Podcast 35: Player Empathy and Drivers of Gameplay
Psychology of Video Games Podcast
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The Power of Personality Theory in Game Design
personality theory in general, which is represented by big five, and the idea of self-determination theory. I just laid them out on a timeline and said, okay, players, when they first encounter your game, their behavior and what they want is going to be predicted by their personality,. And then fairly quickly in the experience, they're going to start looking for stuff that leads them to the long term satisfactions. So that's where we currently are. Then this year at GDC, I'm going to be adding drives to the channel, to the model, which is a whole other thing.
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