Crafting collaborative gameplay: purposeful application of collaborative game design aspects

Collaborative gaming merges creative expression and academic inquiry, yielding immersive learning experiences. Our research embraces research-creation, exploring game design’s collaboration and cognitive learning facets. Through an educated development of collaborative design methodologies, we intend to create a practical demonstration of various collaborative game design elements. To achieve this, we have developed three collaborative minigames, each purposefully showcasing a different mix of game design as pects, allowing us to examine their individual impacts. Keywords: collaborative gaming, game design, collaboration engineering, research-creation, user testing