Take this 5 minute survey to determine your gaming personality -- sort of a Myers-Briggs test for gamers. The survey is from Quantic Foundry, a game behavior analytics consultancy co-founded by my colleague Nick Yee, who's done some landmark academic research on MMO behavior, including in Second Life. And yes, philosophical debates aside, when you take the survey, Nick tells me, you can designate Second Life as a game and describe your play style within it: "The question was completely open-ended." He thinks we'll see some unique personalities emerge among SLers: "My intuition is that it should lean towards the Creativity/Immersion quadrant. And look something like this guy's profile." (That is to say: Calm, Analytical, Completionist, Independent, Deeply Immersed, and Creative.)
But go ahead and take the test, and report your findings in Comments. I did last night, and got these results:
Above: Hamlet the gamer.
This seems like a fair assessment, with my profile sitting between my love of immersive first-person games like Dishonored and Thief, and immersive MMOs like Second Life, while also reflecting my love of strategy games like XCom or turn-based RPGs like Nethack and Pixel Dungeon. How about you?
As for the overall data, Nick tells me, "We'll report some, starting with gender/age/region, but not sure how fine-grained we'll get in terms of specific game titles. Probably gradually over the next month or so in blog posts." Will definitely blog those blog posts when they're blogged.
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Calm, Spontaneous, Relaxed, Grounded, and Practical
The Action Components (23%)
The Mastery Components (26%)
The Social Components (40%)
The Creativity Components (20%)
This was fun. It is a bit weird to see creativity so low as I love diving into the creative aspects of creating and customizing (although I did get 64% on the design subcomponent).
Posted by: Kitty Revolver | Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 03:14 PM
It turns out I'm not much of a gamer at all. Which I haven't been lately. But the survey is very diplomatic about labeling the unmotivated.
Action 5%
Social 26%
Mastery 6%
Achievement 1% (LOL)
Creativity 41% (Meaning I want do anything else other than game.XD)
Immersion 24%
Posted by: melponeme_k | Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 04:18 PM
Action 3%
Social 6%
Mastery 44%
Achievement 23%
Creativity 84%
Immersion 90%
seems fairly accurate
Posted by: Amanda Dallin | Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 06:28 PM
Erm perhaps 'Select the ironman / permadeath option when it is available ' was a bit asking for trouble otherwise..
Action 23
Social 12
Mastery 94
Achievement 2
Creativity 95
Immersion 0
Have to get that Social thing down though.
Surprisingly fun.
Posted by: sirhc deSantis | Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 03:50 PM
I've been avoiding online and console gaming until recently, when friends in SL urged me to join them in DDO and Rift. These results are from an "old noob".
Action: 31- destruction 23/excitement 44
Social: 25- Competition 22/ community 37
Mastery: 75- Challenge 74/ Strategy 64
Achievement: 16- Completion 12/ Power 29
Creativity: 56- Discovery 73/ Design 39
Immersion: 18- fantasy 55/ Story 5.
Pretty much reflects my RL personality.
Posted by: VokeyDokey | Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 05:38 PM