Heiko Breitsohl

How does Juicy Game Feedback Motivate? Testing Curiosity, Competence, and Effectance

'Juicy' or immediate abundant action feedback is widely held to make video games enjoyable and intrinsically motivating. Yet we do not know why it works: Which motives are mediating it? Which features afford it? In a pre-registered (n=1,699) online experiment, we tested three motives mapping prior practitioner discour…