Has there been any research into how to maximize in-game tutorials effectiveness? Any blogs, articles or research papers would be appreciated.
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The comments say it all, but ... no, there probably hasn't been much research on it. But, one thing is for sure: in-game, interactive tutorials work better than "read this" tutorials.
This is easy to see in Flash games; you can see the evolution of static screenshots/images linked from the main menu ("Tutorial" button) into in-game tutorials (or tutorial-like levels).
The benefit, obviously, would be seeing things happen and how actions play out, while the game progresses, instead of reading a bunch of instructions before you even have a good idea about how the game will go.
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