Toward defining creative processes in Minecraft by analysing timesync comments

Cen, Jiayi, McIntyre, Nora and Bokhove, Christian (2025) Toward defining creative processes in Minecraft by analysing timesync comments. AERA 2025: Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal., , Denver. 23 - 27 Apr 2025. (In Press)

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Abstract

This study aims to define which gameplay behaviours in sandbox games demonstrate the players’ creative processes. Based on creative process theories and implicit theories of creativity, this study gathered opinions on creative gameplay behaviours from 50 Minecraft players by analysing their 976 timesync comments (i.e., video comments with timestamps for real-time user interactions). The findings show that the creative gameplay processes observed in Minecraft are consistent with creative process theories, which suggest that players first generate creative ideas, and then express these ideas through observable gameplay behaviours; if expressive behaviours are successful, they ultimately produce creative results. In future, this framework will be utilised to analyse Minecraft log files, facilitating large-scale and automated learning analytics of creative processes in sandbox games.

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