
Podcast 35: Player Empathy and Drivers of Gameplay
Psychology of Video Games Podcast
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Neuroticism and Game Design
Bartle: "Neuroticism is how severely you react to bad things, right? Exactly. It's specifically negative emotion" He says that neuroticism does a pretty good job of explaining why people will quit a game they're otherwise enjoying. Bartle: "I think the simpler models like the one we have for gaming are very dangerous."
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