Guac-A-Mole is a puzzle game that invites players to discover by playful exploration not only the solutions to its challenges, but also the underlying rules. This style of play is encouraged using tacit tutorials, unprompted activity sequences which require players to demonstrate their understanding of controls, rules and mechanics to progress. The puzzles themselves were developed by a similarly playful discovery process of iterative prototyping and playtesting. Evaluation of test data and user survey results suggest opportunities for improvements in mechanics comprehension and difficulty progression.

Creator

• Boucher, Josiah

Contributors

• Moriarty, Brian J.
• Smith, Gillian Margaret
• Telliel, Yunus Dogan

Degree

• MS

Unit

• Interactive Media & Game Development

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• etd-27261

Advisor

• Moriarty, Brian J.

Defense date

• 2021-07-29

Year

• 2021

Date created

• 2021-08-13

Resource type

• Thesis

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-11-07