How To Be A Games User Researcher

by Steve Bromley

Love video games? Start your career making them better. Games user researchers run playtests to ensure games are understandable and enjoyable, and are a key part of making games that people love. The video games industry is full of passionate people who care about making fun experiences. If you love games, and want to make them better, consider a career in games user research.

Drawing upon ten years of experience working on top games and helping people start their career in games How To Be A Games User Researcher is the essential guide on how to run professional quality playtest studies and get a job in the games industry.

What's in the book?Discover

How games development works and where research fits inHow to plan, run, analyse and debrief professional quality playtestsThe importance of building relationships with game teamsHow to start a career in user researchThe skills required to excel at job interviewsWho is this book for?This book is

Students considering a career in games user researchUX researchers looking to transition into gamesNew games user researchersAcademics studying games design, development, or HCIGame designers and developers looking to improve the quality of their playtestsAbout the authorSteve Bromley led research studies for many of PlayStation's top European games including Zero Dawn, SingStar and the PlayStation VR launch lineup. He continues to work with games and VR studios to improve the player experience of their games.

For the last five years, Steve Bromley has run a games user research mentoring scheme, which has partnered over one hundred students with more than fifty industry professionals from top companies such as Sony, EA, Valve, Ubisoft, and Microsoft, and helped many people get their first job in games.

This book covers many of the topics that mentees have asked as they start their games user research career.

Genres: Gaming, Design, Video Games, Research

185 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 9, 2021

Reviews

[Kelsey Hlavaty (readingwithkelsey)]

~not rating because i read this for work~

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Whether you want to know more about the gaming industry or User research methodologies or BOTH, Steve Bromley has written an effortlessly accessible book. He lays out the workings of User research for games in a way that's easy to digest for newbies while also offering a clean chapter-by-chapter resource guide that's easy to go back to anytime one needs a particular piece of information. If you're looking to get into GUR, start here, and then keep this book close as you elevate in your field.

[Webwizart · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a great introduction into GUR, straight to the point without proza and useless fluff. It's very high level but gives you a good overview of the job. Together with his previous book,which has templates for several steps in the process, this is a great resource to get an idea of the job and advice to start in the industry. It's an introduction, so if you are interested in this job, you have to dig further and learn much more

[Max · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brilliant book on the basics of how to be a Games User Researcher if you’re interested in the field.

The only reason I haven’t given it 5 stars is because I had completed Steve Bromley’s online course first, and it’s far more detailed and came with some tokens to be able to use the information to conduct my own research studies.

Both are massively worth the money and I had some great takeaways from this book.

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very basic user research book with game elements sprinkled in. For someone that has been in the field for many years, I took away a few things but most is a basic refresher.

[Caleb Ross · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book game me the tools and the confidence to make these: https://calebjross.com/gamedev/games-...