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Fun quiz! I’m not at all surprised that I turned out to be the ‘Achievement’ Gamer, as I am very motivated by progressions like building a strong team and taking on strategic challenges! I would recommend taking it too :D
Actually, the fact that women do indeed play video games isn’t really news anymore, thanks to the Entertainment Software Association annual reports, despite being kicked out of the focus groups somewhere in the early ‘90s thanks to niche marketing. But the prevailing notion that women are largely casual players still seems to serve as clickbait for gameRead More
Quantic Foundry (General)
(Links to Quantic Foundry articles with selected graphics below. More information, charts, and graphics in the actual articles.)
The Gamer Motivation Model in Handy Reference Chart and Slides
7 Things We Learned About Primary Gaming Motivations From Over 250,000 Gamers
Female Gamers Want To Kill You, Just Not With Guns
Beyond 50/50: Breaking Down The Percentage of Female Gamers by Genre
A Friday the 13th of Unsurprising Bullet Points
It is Friday the 13th, which either means back luck or a somewhat regrettable series of movies from the 80s, and I can assure you I saw every single one in the theater. (And that I have not seen any of the later entries aside from Jason Goes to Hell, which I saw on VHS.) What does that mean for the blog? I don’t know, aside from giving me an opening paragraph and maybe dictating a theme for the…
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Stars Reach - Who is this Game For Anyway?
A new design post went up last week about Stars Reach seemingly tailored to the question being asked in the comments of past posts; Who is this game for? I know Bhagpuss has put that very response in more than one comment so far. Stars Reach Continues However, if you were expecting a simple answer, something like Smed saying H1Z1 was dedicated to Star Wars Galaxies players, you’re going to be…
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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 thi
"Given that male and female gender norms are the dominant social norms, one reasonable hypothesis would have been that trans and non-binary gaming motivations could be modeled as some linear mathematical mixture of known male and female gaming motivations—not necessarily the average, but lying somewhere between the two profiles. It turns out this is not the case."
Blaugust and Introductions
We are now into the second week of Blaugust and not only haven’t we lost anybody yet… that I know of in any case… the total number of people signing on for the event actually grew. I believe we are up to 67 participants. Not bad for 2022. Blaugust time is coming to town… Especially encouraging for the hobby aspect is that we have two dozen blogs that have signed up for the event for the first…
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Friday Bullet Points From the Empty House
Friday Bullet Points From the Empty House
Summer must be coming to an end because the new semester starts for my daughter next week. She and my wife left Wednesday morning to drive up to Oregon to get her moved into the dorm and settled, while I stayed behind. It took about a day before working from home and having nobody to sync up with on meals before all structure fell away from my existence and I began to live like the cats. My…
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