Podcast 37: Cognitive Psychology and User Experiences
Psychology of Video Games Podcast
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The Gert-Muss Brain
The origin of the book is I've been doing a lot of training sessions with designers, a gameplay programmers or artists. And so it was kind of natural for me to think about, hey, maybe I should put a book together and write it all down. There's two main parts in the book. The first part about how the brain learns and what are the main limitations of our brain because the experience of playing a game happens in the players mind. So you need to understand these limitations in terms of perception, attention, memory and also how motivation works and what is emotion and how we learn. Second part gives a very concrete framework and giving ingredients with which you can do your own recipe for
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