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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.
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
How to build mobile games with people in mind
User experience design principles to help you build games people want to play
Sebastian Long
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.
Junior vs. Senior Games User Researchers
How can you recognise where you are on your career journey as a Games User Researcher?
Ula Karpińska
Getting into Games User Research
Our tips on how to become a Games User Researcher, along with some useful resources
Sebastian Long
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.
Video: What Makes a Great Expert Review?
What are 'expert reviews' and what do inexpert evaluators get wrong?
Sebastian Long
Games User Research Methodology Series: Usability Expert Analysis
An explanation of when and why Usability Expert Analyses are valuable in game development
Chloe Snell MA
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.
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
Perceiving without looking: Designing HUDs for peripheral vision
Look away from the action for the briefest moment and some games will punish you.
Bob Tilford PhD
Spoiled for choice: The psychology of choice overload in games, and how to avoid it
The psychological implications of giving players many options to pick from.
Bob Tilford PhD
