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Playful Problem Solving - What Puzzle Game Research Teaches Us About Player Problem Solving

  • Speaker: Dr. Craig G Anderson & Dr. David DeLiema

In this talk, researchers Drs. Craig G Anderson and David DeLiema will present the work they have been doing to understand how puzzle games have been designed to challenge players to solve problems in a playful environment, giving the audience a glimpse of how games research works and what it can tell us.

This talk was presented at ThinkyCon 2024, a developer conference about all aspects of the creation of thinky games.

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