It was a major revelation when we stumbled upon Richard Bartle’s player type paper a few years ago – imagine being able to discuss such things!<\/p>\n
Straightforward copy from Greg Costikyan’s excellent post<\/a> on the subject. He lists 5 different categorizations of player types:<\/p>\n Ron Edwards: Gamist-Narrativist-Simulationist<\/a>.<\/p>\n Richard Bartle<\/a>: Categories of achievers, explorers, socialisers, and killers. Nicole Lazzaro (at GDC 2004): desire for “internal experience,” for “challenge and strategy,” for “immersion,” and for social experiences.<\/p>\n Richard Rouse<\/a>: Players want either a challenge, to socialize, a dynamic solitaire experience, bragging rights, an emotional experience, or to fantasize.<\/p>\n Game Design Workshop<\/a>: At least ten player types: competitors, explorers, collectors, achievers, jokers, artists, directors, storytellers, performers, and craftsmen.<\/p>\n As I recall, Nokia also has a categorization somewhere, but I can’t find it right now.<\/p>\n And I think Greg is right in saying that it’s hard to justify any particular categorization. On the other hand, it’s usually pretty productive to do the attempt – don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a major revelation when we stumbled upon Richard Bartle’s player type paper a few years ago – imagine being able to discuss such things! Straightforward copy from Greg Costikyan’s excellent post on the subject. He lists 5 different categorizations of player types: Ron Edwards: Gamist-Narrativist-Simulationist. Richard Bartle: Categories of achievers, explorers, socialisers, and … Continue reading “5 Player Type Types”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNick Yee: players who desire relationships, immersion, grief play, achievement, and leadership.<\/p>\n