Tuning the Trail: Effects of Desire Paths on Player Behavior and Experience

Tuning the Trail: Effects of Desire Paths on Player Behavior and Experience During Goal-Directed and Exploratory Play MICHAEL LANKES, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria GÜNTER WALLNER, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria and Eindhoven University of Technology, MARTIN KOCUR, University of Central Florida, USA Player traces such as footprints are a common way to make prior players' actions visible and to scaffold navigation and learning.