021 - Achievements, Goals, and Motivation in Games
Psychology of Video Games Podcast
00:00
The Different Types of Rewards and Motivation
The game designer is making these, you're playing the game and the game is giving them to you in terms of goals and tasks to do. And the rewards themselves are extrinsically motivating. If you do this thing, you'll go and achieve this outside reward given to you by someone else. But then like getting an achievement for unlocking five different costumes or for customizing your character or something like that, then sort of seems like it blurs the line between being the thing that you got that came from external versus just a reflection of that internal motivator.
Transcript
Play full episode
