Pixel Pals — Design, study, and evaluation of a collaborative game

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This report measures how collaborative different Game Design Patterns are by creating a four-player collaborative game, holding playtesting sessions, and analyzingthe data collected from them. The project used an iterative approach to game creation, and for the analysis, Cooperative Performance Metrics were employed. Theproject annotates which of the patterns Concurrency, Complementary roles, Synergies between abilities, Shared puzzles, Separation gate, Gathering gate, Encryptedinformation, Indirect actions, and Shared resources give results in which metrics andtries to give an estimate of what patterns make for the most collaborative experience.