Ludonotation: A Visualization System of Recording and Analyzing Interactive Strategic Gaming Behaviors

Abstract

Interactive strategic games (ISG) are dynamic and involve complex gaming behaviors and oftentimes intrinsic interrelated gaming strategies. Students’ interactions would influence group dynamics, and players with different personality traits would behave differently in the game, and vice versa. This study develops a visualization tool: Ludonotation, a notation system of ludology, to record and analyze interactive gaming behaviors. The presentation of Ludonotation@ISG and its functions are accompanied by the example of the analysis of the house-made strategic game ; the conceptual model is adaptive to other game genres. The paper shows how the gaming strategies of the players with different personality traits were modelled, and to understand the relationships between interactive gaming behaviors and gaming strategies.