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Video Game Psychology and Product Engagement Presented at Habit Summit, 2016 Jamie Madigan, Ph.D.

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Video Game Psychology and

Product Engagement

PresentedatHabitSummit,2016

JamieMadigan,Ph.D.

www.psychologyofgames.com

Quests

The Zeigarnik Effect

The Endowed Progress Effect

Things to try…

• Keeptrackforusers•  Endowprogress•  Threatentotakethingsaway•  Forcechoices

Competition

Related Attribute Hypothesis

The Frog Pond Effect

The McKayla Is Not Impressed Effect

Not all rungs in a ladder are equally spaced

Things to try… •  Facilitatecomparisonstosimilarothers•  Findwaystocutdatatoputplayerneartopofsmallerlists•  FindalternaGvestopointsandranks

“Free” To Play

$10

$20

$10

$20

Free is an irrational number

15¢

14¢

Things to try… •  Experimentwithfreeornon-$opGons• ContrastthemwithpaidopGons•  FindwaystoreduceriskforpaidopGons• BecarefulaboutcontrasGngwithfree

Let me know how it goes…

• www.psychologyofgames.com• [email protected]• @JamieMadiganonTwiSer