Mobile Heroes Uncensored
Mobile Heroes Uncensored
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Nothing is impossible in mobile games, with GameRefinery’s Joel Julkunen
26 minutes Posted Aug 26, 2022 at 11:51 am.
Playing games for a living
Player motivation framework
The 12 core mobile game player motivations
Matching motivations to personas
Crossover games
Predicting the next big mobile games hit
Be bold and brave
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Can you make better games by understanding player psychology? By knowing what people’s primary (and secondary) motivations are in mobile games? According to GameRefinery’s Joel Julkunen, absolutely. And understanding these motivations has led, he says, to multiple hit games over the past few years.
In this Mobile Heroes Uncensored we chat with Julkunen. He’s played over 500 games, and that’s a core part of his work, believe it or not. From that and a huge amount of data from thousands of games, he’s found 12 key player motivations that determine what kinds of games we like and which we don’t.
And that can help game marketers and designers build and market the right games to the right people.
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