http://www.jeffongames.com/2006/12/addictiveness-agency-and-difficulty/ This is Jeff. This is Jeff On Games. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:40:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.jeffongames.com/2006/12/addictiveness-agency-and-difficulty/#comment-3706 Jeff On Games » Blog Archive » Levels of Agency Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:49:34 +0000 http://www.jeffongames.com/?p=48#comment-3706 [...] So I’ve talked about agency and addictiveness, and agency and difficulty (which were related) and now I’m going to talk about agency on multiple levels, which I consider to by the end all be all rule of how to make a game addictive. [...] [...] So I’ve talked about agency and addictiveness, and agency and difficulty (which were related) and now I’m going to talk about agency on multiple levels, which I consider to by the end all be all rule of how to make a game addictive. [...]

]]> http://www.jeffongames.com/2006/12/addictiveness-agency-and-difficulty/#comment-3571 Jeff On Games » Blog Archive » Agency and Difficulty Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:20:41 +0000 http://www.jeffongames.com/?p=48#comment-3571 [...] Happy New Year! And to start off the new year right, I’ve got a nice series of posts that will be going up over the next few days. This praticular is a continuation of my previous post, where I made the assertion that difficulty is strongly tied to agency; a game that is too difficult makes us believe we have no influence on it and is therefore too frustrating to play, whereas a game that is too easy makes us believe that we can win every time, and thus our involvement is unnecessary (that we are not having any affect on the game). [...] [...] Happy New Year! And to start off the new year right, I’ve got a nice series of posts that will be going up over the next few days. This praticular is a continuation of my previous post, where I made the assertion that difficulty is strongly tied to agency; a game that is too difficult makes us believe we have no influence on it and is therefore too frustrating to play, whereas a game that is too easy makes us believe that we can win every time, and thus our involvement is unnecessary (that we are not having any affect on the game). [...]

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