Retardo? A study on gameplay patterns in open world RPGs

[Cervby]

What is your consensus on mods? If I try to play skyrim with some mods and use your program, will it be alright for the study or does it have to be vanilla?

Also, idk, I don't really wanna play witcher 3 (cause I hate it) or skyrim (cause I kinda hate it) or shadow of mordor (cause 1 playthrough of that stuffed me). Can I use your program on something like morrowind?

I'd prefer if prefer if mods which affects the gameplay was not used, as I think I'd in the thesis would need to write every mod setup each participant has, and what each mod does. It could as well be a problem that playthrough doesn't represent any average playthrough if every setup is very different.

I'll allow playing Morrowind. One of the questions the program gives after the play-session, is which of the games you played, so I've added morrowind as a choice if you use the version below. It doesn't seem like my program's overlay of keys & types appears when Morrowind is in fullscreen, so either play Morrowind windowed, or find a mod that can make Morrowind run in borderless mode. (The games that I've chosen was chosen because they're highly popular, which should mean more responses)

Program: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xyLgs9FB00xgRfTbx-r_n_6oK5uQcGf0
Source: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NABxbUFn89hboDocTgY2J0a9RLc1WMqN

 

[makchanka]

This is why game design studies are useless and you're better off studying something like history and then going into game design with a fresh mind not ruined by the shit they push on you in game design university.

This. Major in programming or some shit and get a minor in art, history, or sociology. Imagine how much more interesting AAA games would be if they were about the human condition rather than a blood-and-tits slot machine featuring the same regurgitated bullshit about dragons and elves with adolescent political discourse that's basically just, "Gosh, American politics sure are a thing!"

Enough with the gay elf democrats, dwarves who live in mountains, and Jewy, useless gnomes. Do something interesting for once.

 

[anvi]

I think studying ants would give the exact same data as Open World RPG players.