On the Peak-Experience in the Game GUI Design

Fei Hu, Lixia Ji · 2008

With the era of the dream economy coming, users' requirement become complicated, as well as people' life style has been changed by the culture blend. Thoroughly understanding people, and providing a positive emotional experience to them, is the key to game design. With the magnificent image, well-designed roles and vivid scene, the game interface design brings users the strong sense of presence; carries out the wishes of playerpsilas dream, and offer the peak-experience. Based above, this paper finds out that users dissociates between the true Id and the virtual super-ego, which makes the interaction more extensive. In other words, game GUI design is not only an esthetical form, but an actual practice which needs to create a more effective communication between information architecture and the human user experience. The peak-experience could be attained by the following parts, such as the comprehension of customer psychological model; the efficient communication between users, roles and interface; Realization matchup of the systemic model and psychological model; and other requirements' satisfaction, like emotion and imagination, communication and ascription, challenge and achievement etc.

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