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Flavors of Frustration (2017)
- sdwr 7y agoWonderful post. I love writing that builds a bridge to internal sensation. Will the kind of feelings described here ever be modeled accurately?
- rzzzt 7y agoIs all frustration felt in different parts of the digestive system?
- xanamander 7y agoHmm, seems the author forgot to define the seventh flavour.
- nlawalker 7y agoFrustrating. I wonder what it could be :)
- decebalus1 7y agometa!
- js8 7y agoI think it was used in games like Doom where they tell you at the end of the level, how many secrets you could have found and you did not.
- techbio 7y agoAnd in 8: "A moment when we mentally rope something off forever, resolving not to try it again."
- js8 7y agoOne of the best flavors of frustration in video games is a creeper in Minecraft. It doesn't only force you to start over, to regress on a path predetermined by the author of the game. It can destroy something unique that you created and existed only in one copy.
- rohitbhats 7y agoGreat post! Reminded me of ‘The art of game design - A book of lenses’ The first lens, author talks about is ‘lens of emotions’ and mentions that — while designing games emotions like ‘frustration’ and ‘fear’ play an important role in defining a users’ experience.