The 4 Types of Players | Bartle Taxonomy of Player Types | How to Design Games

What types of players are there? What do they like about video games? The Bartle Taxonomy of Player Types distinguishes between 4 different groups. Let's have a look at them and what that means for the games we play or develop.

More about the topic in my video about Roger Caillois' Classification of Games:
   • The 4 Types of Games | Roger Caillois...  

Sources:
Richard Bartle. Hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades: Players who suit MUDs. 1996
Richard Bartle. Designing Virtual Worlds. 2003

Bartle Test:
https://matthewbarr.co.uk/bartle/






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