Workshop

Emotional Game Design: Emotional Journeys with Meaningful Choices

Workshop
Emotional Game Design: Emotional Journeys with Meaningful Choices

Emotional Game Design: Emotional Journeys with Meaningful Choices

Time: 15:00-19:00

How do games evoke emotions? In games, players make their own choices and experience the consequences. Game designers utilize this simple structure to create emotional changes. By compelling the player to make meaningful choices, they can lead them on the emotional journey they intend.

This workshop will explore how games can elicit emotions through meaningful choices. We will not only discuss the theories behind it but will also put them into practice. We will specifically focus on game concepts such as rules, choices, consequences, objectives, and flow, which have the potential to evoke emotions that aren't possible in other mediums. We will demonstrate emotional game elements through various games and then move on to collective game design exercises on paper. Through this hands-on approach, we will explore how we can elicit emotions by directing players to make meaningful choices in game design.

Zeynep Burcu Kaya is a game designer and researcher. As a lecturer, she teaches Player Experience Design, Game Studies, and Augmented Reality Projects at Bahçeşehir University and İstinye University. Her research interests include original game aesthetics, the impact of body-based interaction on player experience, and representation in games. As part of the doctoral program in Communication Sciences at İstinye University, she is writing her thesis on the production of identity with digital avatars in games. As a doctoral researcher, she investigates the impact of dynamic wind simulation on perceived realism in games and virtual reality experiences. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from MSGSÜ and a Master's in Game Design from Bahçeşehir University. As an Unreal Authorized Trainer and an Independent Ambassador for Women in Games, she strives to design and develop original game experiences, change gender representation in games, and support women in the game industry.

* To attend this workshop, you can register by using the "Register" button on the page and receive your free event invitation. Registrations will open 3 days before the event date (08.05.2024, at 15:00) and the "Register" button will become visible then. Participation is limited to a quota of 20 people.

11 May 2024 Saturday 15:00

Akbank Sanat

Show on Map
Full Program
Follow Us
TR EN
Filter events by label
21 APR MON
1

19:00

Learning Program Material: Stone

Online Platform – Zoom

22 APR TUE
3

17:00

Children Workshop Family Upcycling: Mosaic Workshop
(Ages 4-8)

Akbank Sanat

18:15

Children Workshop Family Upcycling: Sculpture Workshop
(Ages 4-8)

Akbank Sanat

19:00

Learning Program Material: Stone

Online Platform – Zoom

23 APR WED
1

19:00

Learning Program Material: Stone

Online Platform – Zoom

24 APR THU
2

18:00

Seminar Curation: Intervention

Online Platform – Zoom

19:00

Learning Program Material: Stone

Online Platform – Zoom

25 APR FRI
-
26 APR SAT
6

12:00

Children Workshop (CANCELLED) A City: The Journey of Lost Voices
(Ages 5-9)

Akbank Sanat

13:00

Children’s Theatre Akbank Children’s Theatre
"What Am I Going To Be?"

Akbank Sanat

13:30

Children Workshop Istanbul in My Library: Book Nook Workshop
(Ages 5-9)

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Acting Workshop What is the Function of Dramaturgy?

Akbank Sanat

15:30

Children Workshop Tracing Migratory Birds: Birdhouse Design Workshop
(Ages 6-10)

Akbank Sanat

17:30

Adult Workshop Upcycling Workshops: Portrait Prints with Foam Plates

Akbank Sanat

27 APR SUN
-
28 APR MON
1

18:00

Seminar Designing A Visual Identity For An Exhibition

Online Platform – Zoom

29 APR TUE
-
30 APR WED
-
01 MAY THU
-
02 MAY FRI
-
03 MAY SAT
5

12:00

Children’s Theatre Akbank Children’s Theatre
"What Am I Going To Be?"

Akbank Sanat

14:00

Adult Workshop Upcycling Workshops: Portrait Prints with Foam Plates

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Acting Workshop Introduction to Collective Creation - Devised Theatre Model

Akbank Sanat

16:00

Children Workshop Family Upcycling: Mosaic Workshop
(Ages 4-8)

Akbank Sanat

17:15

Children Workshop Family Upcycling: Sculpture Workshop
(Ages 4-8)

Akbank Sanat

04 MAY SUN
-
05 MAY MON
-
06 MAY TUE
-
07 MAY WED
1

18:30

Seminar Courtyards

Akbank Sanat

08 MAY THU
2

18:30

Seminar What is the Problem with Digital Art? A Simondonian Proposal

Akbank Sanat

19:30

Conversation ​Producing From Waste

Akbank Sanat

09 MAY FRI
2

16:30

Adult Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (May - Group 1)

Akbank Sanat

20:30

Dance “Palma” Dance Performance

Akbank Sanat

10 MAY SAT
5

12:00

Adult Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (May - Group 2)

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Acting Workshop Thinking Together on Stage – Devising Practices

Akbank Sanat

15:30

Children Workshop Art Reflects: Colorful Emotions
(Ages 7-12)

Akbank Sanat

17:00

Children Workshop Art Balances: Geometric Patterns
(Ages 5-8)

Akbank Sanat

18:30

Children Workshop Art Shapes: Garden of Sculptures
(Ages 7-12)

Akbank Sanat

11 MAY SUN
-

Add event to your calendar

Registration Form

I've read and approved the KVKK text.

Subscribe to Newsletter