Play-Persona: Modeling Player Behaviour in Computer Games

Players will eventually understand the play experience as the kind of role or mask that was worn in
the game and this understanding will shed new light and reorganize the perception of play styles,
gameplay gestalts and play values alike.
Designers on the other hand can achieve a better understanding of the play experience if during
the cyclic, iterative design process they probe with both quantitative and qualitative methods
players engaged with the game. This feedback, both in terms of gameplay metrics and interviews,
will affect aesthetics, mechanics and dynamics (figure 14).
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