Comments on: Project 1 draft write-up

By: ALEXA

ALEXA — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 18:55:51 +0000

Elliott, exploring different personalities and how they differ with games is a very interesting topic that you can probably find some good research and articles on. It is interesting to link someone’s personality to how it affects their decisions and what they enjoy doing in their free time (what types of games they like to play). Your thesis is clear except for the second line where it says “the following that games gain..”, I might not be reading it right but I had to reread it a couple times because it’s kind of confusing, but overall this is a good start with an interesting topic.

By: EVAN

EVAN — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 20:19:32 +0000

Hey Elliot!

The focus of your project is so cool, and I love how psychological it is. I think the personality type detail is such a unique and interesting way to go about this project option, so I’m excited to see how that plays a part. Your games are also perfect for this too, and I really appreciate how you varied the game style with Dungeons and Dragons (bringing it back to the roots a bit for RPGs). Something that I think might be worthy of consideration would be trimming down your thesis and making it more clear — less clunky and complex. This is totally up to you, but I think doing so could make your project even better, moving forward.

By: HAYLEY

HAYLEY — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 01:06:06 +0000

I think this is a really interesting idea! Do you think you’ll do case study examples for your project? For example, if you have a friend take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and then have them play one of the games you are exploring, you can observe the way they play the game and use that in your project. And then also you can compare that to literature/studies already done on the subject and see if they match up. Just a thought. Also, I just noticed that in your thesis you use the word “appeal” a lot. Other than that, everything looks great! How in-depth are you going to go with describing the different personality types? You could make a chart of these personality types and then scale the three games you’re using for your paper from most appealing to least appealing depending on the personality type. That could be cool.

Great work!