#motivation (10 links)
The triangle of happiness is a simplification of the main factors that tend to drive most people in their jobs. Put simply, if you're not satisfied with at least 2 of the 3 points of the triangle, your overall job satisfaction is in real question.
- Discipline: Be The Machine « yield thought coderoom.wordpress.com
Rawr! Be the machine! Another version of "stop faffing about and just get on with it".
Why, then, did we throw everything we'd learned out the window when it came time to design achievements? I think that's what bothered me about early Xbox Live achievements more than anything — as goals, they violated too many game design guidelines. Too many of them wouldn't make any sense as in-game goals for progressing through content.
Via paul.irish.
"A player's motivation is more complex than "to have fun." Think on it closely and you'll agree – everyone plays to scratch a particular itch, and some games serve some itches better than others. While plenty of the details are complex and subjective, it's possible to divide play motivations into four different groups."
Because we are so fixated on what the next thing might be, we hurry to get the current thing out of the way, even if that means doing the minimum required rather than playing with style. In this sense, games’ standard strategies of motivation are strangely demotivating.
- Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money | Software by Rob softwarebyrob.com
More money isn't one of them.
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org