Vernacademia Season 1: Episode 38: Player Profile Focused Design

In this cast we talk about the concept of building games with different player considerations in mind and various ways to try and understand players that are different from yourself.

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00:06 Introduction
00:27 How can you learn what others like
00:54 The Bartle Taxonomy of player types
01:29 Magic the GartheringPlayer Psychographic
01:54 Timmy type Players
02:55 Johnny type Players
03:27 Spike type Players
03:58 Timmy and Storytelling
04:48 Uncharted and Timmy
05:26 Johnny and Self-Expression
06:09 MVC3 and Johnny
06:44 Role-play overlap Timmy/Johnny
07:23 Speed Running and the Play Personas
08:43 The MTG psychograpic is one of many tools
09:56 Fanfiction and the Play Personas
10:41 The importance of learning what others like
11:15 Transformers Devastation and Play Personas
13:30 Player playstyles and facilitation
14:41 Dark Souls series and applied play persona theory
18:10 Niche design expansion and play dilution
19:50 Optimize toward a target audience
20:38 Red Coat Wrap up
21:40 Sientir Wrap up
22:16 For Broad Audiences, individualize elements of play
23:21 Next Podcast
23:12 Sign Off