Player Experience Modeling

Use this skill to define the experience the game is trying to create before implementing systems. It gives an AI game-building agent a target for taste, pacing, onboarding, and progression decisions.

Source Traceability

Primary source: The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Third Edition by Jesse Schell, especially chapters 2, 9-11, and 16 on experience, players, pleasure, flow, motivation, novelty, judgment, and interest curves. The workflow is transformed and paraphrased.

Supporting source: Self-Determination Theory for autonomy, competence, and relatedness as durable motivation lenses.

Workflow

1. Define the target player by behavior and context, not demographic shorthand.
2. Identify the desired emotional and motivational promise.
3. Map pleasures, needs, novelty, mastery, and social drivers.
4. Shape the interest curve across first minute, first session, midpoint, climax, and return session.
5. Translate experience goals into implementation constraints and telemetry.

Required Output