Apex Fish in a Small Pond
The “Squad Eliminated” screen in Apex Legends and the psychology of comparisons.
The “Squad Eliminated” screen in Apex Legends and the psychology of comparisons.
My book, “Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games” is now available in paperback.
How games provide feedback …and how they’re lacking.
Should game tutorials hold players’ hands or encourage them to fail?
How game developers might use a bit of psychology to better structure moral choices.
The same wrinkle in our thinking that explains the optimism of people paralyzed in car accidents explains why it’s so frustrating when people don’t play map objectives in video games.
Part of why Fortnite is so popular is the way it uses random rewards –and I don’t mean just loot drops.
We make new opinions more readily than we change existing ones. How can recommendation engines take advantage of this?