Jani Kinnunen
University of Tampere
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Simulation & Gaming | 2013
Janne Paavilainen; Juho Hamari; Jaakko Stenros; Jani Kinnunen
This article presents the results of an interview study on how people perceive and play social network games on Facebook. During recent years, social games have become the biggest genre of games if measured by the number of registered users. These games are designed to cater for large audiences in their design principles and values, a free-to-play revenue model and social network integration that make them easily approachable and playable with friends. Although these games have made the headlines and have been seen to revolutionize the game industry, we still lack an understanding of how people perceive and play them. For this article, we interviewed 18 Finnish Facebook users from a larger questionnaire respondent pool of 134 people. This study focuses on a user-centric approach, highlighting the emergent experiences and the meaning-making of social games players. Our findings reveal that social games are usually regarded as single player games with a social twist, and as suffering partly from their design characteristics, while still providing a wide spectrum of playful experiences for different needs. The free-to-play revenue model provides an easy access to social games, but people disagreed with paying for additional content for several reasons.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Academic Mindtrek Conference on - Mindtrek '18 | 2018
Kati Alha; Jani Kinnunen; Elina Koskinen; Janne Paavilainen
This paper investigates the free-to-play revenue model from the perspective of paying players, focusing on high-spenders. As the free-to-play model has proven successful, game developers have increasingly adopted it as their revenue model. At the same time, worrying concerns over the revenue model have been voiced, calling it exploitative, unethical, or simply claiming it to offer poor gameplay experiences. We investigated these concerns by conducting an interview study with 11 players who have spent money on free-to-play games, on their perceptions about free-to-play games, experiences on playing them and paying in them, and opinions on ethical issues in the games. The results shed light on how players themselves experience these games.
Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference on Envisioning Future Media Environments | 2011
Jaakko Stenros; Janne Paavilainen; Jani Kinnunen
DiGRA Nordic '12: Proceedings of 2012 International DiGRA Nordic Conference | 2012
Jani Kinnunen; Erkka Rautio; Kati Alha; Janne Paavilainen
Proceedings of the 20th International Academic Mindtrek Conference on | 2016
Jani Kinnunen; Kati Alha; Janne Paavilainen
Archive | 2008
Mikko Svartsjö; Jani Kinnunen; Eetu Paloheimo; Frans Mäyrä
Archive | 2016
Janne Paavilainen; Elina Koskinen; Juho Hamari; Jani Kinnunen; Kati Alha; Lauri Keronen; Frans Mäyrä
Archive | 2018
Janne Paavilainen; Katriina Heljakka; Jonne Arjoranta; Ville Kankainen; Linda Lahdenperä; Elina Koskinen; Jani Kinnunen; Lilli Sihvonen; Timo Nummenmaa; Frans Mäyrä; Raine Koskimaa; Jaakko Suominen
Asia Pacific Gambling Studies Conferences | 2013
Jani Kinnunen; Maria Heiskanen
Asia Pacific Gambling Studies Conferences | 2013
Jani Kinnunen