How Dead Cells Exploits Your Indecision

Have you ever found yourself torn on a decision? If so it’s entirely possible that the reason for that was loss aversion, the human tendency to value avoiding a loss much higher than acquiring a gain. And dead cells is a game full of decisions that really exploit that desire to “play it safe” by teasing you with opportunity. But there is more to the story than that, which is what we’ll be exploring on this episode of Psych of Play!

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Games Shown:

Dead Cells (2017) - Motion Twin
Shovel Knight (2014) - Yacht Club Games
Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door (2004) - Intelligent Systems, Nintendo
Spelunky (2008) - Derek Yu, Mossmouth
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019) - Intelligent Systems
Darkest Dungeon (2016) - Red Hook Studios
Gears of War 4 (2016) - The Coalition

Clips/Movies/Research Shown:

   • How Dead Cells Secretly Stops You Fro...  
   • Dead Cells - Developer Interview  
   • CRITICAL THINKING - Cognitive Biases:...  
   • Dead Cells: What the F*n!?  
   • The Pink Panther in "Extinct Pink"  

Music Sources:
Octavius Industries Puzzle Music Theme 1 - Spiderman OST
Octavius Industries Puzzle Music Theme 3 - Spiderman OST
The Collector’s Theme - Dead Cells OST
Food Merchant - Dead Cells OST
Swiftwind - Lee Rosevere
Is It Boring? - Persona 5 OST
Temple 2 - Spelunky OST
Nightwalk - Vesky

*All images, graphics, and fonts created or found with postermywall.com, Pexels.com, Videvo.net, and Lightworks v14 editing software. All gameplay footage captured with Elgato 60FPS recording device*

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