CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Player’s Mind Is Driven by the Player’s Motivation
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Let us begin this chapter by facing a painful truth.
Games are not important.
Sure, we like playing them. We get all excited about them and have wonderful, memorable experiences when playing them. But in the larger scheme of our lives, there is always something more important we could be doing. And, in fact, this is true for all entertainment. It is no exaggeration to say that the goal of all entertainment experiences is to take something unimportant (such as a ball going through a hoop, a story about imaginary animals, or whether this card is a king or an ace) ...
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