Research on Game Character Modeling and User Experience Optimization Path Based on Emotional Design Theory

Xiaolei You

doi:10.54097/hbhdp582

Authors

Xiaolei You

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/hbhdp582

Keywords:

Emotional design, Game character modeling, user experience

Abstract

With the continuous development of the gaming industry, game characters are an important medium for users to interact with games, which to some extent determines the quality of the gaming user experience. This article refers to Donald Norman's three-level emotional design theory model and explores the relationship and optimization strategies between game character modeling and game user experience from three aspects: instinctive layer, behavioral layer, and reflective layer. This article explores the relationship between emotional design theory and game characters, and proposes a visual modeling method for characters from the instinctive level, a behavior model construction method for characters from the behavioral level, and a connotation construction method for characters from the reflective level. From this, it can be seen that a successful character design needs to take into account three aspects: perceived beauty, game enjoyment, and value belief, and use a three-level model to jointly create an immersive emotional experience for users.

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