project Focus - Build a **very simple game** - Add **motivation design elements** to foster daily routines, based on literature findings - Use **prototype and evaluate** methods with **reference groups** - Focus on **visual richness and animation** in UI design --- ## First steps - Watch this playlist och youtube for videos on [**juiciness** and **game feel**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=216_5nu4aVQ&list=PLC9eBTPQrzDyMxFzEZ5zywi_49RSOyN_l) - Search literature on "cerating daily habbits", motivation and creating new routines, nudging, and gamification with daily routines on Google Scholar or similar - Search literature for game user experience evaluation - Pick a **simple game** for quick core implementation (puzzle games, math games..., word games and so forth) - Analyze findings and select techniques for your project - Focus on **quality experience** and **habit-building features** --- ## Work Process You will: - Work **alone** or in **pairs/trios** - Participate in a **reference group** to discuss literaure, discuss ideas and implementation, demonstrate and get feedback on prototypes. At least 4 formal test-sessions in the reference group - Validate your app's implementation **external usability evaluations** with 10 freinds. --- ## Course Context - Work for **IDA's Active Lab** (gamification research group) - Projects: - Licensed under **MIT** - Managed on a **Git repository** provided by the course - Designed to explore **daily routine design experiments** and **long-term motivation** --- ## Learning Goals - Gain experience with visual development platforms like **Godot** - Create **prototypes** and evaluate in groups - Work with a **specific client purpose** - Apply **scientific literature** to system development --- ### Prerequisites - Experienced in game/mobile/web development - Able to adapt quickly to new environments - Understanding of **user interaction** and **interaction design** --- ## Development Practices - **Refactoring**, **clean-up**, and ensuring projects are easy to continue are part of the challenge - You register **individually** and as a **team** on Webreg - Matched into **reference groups** after registration - Make at least 4 iterations of the game with testing during the HT1-2 period - Final evbaluation with other freinds with game user expreince method --- ## Status Reporting - **Bi-weekly:** Write **status report's'** on your gitlab repo - Testing/discussion is self-organized but should be **continuous** --- ## Project Deliverables - Short presentation of prototype iterations & key findings from reference group testing - Final product in the repository - **Literature report**: - Theory on "design for daily routines" - How it was applied in the project - Evalaution report - **Screencast** of the game - **Physical demonstration** to the client --- ## Course Evaluation (Past Results) - 2024 : 2.50 (two students: 4, 1) - 2023 : 5.0 (one student) - 2022 : 4.0 - 2021 : 4.5 - 2020 : 2.75 - 2019 : 4.0