Video game seizure rating: A qualitative approach to measure photosensitive seizures on a video game

One of the issues on a video game is creating several light patterns and quick movement that potentially makes a player feels dizzy, motion sickness or even seizure. On the game industry, the seizure information warning is displayed when the game is started and already purchased. This information is considered late, since in order to understand the potential of seizure, the player should buy and play the video game first. This paper proposes an effort to measure the potential of seizure by qualitatively measuring the playing environment and the game content. As a result, the paper proposes a video game seizure rating (VGS rating). The VGS rating will help parents or video game players to measure the potential of seizure without buying or playing the video game. VGS rating has 10 attributes to measure the potential of seizure on a video game. As a result, the proposed method has mean and standard deviation with similar result of the questionnaire method. Therefore, the VGS rating can be used to measure the video game seizure rating without need to play the video game.