
021 - Achievements, Goals, and Motivation in Games
Psychology of Video Games Podcast
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The Different Types of Achievements in Games
There's individual differences amongst people, maybe something tied to personality or expectations that will determine how motivating some of these reward structures are. There's a need for achievement trait that we can measure within people to see how much they in general want to earn things. And I've seen other classifications just for achievement people like there's the casual, there's the hunter and there's the completionist who has to finish everything. But you can vary from where you come game to game as well.
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