Dear audio game fellows,
I’m a design student specializing in the design of audio games. I have been doing this for three years now, and currently my focus is on the players’ game experience: Why do people play audio games? What is the motivation behind that? What features do audio gamers enjoy or not? And so on …
So if you play audio games, I would like to invite you to participate in one of my studies as participant. Indeed, you would do me a great favor, should you participate . Everything you say in this interview will be processed anonymously and is used for scientific work about the design of audio games, only. Usually these interviews take a maximum of one hour, but you can hang up the phone or Skype or what ever communication medium you prefer at any time, should you feel uncomfortable with the conversation . However, this never happened to me before and is not very likely to ever happen.
So, if you like to engage in a short fun conversation about the philosophy of audio gaming, I would be excited hearing from you. There are some small requirements for participation:
*) You regularly play audio games
*) You are equal or older than 21 years old
*) Your date of registration was not yesterday :-)
*) It’s okay for you that the interview gets recorded
*) You agree that I’ll come back to you at a later point in time so we can briefly discuss the theories I develop based on your interview :-)
If there are more applications than people required, I have to do some sort of pre-selection. So if you are interested in participating, just pm me and briefly write who you are, how long you have been playing audio games and what you like and dislike at them. With that information, I can get an idea of who you are and if you’re a possible participant.
Since I know that time is a precious thing, I want to offer some compensation. Unfortunately, I have to pay this from my own pocket; therefore, the amount is quite limited. However, I talked to user Dark who brought up a good idea: I could buy you an audio game you like up to a max. value of 20 USD; if you like.
If you have any questions, be it questions regarding the study or questions, where you think that the answer might be of interest to the rest of the community, just leave me a reply. Otherwise, you are welcome to write me who you are, how long you have been playing audio games and what you like and dislike at them as pm. :-)
I kindly thank you in advance.
Cheers,
Michael