Casper Harteveld

Intentions among gamers can vary, said Casper Harteveld, a professor of game design at Northeastern University.

Satchell Drakes and I discuss how they approach morality choices in games like The Walking Dead and talk to Dr. Casper Harteveld, an assistant professor of game design at Northeastern University, about using decision-making in games to expand the teaching of societal issues as well as use crowd-sourced player data to infer conclusions about human […]

In short, game designers create rules. For example, the player can open this door, but not that one; can attack one country, but not another; and a rule-based game can be a powerful tool for persuasion. In game design theory, this is called “procedural rhetoric,” and designers (especially journalists new to game design) should be […]