PENS

This note last modified February 5, 2021

How do you measure the player experience?

Go beyond surface expressions of fun and understand basic psychological needs provided by a game

PENS can help lower learning curve

This paper talks a lot about improving player outcomes, pretty complex and interesting, may be worth a reread

OFAs: Opportunities for action, things that the player can do in the game world

based on SDT

what players label as enjoyment or fun is the experience of needs satisfaction

PENS measures SDT but goes further and measures presence / immersion and intuitive controls as well

Validating Pens And Geq-Johnson
- z:tag/notesFromPaper Year : Tags : PENS GEQ study validation Authors: Johnson Gardner Perry
- has a lot of interesting stuff about where PENS has been used, where GEQ has been used, etc.
PENS-Rigby_Ryan
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- PENS can help lower learning curve
Intrinsic Skill Atoms For Gameful Design
- talks about the PENS model which is itself based on SDT
Emotionally Moving Moments In Games-Bopp
- asked people to write about their emotional experiences, also gave them the PENS survey. They then noted that PENS might be limited since they are curious about emotional appreciation which can be unfun, so they also used a questionnaire by Bartsch about emotional gratification in entertainment (wasn’t built for games though).