Psychology of Game Design

Auteur

Oscar Clark is an Author, Consultant and Evangelist for Everplay from Unity Technologies. He has been a pioneer in online, mobile and console social games since 1998. He is a regular columnist on PocketGamer.Biz and is an outspoken speaker at countless games conferences. Oscar Clark is author of the Focal Press book: Games As a Service: How Free To Play Design Can Make Better Games.

Berni Good is a psychologist and member of the British Psychological Society and specialises in cyberpsychology in video games. Berni is founder of Cyberpsychologist Limited, a consultancy company that works with academics and game developers. Berni is the "go-to" expert for the media around the psychology of the gamer and has been featured on BBC News, BBC global news and outher UK and international news outlets. Berni lectures at various universirties around the psychology of video games.

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This book looks at the way that game designers and academics look at the game design based on a combination of design instinct and current scientific evidence, written as a dialog between commerical design interests and player behaviour study.

Contenu

1. The Psychology of Why People Play

2. What Psychologists Know About Play On Development

3. Self Determination Theory

4. Social Benefits of Play

5. Playing For Flow

6. Ethics

7. EXERCISE1

8. Unlocking Our Creativity

9. The Inspired Creative Individual

10. Creating Together

11. The Role of Trust

12. Creativity For Players

13. Ethics

14. EXERCISE2

15. The Power of Immersion

16. A Suspension of Disbelief

17. The Value Of Escapism

18. Flow, Frustration and Pace

19. Immersion and Sensory Feedback

20. Ethics

21. EXERCISE3

22. Confidence Through Mastery

23. Constant Learning Machines

24. Proving To Ourselves and Other

25. Reinforcing Confidence

26. Failure Is A Mirror To Success

27. Ethics

28. EXERCISE4

29. Choosing Our Own Adventures

30. Whose Game Is This Anyway?

31. Designer Led Experiences

32. Puzzles or Games

33. The Importance of Autonomy

34. Ethics

35. EXERCISE5

36. The Magic of Habit

37. Games Design As Manipulation

38. Skinner Boxes and Operant Conditioning

39. Ethics and Efficacy Of Brainwashing

40. How Transparency & Disengagement Improves Games

41. Ethics

42. EXERCISE6

43. Unfinished Business

44. A Heroes Journey

45. Completion And Cliffhangers

46. Persistent Worlds And The Promise Of Future Glory

47. The Role of Constraints In Play

48. Ethics

49. EXERCISE7

50. A Sense Of Fair Play

51. The Role Of Rules In Games

52. Emotions and Perception Of Fairness

53. Paying To Win

54. Future Value

55. Ethics

56. EXERCISE8

57. Predictable Uncertainty

58. Why We Crave Certainty

59. Randomness And Complex Systems

60. Emergent Properties And Ambiguous Strategies

61. Our Own Success or Failure

62. Ethics

63. EXERCISE9

64. Playing Together

65. Limitations of Leaderboards

66. Social Identity And Games

67. A Social Journey

68. The Massively Single Player Game

69. Ethics

70. EXERCISE11

71. Rethinking Player Motivation

72. Behavioral Segmentation

73. Player Lifecycle and Engagement

74. Mode of Use: Do We Choose Devices Or Do They Define Us?

75. Psycho structural elements of play

76. Ethics

77. EXERCISE12

78. Why Players Stop Playing

79. Downloads Are Not Engagement

80. 'Spite', 'Disgust' And Business Models

81. Failure To Re-engage

82. Churn Happens

83. Ethics

84. EXERCISE13

85. The Psychology Of Pay

86. Ethics of consumer psychology

87. Hot Or Cold Decision Making

88. Reciprocation & Resent

89. Unintended Consequences Of Incentives

90. What Makes A Whale Sing?

91. Ethics

92. EXERCISE14

93. Mindful Design

94. Putting Players First

95. Transparency and Disengagement

96. Evidence Based Design

97. Ethical Game Design

98. Ethics

99. EXERCISE15