Precision of Emotion | Yasmine Mitchell

Theories of Fun/Play
- Jesse Schell – “Fun isn’t important”
- Raph Koster – “Fun is learning”
- James Paul Gee – “Fun is the scientific method”
- Fred Rogers – “Play is the work of childhood”
- Jean Piaget – “Play is assimilation without adaptation”
- Lev Vygotsky – “Play is a self-actualizing tool of the mind”
Fun is a sequence or a process
- Transition between emotions
Sophia – The Game-Learn Emotion
- Fear -> Surprise -> Happiness
- Confront ignorance, gain knowledge
Meaningful Games
- Make the jump between game model and world model
Emotional Taxonomy of Games
- Fear
- Speed
- Fiero
- Together
- Complicity
Mechanics and Emotion
- Actions (and connections between actions) create emotions
Finding the emotion
- In learning games, there’s an effect you want
- Will be more effective with an emotion
- More importantly, you need to think about progression of emotion
Sophia is a lens to view game design
- Use it to find problems when your game isn’t effective.

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