Achievement Relocked: Loss Aversion and Game Design

Achievement Relocked: Loss Aversion and Game Design

Geoffrey Engelstein

152 pages

How game designers can use the psychological phenomenon of loss aversion to shape player experience. Getting something makes you feel good, and losing something makes you feel bad. But losing something makes you feel worse than getting the same thing makes you feel good. So finding $10 is a thrill;
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