Description

As heuristic and accepted guidelines are becoming more and more prevalent in today’s software design society, why is it that the game design community shy away from them when it comes to the translation of an existing analogue or board game for the digital realm? In the creation of either of these analogue board or digital games, a designer must have rules to follow. This report aims to introduce a defined set of Heuristics for Analogue Game
Translation, to clarify why, or indeed if, they are needed and if so how they should be implemented.
The theorised resulting “Heuristics for Analogue Game Translation” or HAGT’s in this report were tested on existing digital versions of analogue games and also on a non‑translated analogue game to assess their validity and if they could better help designers facilitate the creation of games in general, giving them a basis from which to start when translating existing analogue games into a digital format.