Kapodistrian University of Athens

FAIR Game Design Framework: A Player-Centered Model for Developing and Evaluating Digital Games

The FAIR Game Design Framework establishes a unified, player-centered methodology for the development and evaluation of digital games.

• The FAIR framework evaluates game design through four core pillars: Freedom, Autonomy, Immersion, and Replayability.
• The model provides a standardized 0-5 ordinal scale, enabling researchers to perform comparative analyses of player engagement across different genres and platforms.
• Empirical testing of the framework, including case studies of Minecraft and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, confirms high inter-rater reliability.