[MUD-Dev] Kaczynski's Law

[Michael Sellers]

Mike Rozak wrote:
> From: "Michael Sellers" <mike at onlinealchemy.com>

>> Along these lines, I highly recommend Nicole Lazzaro's extended
>> abstract "Why We Play Games," available at her site
>> (http://www.xeodesign.com/whyweplaygames) as a PDF.  For those of
>> you with the GDC proceedings, the longer version is even better.

> Interesting. Does the full paper give statistics about what
> percentage of the user base likes hard fun vs. easy fun, etc.?

No.  The methodology they used involved observing and interviewing
45 people playing a wide variety of games over many hours.  This
highlights the fact that there is no single "user base" for games
(what we tend to think of as our player base is, IMO, just a sliver
of the whole).

Mike Sellers
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