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Episode 83 - Grinding

Psychology of Video Games Podcast

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The Importance of Autonomy in Games

Video games offer lots of autonomy y'all. Good games give us some kind of meaningful choice or at least disguises our lack of choice so that we feel like we have it. Avatar customization in games you can go through and every it seems like every game these days has different avatar customizations. You can make your character look like however you want them to look and you have a huge variety of options and freedom to do that. It's not hard outside the context of games to understand this autonomy concept because just think about like the most brain dead boring unfulfilling job or work that you've ever hador if you're extremely lucky that you've heard about.

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