Player Types: A Meta-synthesis

Hamari, Juho; Tuunanen, Janne

doi:10.26503/todigra.v1i2.13

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“…The links between value systems and online consumption can be applied to the designing of virtual items that ultimately generate the revenues for the game and help to determine who would potentially be the customer for the virtual items in question and how to better satisfy their needs and wants. This has become a main concern of game designers and player model research [22]. For example, for the user that scored high on Red, the virtual goods should be presented in a simple, concrete, and visual manner.…”

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The Relationship between Player’s Value Systems and Their In-Game Behavior in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

Wang

2017

International Journal of Computer Games Technology

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This study examines the relationship between player's value systems and their actions in playing a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Online survey data from 1,577 players were paired with their behavioral metrics within the game. A number of correlations were found between the scores of value system and the in-game metrics. Participants that scored high on the Red value system tend to spend more real money in the game, level up their character and ability as quickly as possible, and seek other achievements in the forms offered by game world. These characteristics for fun, power, and immediate gratification are also predicted by the Red value system. The finding provides valuable information on how to better design, evaluate, and understand enjoyment in games. The results also show the possibility of using the game as a platform in inferring players' value systems and in training people to develop certain skills.

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The Relationship between Player’s Value Systems and Their In-Game Behavior in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

Wang

2017

International Journal of Computer Games Technology

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“…In other words, the use of a game service may lead to a gameful experience for one user but not another user. This difference in outcome may arise, for example, from differences in the operant resources of the two users/players, such as skills (e.g., Hamari and Tuunanen 2014;Yee 2006).…”

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A definition for gamification: anchoring gamification in the service marketing literature

2016

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BGamification^has gained considerable scholarly and practitioner attention; however, the discussion in academia has been largely confined to the human-computer interaction and game studies domains. Since gamification is often used in service design, it is important that the concept be brought in line with the service literature. So far, though, there has been a dearth of such literature. This article is an attempt to tie in gamification with service marketing theory, which conceptualizes the consumer as a co-producer of the service. It presents games as service systems composed of operant and operand resources. It proposes a definition for gamification, one that emphasizes its experiential nature. The definition highlights four important aspects of gamification: affordances, psychological mediators, goals of gamification and the context of gamification. Using the definition the article identifies four possible gamifying actors and examines gamification as communicative staging of the service environment.

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“…Adding interactive elements have also been shown to have a positive effect on learning and engagement when learning about energy-related issues [21]. Previous work on user motivation suggest that different users interact with game-like systems in different ways and have different motivations [22], however, the extent to which effects of serious games interventions vary across user groups is still unclear [20].…”

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The energy piggy bank — A serious game for energy conservation

Hedin

Lundström

Westlund

et al. 2017

2017 Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT)

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Abstract-Serious games have attracted much attention recently and are used to in an engaging way support for example education and behavior change. In this paper, we present a serious game designed for helping people learn about their own energy consumption and to support behavior change towards more sustainable energy habits. We have designed the game for all the four Bartle Player Types, a taxonomy used to identify different motivations for playing games. Engagement of the participants has been evaluated using the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory, and we have measured self-assessed future behavior change. We found a statistically significant positive correlation between self-assessed future behavior change and perceived value/usefulness of the application independent of player type. Our study indicates the player type "Achievers" might perform better using this type of application and find it more enjoyable, but that it can be useful for learning energy conserving behavior independent of player type.

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Player Types: A Meta-synthesis

Cited by 250 publications

References 20 publications

The Relationship between Player’s Value Systems and Their In-Game Behavior in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

The Relationship between Player’s Value Systems and Their In-Game Behavior in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

A definition for gamification: anchoring gamification in the service marketing literature

The energy piggy bank — A serious game for energy conservation

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