Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

Jon Renish @jonrenish
Hey @wytenight I finally won one!

Imperator Furiåsa @devilkitten
So there’s a theory in game dev that goes players need three things:
1. Autonomy
2. Mastery
3. Relatedness

Autonomy is the ability to make your own decisions.
Mastery is being at the level of skill you need to execute the decisions.
Relatedness is the relationships built.

One thing that always amazes me is that game devs _know_ about this and still can’t see that it’s related to work as well. I need to feel that I have control and can make at least some decisions around my work. I need to feel that my skill set is being used, pushed to the limits for me to find the elusive state called flow. But I also need to feel that the company cares for me as an individual, because that will make me care for the company.

This is just something that struck me when I was reading all the articles about the state of the industry.

We’re good at figuring out what players need. Workers aren’t all that different. It’s all about intrinsic motivation.

James Berg @jamesbergcanada
It's not actually from gamedev, we borrowed it from mainstream psych - Self Determination Theory (SDT)

Mastery is typically talked about as Competence, and is (imo) the key piece to flow, as you said. (Csikszentmihalyi's theory of flow is the predominant touchpoint there).

Imperator Furiåsa @devilkitten
I know, I was just putting it in a game dev context for the purpose of being more... succinct 😊

Or maybe “on topic” if you will. It’s amazing to me that we have such a hard time looking at things from a holistic point of view. We’re really good at figuring out what players want. Why is it so hard to figure out what we need? You know?

Toronto Gaymers @togaymers
Where was Anders during DAI if he's still alive?

John Epler @eplerjc
Probably in hiding. He's persona non-grata in most of Thedas. But who can be sure with Anders.

RaeAnn @thebaby209
I needed to smile. @imtrick #cullensnort #cullenrutherford #DragonAge



Patrick Morris @imtrick
Whoever put that snort in the script is a genius! @patrickweekes ?

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
Cannot remember if me or @eplerjc, who did the cinematics and worked with me pretty closely on scene flow.

Be still my beating heart. Lol!

Lol, stop playing with my heart internets!

It would make sense if they went quiet up until release...

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
Wait. Are we paradox-bootstrapping the game?
This is great! I can’t wait to see how I handled this one part I was stuck trying to figure out!

Allan Schumacher allanschumacher
It's the spaceballs model where the game is finished before it is made.

2019? "Doubt X"

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