Play-Persona: Modeling Player Behaviour in Computer Games

must not sacrificed in order not to occur in “the loss of the tension which is a precondition for the
processing and for the comprehension that follows it”. Real readers are cast into roles by the text at
hand but at the same time they maintain their personality, this contrast is what generates
interpretation of the text
The ideal reader realized all of the potential meanings of the text allowing maximum coherence. “It
is difficult to pinpoint precisely where [the ideal reader] is drawn from, though there is a good deal
to be said for the claim that he tends to emerge from the brain of the philologist or critic himself”.
“An ideal reader is a structural impossibility as far as literary communication is concerned”. This
reader has to be very close to the author’s views in order to understand the literary text in its
entirety.
The superreader is a fictitious collective of readers composed by the author, commentators,
dictionaries, etc. that “screens for pertinent structures and only pertinent structures” apt at spotting
the denser segments of the text that drew most reader response.
The informed reader is someone who is a competent speaker of the language out of which the text
is built up; is in full possession of “the semantic knowledge that a mature listener brings to his task
of comprehension” and has literary competence. The informed reader is neither an abstraction nor
an actual living reader, but a hybrid – a real reader who does everything within his power to make
himself informed.
The intended reader is a concept that attempts to recreate the historical audience the author was
aiming for when the work was written. The intender reader “can embody not only the concepts and
conventions of the contemporary public but also the desire of the author both to link up with these
concepts and to work on them”.
The implied reader “embodies all those predispositions necessary for a literary work to exercise its
effect – predispositions laid down, not by an empirical outside reality, but by the text itself”. The
implied reader is essentially a component of the structure of a text anticipating the presence of
recipients without necessarily defining them. The concept "designates a network of response-
inviting structures, which impel the reader to grasp the text". Unlike every other type of reader, the
implied reader has to be allowed indetermination. No assumptions about the reader’s particular
situation, education, or cultural background must be made.
Along the same lines, there have been several attempts in trying to “imply” players or make
assumptions on the different kinds of players that may be found engaged with a game.
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