1. The document discusses theories of fun and player archetypes from the book "Theory of Fun" by Raph Koster. It describes how learning, pattern recognition, and mastery make games fun for our brains. 2. It introduces Bartle's player archetypes of achievers, socializers, explorers, and killers (imposers) and how game design can aim to satisfy different personality types. 3. Massively multiplayer online games attract a variety of players with different motivations for playing, from achievement to socializing to exploration or player-killing. Good games aim to balance gameplay across these archetypes.

1. Jay Crossler Senior Software Engineer Serious Games & Game Design Lecture 2 : Course Book Review - Theory of Fun, Player Archetypes

2. The Theory of Fun Why is work usually not fun?* *at least, for most people

10. MIPS/Megabytes program growth

12. Chunking isn’t always good

16. Practice is building a library of chunked skills and decisions

17. What is fun?

23. Is this fun?

26. What is the opposite?

30. For more… buy the course book “ Theory of Fun ”, by Raph Koster

32. Player Archetypes Why do people play games so differently? also An introduction to Massively Multiplayer Games

33. How people choose games

37. People play what is familiar

40. Occupational Status

41. Profession Types, Life Lessons