Play-Persona: Modeling Player Behaviour in Computer Games

This symbol identifies articles focused on the aesthetic codes, the iconic qualities of
images evoked and the chaotic, polysemic freedom of interpretations.
Of course there are articles dealing with multiple facets at the same time, they have been
appropriately tagged.
4.4 The triadic relation
Figure 14: the triadic structure weaved into the process of designing and playing games
From a designer’s point of view [52], a game begins with establishing aesthetic goals or play
values; these will inform the creation of game mechanics and the gameplay gestalts generated
during the interaction with players.
From a player’s point of view, preferences towards certain subsets of gameplay gestalts can give
rise to play styles in the same way that interacting with the rules of the game (mechanics) moulds
the processes (dynamics) enacted in during a play session.
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