Gaming Editor Kyle Orland - "Action-Oriented, Proficient, Relaxed, Competitive, Grounded, and Practical" (full results)
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As an industry, we tend to refer to anyone who plays games as a "gamer." But now more than ever, that's a term that's so broad as to be useless, lumping obsessive Candy Crush Saga players with Dark Souls speedrunners, Final Fantasy fans, and people who only play the new Madden and Call of Duty every year. Grouping them all together as "gamers" is about as clarifying as putting fans of horror movies and fans of romantic comedies together as "movie watchers."
There are plenty of attempts to subdivide gamers into smaller, more descriptive groups—"hardcore," "casual," "retro," and the like—but these all rely on imprecise definitions and self-assessments. These groupings are often more about declaring an affiliation than about identifying specific types of games someone likes.
The folks at Quantic Foundry seem to have developed a more detailed way of breaking down different gaming subgroups. The "game behavior analytics" consultancy has developed a five-minute online quiz intended to narrow down a person's gaming tastes to a "gamer motivation profile." Participants are rated on a percentile basis along six different axes identifying what game design elements they find interesting:
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