Visualizing Progressions for Education and Game Design

Progression design is a critical part of designing games or educational content. Currently, systems to visualize the content of a progression are limited and do not help designers answer questions important to the design process. These questions include comparing two progressions to understand the relative order in which concepts are introduced or how complexity changes throughout the progression. We present an interactive visualization system that allows designers to compare two different progressions, using multiple views and interaction techniques that aim to help designers answer these questions. We evaluate our tool through informal anecdotes, discussing insights that were found on progression data for actively developed games.

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