UNDERSTANDING PLAYER PSYCHOLOGY AND EXPERIENCE IN MODERN GAME DESIGN
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In today’s world, the gaming world has became more than just a toy and is an immersive digital environments with an emotion and motivation. Today’s game develovers are looking more into player psychology to build better games with exploring emotions and their motivation (to know what ticks players brain in order to control their thought patterns). This research explores player patterns and their psychology, theories such as Bartle’s Taxonomy of player types, their self determination. This helps make the developer maintain player retention and bring more players. Games like Minecrafft and The Sims are one of the best examples used to cover reward systems and emotion and relaxing pace of games
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Darekar, A., Waghmare, N., Dalvi, A., Naoghare, V. & Purohit, A. (2026). Understanding Player Psychology and Experience in Modern Game Design. International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology, 02(05). https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i5.227
Darekar, Ayush, et al.. "Understanding Player Psychology and Experience in Modern Game Design." International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology, vol. 02, no. 05, 2026, pp. . doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i5.227.
Darekar, Ayush,Nikhil Waghmare,Ajinkya Dalvi,Vedant Naoghare, and Ankit Purohit. "Understanding Player Psychology and Experience in Modern Game Design." International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology 02, no. 05 (2026). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i5.227.
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