Gua-Le-Ni (iPad)

Gua-Le-Ni, an action puzzle videogame

Featured in New & Noteworthly in Japan, Switzerland, Austria and Germany, 'Gua-Le-NI, or: The Horrendous Parade' is the first biometric action puzzle game for the iPad.

Categorize the fantastic paper-animals before they flee the bestiary which contains them!
Use the taxonomic cubes! Feed the brutes!

Taxonomy has never been so much fun!

Double Jungle's 'Gua-Le-Ni' (iPad, 2011) is an original action-puzzle game that was inspired both by the British philosopher, David Hume and by a playful 'head-body and tail' Mexican book that allows recombination of animal parts.

Its bizarre concept is not the only unique thing about this gorgeous-looking title: Gua-Le-Ni is, in fact, the first commercially-released casual video game in which the development and tuning were guided by the analysis of its players' psychophysiological responses.

Starting from very early builds, The Academy for Digital Entertainment at NHTV Breda University of Applied Science (The Netherlands) assisted the Italian development team of Double Jungle in obtaining a detailed insight into the psychophysiological (or biometric) effects that their casual action puzzle video game had on its target audience. In particular, our experiments correlated stress levels and the contraction of facial muscles with in-game performance in order to establish whether 'Gua-Le-Ni' offered the cognitive challenge, the learning curve, the duration and the enjoyment the designers had in mind for their product. The psychophysiological tests for 'Gua-Le-Ni' were run together with interviews and questionnaires which supported and contextualized the biometric patterns that arose from our experiments.