Psychology of Gaming. Co-Founder of Quantic Foundry. Get your Gamer Motivation Profile: https://xitter.cf/t.co/fSA5vA7hkl
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In our analysis of survey data from over 1.5 million gamers collected over the past 9 years, we found that the decline in Strategy is the largest change among the 12 motivations in our Gamer Motivation Model. #gamedevelopment #UserExperience
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Regarding Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, my uncredited work is in the book. "Solution" is, by the author's own admission, a take on my game Train. She uses the same theme, gameplay patterns, releases the game at the same location (MIT) ... more
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Learn about the gaming motivations of transgender and non-binary gamers, and the games that are particularly popular and unpopular among this cohort.
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A new blog post on Quantic Foundry on the preference between 1st-person and 3rd-person perspective among gamers, broken down by age, gender, and game genre:
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The BEST #GamingPersona episode EVER is available with our first guest - @Nick_Yee . We talk about of player motivation in #videogames, our origin stories, and how we choose the gender of our characters.
#GamingPsych #MentalHealth #ContinueTheJourney
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Men are about 3 times more likely to prefer playing a female character than women prefer playing a male character. And older men are more likely to prefer playing female characters.
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Do you prefer the Technology faction or the Magic faction? The Light faction or the Dark faction? In our new survey findings, we look at how faction choice in video games creates cohorts with different demographic and motivation profiles.
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What gamer type are you? Try out the new Quantic Gamer Type feature in the Gamer Motivation Profile, based on data from over 500,000+ gamers: apps.quanticfoundry.com/surv…
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The 5 kinds of Civ VI gamers--a player segment analysis of Civ VI players based on gaming motivations:
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#gamedev #gaming
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What distinct player types appear when we conduct a player segmentation based on gamer motivation? Here's the first of a 2-part blog post that recaps our GDC talk.
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The interview with the fantastic @Nick_Yee of Quantric Foundry is now live! Check it out here or on our web professorgame.com #gamification #gamethinking #gbl #education #games4ed professorgame.libsyn.com/gam…
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Our new blog post comparing gaming motivations prior to and after COVID-19:
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@GenePark mentions our Gamer Motivation Profile to help new gamers discover games they might enjoy:
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you're bored and finally thinking about video games. Where to even start?
I use the "12 gamer motivations" created by @Nick_Yee to offer recommendations based on what kind of person you are. Are you an overachiever? Do you want to get lost in the world?
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you're bored and finally thinking about video games. Where to even start?
I use the "12 gamer motivations" created by @Nick_Yee to offer recommendations based on what kind of person you are. Are you an overachiever? Do you want to get lost in the world?
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Very cool results comparison from @SplashDamageBro using our Gamer Motivation Profile: apps.quanticfoundry.com/surv…
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New on YouTube: A Deep Dive into the 12 Motivations: Findings from 400,000+ Gamers, from @Nick_Yee youtu.be/gxJUPfKtg_Q
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In 2003, Nick Yee ran the first study about "The Proteus Effect": people conform behavior to their avatars’ characteristics.
In 2019 @raratan and colleagues publish a meta-analysis examining 46 experiments, showing a "reliable"effect (r from .22 to .26). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Older gamers who can afford VR tend to care less about the gaming motivations linked to VR adoption:
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#gamers #vr #gamedev #Analytics
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Take a 5-minute survey and get your own Gamer Motivation Profile:
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Chinese Gamers are More Competitive and Completionist, More Homogeneous in Gaming Motivations Than US Gamers
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