Nick Yee developed a four-page assessment. It doesn’t take long to complete.

It rates you against 3200 other players, so it’s statistically valid, and measures you on three dimensions of why you game: achievement, socialisation and immersion. Each of these are driven by sub-factors, so within achievement are: mechanics, advancement and competition.

As you’d imagine, I scored highly on mechanics because truly I love analysis and theory and how this game works. I think this is self-profile worth doing,

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