How to Keep People Playing Mobile Games: An Experience Requirements Testing Approach

The smartphones continues to revolutionize daily activities and how people perform them. However, with a huge market, defining and testing experience requirements in mobile games is still vague and challenging. In this paper, we raise some new emotional experience requirements that are necessary for playing a mobile game. And we propose a testing approach for formally expressing and testing experience requirements in mobile games. We attempted to define requirements for player experiences that were to be induced by the mobile game, and then test them to determine whether the implementation satisfies these requirements. According to the test results, the mobile game developers will have more chances to adapt their products to better status before releasing. In order to prove the efficiency of our approach, we perform a real test environment to verify the satisfaction of experience requirements.