I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work.

Okay, today, a complex topic today. Today we're going to talk about emotional response.

So one of the big questions in game design is what are you up to? What are you doing? What is the goal of all your work?

And I would argue that game design is a form of art. And what is the purpose of art?

But to create responses in people. And I would argue an emotional response in people.

That the core of the gameplay experience is that you want the player to experience something, you know, something emotional that is impactful to them.

And if you guys know about the psychographics, that's just sort of saying, hey, there's psychology.

What do people want? You know, how do you

provide the thing that people want? And different people need different things. The idea of

emotional response is not that everybody necessarily has the same emotional response, but you

want to make sure that people, like the ultimate goal is if someone plays a game, you want them

that game to evoke something

out of them.

You don't want to make a game that after the fact you're like, well, I spent time doing

it but I don't, I have no memory of it, it had no impact on me, that you clearly want it

to have an impact.

And that, so we're talking about emotional response, What I mean is, I want to make a situation,

to make a game where things happen where it impacts the person playing it. In a way that, like,

that is memorable and that is something they want to share. Like, one of the big things is

the reason you do something at all is you gain something from

it, right?

That there's a benefit to doing things.

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