Thank you sooo much for reuploading your vids, love referring back to this one and the Bangai-O spirits vids in particular when discussing game design stuff :).
Been watching a ton of psych-driven game design essays recently and thought of this vid again - honestly a banger. It's rare to see anti-psychological thinking in game design circles, I love your vids for it. The flow state is psychologists doing what they do best - conflate, reduce & reverse engineer their way into a bullshit model, then weaponize that model to sap the joy out of the rich varied experiences that inspired it. This is the field that held consumerism as a great enriching ideology back in the day, after all.
holy shit, this video feels like a sequence of precisely calculated blows that hit and hit and hit again. Fucking Fantastic video
Thank you sooo much for reuploading your vids, love referring back to this one and the Bangai-O spirits vids in particular when discussing game design stuff :).
Been watching a ton of psych-driven game design essays recently and thought of this vid again - honestly a banger. It's rare to see anti-psychological thinking in game design circles, I love your vids for it. The flow state is psychologists doing what they do best - conflate, reduce & reverse engineer their way into a bullshit model, then weaponize that model to sap the joy out of the rich varied experiences that inspired it. This is the field that held consumerism as a great enriching ideology back in the day, after all.