By Kris Graft | February 4, 2015 This Gamasutra article explores how Warner Bros. Games’ studio Monolith designed the Nemesis system of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor using Self-Determination Theory (SDT) concepts and imploring Immersyve’s engagement metrics called the Player Experience of Need Satisfaction (PENS).
By Geoffrey Williams, Christopher Niemiec, Ari Elliot, Jennifer La Guardia, Amy Groin & Scott Rigby Published in Diabetes Care (August, 2014) The Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) research program was conducted as a pilot evaluation of a partly virtualized intervention that delivered
By Scott Rigby and Richard Ryan Published in 2011 by Praeger (Santa Barbara, California) “As games mature, and the average age of gamers continues to rise, we can hope that game scholarship will evolve as well, and Glued to Games” is a good step
By Andrew Przybylski, Edward Deci, C. Scott Rigby, & Richard Ryan. Published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol 106, pp 441-457). Do games foster aggression? The extent to which games contribute to aggression is hotly debated. In this research based on Self-Determination
By Wei Peng, Jih-Hsuan Lin, Karin A. Pfeiffer, & Brian Winn Published in Media Psychology, 15, 175–196. DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2012.673850 ABSTRACT: Empirical studies have validated that basic needs satisfaction supported by video game play predicts motivation and engagement outcomes. However, few studies specifically manipulated game features
By Andrew Przybylski, C. Scott Rigby, & Richard Ryan Published in Review of General Psychology, 14, 154-166. doi: 10.1037/a0019440 ABSTRACT: More Americans now play video games than go to the movies (NPD Group, 2009). The meteoric rise inpopularity of video games highlights the need for
By Ron Tamborini, Nicholas David Bowman, Allison Eden, Matthew Grizzard, & Ashley Organ Published in Journal of Communications, 60, 758–777. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2010.01513.x ABSTRACT: This article presents a model of enjoyment rooted in self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985) that includes the satisfaction of three needs
By Andrew Przybylski, Richard Ryan, & C. Scott Rigby Published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 243-259 ABSTRACT: Six studies, two survey based and four experimental, explored the relations between violent content and people’s motivation and enjoyment of video game play. Based on self-determination
By Scott Rigby & Richard Ryan Published in Gamasutra | January 16, 2007 Introduction Gameplay strategies for motivating players largely focus on reward paradigms (“carrots on sticks”) that dangle the sweet enticements of hidden levels, provocative content, and variations on the Sword of A Thousand
By Richard Ryan, C. Scott Rigby, & Andrew Przybylski Published in Motivation and Emotion, 30, 347-365 ABSTRACT: our studies apply self-determination theory (SDT; Ryan & Deci, 2000) in investigating motivation for computer game play, and the effects of game play on well-being. Studies 1–3 examine
