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Player Research’s team are passionate evangelists of applying player data to gamedev. Our processes and frameworks are applied by development teams globally, captured through our talks, articles and training courses.

Learn more from our expert team on research strategy, methods, careers in games user research, and more.

Using Player Data

Essential articles on how – and when – to strategically deploy player research in your development process.

Strategy

What Is Games ‘User Experience’ (UX) and How Does It Help?

UX’s diversity of phrases, processes and perspectives can be confusing — What does it do? Who is it for?

Sebastian Long

Strategy

How to build mobile games with people in mind

User experience design principles to help you build games people want to play

Sebastian Long

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Careers in Research

Love games and brains? Becoming a games user researcher is a rare but rewarding career path.

Learn more about the domain on the Games User Research & UX IGDA group.

Essential reading starts here, alongside the Games User Research book, and How to Become A Games User Researcher.

Careers

Making Player Research an Exceptional Place to Work

Our behavioural code for guiding inclusive, empathetic, and respectful behaviour at Player Research.

Chloe Snell MA

Careers

What’s it like working at Player Research?

Will I work on my own? What methods will I use? We answer your questions on working at Player Research

Harvey Owen MSc

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Research Approaches

There are so many different methods to getting player data.

Surveys, observation, telemetry, eye tracking…

We’ve captured some thoughts on how to execute all these different methods in an unbiased, repeatable way.

Methods

Organising Playtest Sessions to Get Great Feedback from Children

How to get the most of playtests with kids? Here are some tips & tricks

Mégane Lacroix

Methods

Video: What Makes a Great Expert Review?

What are 'expert reviews' and what do inexpert evaluators get wrong?

Sebastian Long

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User Experience Design

How do we avoid overloading players with choice?

What makes a great radial menu?

Articles and learnings on user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design in video games.

UX Design

Video: How Do We Teach Them To Play?

Players need to learn how to play... but do we have to have an elaborate tutorial?

Sebastian Long

UX Design

Should Players Buy Their Own UI?

Why does Animal Crossing force players to purchase UI improvements? What’s the resulting impact on the game’s UX?

Sebastian Long

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Accessibility

Accessibility

Accessible & Approachable, What’s The Difference?

Sebastian Long