Using online forums allowed one to disseminate the survey to a large audience of players from all over the world. This survey tool was used to gather information on experiences and interpretations of map symbols among a diverse group of respondents. The authors adopted a survey on the LimeSurvey platform as research methodology.
The authors noticed that game developers did not provide a direct explanation of the map symbols used, which could result in a different interpretation and experience of the game. The Valheim video game, which was released in 2021, is a survival game set in an open world. The authors set the research goal: to investigate how players and non-players interpret the symbols. The main focus of this article is to examine the interpretation of twelve cartographic symbols on the map in Valheim. For future research, it is worth continuing towards researching new video games with existing cartographic products in order to investigate how games and players influence the culture in which they participate. Statistical analysis showed several differences and interesting relationships in the interpretation of symbols in relation to the age of the players and in the interpretation of symbols in relation to the time spent in the game. In the statistical analysis the authors employed the Pearson's chi-squared test and the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure to find statistically significant differences between selected groups of respondents and their subjective interpretation of map symbols. The obtained data came from an online questionnaire. The authors of the article noted that the age factor and gaming experience may have different results in terms of the interpretation of cartographic products. The Valheim video game, which was released in early 2021, is a survival game set in a gameplay world inspired by Norse mythology. In this article researchers examined the differences that may characterise selected groups of gamers with regard to age and time spent on playing a survival game, Valheim, confronted with their interpretation of map symbols used in the game. The article also highlights the specific cartographic aspects of video games with techniques of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). The authors want to highlight scientific research on cartography in video games, and at the same time show the possibilities of research directions in future.
However, in scientific research, cartography in video games is discussed in many aspects, such as cognitive cartography, performative cartography, map symbols, spatial knowledge or map design.
Cartography has played a significant role in video games for a very long time, whether it reveals as the main user interface, mini-map, element of navigation, visual-spatial component or as orientation tool for gamers. They focused their literature review on publications that cover games with particular emphasis on video games with regard to cartography. The authors, through a literature review of this issue, intend to draw attention to and emphasize the aspects of a rather specific and still narrow topic in cartography. Toups.)Ĭartography in video games has rarely been a topic of scientific research. (Screenshots (A), (B) taken cb Nicolas LaLone (C) taken cb Z O. (C) In Severed, the game map interface shows how the rooms in the world are interconnected and important contents it includes the ability to see which rooms are layered on top of each other by shifting through the layers (using the controls on the left). (B) The map for Super Mario Odyssey provides the map for the entire space and shows the player's location fast travel waypoints are discovered through play and can be accessed via the game map interface. (A) In Fairune Collection the map is gradually revealed through play and shows the player's location the game map interface can also show maps from other parts of the game. As is typical of read-only map interfaces, these provide some range of affordances for panning, zooming, and/or fast-traveling, but do not provide any means to manipulate the map. Each of these interfaces provides a highly detailed alternative view of the gameworld.
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