January 2016 - Quantic Foundry

Game Genre Map: The Cognitive Threshold in Strategy Games

By Nick Yee|2016-10-17T20:02:33-07:00January 20th, 2016|Analytics, Video Games|97 Comments

The Gamer Motivation Profile allows gamers to take a 5-minute survey to get a personalized report of their gaming motivations. Currently, we have data from over 140,000 gamers worldwide. In the survey, we also ask gamers to list their favorite game titles. This allows us to pivot between gamers and games--we can use the aggregated [...]

Gaming Motivations Align with Personality Traits

In our last blog post, we presented a visual clustering of gaming motivations based on data from over 140,000 gamers, showing how they group into 3 high-level clusters. Here’s that map again below for ease of reference. In this post, we’re going to explain the unintuitive Action-Social cluster and show you that gaming motivations are [...]