Children´S Game Experiences in Different Settings

Games provide enjoyment and positive experiences for players. Goal of this paper is to examine children´s game experiences between physical gaming on the immaterial FogScreen and a mouse-based PC gaming. The systematic game evaluation experiment was conducted with 20 children. Game experiences were measured quantitatively using a children-friendly flow questionnaire and a qualitative interview for gathering playing impressions. The results showed that FogScreen provided novel gaming experience, was funnier and children enjoyed about its naturalness and possibilities to move compared to PC setup. However, the interaction with the FogScreen set-up was harder, providing a lower level of playability and controllability than the PC set-up.