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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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