Can You Hear the Player Experience? A Pipeline for Automated Sentiment Analysis of Player Speech

This paper presents the ongoing work on a technological pipeline to automate the recording and analysis of player speech data in the evaluation of player experience. The pipeline generates a heatmap that visualizes where the players in the virtual environment have made positive, negative, and neutral statements. Moreover, the heatmap provides spatiotemporal information of in-game events, as well as interactive features like filters and modifiers. We describe how the pipeline is set up for the Unity game engine, how we implemented the sentiment classification module as well as the visualization of the tracked data. Concluding, we define goals for further development.